For surfacing news, it's terrible. It's useful for saving articles in a way that doesn't clutter up your bookmarks. Bonus is that unlike bookmarks it has automatic tags that make saved articles you vaguely remember easier to find.
Using this chance to vent: it's wild what Chrome or Mozilla will choose as the search term when brining up your bookmarked pages. It will consider a guitar pick website I visited in 2019, but not a site I bookmarked a week or two ago, and only based on some random keyword unrelated to the site in general.
I use Edge at work, have you ever seen the ones on Edge? "10 things gen xers have ruined for millennials" "how to tell if your boss is getting ready to eliminate your position" "How much self care is too much?" "Eight ways that generation Z thinks that Gen X should be castrated"
Its just naked attacks on consciousness. And we absorb it all day, every day, first thing in the morning until before we go to bed
Also, use librewolf, its just an opinionated version of Firefox with all this toxic shit, trackers and anti privacy stuff turned off
MSN = Middle-american Social Nationalism, when it’s not the Op-Eds it’s “American intelligence reports that the bad guys are, in fact, worse than you thought”
Anytime i have a new firefox install i immediately go throught the settings and turn that shit, telemetry etc off, switch from google, install ublock origin and enable find in page when you start typing. Anytime i am too lazy to do it, i hate the internet immediately.
But this is funny maybe i have been in error all these years.
Web browsers are just another adware/spyware ridden operating system running on top of the original adware/spyware ridden operating system. For as much as possible we should go back to more dedicated protocols and clients that have a very limited scope that volunteer developers can actual keep up with like gemini for blogs or for lemmy - desktop clients like Alexandrite or Neon Modem.
What are u talking about. Alexandrite runs in a web browser. Idk these others but the premise is insane so not checking.
U should at least get a browser like w3 or elinks if u r gonna be weirdo like this.
Dont go around posting that ppl should prefer clients vs web bc most clients ppl have r 1000% worse for privacy and tracking than web version of same site. Someone will read this and think fb app is better than fb in browser which at least can be configed to send less tracking.
Are you familiar with Plan 9 or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol (9P)? It's a simple protocol for representing system resources (any resources, remote or local) as a tree of files. The protocol itself doesn't do much but it can be a common language for all kinds of systems to talk to each other with. It can be very efficient and robust to represent resources as a tree of files and better than the alternative of bespoke protocols and abstractions for every resource. The Plan 9 system uses this abstraction everywhere and it results in a very tightly integrated system that can be more capable than other operating systems with a fraction of the code. And since almost all operations on the system are operations on abstract files it doesn't matter if the files are local or remote to the system :3
I thought you might be interested because web browsers partially arose as a result of the poor integration of systems like Unix or Windows with the internet. But Plan 9 was written from the start as a distributed operating system. I want to write a 9P fileserver for lemmy sometime. I hope this doesn't come across as too rant-like. I got no sleep lol
Yeah, I think I can literally spend a good hour or two configuring firefox on a new install. I don't doubt it's an easy process to automate but I can go years without needing a new linux install so I don't care enough to learn a better way, especially when I'm going to want to configure stuff that isn't firefox on a new install as well.
If it makes you feel better i dont think automation is worth it for infrequent tasks like this because a) youll forget where your automation is + how to use it, and b) what you want to configure and possibly how it is even accomoplished will change.
I looked into this specifically at one point and iirc its some sort of js file but seemed like it wasnt going to work.
I look at pocket—like the NY Times, CNN, NPR podcasts, and late night comedy—as a kind of morphine for panicking liberal professionals. Whatever these articles say, it seems like the labor aristocracy / PMC DSA bug-eating karens are feeling the opposite.