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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
With webmail I can right-click on links and send them to the appropriate Firefox container. The last time I tried a dedicated mail client this was a sorely missed feature.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
In a city plagued by a decades-long, top-down devotion to capture value from tourism at the expense of the quality of life for its own citizens, Airbnb democratized things so the average Joe can contribute to ruining things for permanent re
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Gource is nice for version control visualizations if anyone is interested in generating video for their particular repos.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
- NetNewsWire: Classical reader for the Apple ecosystem. - Fraidycat: More novel approach centered around prioritizing different sources (see previous HN discussions [1][2]), available as browser extension or electron application. - Feedly:
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
It's not just the marketing side, every customer facing thing corporations can outsource is being pipelined through the same kind of ad-like machinery. After considerable effort educating the non-technically inclined members of the fam
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Just like the quotes sprinkled around the pages, it seems to be there to avoid a white gap while keeping a more uniform content density across cells.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Requiring 28 kB of javascript in order to be able to click on navigation links might not be the alternative to the sins of the JS ecosystem I expected when following this thread. Of course, that fact alone doesn't undermine the merits
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
But wouldn't it be prone to the same co-opting by anyone holding the bigger bag of money like the endorsing that already exists, just adding to the noise of the influencerdom? "Friends" and average nobodies already turn scumm
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
uBO has this filter list available by default: https://github.com/gwarser/filter-lists/blob/master/lan-bloc...
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
To be fair, opt-out kinda is the antithesis of informed consent.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
MDN has a a web forms tutorial [1], and their server-side development section [2] starts with a framework agnostic intro before diving into Express and Django. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn&#x2
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
uBlacklist fully supports blocking results from Google, Bing and DDG, and partially from Startpage and Ecosia [1]. It's been available for Firefox and Chromium derivatives for a while, and there seems to be a third-party Safari port as
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Right click on server icon > Edit server profile. Custom nickname per server is a free feature. Alas, custom profile pic per server is a paid feature.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Here's the most complete list I found while researching the subject a few months ago: https://xboxkbm.herokuapp.com/
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
> How often do you click the address bar, then change your mind and navigate to the bookmark bar instead? The address bar click behavior combined with the new padding became so intrusive for me that this was the thing that finally got me
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
> pseudo-security people Heh, that's grand.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
> My eyes seems to defocus, and it becomes harder to make out letters. I don't understand the inner workings, but I get the impression that there is some fuckery going on when keeping the same distance to the screen and heavily dimi
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
The open web never felt the urge to become walled before the ad peddlers made it addicted to revenue.
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
It has indeed enabled the professionalization of the endeavor, but the shift in incentives for content creation has irreversibly changed the shape of the mainstream internet, and not necessarily for the better as far as the user is concerne
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
There's also Office Code Pro [1], a variant with slashed zeroes, less stylized bangs and different lowercase "i" and "g", among other subtleties. [1] https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Here's a Firefox userChrome.css workaround that moves the close button to the left side of the tab: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/c...
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Maybe that annoying pain of a child was on his way to become an asshole rocket scientist until grandma's humbling corrective made him consider the significance of his place in the great cosmos. And now because of that incident we live
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
Maybe it's easy to feel it's disrespectful because they've made social networks out of contributing to repositories. Accreditation for the modification of petty and trivial issues is a nice and decent gesture, but overall unw
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by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
I think that when using email aliases to identify spam sources, the crucial part is that you can filter the stripped address (as well as any unapproved alias) to be directly identified as spam and then the +alias part becomes a key to prope
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
I too see a lot of sensible awareness towards PFAS, but often wonder how many (if any) good ol' PAHs get thrown into your food from the fat seasoning of non-coated pans.
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
I hold the view that, on the contrary, this all mostly stems from people having been trained to expect everything they want to do online can be turned into a "business" by itself.
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
> So you can't accept a particular third party's images without also accepting its scripts, cookies, etc. It's a clunky interface with poor discoverability, but with the uBO logger open in a browser tab you can click on an
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
That allows for visual rearrangement of that particular menu, but as far as I can tell the new tab button's list does not change and the extension keyboard shortcuts are still limited to the first 10 containers, which are bound by thei
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
> it has largely fallen to conservative media—Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, Townhall, and others—to cover this debacle. The mainstream media's silence makes it seem like the matter is some contentious,
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by gxnxcxcx 6y ago
That evil little fecker just creeped the hell out of me.

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