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And sad that, even so, Firefox has been a rounding error in global usage data. 😢

I’ve been using Firefox since it existed, never been disappointed. I just hope that it (or Mozilla) didn’t eventually go bankrupt and dies. You can say what you want about the politics and financing of Mozilla but we desperately need them to prevail.

If this classic isn’t linked from that Wikipedia article (I never checked) it really should be. Like the “static cling” image, evnen encyclopedias need to know when to step out of formal style. 🤭

Hey that’s a neat tool. Link?

may I make a mention here to a TMDB-based cast lookup tool I made not too long ago?

Twodeg(rees of separation) allows you to find connection between several titles or actors.

It’s even funnier with “point of sale” machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌

When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful… but no way to leave them. Not even man man won’t tell you how to exit a man page!

So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed – and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-

I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don’t know what you don’t know, and if you can’t ask… sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, … The Internet is (was) a blessing.

Basically, I’ve designed it such that a user’s profile is built up from facets, and each facet is used to build both the user profile page and the filter page. That is to say: you can filter on everything that can be shown on a profile. But also, a user might mark any facet as visible to “everyone”, “matches”, or “disregard” (the latter in case you just don’t want to answer that one). There’s more to it, of course, but that’s a very short verison.

Thank you for the interest. Sorry to leave you hanging there, Cyn. (Funny, I knew a Cyn once.)

Not sure I follow your distinction between goal and rules there. It is certainly based on values and ideology more than a vision to become rich off of it. Some examples of how values look in concrete terms:

• filters are bidirectional, so if for instance your filter says “no smokers” then you obviously won’t see any smokers - but also, your profile won’t be shown to other users who are smokers;
• if you’ve set a geographical range (say, 50km), we won’t sneak in users who are thousands of km away from you (and certainly no ads in your feed);
• you’d pay a fixed price to get access to everything for 30 days. Furthermore, you are free to pause/resume your account if, for instance, you only want to be active on the weekends or every other week, and those 30 days will only “tick” on active days;
• I want to support people of every ilk, I’m doing research on how to make minorities feel seen, safe, and supported;
• in fact I’m doing several kinds of research and meta-research to find out what actually works for users wrt. getting quality matches (as opposed to what works for user retention and addictiveness);
• I want to specifically recreate a lot of the liked features that other apps have lost over the last few years, such as quizzes and photo phomts;
• the entire thing will be developed and hosted from within the EU. It’s easier to leave the app than to sign up for it. There’s a one-click “hand over my data” GDPR button. I would rather close the whole thing down than ever sell out to Match Group.

I know, this is just words on a screen but still, those are my values.

About the geo restriction, good question. The plan isn’t to actively restrict users, but to launch with a focus in one area (say, Amsterdam). The thing is, it can make a lot of sense to host a little tool on github and have six people find it useful - but for a matchmaking app, what you really need is user density and in that regard it helps to focus on a smaller area to begin with. Six users on each and every continent aren’t going to find great matches.

I like my account. I like the communities I’m in. I’d hate to be seen as a sleazy ad-monger or product peddler. I’d rather go slow and learn where such “hey by the way” conversation is not just acceptable but even encouraged.

A dating app that takes users seriously. Respect their filters, don’t price gauge, eschew dark patterns, that jazz. It’s nearing something production ready, but I’m still fretting over where (geographically) to launch and how to get to sufficient user density without spending a cartload of cash on marketing. I also find it difficult to strike a balance between even mentioning this project, and not being seen as spamming product placement in unwanted communities.

Moreover, put Ventoy on a usb stick, then copy in your ISO file(s).

You’ll gain:

• ability to simply copy-paste ISO files onto USB without needing to “burn” anything
• ability to select from any number of different images at boot time, from a nice menu even
• ability to create a separate partition on the USB stick for permanent storage

So, usb devices that are connected to your laptop, or the laptop’s usb sockets themselves?

Adding to Vincent’s reply, if Firefox truly goes away then we’d be looking to (only) Ladybird to save us.

Same! I find sketchup so incredibly intuitive compared to the other apps mentioned here, it just vanishes into the background of what I’m creating. Granted, it’s got a few quirks running under Linux, and getting an STL file out if it requires a few hoops, but I can do things I can’t do otherwise - not that the other apps can’t make the shapes, but the parametric paradigm inhibits my creative flow.

There’s a lot of humour in there, but this:

CSCI 3300: Classical Software Studies
Discuss and dissect historically significant products, including VisiCalc, AppleWorks, Robot Odyssey, Zork, and MacPaint. Emphases are on user interface and creativity fostered by hardware limitations.

I’d take that course in a heart beat. I’ve read some of Atkinson’s ideas and thoughts, and the man was deeply sane.

It must be decades now that my LinkedIn background banner is a screen shot of Zork source code.

I’ve never had a contract that didn’t say that. I always pushed back. Without exception, the response was that hobby projects and open spar stuff is fiiine as long as you don’t use company machines, time, resources, or compete with their market.

Just one data point, but my ex wife would take a deep breath every time she was in a parking garage because she really liked that smell.

My first thought (from just seeing the headline in the Lemmy list) was ‘hey wait a minute, that’s now new, they even did that back in the 80s’ quickly followed by ‘and that was called Thunderscan, too’ - because that’s the one that this is about. 😅 BTW that site is chock full of neat inside stories.

I had a number of posters on my wall that I’d printed out on our ImageWriter II*, Escher’s waterfall, some attack helicopter, and a few others I am struggling to recall.

* The ImageWriter II, as well as the Mac SE, will for me always be the pinnacle of (80s) industrial design. ❤️

He got up at 5:30 a.m. to show the sunrise to his microphone. Yeah, that’s not worrying.

So very unsurprising. That’s straight up out of the film Her which is about how an electronic companion can (will) affect and screw over their “friend”.

I had the bright idea to run Carmageddon many, many years after I got a “proper” video card!

…It was still just 256 colours VGA pixelation central. Didn’t use the video card at all. 😂 Still fun though!

Honestly, the Psion 5 was an absolute beauty. Also the Revo of you wanted it cheaper.

I still keep a Palm V by my nightstand because its baclklighting is just 😗👌 compared to today’s thousand-nit 6" oled phones.