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Hopefully it will just work, if not please file a bug! I tested with a variety of hardware and sites but of course I couldn't try everything...

Yup! Arduino is one of the things I tested with. (I worked on this for Mozilla)

(I submitted a PR for caniuse a few days ago :-) https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/7523 )

Is Web USB also supported?

Nope, our standards position on that is still negative, for one thing.

Im sure its also negative for WebBLE but we are hoping that one day we can have it on Firefox too.. We use WebBLE for talking and programming NRF52 chips and it works great compared to plugging a wire every time.

Ah okay, thanks. My company makes web based diagnostic tools for automotive. At the moment we are Chrome-only because the CAN bus dongle doesn’t support serial.

If the standards committee backpedaled on WebUSB it would literally destroy my company.


As others have said, you'll get a dialog if any site actually tries to use this. But if you want to fully turn it off, just set "dom.webserial.enabled" to false in about:config (and restart Firefox)



Many more addons are now available on Android, and any extension can make itself available there (as of this month): https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-lov...


To be fair the blog posts have original intros that often give more context about what prompted him to write about that topic at that time.


The author just wrote an article about this as well - https://dynomight.net/no-soap-radio/


Some of the variations just had me in tears and I can‘t really explain why.

Edit: I guess it‘s the same formula as most jokes: There is some logic in the setup, and the punchline replaces it with a different logic or pattern. Only in this case, the original logic isn‘t common sense, but the expected pattern of each type of joke. A meta-joke in that regard. It really depends on you being blindsided, but immediately recognizing the new “logic“ at the punchline.


Yeah this is a meme in the modern internet sense, where a large portion of the humor comes from recognizing the format


A joke breaks expectations. Setup: "What kind of bear has no teeth?" Punchline: "A gummy bear" breaks the expectation you have trying to think of a type of animal bear.

Non-jokes or meta-jokes break the expectation but in an unusual way. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" punchline breaks your expectation of an broken expectation. You thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be a statement. The aristocrats joke turns out to be just a dirty story- the story is the "joke".

Memes are not non-jokes or meta jokes. Memes are refillable jokes in a known container. You see the picture, you know what the joke is. Just like a TV sitcom is storytelling/joketelling in a refillable container. You see the kooky friend character, you know how he/she is going to react.

The aristocrats joke happens to also be a refillable container (you can tell/retell it however you want), but that's not the part that makes it a non-joke.


"To get to the other side" has a double meaning (to die, perhaps by being hit by a car).

So the chicken joke is not necessarily an anti-joke.


I somehow went thirty-eight years in this life without realizing there was actually a double meaning behind that phrase.

Thank you for enlightening me.


There's also the meaning of side as in potatoes or rice.


Based on the ancient Chinese "No Soap, Smoke Signal" surrealist joke.


I'm guessing like Mt. Gox, the former bitcoin exchange that halted trading and eventually shut down.


And also prevented a whole lot of people from withdrawing a whole lot of money. Permanently.

I know people like to romanticize 1920s but I didn’t personally want to live through a run on a “bank”.


Doesn’t have to be to 1920s. I got some savings out of Northern Rock before the whole thing came down in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock


I bought a lot of bitcoins that were locked up in mt gox. The lawsuit has been ongoing in Japan for many years now. Every 6 months or so they say they are just about to pay out the claims.


Thanks! Just gave this a try and it didn't seem to help, but I'll remember for next time :-)


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