cley_faye

It was either that or eating your head off.

Does these "companies" includes the one that were outed for just doing computation on plain old processors and claiming they had made huge breakthrough in quantum computing?

They want to sell thinner phones, but the optics needs some room to be useful, so it shows. The little range they can get with keeping that much width do a lot for image quality.

There were tons of options with multiple HTML elements with a sequence of CSS properties to reliably provide vertical centering (and also use vertical space at the same time) back in the days.

Now, between flex and grid (mainly flex for me, I find them more convenient) all the HTML scaffolding we used to make this work can be removed to get the same result. That's what I mean with "no trick".

Well, we've been vertically centring content with no-trick pure CSS for years now, so, good I guess?

Hey, anything that's not Silver Energy is ok in my book as far as hell portals are concerned.

Say that to governments that wants to locally ban tiktok.

We had IoT, Web3, and now AI. Part of it seems linked to very good salespeople pushing it onto other salespeople.

For the first two, we've seen business spinup quickly and have very aggressive arguments, backed by cash, pushed onto existing business as "the solution to everything". Only to burn down later as a gimmick nobody really cares beyond a handful of niche applications.

So far with AI there's a handful of "big name" business that pushes it as the ultimate solution for everything and are injecting ton of cash in that discourse. We just have to wait a bit if the last part of that happens. After that we'll go back to normal until the next "big thing" gets propped up.

"worse" is debatable, but they certainly are an issue.

However, that doesn't make it ok in Firefox either. Having a good reputation does not mean you can burn it away by trying your best to look the same as the bad guy you're supposed to fight. Firefox mobile, for a very plain and simple example, have stuff like "future experiment" and telemetry enabled by default. Sure, I can disable them, but they should either be disabled by default, or have a one-time popup that provides the option on the first launch.

My position is that if a piece of software becomes increasingly intrusive and tedious to use with each "update", it's time to look somewhere else. Whether it's Firefox, Chrome, or even OS like Windows. Having to fight back to get to a decent, usable state means that it's no longer the right tool for you.

Fortunately, some people are doing the heavy lifting by providing what would be considered "vanilla" firefox with some good forks, as far as being a browser goes.

i don’t know why people are so allergic to firefox but it is the answer.

Basically because in the later year, the development of firefox took very curious directions, from trying to break some decades old, standard feature (only to revert when gmail users, of all things, complained en masse), to integrating many useless extensions (pocket anyone?) that you can't remove and that are more and more difficult to disable. To say nothing of the occasional advertisement for irrelevant products. Basically, even if it's on a smaller scale, using firefox today is starting to look like using windows: you have to fight it on every update to remove something they bork.

And I'm not even talking about the shit that happens at their mother business, Mozilla.

All of this is even more infuriating, because they could very easily not do it and still pursue their venture. Have Firefox, the web browser, be a thing, and have all the shit actually packaged as a separate extension. Heck, even sell or promote it as "Firefox+" or whatever. Just, don't break the core feature to add "smart bookmarks" or whatever VPN ads.

Web browser made by a single or small dev tends to not support nearly as much of the web standards, which are many. Using the web today with partial support for some stuff is the nightmare we escaped when IE got deprecated, and some still have with Safari.

Nice afterward snack.