I wonder when was the last time any user used the "Email image" feature.
Intentionally? I've only ever "used" it when trying to copy a link to an image.
Readit Newsqbrass commented on Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config joshua.hu/firefox-making-... · Posted by u/mmsc
qbrass commented on Learn System Design by being a detective in a game sdpd.live... · Posted by u/olucasandrade
The option with the most text is always the correct choice. Both for the diagnosis and the solution.
At least until problem 11, which I can't advance to because it tells me I have to solve the previous case even though it's solved.
If they were separate businesses it would make no sense to merge them. It would be like Microsoft buying Walmart.
Don't give them ideas.
qbrass commented on · Posted by u/uyzstvqs
> how Obamacare became a common name
Just a reminder, "Obamacare" isn't the name of that program. It's the "Affordable Care Act". His administration didn't name it after him in any way. "Obamacare" is just a term the media invented.
I remember when it was Romneycare.
qbrass commented on House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate reclaimthenet.org/house-v... · Posted by u/mikece
Fair, standardized probably isn’t the right term. Maybe common usage is a better term? I saw a video where someone was modifying a Dodge Viper and found that it used a Ford branded control switch or relay, not even the same company! Although that is a bit of an outlier.
Relays were standardized.
Other parts were sourced from outside suppliers, which also supplied the same or similar parts to other automakers. Some of them were direct replacements, some were easily modified to work, and some could be robbed for components to refurbish your old part.
Probably off*? Montana used to have no limit (1995-1999), Montana and Nevada (1901-1974).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/22/no-spe...
The set the limit to 85 in 1999 because people turned the state into a race track.
qbrass commented on I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool evanhahn.com/i-set-all-37... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.
Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.
So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.
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qbrass commented on Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser" omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/m... · Posted by u/LopRabbit
>> I’m not sure he knows the type of person that actually uses Firefox
I'm sure he does, but he is trying to get different users.
The problem Firefox has is that it has accumulated "problem" users who are only there because they've left everywhere else.
In other words, people didn't choose Firefox cause its better, they chose it because it "wasn't x". They were offended by some action of their last browser, and left.
This is the worst user demographic to have. They'll only hang around till you do something that offends them. Which will inevitably happen.
With 2% market share the goal of the new CEO is not to pander to existing users. It's to convince new users to switch because Firefox is better.
They didn't accumulate "problem" users, they drove off everyone else.
Throwing their fans under the bus to try and get new users has been Mozilla's tactic for the last 15 years. Which is why they're down to 2% market share.
Doing it harder isn't going to help them.
It wasnt about "respecting users", or "agency" but simply implemented standards properly.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape:
In November 2007, IE had 77.4% of the browser market, Firefox 16.0%, and Netscape 0.6%From the same Wikipedia page:
"On July 15, 2003, Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) disbanded Netscape. Most of the programmers were laid off, and the Netscape logo was removed from the building."
Peak Netscape was 1996. By 2003, they had already handed development off to Mozilla, and Netscape the browser was just a thin veneer over Mozilla's browser.
By 2007, it was just Mozilla with AOL branding and almost all of it's users were people still using AOL in 2007.