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@ douglasg14b @lemmy.world

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  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it's just another useless dump of probably useless information. This can be difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.

    Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more

  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • Protip: Installing more ram makes for more convenience on keeping tabs alive forever

    There's a reason I plopped in another 32GB stick

  • People who listen to music regularly, how sad would you be if you were permanently deprived of the ability to listen to any music ever again for the rest of your life?

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  • It'd be a really shitty existence....

  • Perspectives about life

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  • iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

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  • Not a single one of the robot vacuums that I've bought in the last 2 years seem to be able to function without internet access.

    It's asinine.

    Also they break down so freaking fast. It's not even funny. Even worse when the part that's broken is non-replaceable and it's like a $3 part.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • What you say is true.

    It's not a product that you pay for or product that is sold. It is a product that is provided for free. However, that product can no longer be provided for free because Mozilla doesn't profit off of you using their free product.

    Mozilla (the non profit) actually doesn't aim to profit at all. They aim to support the ongoing development of Firefox and similar projects. Which is currently under risk of not having the necessary funding to pay engineers to build and maintain it.

    Mozilla needs more money so that they are not under the risk of sudden collapse if they stop getting money from Daddy Google.

    Honestly, it's a shitty situation to be in. As the grand majority of users don't understand just how involved browser development is. And those users instead donate to projects that are either forks of Firefox (and directly depend on Mozillas investment) or are (at this stage) toys, like Ladybird.

    Which leaves a slim set of choices for the continued funding of the project. All of which it's core user base hates (Market trend following, new features to see what sticks, AI related integrations, ads, subscription services....etc)

    Yet it's core user base isn't willing to donate so it's kind of a self-caused problem.

    Side note. IIRC the foundation's highest paid executive employees make about what a senior engineer at Netflix makes. To put that into perspective.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Firefox is a commercial product. Is it not?

    They need to make money so that they can fund hundreds of engineers salaries to keep building it and maintaining web standards operability.

    And somehow do this while keeping off with Chrome who has a team 4-5x their size.

    Trying to figure out a way to be independent of Google while competing with Google is a tough nut to crack. If they can't sell it and they can't get enough donations, then then it comes down to partnerships and advertising.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Then donate!

    They are in this situation because they have to keep up with chrome's capabilities _ velocity with a team that's 1/4 the size at best.

    Essentially they have to produce more with less and they have a funding problem. Almost all of their funding goes into software engineering salaries.

    At the risk of not being able to keep up and becoming an obsolete web browser leaving Chrome as the only dominant one there is a shitty position of being the bad guy so that you can get money.

    In short, I sympathize with the reasons why they are having to do this even if I greatly dislike them. Reality is complicated.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Wayyyyyyy lesser.

    We're talking Mussolini versus your local grocery store clerk who's a dick sometimes.

  • Has USA crime actually dimished in 2025?

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  • Crime is up across the board if you consider illegal actions by federal agents to also be crimes.

    It's just going unpunished and unrecorded in an official capacity

  • Server notifications on fedi

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  • Development time and user support?

    These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it's not a bad thing, it's just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.

    Another thing is user support. Since the many instances are self-hosted for the most part, and they will go offline, and they will go away forever in some instances. Users asking for support for this login type and asking for additional features to make up for this baked in instability.

    Essentially. Low impact work that may drive a higher volume of support efforts.

    It's the same reason some niche projects stop supporting Linux. Low user volume and disproportionately high "neediness" of those users.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • Does it support multi-tenancy?

    For instance, being a backup and media manager solution for multiple people in my family hosted on one server.

    The same with a few friends that want to get out from under Google's thumb.

  • Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR

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  • I mean, yeah, probably all of these things.

  • Are bots on lemmy?

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  • Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.

    The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.

    But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.

    Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.

  • duh-dum.

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  • Yes, containers make your application logic work.

    That's the lowest hanging fruit on the tree.

    Let's talk about persistence logic, fail forwards, data synchronization, and write queues next.

    Let's also talk about cloud provider network egress costs.

    Let's also talk about specific service dependencies that may not be replicatable across clouds, or even regions.

    Oh, also provider specific deployment nuances, I AM differences, networking differences....etc

  • duh-dum.

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  • I'm not sure if you are referring to the same thread.

    I'm talking about the effort to build multi region and multi cloud applications, which is incredibly difficult to pull off well. And presents seemingly endless challenges.

    Not the effort to move to the cloud.

  • duh-dum.

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  • It's phenomenally expensive from a practical standpoint, it takes an immense amount of engineering and devops effort to make this work for non trivial production applications.

    It's egregiously expensive from an engineering standpoint. And most definitely more expensive from a cloud bill standpoint as well.

    We're doing this right now with a non trivial production application built for this, and it's incredibly difficult to do right. It affects EVERYTHING, from the ground up. The level of standardization and governance that goes into just making things stable across many teams takes an entire team to make possible.

  • duh-dum.

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  • Screw the compute budget, the tripled team size without shipping any more features is a bigger problem here.

  • YSK: Reddit webpage has unblockable trackers, even with Ublock Origin installed

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  • FR. The (actually user ran) NSFW subreddits are so much better than any other aggregator

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    TubeArchivist alternatives that store data in an archive friendly manner?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    I cannot seem to figure out how to get caddy automatic HTTPS to work behind cloud flair proxy.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time?

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    How to "unmask"?

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Dating/Hangout Anxieties?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Rarbg Database Dump DMCA'd off GitHub

    github.com /github/dmca/blob/master/2023/06/2023-06-29-rarbg.md