Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from the Firefox browser's customize menu, which allows users to reduce the size of the browser chrome.
I don't understand why #Mozilla is so intent on ruining their users' attitude toward them and Firefox. They're just going to slowly take away every useful feature in Firefox until it withers away to nothing.
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html
The Arizona bill has already gotten farther than a similar one in ND did.
Wow, this is a positive development though I wish they hadn't excluded other devices like game consoles. Hopefully, this bill passes and other states follow suit.
If DIY flashing isn't your thing, refurbished Samsung devices are now available.
This is pretty cool. Now there's at least one viable alternative phone I can buy if my current one reaches its end-of-life. I'm still holding out hope for the #PinePhone and other #nix based smartphones. Getting a convergent Linux onto smartphones that can serve as a daily driver would be killer. But until then it's great that there's a choice that isn't a giant Silicon Valley silo.
If the electricity for a vertical farm is supplied by solar panels, the energy production takes up at least as much space as the vertical farm saves. Urban agriculture in vertical, indoor “farms” is on the rise. Electric lights allow the crops to be grown in layers above each other year-round. Proponents argue that growers can save a lot of agricultural land in this way. Additional advantages are that less energy is needed to transport food (most people live in a city) and that less water and pesticides are required. Which crops? The vertical farms that have been commercially active for several years all focus on the same crops. These are agricultural products with a high water content, such as...
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html
"It's the kind of technology challenge that NASA was built for."
Mozilla has always championed the open web. So why is it abandoning desktop web apps, the most powerful alternative to proprietary App Stores?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90597411/mozilla-firefox-no-ssb-pwa-support
I run a Matrix chat server for my friends, family, and friends-of-friends. I called it Gossip Land and whilst there are a few different apps you can use to join a Matrix server, Element is a good starting point. You can grab an account on the main Matrix server, meaning your username will be @username:matrix.org … Continue reading "How to find and join new Matrix chat rooms"
https://coxy.co/2133/how-to-find-and-join-new-matrix-chat-rooms/
A nice list of matrix servers, for reference
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
Congrats to the Rust team and Mozilla for this milestone! I wonder if Mozilla could further its mission better by being an incubator instead of trying to develop its own products. They could develop technologies and build them into sustainable foundations. I trust Mozilla to think about the right things when starting a new technology, but I'm not so sure about their expertise to develop end-user products.