There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz I miss the clock widget on Mosaic. It really helped me not waste an *entire* night on the WWW.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
3. Vimperator extension for Firefox (can't remember the year). Using vim keys for absolutely everything was a boost.
Tridactyl is carrying the torch the best it can with new limitations on the browser.
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@jwz I miss the clock widget on Mosaic. It really helped me not waste an *entire* night on the WWW.
@agreeable_landfall @jwz What about automatic language detection and translation?
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
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@agreeable_landfall @jwz What about automatic language detection and translation?
@cstross I have literally never seen my web browser try to do that.
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@cstross I have literally never seen my web browser try to do that.
@jwz Ah. Seems to be a standard feature on Firefox and Safari on my machines?
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@jwz Ah. Seems to be a standard feature on Firefox and Safari on my machines?
@cstross Beats me. I use Safari on macOS and iOS and I've never seen it.
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@cstross Beats me. I use Safari on macOS and iOS and I've never seen it.
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3. Vimperator extension for Firefox (can't remember the year). Using vim keys for absolutely everything was a boost.
Tridactyl is carrying the torch the best it can with new limitations on the browser.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
There are counter-fingerprinting tools, too.
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@philnelson @jwz @cstross It only appears if they detect that the page is some other language and depending on privacy settings they may be unwilling to attempt that
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@jbayes Hiya, keen to understand more (and hopefully help). What distracting items are you trying to hide?
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@jbayes this is like half the reason I use ublock origin! Thank you lightning button! If only you worked more reliably... Like... If you were built into the browser...
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz Vivaldi is experimenting with tiling tabs, which looks interesting. Those guys are probably worth watching, as they don't waste their time with slop.
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@jbayes this is like half the reason I use ublock origin! Thank you lightning button! If only you worked more reliably... Like... If you were built into the browser...
@elladan Yeah, I appreciate that Ublock Origin tries, but it's difficult enough to use that it's usually easier to find a different workaround.
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@plwt Stuff that obscures the content on the page. See OP:
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116003009623618004 -
3. Vimperator extension for Firefox (can't remember the year). Using vim keys for absolutely everything was a boost.
Tridactyl is carrying the torch the best it can with new limitations on the browser.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz 3. the indicator which tab plays the annoying sound?
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz I have never thought to hide website footers, thanks for that idea.
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@philnelson @jwz @cstross It only appears if they detect that the page is some other language and depending on privacy settings they may be unwilling to attempt that
@philnelson @jwz @cstross @malwareminigun there's metadata a page author can set in there that'd make that a non-issue. This can be set per element (you can be lazy and set it for the whole page, or individual paragraphs, divs, or spans and so on)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/lang
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @Yaku e come diceva Hume, non è detto che il sole sorga domani.
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@andre123 il sondaggio dura una settimana 8-D
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Diventerebbe quindi un caso mediatico, e non è difficile immaginare che ci sarebbero estensivi tentativi di trasformarlo in una cavia, o quanto meno assoggettarlo a tutta una serie di verifiche per cercare di capire il funzionamento di questa immortalità.
L'alternativa sarebbe di cercare di fare come gli immortali di Highlander, saltando di identità in identità e simulando la propria morte ogni volta.
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In "Storia della filosofia occidentale" (lettura consigliatissima) Bertrand Russell confutava i sillogismi basati su "Tutti gli uomini sono mortali" dicendo che possiamo saperlo solo di quelli già morti, ma non abbiamo alcuna certezza per quelli ancora vivi.
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@oblomov io voglio l'anteprima dei risultati, dopo mi pronuncio... sai com'è "attento a quel che desideri, potrebbe anche avverarsi" (e spesso trattasi di figate che si rivelano sfighe pazzesche)
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@oblomov Si, ma la mia condizione (due in realtà) è che l'immortale devo essere solo io, altrimenti non cambia nulla, anzi è peggio. E che quando le cose andranno completamente in merda, e succederà sicuramente, avere la possibilità di ricominciare e rifare tutto meglio. Una specie di reincarnazione ma consapevole.
Lo so che questo pone altri problemi e domande da analizzare.
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@EUCommission If you think that the Fediverse is so good, why aren't you taking more steps to embrace it?
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Ora veniamo alla questione lavoro, che poi in realtà dovrebbe essere piú una questione «immortalità e società», ovvero: come reagirebbe le nostre società al caso di un singolo individuo (o una manciata di individui) che avessero ottenuto l'immortalità (almeno in termini di “non morire di vecchiaia”)?
Per cominciare, il soggetto in questione finirebbe intanto nel mirino della guardia di finanza dopo aver superato tutti i limiti attualmente considerati per la vita umana.
