Yes please. I hate articles like this that tell you what Facebook will now allow you to do... but don't give you the actual link where you could do it yourself _right now_. Makes me think these articles are actually Facebook PR which wants to control the narrative on the feature and deliberately not make it easy to find where to do it.
I would love a button or menu action to RESET my window to the standard size in regular Firefox but so far I can’t find any easy way to do it. You’d think an extension would do it but when I checked, all the extensions related to window size did different things.
Also, if I'm researching a product or category and find several articles discussing it, knowing which ones have affiliate links allows me to weight them appropriately (i.e., discount the affiliate articles somewhat, and give more weight to articles without affiliate links).
Quick filter is a power user way to clean out email like a hot knife through butter. GMail is a good product but for this particular use case Thunderbird blows it out of the water. I felt, and still feel, that Thunderbird is for 'serious' email users.
I worked at the help desk when I was in college back in the 90s and our mantra to users (and ourselves) was “save often and make backups”. We figured the more people we could inculcate that practice into, the fewer “I’ve been writing all afternoon and the computer just crashed, I can get my work back, right?” and “My only copy of my thesis was on this floppy and now I’m getting a disk read error, you can fix it, right?” visits we’d get that would end in tears.
Probably true. But I notice, not infrequently, that stuff which is posted to HN ends up showing up on other news sites a day or two later. So I get the feeling some reporters/writers mine HN for content/ideas regularly which would make it more of an influencer and thus attractive. But still probably unlikely TBH.
I thought I was going to have to build something like this myself but finally found a “good enough” app (ABC / Always Be in Contact). It has a few warts but since it’s free I can’t complain and it’s definitely helped me stay in touch with people
I’d really love it if HN allowed me to save in my profile a simple “hide from me” list of domains, so I could say just don’t show me wsj.com, nytimes.com etc.
It's absolutely unbelievable that something like this could occur in modern society. It makes me fearful for the future, not convinced that we are much more advanced than aggressive apes. The way everyone else in the court just ignores the man is like something out of my worst nightmare of the Milgram experiment. Despicable.
If two or three tenants in a row move out and cite sky high power costs due to poor insulation as the reason, the landlord will notice and do something about it. One tenant is a fluke, several all saying the same thing over a few years is a problem that will get dealt with. Nothing costs a landlord money like high turnover. But departing tenants DO need to communicate that as the issue, otherwise the landlord would never really know since s/he isn’t the one paying the bill.
When traveling, to keep bandwidth usage down I exclusively use Firefox as my iPhone browser because of its ability to turn off images. Turns out most web pages are actually a lot better with only text.
I went to bookmark this site as a hosting company supporting a ton of languages, only to see that I’d already bookmarked it back in 2006. So I guess they’ve been around for a while :)
I don’t know that web pages would have have access to user chrome settings but I still have to ask, do any of those changes make browser fingerprinting easier?
I recently noticed that Windows 10 helpfully automatically opens up your browser(s) when you restart your computer so you can pick up right where you left off [1]. That’s great because you don’t need to question whether going right into your email and web browser is the most productive thing you can do to start your day.
I think it’s basically the same problem as small businesses, people have this psychological expectation that I’m too small to target. They don’t realize that they are just another IP address or email address in a sea of IP/email addresses that is being automatically targeted every hour of every day.
I got a new computer recently (old one died), and because of this change I will not install Chrome on the new computer. I’m planning to use Edge for anything Google-specific like Google Docs or Sheets, and Firefox for everything else.
Unfortunately, my wife has a Chromebook and it’s hard to convince her that her very cheap, almost-disposable laptop should be replaced with something more expensive just to avoid Chrome. (And no, she did not want me to install Linux on it - sigh.)
In environments where use of Chrome is forced on us (e.g., a workplace), with this change will we still at least be able to use NoScript to protect from drive-by malware downloads?
If uBlock Origin is going to go away from Chrome, my first choice would be Firefox but if I can't use that then I think I'd rather use Chrome with NoScript (if possible) and images turned off.
Looks like it. I had the same yellow "One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled" banner in the Tor browser as in Firefox, the NoScript extension icon is missing, and I went to two different "do I have Javascript enabled" sites and they both said JS is enabled.
Just discovered the same message in the Tor browser, and it seems that NoScript got disabled. So people running Tor are a lot more vulnerable right now.
Also, wow, the web has a ton of ads. I've been running uBlock origin so long I forgot how bad it had gotten :(
I've been using it for 2-3 years now on a Chromebook I converted to dual-boot with one of the options being Linux Mint on a USB. I don't use it every day but I do use it probably one a week for something vital. So I want to second the Thank You to the Mint developers!
I've encountered several cash-only restaurants over the years. Some in NYC and even a few in my area. The local one that stands out in my mind is a combination of the restaurant being extremely good and reasonably priced, so there's always a long waiting line. There's also the "cash discount", which my dry cleaner offers. And I can't tell you how many house contractors will charge less (sometimes substantially less) if you pay them in cash.
Listening to the first episode, very well done. Just subscribed via Overcast so thanks for that RSS feed URL. Will fill out the survey when I've gone through all the episodes. Nice work!