If the Internet has taught me anything, they’re 42 and 69.

I miss Windows phone, still the most intuitive phone UI I’ve ever seen.

There’s an old but IMO still very relevant white paper by Microsoft titled “So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users”. It argues that security measures often cost more in employee time (and hence wages) than the potential benefit. It’s an interesting read and I think about it whenever our chief of security cooked up with another asinine security measure.

You should be aware that “maintaining” that PC may be more than you expect. Just this weekend I had to help my aunt because the bank’s website had a “big thing in front of it” that she couldn’t get rid of. It turned out to be a cookie banner that was just a bit too big for her laptop screen, and the buttons to close it were out of the frame.

That’s just an example of course, but depending on the person(s) using it, there may need to be someone at hand to help at all times.

Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.

You mean the thing that Opera had in the 90s, and Vivaldi since inception?

I didn’t count them, but wired itself has a very impressive list of “partners” in their cookie disclaimer too.

I did, once. It didn’t work.

Rewind.

Removed ‘/dev/null’. You wouldn’t believe how many things rely on /dev/null.

Indeed, this sounds like a scummy way to sell vpn. While it is true that Facebook embeds tracking in other sites, these can be easily blocked without vpn.

Literal decades ago I bought Sennheiser headphones. They were great. They later orders of magnitude longer than anything I had before. They fit well, and were foldable, making them very compact when not used. And they were cheap too.

When they finally broke down I naturally wanted Sennheiser again, but they referred me to their new brand Epos. I bought a headset this time, not just headphones. It was a lot more expensive, and I was terribly disappointed by the ergonomics. It’s also rather big, making it unwieldy when not in use. And they broke already, though I was able to fix it - they broke just out of warranty of course.

Of course this is just one anecdote, but it really does feel like another great brand sold out and became crap.

Note that since I don’t use Firefox some of these may actually be available, but I don’t know about them.

• Mouse gestures.
• A status bar that stays on screen.
• The ability to select part of a link’s text.
• Tab stacking.
• Tab tiling.
• Opening a link in either a foreground or background tab. This is available as a toggle in the settings only.
• Ad block.
• Spatial navigation.
• Customisable keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything.

These are the ones that matter to me, there are more that I don’t personally use.

Ever since the first release, I’ve tried Firefox a few times. Each time I was left with a feeling of needing dozens of extensions to get it up to par with the browser I was using at the time (mainly Opera and now Vivaldi). The extensions I found were never customisable enough, and would often break and/or be abandoned after a while.

Don’t get me wrong: Chrome, IE, Edge, and Safari are worse - each time I used them I got the urge to throw my computer out the window after just a few minutes. But Firefox is just not customisable enough to my liking, and extension are IMO not the answer.

I have to say I find it ironic that all replies here are about the lane splitting too.

git config alias.psuh push