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I'm using mermaid to render this route map for interactive fiction: https://fiction.live/tsukihime/Satsuki-Yumizuka-Route/4B9obc...

How does nomnoml compare? The results are with mermaid are not ideal for me.

Edit: That one above is actually relatively decent. The results with mermaid can get a lot worse, actually to the point of uselessness.

Terrible examples below

https://fiction.live/stories/The-Hypno-Games/eSSzPJ6qiqAC746...

https://fiction.live/stories/The-Gynarchy/czyGfAtJpRgtzGFmW/...
A browser monoculture allows one entity to dictate how the web works. Even if you can open a pull request against Chromium, that doesn't mean it will get accepted without the approval of Google.

Right now, backwards compatibility is protected by competing browsers. If one breaks backwards compatibility too often, it risks becoming known for having sites not work on it.

In a monoculture, Google could take aggressive moves to prevent ad-blocking. In a monoculture, Google could push more ad focused features like FloC. Google could integrate more ways to allow browser fingerprint (not saying they would, but there would be no recourse).

With competition Google knows that people could balk at any point so they must balance their interests with their users' interests. In a monoculture, they wouldn't have to.
Restore "User Customizable" as a top-level priority. I came to FF initially over 15 years ago because add-ons could change almost anything including fundamental appearance and workflow. When changing to the new, far more limited add-on infrastructure ~5 yrs ago, Mozilla promised that new APIs would be added to re-enable hugely popular add-ons like Tab Mix Plus yet this and other add-ons users relied on still remain impossible to implement.

This "Have It Your Way" capability would be a profound differentiator and user value proposition to stand out from the sameness of Chrome and Safari. I still use FF but to make it usable I have to install my own UserChrome.css and User.js which isn't easy for non-tech people. On top of that I regularly have to go "fix" new UI behaviors that Mozilla's designers keep shoveling into the UX in a constant game of Whack-a-Mole.
Wow. What a bunch of ridiculous clickbait. They are literally just outlining a policy, which happens to be the same policy as many other companies. Can't say I'm particularly surprised with the NYT though.
It's interesting, often prompted by Mozilla doing something particularly silly I try out the competition and every time I go back to Firefox utterly unimpressed by the supposedly better Chromium based browsers out there. Honestly I don't see what people like so much about them.

Most recently when they came out with Colorways I decided to give Vivaldi a shot for the first time in a few years, since it has that easy custom color theming without a pointless time horizon. First problem I ran into was that the built-in ad blocker breaks YouTube. Not a great first impression, but hey you can just disable it and install uBO. But I quickly came to miss the flexibility of Firefox's interface. On the surface Vivaldi is very customizable, but you quickly run into a wall when wanting to go outside what they've built. For example, you can put the tab bar anywhere, but you can't have it in multiple places or pretty it up beyond changing the colors. Firefox on the other hand has enough tab management addons for any taste, plus it supports custom CSS within the addons themselves and at the browser level.

The alternative browser I've been most impressed with is actually Edge, but I can't tolerate it constantly shoving features I don't want in my face or the mandatory telemetry.

So to answer the question, I would save Firefox by breaking the mobile browser duopoly. Desktop Firefox is already obviously better than Chrome and Edge, even in the basic experience with no addons, but people just use Chrome for some reason. I think it comes down to habit, an over-reliance on Google Apps that work better with Chrome's tight integration, and familiarity due to Chrome being the only serious browser on Android. And on iOS the situation seems to be even worse: non-Safari browsers are forced to use Safari's engine anyway, and all of them offer a noticeably worse UX than Safari so why bother. Of Firefox's problems, losing on mobile is the easiest to fix, not that it's super easy. Mozilla "just" needs to focus creative resources on building a compelling alternative browser on Android and a functional one on iOS. That would go a long way toward bringing users back.

Another thing that might help is for Mozilla to make a clear (down to earth, jargon-free) statement of its values and goals as a nonprofit. I think a lot of the criticism Firefox gets in tech circles isn't exactly sincere, because many people have switched away from Firefox due to actual or perceived political differences but don't want to come out and say that, so they contrive or exaggerate some UX or privacy issue. If Mozilla's leadership would speak openly about these issues it might make those detractors a little more comfortable saying something like "I don't use Firefox because the causes they support go against my political convictions", rather than the current situation where they might be reluctant to say that and start a likely pointless argument over whether Mozilla supports a certain cause or not.
Andy Ngo isn't exactly a reliable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ngo#Credibility
It was dark.
> Russia has not yet invaded

Um, yeah, it has. (See Crimea, Donbas, etc.)

After pretty similar denials of intent to invade to those it has recently made about its intent to further invade.

That's part of the credibility problem.
> Firefox is very usable and increasing its market share starts with you. Or to use another cliche - be the change you wish to see.

I use Firefox despite long standing bugs. Somehow a browser that aggressively throttles background tabs is still able to leak memory to background tabs. For the longest time Firefox messed with my wireless headset, they finally added proper support for web audio APIs and things are better now.

CPU usage is still all over the place. Some inactive tab will cause FF to spin CPU usage up to 100%.

Firefox still leaks resources, I can shut down all tabs and still have the media playback process using up tons of CPU and RAM.

WebGL performance is worse than Chrome.

TBF it has been getting steadily better over the last year, I have noticed a marked improvement. I'd say a year or so ago it was noticeably bad on a regular basis, now it is an occasional annoyance. But it should never have gotten that bad.

More to the point of the question, Google spent a LONG time pushing Chrome, hard. They paid lots of # to bundle it with app updates years ago. Visiting Google properties causes banner ads "Download Chrome!" to appear. A few years back YouTube videos would occasionally just stop working in Firefox.

And now days with Node development, well, Node developer tools are built into Chrome. React developer tools run in Chrome.
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Well, now you have.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-police-arson-in...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...

As for the police - helps that a lot of them were tacitly helping the rioters. As usual, giving them fuel and supplies, and ignoring clear-cut violations of the law. Why throw rocks at an ally?

Toronto and other cities may have shut them down, but the Ottawa cops were pretty much assisting. Not really a surprise, cops are pretty right-wing aligned in general.
Because censorship that most people fear is the power of the state stymying information flow and not private actors acting freely of their own accord. It’s when the states monopoly on violence gets leveraged to censor, that you see things like genocides, tyrannical acts, with no rival powers to combat them. If you don’t like Facebook, go use another site or build your own, we are blessed with that freedom. Facebook has the right to curate content for its users.
Supporting vax mandates doesn't make someone part of the "state". Plenty of people that are not part of the government support mandates.

You're also assuming that support for mandates would be the only motive: While less likely than mandate support, someone may simply have been very angry that their life had been turned to chaos & misery by the protestors.
anyone know what sort of heating elements cloths tend to use? im curious to experiment on my own some.
Oh yeah, great. More beeping from my calendar. Sure. :(

I know networking is important but many people don't evoke the "I want to keep in touch with this person!" response instinctively and naturally in me.

And I am not at all introverted, quite sociable in fact -- but not the proverbial extrovert that feeds on communication either; I am one of these people that needs time to recharge the social battery, however it does recharge rather quickly (I know I can have social events with people outside two times a week; sometimes three).

I mean, squint hard enough and almost every problem can be reduced to "let's use machines to poke us in the butt because we forgot to do this or that". No thanks. Good cause and I agree we need to keep in touch but I'll keep searching for other, less stressful and schedule-oriented, methods.
> Larger pools doing that would be subtracting energy from the honest side, and adding it to the dishonest side

Why would that be the case? It isn't necessarily zero-sum; the more realistic scenario is that the remaining honest participants ramp up their energy consumption in an attempt to prevent the attack.

But that's still only the most boring of the many, many latent threats to Bitcoin. Solar flares and electronic warfare strike me as more interesting.
OpenSea launches venture capital arm, in footsteps of FTX and Alchemy
I'm already bitter because my company has screwed me over and lied repeatedly. If I'm going to be treated like that, I might as well be making more money.
I don't care that its losing marketshare as long as its still used and supported, just like how I don't really care that most computer users aren't using the command line anymore. The age of the average user being choosy about their web browser is over, and the hand wringing about market share is not important. Users either use the browser that ships with their OS (safari, the limited people on edge), or they download chrome because youtube and gsuite have been giving them banner ads to download chrome for a decade and that's where their autofill passwords are saved.

Instead, mozilla should really lean in on catering to the techie who is going to come to the conclusion to use firefox no matter what mozilla really does anyhow, just from the fact that its not google and you can do more with privacy oriented extensions. It's always frusterating when mozilla does things they really don't have to do, like break certain CSS configs with the move to proton for no reason other than change is good I guess (like, why pull another python 2/3-esque debacle when you don't really have to and could just support legacy syntax?), or taking out niceties like the built in RSS reader, which I found handy to confirm a feed looked OK before throwing it into my actual RSS reader. There are other issues too. Maybe I'm not doing it right in firefox, but I have to go into chrome to find the correct CSS selectors to use in a given webpage for javascripting.
The whitespace only ligatures look like an interesting idea and a good alternative to full ones.
Ah ok! We'll be sure to drop looping support from Animated GIFs too, because that's also non-standard[0] and is just an extension Netscape 2.0 slapped on there.

I regret to inform you the vast majority of the web is just Shit People Tried and that became popular enough for everyone else to support, with lots of hacks to make things interoperate better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Animated_GIF
1. It's pretty terrible doing it remotely as well. I ran off iOS for a whole three months only for personal stuff. It's wearing gloves when you don't have to.

2. Yes and no. It uses finger emulation on iOS. There is precision control if you need it but the UI is designed for fingers not pointers and switching between one and the other is jarring to say the least.

3. No it doesn't. I have one. The MBA has a much lower thermal resistance than the iPad Pro does and doesn't even get remotely as hot.

4. It proves it was sold to people, not that it is desirable for any particular tasks. You can't draw than conclusion without more data which you have not presented.

5. Not at all.

As for virtualization it is a pretty bad solution for most problem domains. It adds overhead, inefficiency, latency. At that point it is illogical to use it for devices which require low overhead, efficiency and low latency i.e. most mobile devices out there. Taking the initial post into consideration, in what insane world does it even make sense to run a full windows stack on a mobile device when the only thing that matters is the applications?

It's an insane proposition really. I don't do it on any laptops either. Same set of compromises. It barely even makes sense in the cloud either where we end up gaining cost and reduction in performance. Containers are as far as virtualization should go at this point.
you can bookmark it and tag it with "videos". typing it on the address bar will bring it as suggestion I think.
I'm a big fan of Input Sans as well: https://djr.com/input/
If a person or group knowingly deploys sonic psychological warfare techniques upon innocent people, they are torturers. In this context, the constant blaring of truck horns is deliberate and not meant in kindness or frivolity. The negative psychological effects upon the local residents are now well known and well documented.
FF implements what they call 'smart sizing' on Android. The basic principle is the larger the amount of disk space available (on Android they use disk caching) the larger the cache size. You can inspect this dynamically on your device in 'about:cache'.

I am violently critical of FF's current direction but to be fair to FF the reloading of tabs is a compromise to deal with how little disk space there usually is on Android (because the OS itself hogs large chunks of it in most Android devices).
Apple should be wristslapped for forcing developers to use their sign in method, too.
Where’s clippy?
Never understood this convo about Firefox dying or all the complaints. I love Firefox, been using it since 2005 or so. Firebug was awesome back in the day and FF Developer Edition w/ all its developer tools is still great. Only annoying thing they've done recently is rename/re-sort a bunch of menu options that undid years of muscle memory.

Someone explain to me why I would switch to Chrome? If anything I'd switch to Edge before Chrome.
I'm surprised how much you seem to worry about ecological impact of deep sea cables... Are there that many? And even if each one were a complete disaster all the way (which seems virtually impossible), it would be... like a one meter strip across the entire ocean that is affected, out of 2500 km?

Could you elaborate what impact you are concerned about?
I don't have hard data to back it up but I don't think Firefox is spoofing UA for compat, at least not on a massive scale.
> I'd do a deeper reading but I'm a bit lazy, but my understanding is that the EA does not allow, in any way, a shift in governance that could be described as "martial law" - where the military is in control of civil functions and can create or remove laws as military leadership desires. Even with the EA invoked, the federal government still controls the Canadian military (but can be assisted in enforcing civil law _by_ the military).

Is that martial law is? What you're describing sounds more like a coup to me ("where the military is in control of civil functions and can create or remove laws as military leadership desires").

My understanding of martial law (very colored by being an American) is basically direct enforcement of domestic government authority by the military with little or no recourse to normal civilian oversight (e.g. courts). However, the military isn't acting independently, but is still taking orders from some civilian leader in some part of the government.
There was one in the city I grew up in, there was no other trees anywhere near it. Once per year chestnuts would be everywhere.

But it died before I became a teenager, me and my friends use to love sitting under it. Shows how easily that disease spreads.
Didn't seem necessary when it was the Hunter laptop, or the Ashley diary, or the DNC emails.

Those things were ignored in the MSM as "illegally obtained" and "disinformation" and banned from discussion on social sites "due to hacking".

But this civilian donor list is "necessary information" and the media is licking their chops wanting to broadcast it for their brown shirt goons. Disgusting.
Not in an S3 bucket you can't. We're not talking about a filesystem here.
I recently did a number of job interviews and my wife is a IT recruiter, we've both noticed the same thing. The places that want you in office want to pay the same (or less!) as roles that are remote. I could be talked into going into a office, but I'd need to be paid for the 2+ hours a day commuting and reimbursed for my costs getting there. Those costs make the in office offers hilariously uncompetitive compared to remote.
I agree about that as well as how its getting pushed on local governments.

Stacks is pushing all these CityCoins (or vice versa, hard to tell) to municipalities and to gullible mayors who are trying to seem fintech trendy and it is embarrassing. None of these coins have a demand system, it is just supply inflation exclusively.

Its just too bad that this less optimal experience is going to burn so many municipalities as their first exposure to crypto.
This, yes, for my partner dying of cancer. My company offered paid leave for any reason related to my partner's treatment and illness, from days off to shuttle them to chemo to weeks when they came off it and was officially terminal. And then five weeks' bereavement. And I live in the US; this is just what my company offered.

Beyond that, my manager also continuously offered or arranged for things that made our life easier, in part because it kept me productive but in larger part because she cared about us as a person, something that continued not only after their death, but after I left the company, and after SHE left that company.

Hell, my manager was the only person who sent us flowers during my partner's brief last stay in the hospital before dying. (Everyone else either was able to be there in person or didn't have time to make arrangements.) My manager pulled strings with hospital staff that I didn't know she had to have flowers in my partner's room within hours. When we were making last-days preparations, we even floated making her our emergency estate executor if I was somehow incapacitated, until someone physically closer to us volunteered.

So, yeah. Put him on paid leave as a brand-new, expensive employee. Even if there's no guarantee he'll stay. Even if he'll leave the company anyway. Since I'm not sure whether empathy is a factor for you, at least because everyone else on the team is watching how a manager responds to this.
Ask HN: What’s the point of StartEngine?
I have noticed that companies like StartEngine have been receiving a lot of attention recently. Why do founders today find the StartEngine approach to funding their startup better than the traditional VC route? Do they offer resources that traditional VCs don’t?
My comment or question was more rhetorical. There is a nigh-zero chance that the comment-OP responds to any of my questions or posts any more comments. I leave it to the reader to extrapolate why that is the case.
Hmm, interesting, because I don't force myself to use Firefox. I use it because it's just plain better than Chrome, in that I can configure it just the way I want.
The unsaid part is that Google keeps Firefox alive so that they are not hit by anti-trust over in-browser search. That's why FF will always trail Chrome, its the designated loser. If it weren't for anti-trust, Google would have bought out Mozilla years ago.
I also don't like smartphones but I accept reality. So while it won't solve 90% of the article's complaints, I desperately hope we will move out of a time when we have this item that takes us out of live experience and instead, we start building out technology that helps us enjoy our live experiences more fully, especially in regards to communication and attention.
The last thing Mozilla needs is to spend more time pretending they're a big tech company and can compete with those guys. They should focus on Firefox (as GP said), not build a communication platform that will then fail versus Signal/WhatsApp/Hangouts/Teams/etc.
What is an ROS?
The lack of effective policing is what's most disappointing to me. The Ottawa police have completely failed to enforce any boundaries. This further erodes public trust in the police and public safety in general. In that sense the protestors are winning.
Why Linux when you have Termux?
So I use this as well, but it utterly fails the elderly grandmother test.

Its not well known. Its not easily accessibly for non-technical users. & its not clear which profile you are currently using when you are using it.
I am talking about written and video statements made by organizers, not individual protesters.

> conveniently fully masked agitators

I shouldn't even bother responding to this kind of disingenuous bait. Of course it's all a massive psyop false flag conspiracy to smear the good names of working class Canadians in it for the good fight, right.
Shouldn't the director(s) be held responsible at all? It seems like if people escape consequences this behavior will continue.
Cool, now do latex
I don't get what you mean. If there was a large enough mailing list, people would send this stuff on it and then the list would become moderated and we would be back at square one.

I'm sure the Linux kernel mailing list gets tons of vile things sent to it all the time which are filtered out.

I don't see why we have to involve business models at all. Any large all to all communication medium is going to have this issue and the only way to prevent it is to devolve back to the cable tv/newspaper era where people only consume content.
If you liked Delphi then Lazarus is a great open source alternative for WYSIWYG Linux and Windows forms based application programming.

Recently I used it to create a little SQL editor with syntax highlighting for Maria DB. It only took a few hours which was mostly due to me trying to remember my Pascal syntax.

Lazarus also has a nice online package manager with a 1.5 zillion components available.

Object Pascal can feel antiquated. But Free Pascal remains fast, stable, and reasonably feature rich without much syntax bloat over the years.
> I would call it usable, but not "very usable". For normal people, Chrome(ium) UX is better.

I can't imagine why you would say this. Could you point out some concrete examples of better UX?
Right, then as soon as the developers knew the bug had caused an erroneous conviction, if they did not blow the whistle they should be interviewed by the inquiry. If they did not blow the whistle after 500...
No there's a happy medium in the middle. They took the approach of starting with a bowl and adding holes as required rather than start with a sieve and try and fill all the bad holes up.
Lmfao, it’s the RCMP saying this, but sure.