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I uninstalled the DeepL extension because it would load all its assets (fonts etc) into every. single. page. No matter the host.

Unacceptable.

> Until China and India take steps to decarbonize their economies as opposed to making empty pledges we all know will never be met, then whatever the U.S. or the rest of the West does will not matter.

This is such a bullshit way of thinking. No one snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche. "But China…", "But India…" is not an excuse for not giving a shit. I hear the same arguments over here in Germany, and they're usually coming from the "I don't want to change" crowd.

Combine that story with the recent, substantial reports about hapless pseudo-mercenary "disposable agents" bought by Russian intelligence, and the whole thing feels even more icky. Have that ship dock somewhere, and some idiot assets who don't know what they got themselves into infiltrate it to start a fire or something, for a few hundred bucks.

See this article from German newspaper ZEIT (auto-translated using Google Translate): https://www-zeit-de.translate.goog/2024/41/russische-sabotag...

> The disposable agents

> Russia is waging a war of sabotage against the West. Initially with graffiti, now with arson attacks. The perpetrators are young men who have no idea who they are serving.

Original German-language article at https://www.zeit.de/2024/41/russische-sabotage-wegwerf-agent...

Archived at https://archive.ph/20240926105720/https://www.zeit.de/2024/4...

Original German-language article at https://www.zeit.de/2024/41/russische-sabotage-wegwerf-agent...

Archived at https://archive.ph/20240926105720/https://www.zeit.de/2024/4...

> I wouldn’t say OpenAI is even among the most greedy companies in the space.

Sure, that's unchecked capitalism for you, but it's not a compelling reason for giving them a pass or looking the other way.

> Are environmental benefits really worth the negative reactions to regulation this will spur in the population every time someone tries to drink from a plastic bottle?

Yes.

We fucked up our ecosphere so badly, every little bit to counter our effects helps. Sure, it's just a goddamn bottle cap, but as a friend of mine uses to say: "No one snow flake feels responsible for the avalanche." Can be read both ways – all our small "misdeeds" accumulate, but all the small "good deeds" do, too.

Regulation helps, people will get used to it, and quickly, especially when it's just about minor inconveniences.

https://www.kaercher.com/uk/home-garden/pressure-washers.htm... maybe?

> A small influential network of right-wing techies orchestrated Vance’s rise in Silicon Valley — and then the GOP. Now the industry stands to gain if he wins the White House.

Archived version of the article: http://archive.is/8wqb9

I've heard a lot of German ads on Nigerian stations. Turns out they were all served by zeno.fm ("The easiest way to create and listen to radio stations and podcasts") which seems to proxy local stations, making money from cramming ads into the streams.

I have zero use for this app (I own no turntable), but I absolutely dig the website. Well done on what you wrote, how you wrote it, and how good it all looks!

Pro tip: Phanpy has a crackerjack conversation/thread view which works even if you're not logged in.

`https://phanpy.social/#/$link_to_mastodon_post?view=full`

Example:

- Original: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112252137266020755

- Phanpy convo/thread view: https://phanpy.social/#/https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/11...

This sounds like it could be very useful. Does it work like this VSCode extension, "Search Editor: Apply Changes"?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jakearl....

Hi, macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago. Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

Add to that the non-macOS text handling, macOS-unlike font rendering, its insistence to not use the system-wide spell checker provided by the OS etc. It feels a bit rude at times.

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).

Thanks for the links! I spent my free morning setting up a Mastodon bot [1] posting one joke per hour, the APIs made it easy and the whole thing made me laugh.

[1]: https://mastodon.social/@pleasestop

Choice quotes:

> We have more than doubled the global life expectancy in the last 100 years, but the length of our healthy lives has not increased at the same rate. There’s currently a 12-year gap between U.S. life expectancy and health expectancy, meaning people are living longer, but spend a longer period of late life in poorer health..

> Before 2050, the world's population over 60 years old is expected to almost double from 12% to 22% – creating urgency to find novel solutions for healthy aging. We believe XPRIZE’s unique approach can incentivize necessary breakthroughs to extend healthspan and change the way we experience aging for everyone.

The competition is further described at https://www.xprize.org/prizes/healthspan, and I'm quite excited.

Apologies for the post-eggnog grammar there.

> The only way to make a living is to rip-off users with misleading subscriptions

(Personal experience/anecdata follows.)

I don't know. I sell a macOS/iOS productivity app on the App Store[1], and while not getting rich there, I can tell you that's actually useful to people, you can put a non-peanuts price tag on it. I love that it's relatively straightforward to get an app out in front of a lot of potential customer.

That said, I wouldn't never rely on the App Store to surface my app on its own, it's ridiculous.

[1]: https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian

I'm currently building Browser Actions for macOS (https://actions.work/browser-actions), because I like Shortcuts a lot for automation, and because I think that it's insane that Chrome/ Chromium/ Brave/ Edge/ Vivaldi have no Shortcuts support, and that Safari's could be much better.

It's an actual itch I'm having. (If anyone's interested, there's a TestFlight going on, see the website.)

Hi, macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago. Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

Add to that the non-macOS text handling, macOS-unlike font rendering, its insistence to not use the system-wide spell checker provided by the OS etc. It feels a bit rude at times.

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

You mean roads?

I have. (Web dev here.) I know it works but I don't want to set up all the things just to get some basic scripting capability.

My point is that there is zero local API surface for interacting with the application. That's the reason why tools like Keyboard Maestro support Chromium-based browsers but not Firefox. Which, in return, doesn't help Firefox's popularity, because it's nigh impossible to work with it from other apps.

Disclaimer: I am in a weird spot here, for I am serious about automation both as a consumer and as a software maker -- I write macOS automation tools myself, e.g. https://actions.work/browser-actions

Hi, macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago.

Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).

Why did you do it

I suspect they'll embed the X post/stream.

Archived version, sans possible paywall: https://archive.ph/OEquy

> Available on all 4 major platforms, Linux, OS/X, FreeBSD, Windows

I know it's nitpicky, but it's "macOS" since 2016, i.e. it stopped being "OS X" or "OSX" about 7 years ago.

Extremely debatable, especially when stated without qualifiers.

I know a lot of people who are happily using Mastodon or Bluesky, not looking back and enjoying their chosen platforms a lot more than Twitter.

Archived/readable version: https://archive.ph/yCAEf

Asking for support is definitely NOT advertisement.