froh42

@froh42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will YOU choose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  Anything else, sir?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scripting - creating cross page macros, like you now can do with puppeteer etc. Have simple basic programming capabilities. Stuff like that now shows up with “AI” agentic browsers, but that’s too. much. I just want to set up macros, like “go to my timesheet page, click start, enter current time”. On a “Autohotkey for the web” level. (Power users instead of developers)

  Tab management - I’m working a lot with jira and other “wonderful” software. What would be nice would be showing multiple tabs at once (like opening several browser windows) , also maybe automatically creating a conceptual “tree” in the tab overview. That would require some configuration (on top of what normal vertical tabs do). For example confluence has a implicit tree, why shouldn’t the tab overview in the browser track that. A lot of web sites are ordered hierarchically. The only tab hierarchichy we currently have in the browser is a “i opened tab b from tab a” hierarchy

  History search - not using it is proof it doesn’t fulfill a desire. “Damn I recently was on a site that talked about how the confabulator works without causing wobbles in the swingmode arm” Trying to find that after you did open a few hundred other pages sucks. It would be nice to have positive and negative search terms, have a “near” operator etc. So that would be a full text search engine (which already exists) about pages I have seen in the past.

  Granular permissions: I only allow a page to enumerate the fonts it needs to use, not all of them so it can calculate a hash. I want to forbid it from accessing certain domains (Adblockers can currently do that) etc. You may/may not play video. The permission system is in place, but too coarse.

  And yes there are privacy containers, but not in a really helpful manner yet. They’d need to integrate with the above permissions, for example so I can put a web page into a jail of its own.

  All these aren’t well thought out features, rather I pulled them out of my butt. Still I feel there’s close to no innovation on the usability of a browser and we could need that. We still have the same interaction model as in the 90s with Mosaic - and while (of course) not every idea would work out in a good way, some things would be worth following up on. I’d expect that out of an organization like Mozilla (less so out of commercial browser vendors).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Progressive Web Apps Modern Tab Management Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”) Improved History Search Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting) Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)

  that’s just the first that I can think about in the first 30 seconds

  Interestingly other than what you say, under the hood improvements still benefit the user, but Mozilla axed the Servo Engine (fortunately that project is still alive, now outside of Mozilla). I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.

  I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.

  But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately in English classes (I learned English at school) we read Macbeth. There’s a lot of layers to Shakespeare - for example a lot of allusions which you’ll only understand when you know about the time it was written in. And our English teacher dragged in a native speaker to help out with conversation, who was a student living in my town.

  In German (my native language) however, we were presented a poem without not enough context about the author and had to answer “what’s the meaning of this”. Most of the German teachers I had were boring, lazy or both.

  Your literature problem - I had that in German, Thomas Mann’s “Der Tod in Venedig”. Yeah, I as a teenager was so eager to read about the homoerotic thoughts of an older man traveling to Venice and lusting about a young boy. Yes, of course it’s symbolic but - fuuuuck me, really? Do I need to read that.

  Mark Twain has written an essay about the “awful German Language” (I don’t agree). Amongst other things he complained about long sentences.

  Ha! He know NOTHING! He had not seen the works of Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann must have been hugely intelligent. He managed to write a single sentence that is too long for a single fucking book page. With a random number of subclauses in between. Exploiting all the cleartext encryption mechanisms the German language allows! With the most boring content a teenager in the height of puberty can not relate to.

  I still have a visceral hate for Thomas Mann. In my 40s I thought I’d give that book another chance. Nope. Still hate it.

  Ah, soon I’m 40 years past school and I still get PTSD about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no.

  In school in higher education we had to interpret poems.

  I am definitely sure, that neither the author’s opinion or my opinion are relevant. It is only the teacher’s opinion that is relevant.

  (Do I need the /s?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's true...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I caught something rare once, cutaneous leishmaniosis.

  I had to go to a special doctor for tropical medicine associatied to the university.

  The doctor asked if I mind, and as I didn’t she called in a couple of students.

  “Look, this is a typical lesion of leishmaniosis, the red wall and a sore in the middle…”

  Explaining to them, what they’d need to look out for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah fuck I hate that, when people go to work sick and infect everyone else. (Yes I understand you need to, and it’s not your fault. So I hate your boss.)

  The history is interesting, we got health insurance and paid leave in the 1880s from Bismarck. He was trying to appease workers so they won’t flock to the socialist or social democrat parties which were booming at that time. At the same time Bismarck outlawed left wing parties. (It was a stick and carrot approach).

  In 1969 we had a bipartisan left - right government (“great coalition”) and they put up to 6 weeks of paid sick leave into. law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When your father is clueless⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex-wife and me divorced amicably, so we still talk.

  One day, about two years after separtion she called me whether I still had my credit card.

  (Typically we pay by payment cards called ec or giro card - but they don’t habe a credit card number, so not usable for ordering something from overseas)

  So I said, yes, why. “Uhm, I want to buy something from the US” she answerf with skirting around the topic.

  A certain assumption forms in my mind, as she speaks on I’m getting more sure every moment.

  I answer: Look, <ex-wife>, don’t try to order the Hitachi Magic Wand from the US. It can’t be imported due to the no-lead-in-electric-devices law. And even if it arrived you 'd need a transformer for plugging it into our 230V system. Just buy one of the knockoffs available on Amazon in Europe

  She : “Um (pause), OK”

  Some years later my teenage kids found it when they were at her place. They asked her what it was and she said “a microphone”. I swear by my kids, the “it is a microphone” meme happened once in my family in real life. (And of course these teenagers knew what it was).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over here in Germany there’s no sick pay when you’re self employed, but there is (by law) when you are an employee.

  I had been self employed from my 20s to 50s and am an employee for 6 years now.

  I was in hospital last week to get my back fixed and am on sick leave for 4-6 weeks now. It’s still fucking amazing to me, that I can heal up now and will still get my payment into my account end of the month.

  Having things like that written into law is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think software piracy also was a large success factor. When I was 15 there was one major spot in my city where consoles and computers were sold (within a department store!), and people where “swapping” games even before they bought the hardware. I remember at least one of the store clerks having a small side business providing access to disks and tapes you could copy - right on the machines that were shown in store.

  And I learned how to copy the C64’s basic rom to ram and mod small things even before I had the machine myself.

  All the kids were gathering round the computers, the consoles were less attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.

  I’m using FF as my daily driver, but I feel. my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.

  I do wonder (just in my head, there’s no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.

  I’m not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.

  It’s still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result…). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.

  Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I’m at weirdkinkyporn.com, please just store it for a few hours)

  Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).

  But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There’s no money for experimental stuff.

  About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.

  I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.

  That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.

  Fuck Mozilla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’mangiate.

  Oder so ähnlich, bin kein Italiener.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because 12 and 60 are great numbers to divide. You can take a half of it, a third and a quarter and still get whole numbers.

  Iirc the French did try decimal time at one time, it was not convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh thanks for explaining it, I never knew if noon was 12am or 12pm. In German we say “11 in the morning”, “12 o Clock (noon*)” , and “1 o Clock (in the afternoon)”

  But typically we don’t say whether it’s am or pm, it’s clear from context if “i need to be in the work meeting at 9”

  Clocks, TV listings, my work timesheet read 24h times. We read 15:00 as “three” most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is streetwear a joke?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got a flashback to an open air concert I was at. It was raining like mad. At some point my beer tasted only like rain water. Oh and the second thing is, after I returned home, not a single thing I carried along was dry. Clothes wet, underwear wet, even everything in my wallet was wet. Still, the beer was worst.

  But it was an amazing concert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For an Esp32 you’d need to take a larger model which has psram. With the Pi, yes a is take a zero (Zero 2w or so). The Pi already has hdmi on board and a graphics chip and accelerator, while for the ESP32 you’d need a custom solution.

  The price difference is maybe 10 Dollars per piece or so. On the PI I have 512Mb of RAM and what ever SD they put in for storage. On the Esp32 I have 8 psram or so and a tiny bit of flash.

  Ah right, for the ESP i probably need to wire up a sd card, custom board, all that stuff, to just store that 24bit 1024x768bit image.

  Naah, while I love my ESPs and am just build a project with one - the PI is just so more competent for this task while still being damn cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is being produced in relatively low numbers (thousands) , so software development is a factor. Just plopping a scripted browser in kiosk mode on Debian is cheaper than ESP32 UI development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am bordering on aphantasia, i can’t visualize an apple at all, just as an abstract drawing.

  I can visualize numbers and graphs, for example 1-6 are easy with the symbols of a dice, 7 like six with a dot in the middle, 8 two rows of fours and 9 as a three by threw grid.

  The thing is, I never visualize things literally, it’s always abstract symbols - and understanding “more” requires better symbols.

  Decimal system is also just a symbol, I can easily keep numbers in my mind up to six or seven digits.

  Bigger, I have a bit of trouble with the scientific notation - I don’t have concepts for numbers beyond 10^9, even these rather are a thousand million.

  “Hardcoded” numbers in the brain go to 4 or 5 or so, everything else is abstractions. piled on abstractions and how used you are to handling these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who dares disturb my liver?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And is Long John Thomas a word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why abc, xyz, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t always use the latin alphabet. In University I hated my prof using the same letter over and over again in different writing systems. x, chi, Gothic x, x with hat, x with dash, x as a vector etc. etx.

  This was crazy hard for me as I internally verbalize when I read formulae, so I had to “invent” different pronunciations for evey different version of x. Because (for example) one is the vector, but the lowercase latin version is just the length of the vector.

  Along with the fact that people use slightly different conventions and then conventions in math are different in the anglosphere vs here - I frequently couldn’t understand a paper or script without having an idea how things worked in the first place. A didactical nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something is wrong..⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reading this at 5am after I woke up at 4 for seemingly no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed it by that much!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now try to get “clitoris” miles, but I’ll bet you’ll never find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It works by applied statistics.

  When you littered before - with the old cap - you’d have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it’s only one piece.

  I’m only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it’s the bottle cap regulation is one of those that’s purely better for statistics.

  It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.

  Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TACO

  Trump applies Chinese outsourcing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, Italians also meme about the Pissplatte?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.

  So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.

  I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.

  Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can stand carbonated water and hat plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn’t drink water but other beverages.

  My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but “something special” like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.

  While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can’t understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.

  So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look on github for Rappetor’s SV08 mainline repository. You’ll need a new mmc or sd card (both are ok) and a “five bucks” STLink programmer, but then it is quite easy to put mainline klipper on your sv08.

  That’s the prerequisite for using a probe. like a btt eddy on a SV08, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I agree, so as Vlad learned even if you leave them on the ground and put tires on them so they don’t fly off, something might come along and successfully migrate around 40 of them to the cloud.