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by RunSet 2mo ago
I get the impression there is some deeply entrenched individual in the Mozilla Foundation with an abiding hatred for Tree Style Tabs who will never let it deliver what users want without the end-user discovering (using only their native wit
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> Eich donated to Republicans and pro-marriage causes, yes. Pro-marriage as in "prohibit marriage", I presume, since that is the cause to which he donated.[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/new-mozilla-ceo-addr
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by RunSet 2mo ago
Imagine an empty cafeteria. You and your friend enter, get your meal, sit down, and enjoy quiet conversation. Then two other people do the same thing and, because your voices reverberate in the room, you and your friend begin to talk a litt
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> Their purpose is to be the human delegate that represents the corporate entity. A simulacrum of accountability to be replaced in lieu of ever acknowledging fault. No machine could ever replace a flesh-and-blood scapegoat.
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by RunSet 2mo ago
In case anyone likes to play Quake with a gamepad I recently made this add-on which adds Dark Soul III style target lock. (Click L3 to toggle. Breaking line of sight breaks the target lock.) https://www.slipseer.com/index.ph
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> In 2026, compute is becoming the spice of our era. I think it more resembles the "content" of our era. https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/why-i-stopped-creating-c...
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> Firefox seems hellbent on rapidly turning into a reimplementation of Chrome You can rest assured that Mozilla will never copy Chrome's updating the mouse coordinates during dragstart, drag and dragend events. "the spec doesn&
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by RunSet 2mo ago
Reminds me of how calling wine prefixes "bottles" makes things easier to someone.
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by RunSet 2mo ago
https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> Firefox has struggled to get the sliver of market share they have today. I highly doubt that there are that many people like you and me who crave a real Firefox engine on iOS. Egg on Apple's face for expending so much effort to de
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by RunSet 2mo ago
https://i.imgur.com/kl90PCH.mp4
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by RunSet 2mo ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-short...
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by RunSet 2mo ago
Even a single exception (which I furnished) is sufficient to invalidate the claim I quoted.
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by RunSet 2mo ago
> Speed limits exist to reduce fatalities In the USA the national speed limit was implemented by Richard Nixon in response to the oil crisis of 1973. The motive was to reduce energy consumption, not to reduce fatalities. https:/&#x
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by RunSet 2mo ago
One could browse with javascript disabled. It may be that downloading and executing arbitrary code with each page load is naive- even in a sandbox developed by the world's largest advertising corporation.
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by RunSet 2mo ago
"AI data centers" are so non-central and located in places so data-sparse (yet rich in cheap electricity) I consider them more likely fronts for crypto mining.
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by RunSet 2mo ago
Apparently to sort tabs. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-ai-enhanced-tab...
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by RunSet 3mo ago
> Play any game with good UI and you will see animations used everywhere. Instant transitions are only good in theory. Would you rather the game have the coolest load screen in the universe or no load screens at all?
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by RunSet 3mo ago
> Everything in reality is animated. Nothing instantaneously snaps between two states. Alternatively nothing in reality is animated and everything instantaneously snaps between states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z
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by RunSet 3mo ago
> At the same time, why does everything need motion? To hide the user interface congestion exacerbated if not caused by the ubiquitous animation. Imagine reading a book if the letters just sat motionless. You'd need to be constantly
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by RunSet 3mo ago
"Better to rush to do the right thing than to invest the necessary time determining what the right thing might be." could be the Wayland motto.
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by RunSet 4mo ago
> There is no "religious oligarchy" dictating anything. You might inform Peter Thiel. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...
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by RunSet 5mo ago
Adobe is a notable holdout in refusing to go native.
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by RunSet 6mo ago
> Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of late? Simple pages with just text on it that take gigabytes (AWS), or pages that look simple but it takes your browser everything it has to render it at w
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by RunSet 6mo ago
He *did* really do OSS. But he don't really do OSS. > id Tech 4 is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and is to date the last id Tech engine to be open-sourced. https://en.wikipedia
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by RunSet 6mo ago
"Uneaten food" <CHOMP CHOMP> "is wasted food." <CHOMP CHOMP>
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by RunSet 7mo ago
Correction: The illustration in the article labeled "Sony’s original Playstation" does not show the original playstation controller. For comparison purposes that is shown in the following image: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by RunSet 7mo ago
Cool Hand Luke, which I prefer, has its protagonist sentenced to a work camp for an absurd crime. A more recent prison movie which made me feel similarly to Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption while watching it is "I Love You Phill
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by RunSet 7mo ago
> I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a persona
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by RunSet 8mo ago
No, it packages open source game data (which can't be distributed because it is copyrighted) so that it can be installed and will work with the games that already have debian packages. So in the case of quake (for example) it makes a

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