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Is the desktop app native?

There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

(you can still see it in the url)

DGG lets you disable ads in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#general

But the main difference is that DGG chooses ads based only on search term, as opposed to tracking you and collecting your data across the entire net.

The bottom of the page says it was updated today, now it says this:

Are these stories personalized to me?

For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from a general list of the best of stories on the web. But Pocket is actively exploring ways to deliver personalized recommendations in a way that vigorously protects users’ privacy. Importantly, neither Mozilla nor Pocket ever receives a copy of your browser history. When personalization does occur, recommendations rely on a process of story sorting and filtering that happens locally in your personal copy of Firefox.

I just don't understand why a "static site" needs to download and run almost 1 mb of minified JS.

You can press Ctrl+C and it should give you a message reminding you how to quit.

If anyone is looking to delete their account: https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center

I've found it's great for Discord, and pretty good for Slack (although I've been using Slack in my browser now that it's become critical during WFH).

Unfortunately it's proprietary, but there's another native client called gtkcord3 [0] that seems to be progressing well.

0: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord3

privacy-conscious people and those adverse to advertising are the very people advertisers would pay a lot of money to reach.

Why? Not trying to be snarky, just genuinely curious, I'd expect that those people would generally be less susceptible to advertising.

Is there language server support/is it planned?

The other project, GitGardener[1] is... not necessarily sketchy, but it's obviously designed to make your Github look "better" than it really is (not that the contribution chart matters for anything, but that seems like what the service is trying to convey).

1: https://www.gitgardener.com/

The homepage is basically a book you have to read from top to bottom, without any content structure your eyes can hook up to to correctly extract important information.

Are you talking about this page? https://sourcehut.org/

It seems like the opposite to me, each feature has a big heading that you can quickly read to get an overview of all the features, with smaller, more detailed descriptions below.

Not sure if they've fixed anything, but this blog post describes some of the issues: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html

Same here - seems like these issues have been going on since last year, especially with Actions.

Switching to Lineage OS after using bloated stock ROMs is a breath of fresh air, both in terms of performance and simplicity.

And it’s built by one developer, and supports Slack and Discord!

Imagine what these massive companies could do if they made their own native clients.

Is it possible to view the page you linked without creating an account? It redirects me to your landing page.

From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only for bug reports: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

Off topic, but it would be nice to mention Zoom in the title, it's pretty ambiguous otherwise

I’ve experienced the same thing - I always right the microphones attached to earbuds were worthless, but compared to a laptop microphone, which picks up every last bit of background noise, my cheap ($15) earbuds’ microphone does a good job at only picking up my voice, with clear enough quality.

If you’re using Linux and Pulseaudio, look into echo cancellation, it’s easy to enable and can help improve your voice quality a little bit.

Svelte is my favourite framework right now (it's really reignited my love for web development after using React for a long time), but unfortunately one of their criteria/use cases was "build step as well as no build-step", which doesn't work since Svelte is a compiler.

While I thought dropping the "no build-step" requirement wouldn't be a big deal nowadays, they later say:

We should still explore introducing a full build step in the future (including full support for module bundling, ES6+ transpilation via Babel, etc), but this is a non-trivial change to the architecture of MediaWiki.

I can see why going with something that doesn't need a build-step could be appealing.

There's also the other factor (mentioned below) about community. If MediaWiki chose Svelte, they would definitely have to invest a lot into the framework and it's community, and I'm not sure if that's something they want to or are capable of doing. The biggest pain point with Svelte right now (at least for me) is the tooling, it's real bad.

This is the only mention about Svelte:

Svelte, Inferno, and Preact are aggressively optimized for performance but have much smaller communities of users (Preact suffers from this issue to a lesser extent, but only as long as it maintains a very high level of compatibility with mainstream React, which may not be the case forever).

I'd be interested in seeing a bit more discussion about it.

But I'm calling out slack specifically...

I also don't understand this. What makes it even worse is that someone has already done this. I've been using Ripcord [0] for a few months for Discord and Slack, and it performs way better (it's native, written in Qt 5), and supports nearly all of those platform's features [1]. It is unfortunately proprietary (although I think the dev has open sourced the theming engine).

it doesn't look as beautiful (if you care about that), but it has most of the features. This is all done by 1 guy. Imagine what Slack and Discord could do themselves.

The real solution is to drop these proprietary solutions that don't respect their users. Unfortunately, while I love Matrix and Signal, the large majority of my social circle would never move to those.

Edit: I should also add, there's a very promising, open-source Discord client being developed called gtkcord3 [2], it's still very early in development, but it looks great and already supports the essential features, excluding voice chat.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ [1] https://dev.cancel.fm/service_features [2] https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord3

It would probably be bad PR for them to reveal the extent of their surveillance.

I miss the Eudyptula Challenge [0], I never got around to complementing it. It was a series of 20 challenges to introduce you to Linux kernel development, and it was done entirely over email. I think it's been shut down for a few years now, I'm not sure when or if it'll come back at this point.

[0] http://eudyptula-challenge.org/

Sounds like plenty for a speaker.

The address/search bar is much much inferior...

I agree. It's also very minor, but one feature I miss from the old Firefox is being able to scroll the address horizontally. Now you have to tap on it, which opens the keyboard.

- Extensions are not supported...

Edit: maybe I misread the article. Do they mean that they're going to replace the old Firefox with Preview in it's current state? It would definitely be horrible if they pushed a downgrade that removes extension support (even if they plan to add more support later).

AFAIK they're adding the extensions API used by all extensions, but they're going incrementally by trying to support APIs used by popular extensions first. They even said they plan to add more extensions soon. Ideally, once the extension API is solid they'll allow you to install from the addon store (like old Firefox). It would be awful if they only allowed you to install they're recommended extensions.

The thumbnails are removed from the tab list...

That was a nice feature. The icon beside tab names is pretty big, maybe they could add an option to make it even bigger and show a tab thumbnail.

Popups each time you close a tab use up unnecessary screen space...

Agreed, although I like being able to undo if I accidentally close one. I much prefer the way the old Firefox did it (basically the same thing, but a slimmer banner touching the bottom of the screen). Hopefully they improve this somehow.

The address bar is now at the bottom...

As someone with a large phone I appreciate this, but if you don't like it you can change it back to the top in settings.

I'm still unable to leave any code reviews, and occasionally I'm getting error pages.

It's very weird (and annoying). There's some more discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433673

In case anyone else is curious: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6719

Thank you, this is amazing! Simple ZSH/Bash function if anyone wants it:

  cheat () {
    curl "cheat.sh/$1"
  }