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Hopefully there's a way to opt out of the inevitably worse experience for those of us who like scrolling through TikTok.

The web was already getting bad with ads and popups, but the EU's sloppy legislation loopholes somehow encouraged all websites to show cookie popups (and never remember my selection), so the experience is even worse.


This style of layoff seems far more common post-2020 than targeted "restructuring". I've lived through a few layoffs now, survived most of them, but each time and at each company I've gotten by on an apparent roll of the dice and nothing more. Every time I've seen some truly important ICs get let go, their EMs having no input.

It won't be "happening" until Slack, Teams, and Discord leave Electron behind. They are the apps that need to be open 24/7.


It's not entirely clear what the connection is.

We're not doing Electron because some popular software also using it. We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.


> web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.

May I never have to use or work on your project's software.


> We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.

It's closer to 1GB but trust me, everyone is well aware of your priorities.


"I would rather spend the user's money than my engineer's time"


Teams works similarly in browser tab and "natively". Slack was similar if I remember correctly.


You should check the memory use of that browser tab. You’re not saving much either way running in a browser or in Electron, which is effectively a browser.


I only ever use Discord in a browser window.


If the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously.

If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason


I think I've seen one page override ctrl-f for good reason -- it was a page that lazy loaded literally millions of lines of text that wouldn't have fit into RAM.

Every single other page that does it just wastes my time. It's always a super janky slow implementation that somehow additionally fails to actually search through all the text on the page.


then instead of lazy loading load chunks and paginate it like we used to


Even in those cases I'd prefer to just be able to natively search the content that has been lazy loaded. I've run into more than one website where the search functionality they bound to control-f is horrible.


On Firefox, the “Prevent Shortcut Takeover” can be used to prevent websites from binding to Ctrl+F/Cmd+F: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prevent-short....


That is a great question for those in power to figure out before the masses get upset enough to harm them.


Content creator Michael Palmisano of Guitargate shares his experience of having his verified business account on Instagram deactivated without any warning, explanation, or clear path for appeal

The state of Maryland has agreed to investigate and take his case to Meta


It's been more than 10+ years that I've been able to Option+Click the green button to fill the screen. Works for any app, and always has, unless that app explicitly disallows resizing. That's not recent.


Wow, I learned something new.

Why is it that some of the most useful features in Apple products are impossible to find on your own? I recently also learned about "three finger swipe to undo" in iOS instead of shaking the damn thing like it owes me money.


The video you linked is from 2019. A lot has changed with Thunderbolt capability and the Studios now have enough ports/bandwidth to handle audio processing needs to multiple boxes.


Like I did with regex some years earlier, I worked on a project for a few weeks that required constant interactions with jq, and through that I managed to lock in the general shape of queries so that my google hints became much faster.

Of course, this doesn't matter now, I just ask an LLM to make the query for me if it's so complex that I can't do it by hand within seconds.


Respectfully, whether it "actually happens" is irrelevant. We want to prevent it from happening.


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