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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 2024-12-11 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 15:33

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 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 2024-12-12 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 2024-12-13 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 2024-12-13 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 2024-12-16 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 2024-12-16 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 freechelmi on 2024-12-16 at 22:25

@yoasif i m comparing linux and macos on macbookair 2013 and crazy how macos is more difficult to find compatible apps than linux

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Descendants

Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 22:30

@freechelmi Are you running an unsupported macOS? That can be annoying. There's always OpenCore Legacy Patcher: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ for those machines.

I think that support is going to vary based on the hardware, but Linux can definitely be an option for older Mac hardware, if hardware is supported.

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Written by freechelmi on 2024-12-16 at 22:33

@yoasif well almost , i run the latest supported on mba 2013 which is big sur

Running unsupported macos might be against my religion 😀

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Written by yoasif on 2024-12-16 at 22:40

@freechelmi Unfortunately Big Sur is unsupported as of September 26, 2023.

If your software isn't supported on that OS, I would look at other options for your OS.

Web browsers in particular seem to require Catalina (both Chrome and Firefox), so I hope you aren't browsing the web on that machine in #macos.

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Written by freechelmi on 2024-12-16 at 22:52

@yoasif thx i know :-) this is why i provide linux in this machines , keeping people on mac os is a dead end

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Written by freechelmi on 2024-12-16 at 22:43

@yoasif yes ubuntu 24.04 is really great on mba2013 even with 4bB ram

Although i have to say big sur feels also really snappy

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