I’ve tried twice to make the move to VS Code and keep coming back to Emacs. I would often be overwhelmed by my obsession to tweak things (ADHD..) but switching to Doom Emacs and sticking to the standard config helped with that. Learning some Elisp to write custom functions and embracing org-mode has made it near impossible to switch to another editor now.
This looks great and I’ll definitely give it a spin when I get a chance. What I’d really like though is the ability to save the pages locally, I often revisit bookmarks from years ago only to find that the page no longer exists.
I used a Bash script for a long time that would take my new bookmarks each month and download a copy of the page. It came from an idea presented on HN, I would ack-grep it for search.
Stores using it because I use several computers and two OS now, and the utility of it is pretty low for me.
You could make a donation to Archive.org and just a script to check for an "archive-this" tag in your bookmarks, then pass those pages to archive.org??
Zotero has been mentioned in this thread a few times, and it has this feature. The browser extension has both "with a snapshot" and "without" options (the snapshot being your local copy), and you can choose the default and also choose for each page if you want to.
(It does have some idiosyncrasies since it's supposed to be a citation manager originally, but once you get used to the workflow it gets out of the way and works really well.)
For what it’s worth I was a longtime KeepassXC user. Switched to Bitwarden to have easier shared passwords between myself and partner/family however I’m now moving back to KeepassXC. I support Bitwarden fully however the app itself is just so badly designed. The UI is dreadful (both the website and desktop app) and I find it very frustrating to use. The whole layered concept of folders and inability to have tags is a nightmare when you have a large collection of passwords. The iOS app seems to quit unexpectedly after opening as well. I’m just very underwhelmed with what I was hoping would be a nice alternative to having to sync my Keepass database everywhere.
On the KeepassXC side of things I’ve had zero issues with the app itself (using it on Linux, OSX and Windows) and I use Strongbox on iOS which is one of the very few apps I’m happy to pay for to support the developer, it’s so much more polished than Bitwarden.
Fedora on home desktop, Fedora on work Thinkpad. I’ve also got an M1 MacBook Air that I’m probably going to replace with a Framework laptop soon and run Fedora on that too. It’s just rock solid and any issues I do encounter I can easily fix myself. OSX on the other hand is an inconsistent mess that seems to get buggier with each release as of late.
I love DDG but there’s still an awful lot of weird results. Just the other day I searched for a clothing brand and the first result wasn’t their homepage but someones saved wish list (something like “?wishlistid=someuid”). It was bizarre. I don’t know enough about SEO to know if it’s down to the owners of the site or some weird DDG indexing but I’ve found a lot of weird indexing like this where you’d expect the homepage and get a very specific page instead.
Agreed. I often update (in Fedora) which causes Firefox to be restarted - never had any issues clicking the 'restart Firefox' button though which relaunches it and opens the last session, often opening dozens of older tabs without issue. Bizarre thing to complain about.
What you’re referring to is the TV license fee and you’re not obliged to pay for it at all, you can simply opt out as outlined in the various letters you’ll receive if you don’t pay for it. It’s a deeply flawed system that many disagree with, but to say the public is forced to pay it is false.
Politicians put their positions on the BBC in their manifestos and you can pick a representative which has the views on the BBC most similar to your own. Just like almost all other issues.
I don't think it's unpopular enough yet to have any popular public outcry over the funding model large enough that it'd reach parliament. But BBC News has put their thumb on the scale a few times during the Conservative government, so there's a small but growing resentment of the org
Exactly this. I have a big nostalgia for old school sysadmin ways of working, but just use Ansible. It’s beyond easy and can be as simple or complex as you like. I use containers on my home server (with podman) alongside a bunch of other services and it’s all just so clean and easy to maintain as a collection of roles and playbooks.
During Covid lockdown online food shopping in my area (UK) became increasingly difficult to book delivery slots as they would fill up as soon as they became available. For most people who either owned a car or lived nearby a supermarket this was probably just a mild inconvenience, however at the time I didn't have a car and the nearest store was miles away from my house. Writing a bunch of Python scripts to check for free delivery slots over several of the big supermarkets and then pinging me when one became available was a lifesaver (maybe a bit dramatic, but it helped me secure regular food deliveries without having to spend hours hitting the refresh button). I learned a lot in the process, the lengths at which some online stores go to try and deter automated scripts was quite interesting.
I feel you. I've wondered many times why anti-bot scripts are deployed at all, save some cases like airline booking, where airlines are penalized for abnormal look-book ratios.
