JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> These days I distrust almost every move Google makes by default, and I imagine there is a growing number of people like me. Google has lost its way, not just with this, but with AMP/Chrome/URLs, and their impending destructio
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Google's AMP Project and the European Commission(politico.eu)
1 points by JoshMnem 8y ago|0 comments
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Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining(apnews.com)
2 points by JoshMnem 8y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
It definitely isn't a web site visit. It is not only a cache -- it has extra junk added to the page (back button, left/right swipes), and isn't even on the same domain. Copied links and referrers don't point back to your
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Apple News and Snapchat Stories appear to be proprietary content viewers that don't directly affect the open Web. (I don't use Apple or Snapchat and probably never will.) AMP is aggressively hijacking the entire Web, and there is
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
It isn't misinformed to say that Google is effectively stealing traffic from publishers. Visitors literally do not visit your site when they land on AMP pages from Google Search. If the visitors copy the URL and paste it somewhere, it
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Are you arriving from Google Search? How do you turn off the cache and prevent Google from adding back buttons and left/right swipes that take visitors off your page?
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> It's a text book case of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. All the Devs working on this project should be deeply ashamed of themselves. I think that anyone who works at Google has an obligation to speak up. The company is on a path to
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
AMP is not your website. It's a restricted shell of your website's content that is hosted on google.com. People aren't visiting your website when they visit those AMP pages.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
It has been like that as long as I can remember. I couldn't understand why people were falling for the "Chrome is faster" line when it was wasting everyone's time by sending people to search results instead of URLs like
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Google also built Chrome to send people to Google Search and click on ads on the way to their destinations. That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site. The
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
You can run multiple tab containers[1] in Firefox as well as multiple Firefox profiles[2] at the same time. On Linux, I use: alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &' [1] https://support.mozilla.org&#
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
"Hacking" isn't pushing buttons on restrictive out-of-the-box solutions that someone else configured for you -- it's tinkering with things to make them work exactly how you want. Customizing editors and operating systems
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I'm skeptical of the idea that its the same kind of "abstract art" as Pollock and Mondrian. This book[1] provides clues to another possible interpretation. Symbols and patterns have been used to encode knowledge systems in or
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I spent about 10 years on and off on the road and didn't have any phone at all for most of it. There are non-smartphone ways to do those things. Edit: if you calculate the total time wasted by smartphones in general with the total time
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My Two-Week Edible-Insect Feast(wired.com)
1 points by JoshMnem 8y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
> it doesn't change the appeal of eating an animal living its entire life among a pile of rotten food and poop. I recommend researching how meat is raised. It's probably much more unappealing than how food insects are raised. Y
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I don't think eating cooked insects is any more dangerous than eating things like cooked pork. It's only cultural reasons why insects aren't widely eaten here in the US.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Another idea: get rid of the "smartphone". Any simple phone will work, but there are even dedicated models: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180814-the-new-phones-that...
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Pelican is great, especially if you spend a little time configuring the URL structure to remove the `.html` from the end of the URLs. I think something like this will work for most pages (might be incomplete): https://github.com&
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
I use the standard one.[1] Open a terminal and type `node` to start it or run a script with Node's debugger[2] and drop into a REPL from there. I sometimes use Slimux[3] to send code snippets from Vim to a REPL in another tmux[4] pane.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Maybe it has something to do with the combination of your OS and Firefox versions. I've just tested a few sites (without umatrix, but with Firefox's built-in privacy protection) and they are about the same speed according to the n
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You could install GNU/Linux on the ones that were already purchased.
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Try using a large blocklist[1] in your hosts file and installing umatrix[2] and/or ublock origin[3] to block garbage scripts from loading. I don't know if that will help, but that's what I'm doing and Firefox is as fast
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
How can they detect Twilio numbers but still let scammers robocall my phone on a daily basis via bandwidth.com's API?
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Why Aren’t We Eating More Insects?(nytimes.com)
27 points by JoshMnem 8y ago|79 comments
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
Stop buying computers that require you to provide your identity to ad companies in order to use them.
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It appears to work fine even without extensions (Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox 62), but I have some garbage-blocking extensions installed. In my main Firefox profile, I use umatrix[1] to browse the WWW with all CSS and JS turned off by default, ena
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I'm avoiding Chrome-based browsers as much as possible. I don't think monocultures are a good idea.
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by JoshMnem 8y ago
You might want to try it again. I have over 80 Firefox tabs open in multiple windows, multiple containers, and two Firefox profiles. It's still extremely fast.

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