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create-account commented on Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme theconversation.com/the-p... · Posted by u/pseudolus

create-account · a year ago

We shouldn’t have embraced the Haber & Bosch ammonia creation process for crop fertilisation just like that, without any baby boom control, so as to prevent an implosion like the one we’re about to live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

create-account commented on How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop? connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks

xk_id · a year ago

I used to feel a lot more excitement in 2000 than i feel now.

create-account · a year ago

In year 2000, we were around 24 years younger and the web was still an undeveloped plot of land for kids to play.

Now, it’s mostly a corporate canvas for economic transactions, like the rest of the human experience in the west

create-account commented on Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app blog.gingerbeardman.com/2... · Posted by u/msephton

outadoc · a year ago

Couldn't you do all of that with fairly simple, native Shortcuts? Or even Automator scripts?

create-account · a year ago

An Alfred workflow

create-account commented on Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update theverge.com/2024/8/9/242... · Posted by u/laktak

Spivak · a year ago

But like we all know it's a bluff so there's really no risk. If the EU regulators could successfully kick Apple out without massive backlash from their own citizens it would be a win. The vacuum Apple would leave behind would be massive and give a chance, albeit maybe a small one given Google and Samsung would pounce, for EU companies to fill.

As much as it would suck personally if the internet got partitioned by political region, China absolutely got this one right by kicking out foreign companies that don't bend the knee to let their own domestic industry flourish.

create-account · a year ago

Why would the US leave Europe alone after acquiring and destroying Europe's mobile phone manufacturing business?

create-account commented on Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-09-... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

phtrivier · a year ago

Is anyone keeping a track of those "breakthrough" articles in the "breakthrough-y" topics (energy generation / storage, AI, autonomous vehicles, cancer treatment, etc...), with a timeline of "where are 10 / 20 / 30 years later" ?

I don't mean that in a snarky way - it's perfectly normal that not all innovations bear their fruits, that industrialization is harder than expected, etc...

Even if only a fraction of them work, it's called progress.

But I'm curious to know if someone compiles this kind of list.

create-account · a year ago

http://solartribune.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/...

create-account commented on Using alternative browser engines in the European Union developer.apple.com/suppo... · Posted by u/janandonly

chongli · a year ago

If you read their requirements you can infer why they’re doing this: security. They absolutely do not want users’ phones hacked by a 3rd party browser bug. Nor do they want a 3rd party browser phoning home with user data.

Absolutely the last thing they want is Facebook shipping their app as a browser which bypasses all of Apple’s privacy protections.

create-account · a year ago

> Nor do they want a 3rd party browser phoning home with user data.

Then why aren’t chrome, Tik-tok, etc. banned?

create-account commented on Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again fastcompany.com/91167564/... · Posted by u/technojunkie

fragmede · a year ago

> there's sites which can't display static text without js

as developers, we understand how stupid that is and the utter insanity of javascriptium that got us there, but how is that a selling point? If I install that extension, I get a degraded experience and I get to be judgey because the framework the developer(s) they hired used some bit javascriptium that doesn't degrade nicely. am I supposed to feel smug that I've figured that out? why would I want to make things worse for myself? just for some small sense of feeling better than other people?

create-account · a year ago

JavaScript makes the surf experience a PITA with constant pop ups with consent, subscription. “Cookies or coins”, etc.

create-account commented on The News Is Information Junk Food (2022) chuck.is/news/... · Posted by u/Looky1173

jtwoodhouse · a year ago

I started my career as a reporter a decade ago. I can't tell you how many stories I filed that an editor twisted into something different to fit their narrative.

There were also stories I was directed away from because they would alienate our audience.

It's a narrative business.

create-account · a year ago

I contracted sat TV for a while. I had to pay extra for movies but news channels were free. It was like someone was paying for me to watch that movie

create-account commented on Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again fastcompany.com/91167564/... · Posted by u/technojunkie

tmtvl · a year ago

There's 3 extensions which I consider must-haves:

- Noscript Security Suite which has made it very obvious how absolutely fucked today's web is (there's sites which can't display static text without js, as though HTML and CSS are insufficient to display styled text with some markup).

- uBlock Origin because obviously.

- Multi-account Containers, which aren't quite as good as profiles, but get like 70% of the way there.

create-account · a year ago

Aren’t no script and uBlock Origin redundant?

create-account commented on Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again fastcompany.com/91167564/... · Posted by u/technojunkie

bitwize · a year ago

I liked Firefox a whole lot better back before Mozilla effectively became a UN NGO with a few developers working on a web browser in a God-forsaken basement somewhere, Milton Waddams style.

If they want me to love Firefox, they need to love Firefox. And show that love in the form of vision, resources, and better open-source, open-internet style governance. No execs saying "deplatforming is nice and all, but we really need to go even further beyond". As soon as a browser company makes it a mission to decide what people see online, they cease to be trustworthy as a browser company. So I may as well just use chromium (or ungoogled-chromium).

create-account · a year ago

Goggle still has special privileges to your computer through Ungoogled chromium.

I’ve uninstalled them and will only use them on a VM

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