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King Mob
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Software guy. Trying to build tools for more efficient computing to help out the planet.

Raised Jewish, pro-Palestine, now Buddhist.

Really wish I knew how to get from now to a Star Trek/Culture-style future.
Neither could remain credible alternatives for very long if Firefox went under. They're still indirectly dependent on Mozilla's funding. Switching to them doesn't fix the long term problems.

(Yes, they'd still exist, but there's no way they could keep up with even Safari, much less Chrome)
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🎵
There's a Starmannnnnn,
Waiting in the sky.
He'd like to come and meet us,
But he doesn't have blue eyes.
🎶
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If this is about shell history, bash has a neat trick where putting a space at the front prevents the command from being saved in history (subject to $HISTCONTROL)
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
That doesn't sound right. Pretty sure screen readers use the underlying text exposed by the OS's accessibility features, and don't do OCR of the pixels. I know browsers work that way. I don't think screen readers have done what you describe for decades.
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Truly psychosomatic.
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K Leguin

Capitalism is only a few hundred years old. It might hang around a while longer, but it's not a sure thing.
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I like the implication in the small print that the problem with giving a child a chainsaw is that it has small parts, and not that it's, y'know, a chainsaw.
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In your opinion, is it worth watching if I mute it, get high, and put Daft Punk on instead?
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Still waiting for the Cat(egorize) A Cat novelty account.
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Damn, how low will the Salvation Army stoop?
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Probably because they don't create new series by going "Hey, they both have 'green' in their name, we should make them team up!"
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Because my duelling skills are subpar
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Counterpoint: once you've trained your eyes to see all apps at once, you no longer need alt-tab.
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM