What’s AMO?
addons.mozilla.org
Readit NewsFarow commented on For your next side project, make a browser extension geoffreylitt.com/2023/01/... · Posted by u/Glench
Farow commented on For your next side project, make a browser extension geoffreylitt.com/2023/01/... · Posted by u/Glench
Last time I was making one (for myself, not to publish), my main issue was that browsers made it nearly unusable to have a private local extension because you only had two choices:
- either upload it on their website and go through approval everytime
- either lower security to run in developer mode, and have an alert warning you about it every X minutes, ruining your focus
VSCode on the other hand has no issue running local extensions at the same time as extensions from the marketplace.
AMO does not require a manual review nor the extension to be uploaded publicly. You can sign it through their site and then distribute it elsewhere.
Also, I don't see how you can compare browser extensions to vscode extensions. One product is aimed at your grandma, the other at software developers and doesn't have access to your email, banking and credit cards.
Farow commented on On Twitch, you can never log off every.to/cybernaut/on-twi... · Posted by u/gmays
A streamer has to compete with every other streamer for viewers/income. They're basically trying to sell their personality / themselves to the audience. As other comments mention, the vast majority of streamers cannot do that as they have literally no viewers.
The take that it's an easy job seems very weird to me. If it's so easy, why don't you quit your job and start streaming instead?
The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach:
I'm personally a fan of SpaceSniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
Thanks. Strange, not sure why. Lots of people are managing to see it fine, but there's obviously something not quite right somewhere...
Works fine for me on Firefox 107.
> I find the amount of data they collect[1] to be borderline creepy.
What in that report is creepy? Surely knowing the percentage of people on 32- vs 64-bit isn't problematic. Maybe add-ons? I'm genuinely curious.
Usage times, usage intensity, list of all extensions, country of origin. I don't understand why they'd need those to improve Firefox.
Next thing you know they might try to increase engagement time like they're some sort of social network. "Unlock the new exclusive colorway by logging in 30 days in a row." seems like something that could be implemented, seeing how they're time limited already.
Great work!
This is also a good example of the benefit of telemetry: that they have crash numbers coming back from the field lets them tell that this really did work in practice and get a sense of how much of the problem they've solved.
Couldn't crash reports be separated from other telemetry data, possibly with a dialog letting the user whether to send a crash report or not? IIRC, the dialog used to actually exist in older Firefox versions. I find the amount of data they collect[1] to be borderline creepy.
Farow commented on AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/yreg
I'm convinced that in a few years all digital artists are going to use these models as a part of their workflow, perhaps directly integrated into their graphic editors.
Someone already made a Stable Diffusion extension for Photoshop: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
Not exactly what you're asking for but you can setup SingleFile[1] to automatically save each page you visit.
Then there's also ArchiveBox[2] which can convert your browser history into various formats.
The majority of things that come up on search nowadays consist of computer-generated essays. The only way around this is to limit your search to Reddit. And I fear that soon Reddit will be flooded with AI generated fluff to take advantage of the residual "real-user" SEO.