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by toastal 3y ago
If you want the opt-out version of Fx, there’s LibreWolf & Mullvad.
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by toastal 3y ago
Google is big enough to have its own bureaucracy & infighting for this to easily & plausibly happen.
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by toastal 3y ago
I’ve seen keyboards that allow firmware upgrades & configuration over WebUSB. This covers not just Linux but even smaller OSs as well as the audience using Android tablets as a PC or whatever.
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by toastal 3y ago
And bugfixes always took 6 months til the next OS update. Holding back Notifications and other PWA-related specs left a sour taste to me because it meant I couldn’t build a PWA …but you could buy Apple hardware a developer license and make
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by toastal 3y ago
I was more the opposite. I avoid learning JS for as long as possible since it seemed so complicated following the resources I tried to learn. Ideally we’d have just a few more semantic elements that are obvious common patterns introduced to
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by toastal 3y ago
Beware: some of these are effectively hacks possibly messing up the browser history or introducing accessibility issues for screen readers, keyboard users, or otherwise.
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by toastal 3y ago
The spelling ‘mistake’ makes it easier to web search.
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by toastal 3y ago
git-branchless also fits in the same vein as stacked-git with everyone’s favorite commands like `record`, `unrecord`, & `smartlog`. That said, I’ve been using darcs this past month & the performance issue seem overblown (/ larg
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by toastal 3y ago
I don’t mind color, but pushing beyond the 16 colors is often a stretch without a very specific use case & bound to lead to a lack of legibility for some unless both foreground & background are defined—which has a tendency to look j
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by toastal 3y ago
XMPP by its extensible nature can be a social network (Movim), a community organizer (Libervia), or can be used for basic presence, etc. & these can sit atop your XMPP server (Prosody, ejabberd, etc.). Matrix, without extensibility, is
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by toastal 3y ago
I did it out of necessity to save money. The delay was real, & I’m surprised dates tolerated it from me. Later, I only had a minimal data plan (cheaper than with voice+SMS) + Google Voice & some forwarding app. I remember rushing
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by toastal 3y ago
This is one of those things that make me appreciate XMPP. There’s no expectation to duplicate the entire history of chatrooms. Many MUCs default to the last 20 messages, which is usually enough to let you catch & jump in on the conversa
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by toastal 3y ago
I remember that time before I had a smart phone, but while I had a laptop & before there was security concerns to bother password protecting WiFi access points. I used to stop by roadside hotels/motels & whip out the laptop to
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by toastal 3y ago
I like that Prosody MUCs default to just giving you the last 20 messages–enough to give you context of the current topic. Shipping the entire history like Matrix & others do is more that should be necessary for the communications best s
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by toastal 3y ago
Personally I favor Soupault < http://soupault.app/ > where I can choose whatever or as many syntax highlighters as I wish. I hope to get a tree-sitter based option up soon enough, but Prism will remain the fallback cove
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by toastal 3y ago
There’s some metadata that is lost unless the user explicitly provides it (username/email might not be the ones sent with the email & that could be an error or for security/privacy reasons). The tool can provide a format that
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by toastal 3y ago
I've been getting the hang of darcs recently. There's been your typical hiccups of learning something new, but it’s been an interesting process. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Patch Theory-based DVCS be the Git successor, &
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by toastal 3y ago
Pijul will be ready when it support the ability to email patches as a universal fallback method of submitting patches upstream for those that do not wish to create an account with a given service.
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by toastal 3y ago
Or US sanctions tell the entity they’re no longer allowed to serve the clients in a particular country cutting off a chunk of the user base. Or a user merely wishes to remain anonymous & that shouldn’t be a problem for them (provided th
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by toastal 3y ago
I believe all messages/multimedia from all users & the history all the rooms & private messages need to be mirrored which can end up being a lot even with a few users depending on what they’ve joined. If my understand is wron
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by toastal 3y ago
It’s expensive to self-host, and centralized if using Matrix.org. It has its uses, but XMPP MUCs have a lot of overlapping features & Prosody/ejabbard can run on a potato by comparison.
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by toastal 3y ago
IRC is very low bandwidth & offers the minimal requirements for communication which can be accessible/acceptable for many projects. If something heavier is needed or wanted, XMPP MUCs & Matrix Spaces may be a good option sinc
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by toastal 3y ago
When will communications beyond the proprietary Discord be opened up to something FOSS & trustworthy for folks concerned about privacy or under sanctions?
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by toastal 3y ago
I’ve set my preferred `tab-width` as a user style & it works just fine. I’ve also raised the issue on Bugzilla to make configuration a lot more visible/easy. This is still preferred IMO to being stuck to specific values.
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by toastal 3y ago
Alignment is pretty overrated tbh
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by toastal 3y ago
“Fx” is and basically has always been (v1.5) the official abbreviation for “Firefox”. This abbreviation is basically the only one used inside Mozilla & you can see it reflected in their project names to this day. > How do I capitaliz
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by toastal 3y ago
> Optimize for the reader, not the writer > Use only spaces, and indent 2 spaces at a time. These conflict in the C++ guide (as well as shell). As I’ve aged, 2-spaced code doesn’t provide the necessary contrast for me to easily read &
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by toastal 3y ago
It’s a weird game of whack-a-mole where it solves a problem for some while creating new problems for others. That’s why it’s best to just save the bits & ask the UA.
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by toastal 3y ago
If a designer wants something “just so”, they would have included a @font-face. This sort of font stack is usually mislabeled something along the lines of “system font” (hence it just being labeled sans-serif unlike the specific font face f
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by toastal 3y ago
> The idea of user configurability is nice but most users have no idea how to do that or that it’s even possible No need to baby users. In the context of Hacker News, a lot of the websites built here are demo sites/documentation whe

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