> more compact tab bar, saving space
Not sure if you’re aware, but there’s a hidden setting to make Firefox’s toolbars more compact:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox
Rollerblading, programming, writing, documentaries, travel, motorbikes… That’s it!
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> more compact tab bar, saving space
Not sure if you’re aware, but there’s a hidden setting to make Firefox’s toolbars more compact:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox
Really? AV1 & webp support, Quantum engine, process-per-tab, reader mode, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3 support, cross-site tracking protection…?
Browsers have a lot of features. Some convenient, some come and go. That’s ok.
Firefox is an ideological choice for some people so both cynicism and unconditional support is expected.
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I get where you’re coming from. But not everyone who falls for this stuff is “stupid”. Some are just vulnerable - maybe just temporarily - and once you’re in, it’s an awful slippery slope.
I don’t know how many are just vulnerable and how many are good Darwin award nominees.
Absolutely!
Although… snail mail is also legislated to be secure. It’s not used as often because there is a more convenient, better(?) alternative: fax. I wish some funding for so-called “AI” projects could be used to develop even more convenient/better alternatives to fax. There are messaging protocols but they seemed crazy.
Payment systems are crazy too. Stripe did all the boring work and now there is a convenient interface for payment processing: Stripe’s HTTP API.
Might be closer than you think. The White House is just using Instagram right now: https://www.whitehouse.gov
(See section “featured media”)
If you’ve done any programming, you could hook up a script to fdm (https://github.com/nicm/fdm).
Rough logic, for each message:
* match body with several timestamp regexps
* parse matched messages
* find dates in message body
* parse final match
* discard message if that is date earlier than now - x days
Super interesting story - thanks for sharing. Helps getting perspective:
> the data centres proposed by Conifex would have consumed 2.5 million
> megawatt-hours of electricity a year. That’s enough to power and heat
> more than 570,000 apartments
A link to the video could be shared via ActivityPub.
The video would be loaded over HTTPS; we can verify that the video is from the white house, and that it hasn’t been modified in-transit.
A big issue is that places don’t want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app. This way we build trust with the brand (e.g. New York Times), and spend more time looking at ads or subscribe.
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Fax machines are still used in healthcare!
There is an overwhelming amount of healthcare admin where software could help.
Computers are designed for messaging, data manipulation, deduplication… stuff that people are drowning in because the existing software sucks or doesn’t exist.
Yet we see pie-in-the-sky “AI” (LLMs? who knows?) projects being funded.
(I worked as a manager at an Australian general practice. Assuming the US is similar? )
@Canadian_Cabinet @possiblylinux127 @slacktoid Keep in mind that not all users are the same. For example, maybe some people find firewall configuration expressed as text in a file clearer than a GUI. My grandmother loves her iPad. I love my OpenBSD laptop. I find the iPad relatively user unfriendly - “I can barely see or control what my own machine is doing!” - but my grandmother would find my OpenBSD laptop very user unfriendly too - ”How do I see my family photos?”
@demesisx @UmbraTemporis Yes seems like picom is designed with resource-efficiency in mind. And actively developed: https://github.com/yshui/picom
@ripcord @LWD @loxo @Bizarroland Some will report that they don’t work in Firefox (or whatever User Agent it receives), but actually work just fine. In my regular browsing I guess I see this once every couple of months (Firefox on OpenBSD).
@valentino All of them; they’re mostly the same! /jk But seriously try another OS: OpenBSD, Haiku, Serenity, Plan 9…
@hornedfiend @Seltsamsel That’s a good question and got me curious. I had a look at Telemetry collection and deletion from Mozilla. You can enter about:telemetry
in the address bar to see what Firefox is collecting (even if it is not being sent).
@2xsaiko RSS/Atom feeds were developed for this use case. GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg (Forgejo), Sourcehut, even cgit and git’s own gitweb serve feeds. For example here’s my GitHub account: https://github.com/ollytom.atom
my main OSS project: https://git.olowe.co/streaming/atom/
Atom feeds are widely supported (it’s how I found this post!) and there are many libraries/apps/plugins for aggregation. Robust old tech. And no need to limit feeds to Git activity if you don’t want to :) Good luck!
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