JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Aida[1] is a good place to start. Put in on repeat for a week to familiarize yourself with the music. Then read more about it and watch a video version with subtitles. SF Opera did an amazing performance a few years ago. [1] https:/&#
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Same here. AMP and the current move to get rid of URLs were the last straw.
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I think they could do that if they wanted, if you're entering your root password during the install.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Stylish apparently had spyware problems after being bought by another company.[1] Stylus[2] is the fork. [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/chrome-and-fi... [2] https://addons.mozilla.or
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> What happened to “do no evil”? It was considered "stupid" so they dropped it: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4326424/eric-schmidt-once... I thought that even if "evil" can&#x
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> Even if the browser never produced a scrap of revenue for Google... I think that Google Chrome was always about ads. The browser has an auto-completion algorithm that sends users to Google Search to click on well-disguised ads on the w
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> It sucks, but we're the minority here. I'm not interested in any home automation. The ability to turn on my lights with a wristwatch doesn't have reasonable benefits compared to the risks. It's hard for me to believ
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
You can run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time, each with multiple containers. For multiple profiles (for different combinations of browser extensions), I use this: alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &'
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> They want you to think of it like a window into your online life, a window that is the same no matter where you are or what device you use. And that's a terrible loss for human civilization. They are going to destroy the open, dec
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Taking away choices, privacy, and freedom is not a theoretical problem. Most users would not consent to it if they fully understood it.
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> [googlers] were wondering why the new behaviour might feel abusive to some people. That says something about how out of touch Google is at the moment.
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> Though it may be interesting just to let users choose whether they want to see animations in general. That would be the ideal solution. Make a setting in browsers and devices where users could turn off all animations. Designers could t
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Probably because playing with CSS3 is fun and most people have little aesthetic restraint or awareness of accessibility for visual motion sensitivity.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Not all animation is bad. Most animation is bad. My comment is a guideline to help people figure out when something actually needs animation. If you're adding animation because you think it's "delightful", it probably is
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> When I minimize my window in macOS, it physically transforms and is sent to its new location. That use of animation is okay, but to make your product accessible, just make sure that there is a way to turn off the animation. Easing effe
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Smartphones are not necessarily good things. I think they are damaging attention[1] and causing a lot of negative effects on society (social media, fake information, etc.). Humans shouldn't be online at all times. [1] https:/&#x2
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The Web is not dead yet, and its death is not inevitable. It has been under attack since at least the days of America Online, and it survived that. Google's market share with the browser (all Chromium-based browsers) puts them in a pos
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Me? I'm not having trouble with Firefox. The Yahoo problem with Linux Mint was many years ago. My search engines in Firefox haven't switched on me since I uninstalled Mint.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I don't know, but I haven't seen the search change to Yahoo on my computer, except when I briefly tried Linux Mint many years ago. Mint had set Firefox and Chromium to Yahoo and made it extremely difficult to remove. It was both b
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Did you originally install Firefox through a Yahoo ad? Yahoo used to run ads for Firefox keywords to get you to download their version of the browser. The ads looked like search results, so it was easy to visit the wrong download page.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I'm referring to accessibility, not just aesthetics. +1 for mutt. Text-first is the way to go.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Most animation is visual spam. The proper way to use animation is to NOT use it except when there is absolutely no other way to communicate something.[1] Material Design is fundamentally broken, because it tries to simulate physical motio
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying. If you are walking down a quiet street at night, and a person with bad intentions needs some money, then it "makes sense" for them to beat you up and take your wallet and phone. They need
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
To reproduce: - log out of Google Chrome - clear all cookies (requires digging deep into the settings or using devtools, otherwise Google's cookies will remain) - restart the browser - make sure that your picture is not displayed in th
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I've seen it, but Chromium is fundamentally a Google product and it still has some of Chrome's problems. If we want future generations to experience technology freedom, we should avoid monocultures.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I've tried it multiple times and logging into a Google website automatically logs you into the browser itself (not just the website). Trying to clear cookies now doesn't clear Google's cookies either. Chrome 69.
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The ad model is fundamentally broken, because all roads there eventually lead to tracking and online garbage. Monocultures are bad, so I don't think people should only use Chrome-based browsers. Google once tried to do ads without goin
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I'm not sure if you are defending their abuse of users or just stating the reasons why they do it.
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Chromium has many of the same problems as Chrome. I don't think Google can be trusted to not abuse their position any more.
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> "The Dragonfly memo reveals that a prototype of the censored search engine was being developed as an app for both Android and iOS devices, and would force users to sign in so they could use the service. The memo confirms, as The I

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