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Disclaimer: I am a die-hard Gentoo fan.

The appeal of Gentoo is not compiling everything from source, it's having the freedom to install anything you want on nearly any hardware all with stellar documentation and minimal roadblocks. Want to run Enlightenment with OpenRC and NetworkManager on a laptop from 2008? Install Gentoo! Want ZFS as root on a smart refrigerator? Install Gentoo! Want a vanilla Gnome + SystemD install on a brand new laptop? Install Gentoo! The decision to ship binary packages only gives users *more* choices while other distributions have been actively removing one's freedom to choose. Debian, the so-called "universal operating system" just dropped 32-bit x86 support. You can install an alternative init system on Debian if you'd like, but it's a bit of a PITA. Meanwhile Gentoo allows you to pick between 17+ different stage 3 tarballs and 35 eselect profiles. Personally, I enjoy compiling everything from source and the flexibility that comes with it. On modern hardware it's painless. If you disagree, great! Go install a shiny new binary. The selling point of Gentoo has never been portage. It's always been the flexibility and the community.
Yes, so much is contextual and it's really hard to get that from books. But conversations, whether with peers or a coach, can help you because they have that context.
But do you use pharmacies?
The easiest way to get the easy of use of Safari's password manager in a different browser would be to use a different password manager that works in other browsers. Common recommendations are 1Password (my personal favorite), BitWarden, etc.

This might not fulfill your needs though, since it sounds like you'd like to use the Safari password manager in a different browser, which is not possible outside of the Chrome extension [0] that Apple provides. This means that it wouldn't work on Firefox.

[0]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/icloud-wachtwoorden...
I'm still very happy with firefox. Not as much with Mozilla as an organisation though. They are losing focus. They're still playing the big corp game when at this stage in their marketshare decline they should focus much more on the grassroots movements of privacy.

And their attempts at detaching from the big Google deal are minimal. A deal with mullvad that's not really interesting for example. I'd much rather see a paid premium sync or something. Or something like iCloud private relay for web (which is much better for privacy than a simple VPN like they're offering)

But as a browser it's great. It offers some great features I didn't see anywhere else like the web containers which I can no longer do without. And the real full ublock origin, bypass paywalls etc.
I have tried to switch out of curiosity, but the lack of PWA support in addition to missing features like WebUSB really limits how useful the browser is to me.
It’s usually a good idea to be open to alternative explanations, but that wasn’t my question.
These fear-mongers that make everyone hate needs to stop. Multi-millionaires that give their own agenda and anything else is anti-this or stupid needs to stop.

You also probably say you hate "Cancel Culture" while cancelling things including coke.
I like to see Firefox the browser as something that will have a life independent of Mozilla the (crappily managed) corporation. When they finally go down in flames, the open source community will continue to work on it in some fashion. It started as a skunkworks project, and I expect it will continue to have a life after Mozilla.

That, or something else will fill the void (maybe something built off Servo, I dunno), but that seems less likely.
I believe Mozilla falls into a difficult non-profit grey area. Having another browser on the market isn’t as critical to humanity as providing anti-malarial medicine to millions of Africans, yet I think we can all agree that a world without any browser competition would suck for people rich enough to use a browser in the first place. It would be hard for Mozilla to attract $400M/yr of relatively strings-free cash from anyone other than Google.

Google’s search dominance won’t be cured by Mozilla ending its partnership. It will only be cured by innovative competitors who discover an even better way of organizing the internet’s information (perhaps OpenAI or LLMs generally?), or by government regulation. In the meantime, I like to think of Mozilla’s siphoning of cash from Google as a good thing while we all wait for a proper long term solution that may never arrive.

A similar philosophical question ought to confront us every day about many things we use without thinking, both on the internet and off.
Plus one for this. There's a #startup-cto channel there that is full of good folks to chat with.
we really need a wealthy tech founder type (especially one who made their millions or billions on the web) to start a new foundation that will actually care about Firefox rather than see it as a liability. Mozilla has completely lost my trust and support
I hope theyre also studying if the biomatrix sheds any viable spores or bacteria. They’re seeding it with some strains and it’s accumulating more, and one of the seed strains is Fusarium. That caught my eye since Fusarium rot is an issue for agriculture.
I use Firefox exclusively, and I love the Rust language that took shape at Mozilla, but it makes me sad to see HN censor comments that point out Mozilla's despicable behavior when they fired Brandon Eich because he didn't espouse gay marriage.
Awesome, I love it! Do you have the sourcecode anywhere, I'd love to read how it works.
> where the details around storage (and how we’ll pay for it) is unknown.

The storage details are not unknown. Battery prices are very known and continuously decreasing. As are the costs for wider grids. As are the costs of hydro storage. Some of them may be higher than we’d like, but they’re very known and going down. Unlike nuclear which has not been going down or getting faster.

Even in China, they are building solar wind and hydro far faster (and with increasing speed) than nuclear.
Interfaces were WAY more consistent than they are nowadays even when taking into account some applications slightly altering their themes. One application using a listbox instead of a tree (like one of the Microsoft examples in the site you linked) does not make a UI inconsistent (even as the wrong control, the listbox still looks and works exactly like the other listboxes in the system), it only makes it an odd/bad choice. And from a quick browse, most of the issues mentioned there are things like that (including, amusingly, a ribbon-like interface in Windows 3.1 in the tabs section[0] :-P).

IMO the fact that someone cared enough to make a site about what is largely nitpicks like this shows exactly how these stood out in the otherwise consistent landscape of UIs in the 90s.

Nowadays such a site would have 99% of every application released. It could even be automated, just somehow track all new .exe files in GitHub, MajorGeeks, Softpedia, etc and add them automatically to a hall of shame list, chances are even without human supervision the overwhelming majority will be correct :-P.

[0] http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/tabs.html
A Chinese EV company developed a battery with a 1000 km range, its CEO tested it
They may be right. If that same system has proven harms though (or even simple conflicts-of-interest), Apple might have to find a new business model. The whole "we own your app store, we own your payment processor" shtick has really raised eyebrows in the international markets.
I am uncomfortable buying them because I find working at a desk with a large monitor uncomfortable and I don't see any personal advantage to the extra real estate for coding. I have plenty of space on a 16" laptop for three vertical terminal panes: One for editing, one for docs and one for shell commands. If I need to search something on the web, I can cmd-H to switch spaces and cmd-L back to the terminal. Since my workflow works on my laptop, it works _anywhere_ I go.

Obviously, my workflow is not for everyone, but I pretty strongly doubt that large monitors are the future for most people and am almost positive that they aren't the future for me.
You save passwords in plain text (bookmarks) and then complain that people can read the plain text over your shoulder?
Was there bot enough demand for the content? It seems like the strange loop content was often top notch.
Really, I would be pretty interested to hear your story. I've been a lot to Brazil.
As someone in the Apple ecosystem, Firefox is not a very compelling alternative. I've certainly tried: Firefox Focus was my main iOS browser for a few years (I know it's Webkit-based) and I've tried switching on desktop as well.

On desktop, various Firefox updates would change my settings subtly and nag me about features I had no interest in. On top of that, it was simply a slower browser, both with DOM manipulation and Javascript.

For example, when I made my latest research project (https://pl.aiwright.dev) Firefox would routinely struggle with the large complex graphs (over 100k nodes, though only a few hundred nodes attached to the DOM at any given time). Safari handles it with no issues whatsoever. I'm sure there are likely workarounds to speed things up on Firefox, but I don't have the time or energy for something like that since it's a research project, not an end-user facing product.

Maybe you can make the argument that switching to Firefox will incentivize improvements, but so far that hasn't been my experience. I've now moved away from Firefox to things like Orion (which is still quite buggy, but useful enough). Safari seems to be getting better over time, with things like containers now and extensions like Userscripts [2].

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev

[2]: https://github.com/quoid/userscripts
>Which mobile platform provides unlimited/better for no cost?

Could you explain how it is free?

I mean, could it be possible that the actual cost of the 'free' icloud is built into the prices/ cost of the device(s) you originally purchased (so that you can store your stuff in the icloud)?
And than all kinds of people will use that bit for all kinds of weird theories.
Wouldn't you also need other higher-end components to interface with and support higher bandwidth to effectively make use of all of that VRAM?
I still keep Firefox around and it's not horrible but have been very happy with the Chrome variant Vivaldi and some key extensions. Fast and not vanilla Chrome.
It was terrible. Under that surface friendliness was hiding an ocean of incoherent rules, bugs and straight madness.
The only reason I don’t is because, when I’m on my MacBook, I’m worried about sacrificing battery life by not using safari
Wasn't this done by Ac1dB1tch3z? See http://phrack.org/issues/64/15.html for the CVS exploit from the same time.
I mentioned this in another comment but ctolunches.com is a group of engineering leaders that I have participated in from time to time.

7 CTOs is another one that I have heard of but haven't participated in.
What's the real use case of PWAs?

They just seem like another way to attempt to shift users from the 'proper web' into a place where blocking ads is more difficult.

Personally, I wish we could purge the vast majority of 'apps' from the world, they shouldn't be apps in the first place, most have no need to run native code, they should be links to websites, sites that can work on more-or-less any device in any browser.
How much CO₂ can the world emit while keeping warming below 1.5°C and 2°C?
You're thinking of the "mean" or average. What OP mentioned is the median which doesn't get affected as much by large outliers.
You have no issues with Google? Every exec is paid just right, every endeavour is pure and good?
After costing about three to four times that much for the first 40 years of operating, if the assumptions in the paper are met…
Obsidian: Understanding its Core Design Principles (2022)
Eh it's not just luajit and luajit didn't create that problem either. It's a symptom of lua actually succeeding at its design goal of being easily embedded as an extension language. A handful of incompatible runtimes are more popular than the most recent puc lua, including I believe the older official lua 5.2 released in 2011.

I've done a fair bit of professional lua development and I don't think I've ever written standalone up-to-date puc lua except maybe for some tooling & scripts. It's such a small language and used in such a way that the runtime, distribution method, and available APIs have much more impact on your use (and compatibility) than the version.

Virtually everyone shipping a lua environment is also shipping changes to it that make it a unique target, if only extensions to the standard library. This is why I think syntax layer-only approach like fennel's is the correct choice for improving on lua. It mirrors lua's runtime semantics exactly, and allows you to access the implementation peculiars on their own terms and so can just be run on top of any lua system.

https://fennel-lang.org
OP here, I recently deployed an imageboard for fun: http://13channel.crabdance.com/index.html

Feel free to visit. Obviously it's the main chan I use, since I made it lol
Polish does the same thing, ksero for the machine, kserować for the verb (wać is a somewhat common verb ending for the infinitive).
"Yet you participate in society. Curious!" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
Firefox out of the box indeed does not cause broken websites. However, the demographic of this forum probably will use Firefox with "Multi-Account Containers", "Temporary Containers", "uBlock Origin", and a few more. These are amazing for privacy and productivity, but will occasionally cause broken websites.

Source: I am a Firefox-first user who occasionally uses plugin-less Chrome because the aforementioned plugins (and "ClearURLs", "Consent-o-matic", and a few others) occasionally break websites.
I finally got sick of a lot of the crap that was getting added to edge (like the stupid button on the right that opens the right toolbar), plus I didn’t like MS stealing my data.

Not a day goes by that I don’t strongly miss vertical tabs though.
Scientists Still Shoot for the Moon with Patent-Free Covid Drug
I personally hate PWAs even the ones I use on mobile (with firefox). Not being able to open a link in a second tab for example. I much rather just open the web app in a normal browser. PWAs just seem to reduce functionality over a normal web page.
The whole article looks like a misunderstanding to me. The author writes about a trade-off between memory and processor, although in his example both memory (on disk and in RAM) and processor are wasted (executing all IF instructions in turn).

It is also strange that the author is trying to generate code in assembly language, which he does not know very well, because there is a DIV/IDIV instruction.
> Defaults are powerful.

This is true, though the current dominance of Chrome is evidence that a lot of people will switch. Chrome isn't the default browser on any desktop, after all, and yet a majority of non-technical users have deliberately switched to it...
Imagine charging people to see medical procedures in hospitals. We can call it the hospital circus.
"gaslight" != "trick"

You can trick someone without deliberately working to make them doubt their own sanity.
These "costs" you speak of are purely fabricated through a complex system of insurance, pharmacy consolidation, medical practice consolidation, and intermediaries who structure the pricing.
> He said they want to be too big to fail, merge and get bailouts and handouts like sports get

That is observation I can agree with. Same can be said with finance and airlines - both business models cant stand on their own with out help from the tax payer.

> But no deals emerged, leading some investors to conclude there is little appetite among private equity or tech companies for acquiring legacy businesses.

Probably also a product of increasing interest rates - risky investors (PE, VC, etc) can't pencil deals, the economics no longer work.
First reported Tesla Cybertruck accident results in only 'minor' injury
I am fairly convinced that intangible elements like charisma and “appearing well on video” will become increasingly important. In other words, influencers will become even more of a phenomenon as faking text content becomes easier.

It will be a long, long time until AI tools can imitate a human being live-streaming, so I think the best thing to do is: get comfortable being on camera and talking in person.
You have no idea how deep the Nvidia lock-in goes.

AMD only supports small fractions of the deep custom eco-systems built around models such as Stable Diffusion. Good luck getting half of the shit built for ComfyUI or Automatic1111 to run at all, and frequently those features are the killer ones which motivate folks to want to do AI in the first place. There's a reason why Nvidia is a first class citizen among all of the AI clouds. AMD is even behind Intel in this regard, because at least Intel had an existing robust ecosystem of accelerators (i.e. intel optimized sklearn/pytorch, OpenVino, etc)

AMD can be 4x better in every way compared to Nvidia hardware wise but if they can't get developer communities to build around their equivalent to CUDA and its ecosystem than it's not looking rosy for AMDs future.
> not all businesses have investors.

If I form a business and take no outside money, I am the investor, particularly in the context of GP’s point that “[businesses exist]…to make investors money.”
> (sells?)

An accusation like this would benefit from some evidence.

By not offering any evidence, you get all the benefits of sowing doubt without having put in any of the work necessary to have an actual discussion about it.
Effective Altruism Has a Sam Problem
There is no support for touch screen navigation gestures in Firefox on Windows and that is the #1 reason why I cannot switch. I use the touchscreen on laptop while browsing every day.

Touch screens on windows isn't something new. They became common around the time of the release of Windows 8 in 2012.

There is a 6 year old feature request on bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443710
> Well there are people questioning that a 66k/year salary is “rich”. They are delusional if they think it isn’t.

This is officially “low income” in my area, and I think it qualifies someone for low income housing.

For reference, I’m in California, but not in or near a big city.
Any site that is on the edge of performance (often due to bad engineering, which you can blame on time constraints) will perform vastly better in Chromium.
> storage details are not unknown. Battery prices are very known and continuously decreasing

They’re known and currently high. The unknown is when it reaches a lower level.

> Unlike nuclear which has not been going down or getting faster

AP1000s are being built faster. We don’t know if we can manage cheaper.

> they are building solar wind and hydro far faster (and with increasing speed) than nuclear

Yes. Both. That’s my point.
This is a funny comment - why'd you leave Firefox to have to come back to it?
I had COVID at the end of 2022 and became deeply and severely depressed right after and for the first several months of 2023. It was terrible. I was shaking uncontrollably for days, I never slept for more than a few minutes at a time, I didn't eat, and I had panic attacks constantly. I really thought that it would never end and that my brain had somehow broken.

I did have stressful events I was dealing with in life before this occurred, but I was managing. While I had COVID, I realized that I would get very unexpectedly sad and sometimes cry for no reason. As COVID got better, my depression symptoms stayed and got worse.

I ended up sick with something that required antibiotics and within a week of taking those, my symptoms started to ease up. A month later I was doing much better. A few months later and I was back to normal. I also started therapy during this depression event and continue it today just in case.

I really don't have a way to prove that it was connected to COVID or the antibiotic use, but I can tell you that my mind was not functioning correctly during this. I could mentally know everything was totally fine, but my body would still decide to dump adrenaline and fear on me unreasonably. It was like being trapped in a broken body that was torturing me. People would try to tell me that everything was fine, and I would explain that I knew that, but my brain chemistry was still on fire and logic didn't help.

Anyway, I fought hard, I reached out to friends, I did therapy as often as I could, I started exercising, did breathing exercises, took lots of walks outside, and I eventually got through it. It felt hopeless but I just did those things anyway through sheer force of will. Eventually I got through it and that hell is only a memory now that continues to fade with time.

I believe this was related to some kind of inflammation somewhere that was linked to a very bad COVID infection.
> I don't get it. Does a future where you have to work for corporations mean "corporations own people"?

These kinds of responses are always so frustrating to see. The average person clearly is not paying attention to how much of a stranglehold corporations now have over the populous and how often they just buy themselves power - or even worse, the average populous just doesn’t care or is willfully ignorant. In the US especially - folks always screaming about gov power but not caring about corporations and billionaires owning governments.
Well, I don't know how advanced I am (except in age). But I have found the best advanced training is the same as it was in college. No book makes up for the late night hours. I find other projects and offer to help -- there's always a shortage of coding labor (especially if it's free). You learn what the book or course never discusses -- things like "What the heck was the person trying to do here?" and "Even God doesn't know how this code works!" You know you're in trouble when you see "Oh God! What an evil hack! But it works... don't touch anything!" or "Good luck future Matt! You KNEW this was a horrible job, but did you come back in time and stop me?"
Apple definitely makes a lot of money from advertising...probably more than they make from selling Macs (based on 2022 results).

Also I think this quote might be technically right, but Mozilla's revenue is almost entirely paid from advertising companies who pay royalties to have their search engines by default in Firefox. So they are very much coupled to the dynamics of the ads industry.
Self-serving utilitarian arguments