iOS FF is pretty subpar. You can’t even crudely disable all js like in safari. Though I still use it, as Brave crashes on launch half the time and refuses to open (1.3k tabs) and safari also has a 500 tab limit
Prog house not trance, but Hernan Cattaneo’s Balance Presents Sudbeat Continuous Mix 2 [0] is my absolute go-to as a complement for focusing/thinking etc. Not his overall best work, but for my criteria for focus music it’s amazing (butter smooth transitions, no vocals, continuity throughout mix, ~120 bpm).
Not parent, but Marginalia's list[0] of blogs is a great aggregation. I've also stumbled upon some webrings through some of the blogs (have them open somewhere among my 3000 open tabs haha).
Noticed the same recently but with some others such as nitter.tux.pizza but with the main instance working (which I’ve avoided cuz it seemed like it was overrun for a good 1-2 months)
Tin foil hat time: I've started writing down companies behind ads that happen to slip through my defenses that are obnoxious/offensive/etc. Because, as you mention, so much of advertising is psychological manipulation. It'll be helpful to have a list of offenders to reference to before making a purchase for example.
The idea occurred to me after someone here proclaimed that they're simply unaffected by ads, reasoning they don't make rash purchases. Someone naturally countered with the extreme subconscious effect of ads.
This list thing is imperfect (I mean look how omnipresent car logos are for example) but it's an improvement from thinking you're immune to ads. Memory is fickle, and why Memento is my favorite movie.
A five second clip of <the area where thing happened> is useful. But for anything recommendation/opinion based, tiktok vids are absolutely terrible. There’s not enough time for any nuance and everything is engineered lest u scroll away.
I don’t think GP was trying to undersell the achievement of an author.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, since videos can be up to 10 minutes on TikTok. Sometimes the algorithm favours longer videos to promote "educational stuff" (don't quote me on this, but that's what the corpspeak says, and it's definitely a thing in the Chinese version of the app). I would say 3-5 minutes is more than enough to give a general opinion of a book without going into details.
Wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing that out. And full disclosure, I haven't seen any tiktok book reviews so these are my thoughts on tiktok globally (which is perhaps unfair). I guess my general annoyance then is the, let's say, minification. And the stupidly engaging hook sentences. Very artificial and a lack of authenticity and because you're at the mercy of the algorithm, the discoverability of niche, genuine vids can be extremely hard. Not that these are groundbreaking takes though
> 3. Along the same lines, selecting or editing, say, a URL from a browser address line is painful. When the URL text exceeds the screen width then trying to get to the end of the text is a damn awkward.
Because editing text on mobile is so tedious for all the reasons already outlined, this is basically the extent the of "editing" text that I do on my phone and it still drives me crazy! Stripping the UTM parameters from a url I've pasted into the address bar, pressing down, and watching the cursor sloooowwwwly move all the way to the end is excruciating. Likewise, the cursor often disappears on me as well.
> 4. UNDO, UBDO! I'm typing this into my browser's HN edit box! If I accidentally refresh the page before posting
Haha, I obsessively copy all if I'm writing > a couple sentences on HN on mobile; accidentally refreshing has wiped my text far too many times
