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O'Reilly, did a good line of 'Cookbooks', I think these were a result of many forum questions and answers (most likely iteratively refined) compiled into simple 'recipes'.

Something like: How do I join two strings in Foo? They list a few answers, including a suggested one alongside caveats/pros/cons of each. There's a lot of Stackoverflow there. And they always seemed to provide code that was less abstract and more practical than say a 'Learn Foo' manual.

It's very tempting to friend anyone. But because of Facebook's tendency to then cross pollinate posts via comments etc. I'm more reluctant to do so (privacy of others). I post to Facebook almost as if I'd post in public. But it's different for everyone. I know there are settings and ways to make circles, but it seems a faff.

You are basically saying your friends were a distraction. Which is a little rude (UK perspective).

I miss Facebook, or rather the circle of friends on it. I'm ideologically opposed to the idea of one big centralised thing like Facebook - but as an actual tool it's pretty spiffy.

I live in a small hamlet that uses a small treatment plant that ultimately runs off into a river. Treatment plants have gotten better, but after talking to residents, they are blissfully unaware of dos and don'ts of septic like systems. They are totally ignorant. Information is at their fingertips. I'm now worried about micro-fibres - from clothing etc. Most pollutants are avoidable but there are many available and it's easy to forget/ignore. Additives, cleaners etc. Not sure the swans are that impressed.

Most places?

In the UK it is, but my bladder/prostate totally gives up, and in that situation it's a choice between a public place or my trousers.

It's probably as simple that boiling water requires energy and is expensive.

Education is key, and I'd like to think the topic could be covered in a couple of sessions.

A little bit of vitamin B12.

It's a little more complicated than digging a hole in the ground. You have to ensure you don't poison the water table with run off or monsoons. Protect them from pests. Aerobic composting is simple when liquids are removed (urine separator and no black water). Pumping air through toilet chambers can help remove smells.

I live in the UK, and as I age, I seem to be loosing control of certain physical faculties. And we have a distinct lack of public toilets, which is ridiculous. You need toilets dotted everywhere which you are comfortable using.

In very highly populated areas using water as a transport has been somewhat miraculous. But it's not always appropriate. Recycling waste locally is probably a good idea where you can.

Night soil sounds primitive, but is pretty neat. Problems arise when raw sewage comes into contact with foods etc. Composting sewage, delays usage, but removes health risks and improves the resulting output.

I actually resent flushing my own turds down the toilet when my garden really could do with the input. But when two thirds of my water bill is for waste, you think twice about constructing alternatives.

It's the user friendly bit that matters.

Perhaps it wasn't the best example, as the Tab/Window title could fall under Window management. But fine, if you just want minimal chrome, perhaps Chrome will do. Parent said feature-rich. My point really is that there are technical and usability features. And while of course there is cross over - I don't see much in the way of advancement in usability (without extensions). Browser's haven't changed that much in the last ten years - from an end users perspective. Window and web page management isn't great.

Feature wise, I always think there isn't much between the big brand browsers without extensions. They could do so much more. They may be better at CSS, JS and have some good debug tools in them these days, but as actual web browsing tools, there's plenty of ground to cover. Bookmarking, History, Link management and even Meta inspections/overviews could be much more user friendly and useful. Example: Chrome is a tabbed browser, and as such titles are lost until you focus on tabs or select a tab. And that bit of meta information is really important. Publish dates, shouldn't necessarily be embeded in HTML body, when a browser could extract that information from a header or a head. Navigation could be more fluent and the browser could aid in that. So usability wise, I'd say they are pretty feature lacking.

Can pretty much do all that in a Java applet, and have been able to for a long time.

Facebook got a foothold, because authoring tools sucked so bad. That's ignoring the magic of some of their social tooling. But sharing digital content with your own intended audience could be achieved in a distributed manner. I know the W3C are trying to tackle that problem. We still need intuitive and easy publishing and aggregation tools that beat the Facebooks.

I'd have thought the best fix for misinfo, is having a good audit trail of links. References. And these must end at a source/s.

I don't think that's a browser issue. More an authoring issue. You could serve up pages as text files, with as little html as a link.

I love the idea of building on site with site materials. Rammed earth housing - is an example. Mouldings/hoardings are brought in, but if you do sections at a time, you don't need that much. Labour is the intensive part. If you could get a machine to print with materials on site, or tapping into the waste stream that would be great. Not so happy with the concrete here. I'd rather a more friendly aggregate. An adobe tube house isn't a far cry from this - but looks more eco friendly. I'm sure you could machine much of that building process.

Little irritations like: A form is not allowed to be a child element of a table, tbody or tr. There are workarounds.

One was that you once had to wait for the deepest nested table to render before the rest. And there used to be tables in tables in tables.

Or rather, how much of this is user configurable: https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-... Can I make Chromium less Google and increase privacy?

How does Chromium fare by itself?

Yeah CPU monitor gives you an idea of something happening at a glance.

It kind of defeats the point. It all gets chicken and egg. I've some accounts that I want totally and utterly divorced from each other.

Over 16 chars, not auto generated.

I've got an odd issue with a Google mail account. That has no email or phone number associated with it. On my main laptop, I can access the account with username and password, on another computer, I'm locked out - because of security checks. The credentials don't matter. Which really bothers me. I'm effectively locked out the account.

I don't really care for a telephone either.

Man in the middle.

It also has a disable images button.

Opera has or used to have a user styles feature, that you can use to do something similar, I used to dump the sites CSS and use my own.

My current window manager is pretty basic. But that's because I haven't been arsed to script up something, that would help me with window tasks. I tried double monitor for a while, but the main OSs sucked with the way they dealt with more than one. I gave up in the end, so just use a couple of workspaces and window cycle mainly. Main drive is mostly a laptop. Pointer (nub) is too stiff, touchpad is okay - nothing fancy.