> Open a web browser and you step into a garden of forking paths — where news, messages, memes, work, learning and cat videos all compete for your attention. Every click sprouts another tab. Before you know it, your author has opened 68,000 tabs in one year alone, while some people manage to keep 7,000 tabs open for years. Firefox Tab Groups is designed to help you organize tabs, offering a better way to browse.
> The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® fell by 7.9 points in April to 86.0 (1985=100). The Present Situation Index—based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions—decreased 0.9 points to 133.5. The Expectations Index—based on consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions—dropped 12.5 points to 54.4, the lowest level since October 2011 and well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead. The cutoff date for preliminary results was April 21, 2025.
> - Researchers developed a brain-computer interface that quickly translates brain activity into audible words.
> - Such devices could allow people who’ve lost the ability to speak from paralysis or disease to engage in natural conversations.
It seems like the answer would be country dependant. I have found a great group of people on Bluesky, but it was very easy to find people who like a band that I follow. I'm not sure how easy it would be to find people interested in talking about your country, but I think it may be worth checking out if you haven't.
I looked at a lot of x-platform GUI toolkits for small applications and came to the conclusion that most of them really sucked. (In the case of Windows it's not certain at all that they've even been working on a viable platform for native Windows apps for the last 10 years)
The only complaint I have about Electron is that every crapplet made it with it has a 30MB installer no matter how small it is.
The only other x-platform toolkit I liked was JavaFX and sure you can "install the runtime once and then install a few small JAR files" but that runtime is bigger than the Electron runtime, Python with tk is ass ugly and has an inflexible event loop that limits you and has the runtime is almost as big.
Microsoft should just give up on whatever GUI toolkit it says you should use and make their own Electron-like framework based on Edge that is built into the OS so you don't need to install a huge runtime...
> Microsoft should just give up on whatever GUI toolkit it says you should use and make their own Electron-like framework based on Edge that is built into the OS so you don't need to install a huge runtime...
It exists as PWA and the Store. But like ChromeOS it’s an utter failure because a successful OS ecosystem depends on a design language and predictable navigation.
