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Written by yoasif on 2025-01-31 at 17:09

I've been watching more local #news since the new administration and I felt like I was missing part of the story. So I spent a few hours on the web reading about #politics and #immigration. It was enlightening for me, and I wrote my thoughts about #trump and #uspol.

Open to comments, and appreciate shares!

https://www.quippd.com/politics/posts/2025/01/30/thoughts-on-local-media-coverage-on-immigration.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-19 at 21:40

Every once in awhile, people switching from #Chrome to #Firefox realize that their #chromecast won't work in Firefox.

People often wonder why #mozilla simply doesn't pay people to implement support in Firefox.

I've written up some thoughts as to why doing this really ought to be up to #Google -- they produce the proprietary product intended to promote Chrome usage:

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2020/01/22/does-firefox-support-chromecast-and-accelerated-mobile-pages.html

PS: Nothing stops people from keeping a Chromium browser installed to "cast" videos.

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-19 at 19:26

Sometimes, you just gotta have fun with your devices.

Every once in a while, I decide to try to spruce up my application UIs by using themes. While a lot of people tend to go cutesy, I end up playing with #retrocomputing themes - UIs that were used in the past but aren't anymore, or sometimes, themes that were unreleased.

While playing with #firefox color, I put together a theme resembling the unreleased #macos Drawing Board theme for Mac OS 8.

Hope you enjoy it!

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/06/06/firefox-color-theme-inspired-by-classic-mac-os-drawing-board.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-19 at 00:08

Trying out my archival posting method for new help posts on #reddit - I'm answering a #firefox extension question about #roblox.

No, the Firefox extension for RoPro is not made by the developers of the Chrome extension.

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2024/12/18/is-the-firefox-add-on-the-real-ropro-extension.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-18 at 22:17

If an issue happens one time, feedback in the form of remediation steps may seem like a waste of time.

If it happens more often, they can be helpful.

If an issue only happens once, it may not be worth investigating further.

You can choose how to use feedback when evaluating whether it is worth your time.

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-18 at 18:09

Think back to your upgrade to #macos Mojave - did you notice that Apple dropped font smoothing on non-high DPI displays?

Well, a lot of people did when they were using #firefox, because it arrived with a bug that coincided with the macOS release that made fonts too blurry.

Mozilla eventually released a fix matching the platform behavior: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/01/23/text-in-fonts-too-bold-or-blurry-in-firefox-on-macos-mojave.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-17 at 17:31

Did you know that #ui notifications in #firefox for #microsoft #windows are native?

That wasn't the case in 2019: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/05/what-ever-happened-to-native-windows-notifications-in-firefox.html

Do you prefer OS native notifications? Controls?

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 22:13

Something more interesting for the former #Mac fans now using #linux -- you may wonder why Linux users try to run #windows apps when they can't find a Linux native app rather than a #macos app - aren't Linux and MacOS more similar, given that they are both #unix systems?

Unfortunately, it isn't easy to run Mac apps on Linux, even years later: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/09/18/when-linux-native-software-isnt-available-why-do-we-emulate-the-windows-version-arent-mac-and-linux-more-similar.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 20:02

Here's one for the #linux users -- specifically those who run #debian or derivative distributions like #ubuntu and #linuxmint

If you put a web browser binary somewhere on your filesystem (like inside of $HOME), the rest of your OS doesn't know that you can use that app to open links.

I pointed someone over to a resource on how to teach Debian that your manually-installed browser can open links: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/05/how-can-i-set-a-manually-installed-browser-as-the-default-on-debian-ubuntu-mint.html

Hope it continues to help people!

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-13 at 17:20

I saw @hipsterelectron mention that #duckduckgo is pushing Bing #AI excerpts of pages.

I'm still looking for a #search engine when looking for information on the web, not an oracle, so I tend to try to actively ignore AI results.

Still, it reminded me that other options exist, like @StartpageSearch. After I talked about them on Twitter, their account actually followed me!

Read the post: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/11/14/what-search-engine-do-you-use.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-13 at 15:55

Starting off Friday with a post about containers in the #firefox #browser.

Containers allow you to segregate your cookies on a per-tab basis, allowing you to separate your cookie jars arbitrarily.

In 2019, someone had a question about the #facebook container that #mozilla released, and how it differed from the standard container #extension.

If you use Facebook (why?), I think it is worth using: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/04/is-there-any-difference-between-facebook-container-and-firefox-multi-account-containers.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-12 at 22:51

I'm one of those people that still has a non-streaming music library stored locally, so I had set up #Airsonic to manage my #music library and manage conversion from #flac and other music formats for playback on mobile.

To scratch my own itch, I configured Airsonic to convert my FLAC music transparently to #opus on download, and shared my config.

Hope it scratches your itch too!

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/08/12/does-airsonic-support-opus.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 19:01

At some point my interest in #opendata intersected with meatspace and I started contributing to #openstreetmap

I posted about how to get started editing on it back in 2018 - since then, I updated the post a bit to talk about my current mapping activity and how you might want to map on #android

Hat tip as well to @aredridel for their thoughts on digital redlining that felt important to mention in my updated post.

[#]maps #activism

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/05/25/how-to-get-started-contributing-to-openstreetmap.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:33

Moving on, I wrote about my thoughts of #mozilla #firefox's prospects after the demise of XUL-based extensions post version 57.

I revisited this topic over time, but in 2017 we were deep in the middle of discussion around whether this would be the death of Firefox for a significant portion of the "power user" base.

Did you lose extensions? Did Firefox die for you then?

Do you agree with me that Firefox post-57 is still a good browser? Read on:

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2017/08/09/post-57-what-is-firefox-unique-selling-proposition.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:31

In my first salvaged post, I wrote about #movie recommendation sites!

I discovered MovieLens years ago when developing my collaboratively edited social news site way back when (a story for another time) - it is an #opendata recommendation platform that is also a research project by the University of #Minnesota.

It also predates the current #AI revolution, if that matters to you.

https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2017/03/02/movielens-personalized-movie-recommendations.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-11 at 15:29

🚨 Leaving Reddit & Salvaging My Posts! 🚨

I’ve decided to leave Reddit, but before I go, I’m rescuing some of my best posts and comments! 📝

I’ll be reposting them here on my blog & sharing updates as I continue digging through my #Reddit history. 🔎

If you’ve read r/firefox over the years, stay tuned for some tech talks! 👨‍💻💻

👉 Check out the first update here: https://www.quippd.com/social/posts/2024/12/09/leaving-reddit-and-salvaging-my-posts.html

🔄 I’ll keep adding more as I go! #socialmedia #technology #firefox

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Written by yoasif on 2024-10-23 at 17:21

On the night of Feb. 28, in the bathroom of his mother’s house, Sewell told Dany that he loved her, and that he would soon come home to her.

“Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love,” Dany replied.

“What if I told you I could come home right now?” Sewell asked.

“… please do, my sweet king,” Dany replied.

He put down his phone, picked up his stepfather’s .45 caliber handgun and pulled the trigger.

https://archive.ph/TQxdm

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Written by yoasif on 2024-10-22 at 22:19

I've been using vertical tabs in #firefox for a while.

Recently, I've seen rumblings of Mozilla getting it ready for release or wider testing - great idea, except it feels incredibly broken (by design) if the feature in Nightly is what is planned to be released.

Basically, for some unknown reason, the vertical tabs, when showing tab titles (the "expanded" mode) enables the Firefox sidebar and somehow becomes part of it.

I feedbacked this: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly/m-p/75124/highlight/true#M28878

Boosts welcome!

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Written by yoasif on 2024-10-14 at 15:25

While there has been a lot of consternation about #mozilla entering #advertising I took the opportunity to look at how they and #apple propose to get us away from advertisers tracking people all over the web.

Unfortunately, it's not pretty, and it may even be bad for #democracy.

[#]firefox and #safari users may be interested, too.

Featuring a long quote from @jasonkoebler and some from @dmarti

Boosts welcome!

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2024/10/13/protecting-your-privacy-while-eroding-your-democracy-PPAs-considered-harmful.html

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Written by yoasif on 2024-10-03 at 02:03

[#]Firefox 131 is out, and the List all tabs button can't be hidden by default anymore. I found out why - it is because Firefox View (a feature you might not use or know about if you are a wizened Firefox user) makes it appear all the time since it was developed as a hidden tab.

(Slightly) longer post: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2024/10/02/the-reason-the-list-all-tabs-button-is-permanent-is-because-of-firefox-view.html

(I read @molly0xfff's POSSE post and I'm giving it a go -- not that I post much here, but I used to post a bit elsewhere.)

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