What a major victory for birds all across the globe. A feather is not ours to steal and parade around as if it’s our own culture. Maybe the ASF could replace this with a lock of human hair instead.
This was not the first or last Chrome MacOS kernel panic.
Personally I recall them happening post 2017 as they were happening when I lived in an apartment I moved into around then.
Searching around I see references to more of these types of incidents in later years like 2016 & 2019.
Chrome automatically prunes history for quite a while now. Which I personally dislike, as I sometimes need to find something I visited a long time ago.
Firefox does the same thing too unfortunately, and it doesn't seem like it can be turned off.
It's a real pita for the same reason. Needed to look at browser history older than a few months and discovering it's all been deleted (by Firefox) was a very unpleasant experience.
Seems to be a needless data loss "optimisation" (sic), but I have no idea what the real world use case for that would be.
I wrote a script (https://github.com/osmarks/random-stuff/blob/master/histrete...) to dump a Firefox places.sqlite database to a separate SQLite database for long-term storage (I run it nightly). It seems to delete stuff based on some combination of visit frequency and last visit time.
I suspect they need to do this to keep history searches fast, since I also separately hacked a bunch of `about:config` options to retain more history and they run quite slowly now, particularly on my phone.
browser.history.maxStateObjectSize and places.history.expiration.max_pages (both accessible through about:config) should be the settings to modify. Do a web search for those properties to get more information on how they interact.
There's a good chance an about:config setting lets you change it. FF has a ton of detailed settings but most are hidden.
On my setup the "manage history" window goes back a bit over 6 months. Unfortunately the list entries don't show a date, so I can't give more precise numbers.
Out of all the monthly subscriptions I have, YouTube Premium is by far my favourite. I don’t see an issue with paying for something I use so much everyday.
Let’s be real, at this point YouTube is too big to fail. Without Google’s capital it would be impossible to do this at scale. Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.
> Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators
Of the independent creators I know about, not a single one is satisfied with YouTube and their draconian rules. They all have their own sponsors in the videos and Patreon accounts. Google, like other major tech companies, has proven time and again they care about their bottom line above all. Let’s not pretend they are good guys standing up for the little guy.
> rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.
Wasn’t Netflix specifically a big supporter of independent creators, giving a lot of them a chance they wouldn’t have gotten otherwise? There was even a running joke that anyone could get a show on Netflix. Perhaps I’m mistaken or that has changed but it seems like any other of the big streaming services would be a better target for that comment.
Ask yourself this: "If youtube stopped existing tomorrow, what would I do?"
Chances are your first thought was something along the lines of "Hm, well I'd probably just...", as opposed to simple abject despair.
And I bet same goes for content creators. They'd find a way. And it might even be better.
In fact, the more prudent ones already have more than one basket for their eggs already, such that if and when youtube does "that thing", their patrons will know exactly where to find them next, with minimal friction.
YouTube premium is a great example of a convenience product. My main YouTube consumption has moved from my browser to my Apple TV, where there's no good way to block ads, so I just pay for premium. Added benefit is being able to share ad-free with a few friends. I really don't like giving YouTube the money, but I REALLY don't like seeing ads.
I noticed a little while ago that A-B repeat is just gone from every media player (soft- and hardware) that I own. I think VLC is the last place it exists.
I understand why; it’s not exactly the most useful feature, but it used to be pretty ubiquitous: iTunes, Winamp, every DVD player, some CD players. We lost all the fun features! I want to hear the last 4 minutes of Freebird on repeat sometimes!
I think the developers at T-Mobile are equally pissed off about this. But with Firefox market share sitting at 3.5% in the US, it no longer makes business sense to spend the extra money required to make their site work in what is now a niche browser.
Not a disease? That's down to semantics and personal opinion. What isn't opinion is the fact that the symptoms of ADHD have been objectively identified on a global scale, in people from very different cultures and social classes.
I agree that it isn't beneficial to label a very livable condition with the same word that we use for much harsher illnesses, and it doesn't help that it's not a visible condition. But as somebody with ADHD, it really hurts me to keep seeing this argument repeated ad nausea.
Maybe the issue isn't that it is being overdiagnosed, but rather the fact that the only treatment we consider worthwhile is prescribing amphetamines to children.
