This does not sound sustainable at all.

I’m confident his announcement to “leave social media” was an April Fools’ joke.

I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They’d destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won’t be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).

Well that’s some news. If they’re good news we will see. I’m a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don’t like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

I’ve mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

Well, time will tell.

Adding these rules to uBlock Origin allowed me to read the article:

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Seems like a large link collection for now. I like that the documentation is worked on however, it’s probably Nix’ biggest weakness atm.

This looks pretty cool!

Very good video, which first gives an overview of NixOS and what it is and then add many useful tips for using NixOs.

They can’t possibly judge what is trivial to achieve and what’s a serious, very hard problem.

Too often, you won’t be given time to make your software understandable. Probably almost never. So you have to incorporate a way of programming that leaves your code more understandable after you fixed your bug or added your feature.

I don’t know if understandability is the most important thing. However I certainly agree with the author that it’s curcial, if you ever want to do more than merley a script or a proof of concept.

“We’re going to clean up that code later.”

There’s a paid Thunderbird add-on named Owl which adds Exchange support (10$/year). It’s not perfect but does the job.

@Tangent5280 for context: Exchange is a custom email/collaboration suite protocoll by Microsoft. Thunderbird doesn’t support that. Often, it’s not really a problem, because one can enable SMTP/IMAP/POP access for their O365 accounts. However an administrator has to do that, and, for instance, my university doesn’t allow that.

Oh wow, Exchange support! This is huge.

I can’t speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I’m interested in opinions on it, because I’m thinking about buying one as well.

I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it’s smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don’t get distracted easily) at the same time.

Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn’t recommend it. It’ too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It’s only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I’d rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it’s still too slow to be fun. Since you’re already experienced using ePaper screen, I’m confident you can judge that for yourself though.

My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

I think drive-by (leaning towards off-topic) comments can and should be moderated by the community mods.

I second the recommendation for Tree Style Tabs, however Sideberry did work better for me (don’t recall why, sorry).

One downside is that they don’t hide the horizontal tab bar on the top. AFAIK you can manually hide it by editing the userstyle css file.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

Yeah, agreed, Marginalia’s more suited to discover small-web type of content.

Another thing that’d be better as a daily driver, but requires manual curation, is to filter out specific domains in your searches. Brave supports that with the Goggles feature, Mojeek calls it Focus. AFAIK Kagi too has a similar feature.

I don’t know any search engine that’s able to fully exculde paywalled content though.

Oh, I didn’t know that. Can you point me to some relevant documentation by any chance? Would love to sort that one out.

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Marginalia () focuses on non-commercial and text-based content.

You can go to settings > customize and turn off pull to refresh if you want.