alimbada (u/alimbada)

alimbada commented on How to Firefox kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

prophesi · a month ago

A tip I would add to this article is that Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions. Go to about:preferences under the Browser Layout section of the General tab, and select Vertical Tabs. The tab group functionality along with Multi-Account Containers are a lot more useful under this layout IMO.

alimbada · a month ago

Once they add native split screen like Edge has, FF will be perfect for me. I hope the split-screen implementation isn't as clunky as Edge's though.

alimbada commented on X's new "encrypted" XChat feature doesn't seem to be any more secure theregister.com/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/01-_-

herewulf · 3 months ago

As a user of XChat[0] since 1999, I can tell you that it's definitely not encrypted or secure. Don't believe the hype!

[0]: http://xchat.org

alimbada · 3 months ago

I really hope you're not still using it. It was last updated in 2010. Even the website hasn't been updated to use HTTPS.

alimbada commented on Gmail to SQLite github.com/marcboeker/gma... · Posted by u/tehlike

bytter · 4 months ago

Funny... I did the same thing yesterday, just because I wanted to list my recipient emails by domain. Code is awful, but here it is: https://github.com/hugoferreira/gmail-sqlite-db

alimbada · 4 months ago

Yep. I did the same to group by domain and sender.

alimbada commented on Gmail to SQLite github.com/marcboeker/gma... · Posted by u/tehlike

alimbada · 4 months ago

I did something similar using Got Your Back and some C# hacked together in LinqPad to help me analyse my emails.

alimbada commented on Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku

ed_mercer · 6 months ago

Can’t you just use uBlock for this?

alimbada · 6 months ago

You can't use uBlock everywhere, .e.g phones, tablets, TVs.

alimbada commented on Macrodata Refinement lumon-industries.com/... · Posted by u/gaws

pests · 7 months ago

I thought the wife was oddly emotional during that scene with Dylan G. While I agree it would be odd to see your SO's innie, the way she was in awe and full of emotion just seemed very intense. Like seeing a long lost lover or those first date jitters. Probably overthinking things but I thought it was odd.

alimbada · 7 months ago

To me, she seemed taken aback by his foul-mouthedness. Maybe his outie is more "reserved".

alimbada commented on We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

alimbada · 7 months ago

I've been meaning to sell my Pebble's but never got around to it. Don't know if anyone would even be interested in them as the screens on neither of them work. The first was the Kickstarter edition which was then replaced but the replacement eventually had the same issue. I loved the battery life on those things compared to my Apple Watch but I do prefer all the additional functionality that the Apple watch offers.

alimbada commented on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5% evanhahn.com/my-failed-at... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

franga2000 · 7 months ago

We wouldn't have to worry about over-the-wire package size if the modern DevOps approach wasn't "nuke everything, download from the Internet" every build.

Back in my Java days, most even small-time dev shops had a local Maven registry that would pass through and cache the big ones. A CI job, even if the "container" was nuked before each build, would create maybe a few kilobytes of Internet traffic, possibly none at all.

Now your average CI job spins up a fresh VM or container, pulls a Docker base image, apt installs a bunch of system dependencies, pip/npm/... installs a bunch of project dependencies, packages things up and pushes the image to the Docker registry. No Docker layer caching because it's fresh VM, no package manager caching because it's a fresh container, no object caching because...you get the idea....

Even if we accept that the benefits of the "clean slate every time" approach outweigh the gross inefficiency, why aren't we at least doing basic HTTP caching? I guess ingress is cheap and the egress on the other side is "someone else's money".

alimbada · 7 months ago

After reading the article, this comment and the comment thread further down on pnpm[1], it feels to me like the NPM team are doing everyone a disservice by ignoring the inefficiencies in the packaging system. It may not be deliberate or malicious but they could easily have provided better solutions than the one proposed in the article which, in my opinion is a band-aid solution at best. The real fix would be to implement what you mention here: local registry and caching, and/or symlinking a la pnpm.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42841658

alimbada commented on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock arslan.io/2024/09/23/diet... · Posted by u/farslan

hinkley · a year ago

Yeah people were showing off something very like this on YouTube a week or two ago. And that’s actually the second time I’ve seen these. I think you got scooped bro.

I came here to see if anyone is selling them. I don’t have a printer.

alimbada · a year ago

If you read the post, you'll see that OP was inspired by a similar design (which is linked as an embedded YT video) but designed his own to fit his other needs, i.e. making the back part a tray.

alimbada commented on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine zen-browser.app/... · Posted by u/femou

depingus · a year ago

Mozilla maintains a Firefox extension that does split view in the browser. Its called Side View. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/

alimbada · a year ago

I've tried it. It's not nearly half as good as Edge's split screen feature.