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brynjolf··on A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term
Ironically the place I'm getting forced A/B testing now is the Playstore. They moved the update apps section so it is now 2-3 clicks more, making me have to make a seperate shortcut just to reach the app update quickly.

The point is of course to make it annoying to manually update apps and enable auto update. I have been burned too many times with a auto update so I refuse.

This wasn't enough, they really want to force me enable auto updates to the point of the update section of the app having 50% of the visible space on my big screen being covered with a message to enable auto update over WiFi. [0]

Whoever is doing this at Google... Stop. Just stop. It is cringe.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/MbXn9gy.jpg

brynjolf··on Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
I agree. Honestly most likely they don't have the resources, the management, the money, the development experience, the culture, the transportation, the air to breathe, the water to drink ro the food tør at to solve this immense problem. Most likely they never even heard of Firefox, Chromium, Puppeteer, Browserstack, Playwright, Selenium or the internet.
brynjolf··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
I just think you don't like foreigners
brynjolf··on Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
Opening a window in Vivaldi takes like 4 seconds. It is soo slow I want evidence of anyone who claims otherwise
brynjolf··on Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
Twitch has been broken for the entire pandemic and will not be ever improved at this point. I gave up and just went with Chrome for anything media related. Mozilla has stopped caring and so I have.
brynjolf··on IBM's Asshole Test
I don't talk to taxi drivers in Sweden. It is very seldom you do.

Doesn't make me rude, just makes me normal.

Would I be an asshole according to US standards? Probably. Doesn't mean I am a shot person, just unaccustomed to new normal.

brynjolf··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
I don't owe my employer anything. They pay for my services and that is it. If I don't get enough back in terms of pay and comfort I go somewhere else.

Dreams? You are stuck in some weird emotional place.

brynjolf··on TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
False equivalency and you know it
brynjolf··on Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel
Ironically I tried to find a blacklist extension or similar through Google search past week, and couldn't find it due to blogspam talking about how it used to be. So added reddit and clicked in past year, but reddit now doesn't show accurate dates on posts so that didn't work.

Thanks, will add this!

brynjolf··on What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
The year is 2022 and everything is now equal. The human race has decided to never use nuance again.

Worlds biggest corporations trying to stop you from installing a free community built browser is the same as it asking you nicely once to become the default

brynjolf··on Chrome 100
Right click to reopen tab is missing and I will never forgive them

Yes I know I have to click outside the tabs itself, it is stupid and cumbersome.

brynjolf··on Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password
I had so many issues with this, it feels like you have to keep track of whret you do changes and when it has synced it. Otherwise it won't merge and you will have to do it manually.

Bitwarden is so much easier sadly.

brynjolf··on I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
Anyone have a recommendation for a new laptop with a H processor? I want Thunderbolt and 8 cores.

I'm thinking about HP Zbook G8

brynjolf··on Procrastinatory Doom Loops
if you had issues focus, did music help?
brynjolf··on Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
I don't quite understand how it is intended to be used, if you have time can you describe your work flow with the tool?
brynjolf··on Prince of Persia in JavaScript
Lizard man spotted...
brynjolf··on Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
I have a R7800 and they used to have an app for Android and iOS they didn't need account. They later removed that app and made the router refuse connections to it in favor of the new app that does require an account.

That being said, if you don't want the app you don't need an account.

brynjolf··on Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
For me and my team CTRL+A randomly stops working for an hour. It happens every single day randomly for different members. Just mind-boggling BS every day with Teams.

My Android client randomly signs me out, sometimes multiple times per day.

brynjolf··on Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar
It is not attached to average cars, they attach them to cars that are hot in the market
brynjolf··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
Your comment seem to be manufactured
brynjolf··on Why does anyone use Angular in production?
That is a lot of quotation marks for one post, why is everything so loaded
brynjolf··on Angular 13
Updating Angular is easy, just use ng update and you are done, plus it gives hints if there are manual handling.
brynjolf··on Angular 13
I feel like Angular is the "dark matter" developers choice. It gets picked to do shit now, not tomorrow. Therefore every comment on these updates for Angular are a repetition of "Isn't Angular dead yet?", the hype for a new Angular release is not the same as for a React one, because the developers using it use it to do boring but helpful CRUD applications.
brynjolf··on Backblaze IPO
I thought we were in November not September...
brynjolf··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
They are trying to sell Me a product though
brynjolf··on Open Source Tax Software
Sounds like the industry is sustainable only due to it being an industry in the first place. Good riddance.
brynjolf··on Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
And your comment shows a disdain for the elderly that is very much reflected in the treatment of the elderly in Sweden overall.

We put our elders in nursery home and visit them once a year if lucky. I think that is why the response is regarded as a success in Sweden. Older people dying is just a relief.

brynjolf··on Windows 11: Just say no
Direct storage is coming to Windows 10 but apparently there will be a performance difference, still unknown as it isn't released at all
brynjolf··on Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
Try using Firefox on the world's most popular streaming site Twitch.Tv and report back, let it sit there for a while and try for example use multiple streams to check different perspectives. It slows down to a halt.

Also I can't for example leave Firefox alive while playong some games or it starts to create stutter in the games.

I tried profiling but the Firefox profiler just hangs all the time or uses so many resources it becomes unstable ironically

brynjolf··on Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design
> Trust me, I'm pretty much the furthest thing from brainwashed a Googler can be.

Why do you type like an AI then?

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