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  • SCmSTR@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlfirefox
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    1 year ago

    Let’s be clear: it’s a very good browser, very HTML5 compliant, and perhaps one of the best browsers…

    …Assuming you don’t care about insane amounts of spyware - AND not having a lot of really cool browser add-ons (those having spyware and memory leaks is a separate topic, but I want to acknowledge these problems).

    Edge makes more calls home per second than any other piece of software on my computer. I looked at my live log and it was a literal stream. Nearly every single action you do is tracked and sent… (waves hands confusingly up in the air in circles) …somewhere. Likely Microsoft, but I really don’t know.

    Almost all of Windows is like this too. I hate it so much. There’s just no great way to have nice things right now.



  • I always used baconreader because I’m after really compact and full function with options. I don’t want giant image cards because I’m ten million years old (I’m not, I just like the outcome of having to design around simplicity and efficiency).

    However, an actual app? Made by a popular, experienced, and successful app dev? I will 100% pay for and use that even though it’s not my preferred design philosophy.

    Lemmy and kbin are… alright as they are, but chrome is such a pos for multitasking and I would really love some clarity and consistency to the ux design across different instances and more and better options.

    What I really want, ideally, is baconreader to make a universal fediverse app - but the likelihood of anybody making a universal app and that’s good is very low, let alone my favorite 3rd party reddit app dev that’s already said they don’t plan on it.


  • TEXTFILES! WOW! What a blast from the past! I can’t remember the last time I saw that site! Isn’t that the site that just outright hosts a copy of the anarchist’s cookbook and other similar stuff?

    I remember it was all blue and I would visit it on the School computers thinking I was so edgy, but then school shootings weren’t common at all yet, and when they started, I sort of moved away from visiting sites like that entirely.

    But man. MAN… I kind of want to see if it’s still there, just for the old times, but… I feel like the fbi takes stuff like that a LOT more seriously now :|

    What to do, what to do…

    Edit: Jfc yeah that’s the one - annnnd I’m on a list now, great :/


  • Mildly, but honestly that feels like a good thing.

    Reminds me of those paper tests or quizzes in school where there’d be a paragraph of instructions in the beginning, and halfway through, it would say if you wrote your name on it and turned it in after ten minutes and wrote “potato” as the answer to #4 and just turned it in, you would get 100%, or if you just did something specific you’d get some extra credit.

    The number of people that don’t read instructions is insane. Teachers were complaining about students not writing dates on stuff or some other aspect of laziness and would use this to incentivize kids to read instructions.


  • My God. Multiple times I’ve been on that screen in the past. But every time, I’ll have no idea how I got there. I’ve tried to get back, but the best I had was on a magazine’s page at the very bottom.

    Thank you for showing this.

    My opinion? This is AWFUL design. That a second settings button is THERE is unbelievable. Maybe I’m not hip to how the fediverse exactly works, but this doesn’t feel like the right route to that stuff.