Throughout the months before the election, I felt
that Trump didn't deserve to be paid attention to,
so I didn't listen to him at all. But of course I
couldn't help but hear every single last tidbit.
Now that the situation has changed, everyone needs
to realize that he's not just another republican
whose policies you probably don't agree with. He's
not like, say, George Bush. Now everyone must make
it completely clear, as often as possible, how
adamantly you oppose Trump's right-wing populism
and his belief in racial and social hierarchy. You
need to never "get used to" his ideas or
personality, never finally accept them.
You need to protest as often as possible, or do
anything you can think of, especially if you don't
think of yourself as a "protester" or
"activist". Whatever views you have, however you
think of yourself, always oppose Trump - even if
you happened to accidentally vote for him.
And if he makes it to the inauguration, if he even
makes it 4 years, your stance needs to remain the
same and actively against every message he sends
containing his insidious white supremacism.
The problem is serious, and now we need to take it
seriously!
Yesterday I was working on a bug that was kind of interesting.
Since my friend Tony was
talking about writing an article for his blog, I thought I
would write down what I've been doing here.
I was told about a bug in
LibreJS
– you couldn't load reddit.com when using the LibreJS
add-on with GNU IceCat and Trisquel. Wow.... I need to fix
this immediately. :rolleyes:
The symptom of the problem was that the browser froze. Each
voting arrow on reddit has an attribute that looks like this:
onclick="click_thing(this)"
Each of these scripts needs to be processed by LibreJS. The
first time it's processed, it computes a hash of the script so
the results can be saved for subsequent identical scripts.
Then I saw something suspicious in the debug log. I've linked
to it here because
there's a lot of text. Immediately at the top it says "too
much recursion". If you scroll all the way to the right,
you can see the call stack repeating itself many times,
confirming the runtime's complaint.
I thought, "Great.. I've found the problem. I've seen
this before it must be an infinite loop." I spent a few
hours trying to fit the recursive loop into my head –
what is it actually doing, and what special if
statement should I enter to just break out of it, in this
specific case? All these strange onclick scripts
must be triggering an unhandled case in LibreJS.
But reddit was loading fine in Mac OS. That was an important
point that I had forgotten about. Maybe "Too much
recursion" just meant too much recursion for this specific
system, and the loop wasn't actually infinite. After reading
more about this JavaScript error, I found that using
setTimeout can reset the call stack. I
tried this out,
and it worked.
And now you can read reddit.com when you're using LibreJS with
GNU IceCat on Trisquel Linux.
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