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   see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 02:33:43 JST see shy jo

   dear #firefox developers, 100+ kb minified .js files are not source code. sheeeeeesh

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 02:34:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @joeyh Well Firefox also shipped binaries in the past: https://hacktivis.me/notes/bootstrapping#firefox_python2
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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:07:07 JST see shy jo

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     • Frederik Braun �

     @freddy http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/118.0/source/firefox-118.0.source.tar.xz

     https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/translations/fasttext/fasttext_wasm.js

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     Frederik Braun � (freddy@social.security.plumbing)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:07:12 JST Frederik Braun �

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     @joeyh Yeah, I think we don’t maintain the debian/Ubuntu packages ourselves. I usually browse the source at searchfox.org (mozilla-central = Nightly)

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:07:13 JST see shy jo

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     • Frederik Braun �

     @freddy I'm looking at the tree apt-get source firefox unpacks

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     Frederik Braun � (freddy@social.security.plumbing)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:07:19 JST Frederik Braun �

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     @joeyh are you maybe seeing files after a build-step? Some of our JS lives in another repo.

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:08:07 JST see shy jo

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @spacehobo yeah, I mean they're not violating any license here, just common sense and good taste

     https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/resources/02_contributing.html#building-fasttext

     They even documented how they generated it. Why write such documentation when you can write a shell script?!

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     Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 03:08:08 JST Space Hobo Actual

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     @joeyh This is where I am always grateful that the GPL baked "the preferred form for modifying the work" as the standard for that.