So with Cohost shutting down in about 24 hours, a note to every remaining social media site: You should totally rip off the "Following" pane.
Cohost had a view where (as alternative to the normal linear feed), it showed everyone you follow, sorted by last post, and you could click to see recent posts. A problem with social media is the more you post, the more space you take up. Cohost "Following" made everyone take up the same amount of space, while still prioritizing recency. A nice compromise
Kinda interesting decisions. Hardware recreations of the Pentium and various vintage sound cards, handles various problems like ISA³ not being available on modern computers (in case you want to connect a sound card directly), can present USB kbam as PS/2 kbam, and presents an sd card as a DOS-recognizable hard drive.
¹ Not literally² ² Except it also has a literal RaspPi inside as a USB helper ³ Edit: Oops
@zenkat@foone what you want is for it to start generating transgender werewolf erotica when you *didn't ask it* to generate transgender werewolf erotica. so what you really need is a filter that generates transgender werewolf erotica *except* on pages that are *supposed* to generate transgender werewolf erotica, and *then* it generates random recipes or something
I read a piece of short science fiction around 2009 in which one of the background details was that humanity spent billions of dollars on getting ready for a mars mission and the mars mission never happened but the technology developed for it made people really good at living in parts of the sahara, arizona etc where people previously did not live. I think about this sometimes
For "bisexual" awareness week please be aware that I am totes pansexual, I just keep sliding into the lesbian category due to being extremely incompetent at dating boys
Sometimes when people don't want an idea interrogated they arrange words around it like a moat. Construct intricate vocabularies that make it so you can only approach it from certain directions, never from the directions where it is weak to attack. Insist you use their vocabulary, debate on their terms. Sometimes I like to just walk directly into the moat. See, it's only ankle deep. This makes people upset. You're ignorant of the theory! No, I'm standing in the middle of it. It's just water dude
I actually still am bothered by the fact that the address bar and the search bar have been combined into one bar. I have been bothered by this since 2008 when Firefox originally introduced the "Awesomebar" (yes, that was really what they called it).
It is *very uncomfortable* to me that everything you type in the address bar gets sent to a third party! This goes quadruply when you consider how easy it is to accidentally paste a password in there.
However the "firefox suggestions" thing is especially bad because like… okay, so you start typing in the address bar, there's search autocomplete. Data is necessarily sent to the search provider because that is an essential part of how the feature works. But sending data to *firefox* is… not an essential part of the feature. It's for showing ads, but that's not in my interests. So it's a privacy risk in exchange for which I see ads.
This seems like the kind of thing that people lately would call "my most boomer opinion about computers" but I don't think boomers are particularly defined by having strong opinions at all about computers in the first place, much less for their excessively cautious information security practices