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This is the relevant historical context to understand how this ever got into big G's mission statement, it was to distance themselves from the then well-known anti-competitive mal-practices of the Redmond giant.. which seemingly they've learned a lot from. Don't no-one worry too much, they only have less than half of the world population's messaging metadata, schedules, realtime location and private pictures.

It was absolutely the end of the world for many folks not as privileged by sheer chance of birth place. And getting through this "just fine" will mean hundreds of thousands of starvations in addition to the "default rate" of ~10k just children dying of malnutration each day. So yeah, congratulations to your luck that you can just shrug it off as insignificant for you personally..

Nice look! as a heavy user of ranger I am hooked to its keyboard shortcuts and malleability though.. hoping that one day, the giant patch queue (including some of mine) will get merged. Multi-threading, as implemented in elio, would also help a lot I guess..

yes, working on a big END THE MONEY SYSTEM 2030 campaign to get public discussion started about considering the switch to a cooperative commons/resource-based open access economy. open source everything, hack the planet etc. why not make it the singularity of the people

There's another more hidden tool avail: right of the search type bar (images/news/books) there is a "search tools" menu where you can open "all results" and switch it to "verbatim". Often times a good way to see another defunct relict of old, quality google: the empty-result-troll that would once upon a time pull out his fishing rod on click..

Konqueror (KDE's original hybrid web browser/file manager) had it first, implemented in 1999 ( https://invent.kde.org/search?group_id=1551&project_id=2544&... ) and it supports arbitrary tiling. Oh by the way, Chrome's rendering engine (called blink nowadays, KHTML once) also originated from KDE.

Implementation details and UX in general is a cluster fsck of sad stories though, can confirm. Try/adapt zen browser maybe?

"The profession" actually is a wide variety of trades, not just architects and contractors. Electricians, plumbers etc. where CAD is not yet widely spread. Which hopefully will change in the near future, with open source BIM tool chains, boosted by generative/agentic AI.. Finally, a huge source of confusion and execution hiccups will be overcome.

The server, and plausibly at least one secret service. Telegram datacenters are located in Florida, Amsterdam and Singapure.. guess local jurisdiction applies.

Because of all the laggy javascript, wasting precious compute and gigawatts of power just to make buttons dance, track us and shove ads up ours?

Websites used to be below 100KiB - now they come with MEGABYTES of obfuscated JS.. wtf

Though obviously, it's not the individual developer to blame but the incentive system.