JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 7y ago
RSS/Atom is alive but not well. It needs more support.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
With AMP, signed HTTP exchanges, and "portals" it's getting even worse. Users never leave their servers, and they control the publishing format and require you to include their JavaScript. (It's only briefly mentioned in
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
umatrix makes it easy to disable all JS or all 3rd party JS: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ You can combine it with custom CSS through stylus: https://addons.mozilla.o
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It's possible to get otherwise ethical people to write unethical code by telling them that "it's to make the Web faster" and "it's 'open'" (even if it isn't truly open technology). It also s
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Or Firefox reader mode. Just click the icon in the address bar.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
The hostels make it easier to meet people. Other places with communal areas, like campgrounds, work too.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
If you want to meet interesting travelers, stay at hostels off the beaten track, outside of high-season. (A hostel is like a hotel, but you rent a dorm bed in a shared room instead of a private room.)
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Google AMP is not entirely non-proprietary. It requires for everyone to load JavaScript from Google's servers, and they punish users for blocking it with an 8-second loading delay. AMP is a serious abuse of the word "open". G
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
I'm not only referring to news outlets. AMP takes control away from web publishers by forcing them to allow anyone to serve their content (signed exchanges). Publishers no longer have control over how their sites get served (for exampl
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It's really easy to get a 100 score on page speed with tools like Gatsby (and similar). People would implement faster pages if they could get in the carousel from it. For custom display in the SERPs, a neutral schema could be used. Pub
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
AMP is an unethical scheme by Google to appify and control of the Web. There are many articles about it. Here are some other pages: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+amp&t=...
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
You can disable it for now, but there are already some companies building their entire websites in AMP like independent.co.uk. A better solution than AMP would be to only consider raw page speed, and then use a neutral schema markup for wha
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Signed exchanges are a terrible idea. They take control away from publishers and let large sites (AMP caches) control small sites. Google punishes web publishers with a traffic drop unless they allow Google to serve their websites from Goog
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
umatrix and ublock origin are better options for getting de-bloated webpages. If you're stuck on mobile, ublock origin works in Firefox for Android.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Or hosted by one of the large AMP caches with signed HTTP exchanges, if Google gets its way.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
I'm a long-time Firefox/Mozilla user, and I'd give it a try for $10/month. It would be an easy sell to me if it includes a reasonable amount of online storage.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It's also like that in the Massachusetts countryside.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
For people who grew up before the Internet, the idea of needing to share everything with everyone you know isn't a necessity. Some things were better before the Internet. My real-world social life improved after I left Facebook. The qu
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Brave is based on Chromium, so it's vulnerable to Google's future decisions about what browsers should be able to do.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
> What is a quality alternative to Facebook? Independent forums and self-hosted blogging. They are about content and real connections with like-minded people. Instead of mindlessly posting little updates throughout the day just for the s
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider... https://www.google.com/search?q=amp+sucks&num=100
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It was an annoying popup for years. I don't see it now when I search, but I've seen it recently. It looks like they also make other browsers pay for ads while they post their own ads for "Google's Official Browser"
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Chrome is much worse. It seems like chopping a leg off because someone stepped on a toe.
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
You can set custom keywords that are the same as on Chrome. You just won't need to press TAB. I don't use that feature, but it's described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches I didn't
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
Chrome did it to me too. I had many links saved in onetab that are now lost. No software is completely stable on all computers in all situations. Did you double-check your profile folder? Firefox might have created a new profile for you whi
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
When a browser removes your ability to block ads and trackers, it is creating a giant security hole. Even Google's own ads trick users into clicking on them while believing that they are going to legitimate sites. https://ww
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
There's a better way in Firefox. In Firefox, go to Preferences -> Search and click on "Add search bar in toolbar". Also uncheck "Show search suggestions in address bar results". Then ctrl-l will only autocomplete
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It's already fixed: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/03/01/firefox-67-automatically-u... There's also this: https://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/22/make-firefox-more-responsi...
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
It might just be the nature of computers. A similar thing happened to me on Chrome during a recent update. I was using it as a backup browser and lost everything there when Chrome stopped working. I deleted it from my laptop and haven'
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by JoshMnem 7y ago
The core motivation wasn't speed -- it was ads. Chrome was designed to send people to Google Search instead of websites. The address bar auto-completion in Firefox would always suggest actual URLs, but Chrome's would send people t

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