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Farow

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    Comment #49231084

    Do you think the average person can properly handle security issues and spam? Maybe a static site is fine.

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    Comment #46439030

    There's an example with 6 month pages: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...

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    Comment #35039781

    I'm guessing that monetizing comments is a lot more difficult on reddit as any links can be removed by admins/mods/automoderator.

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    Comment #34459386

    addons.mozilla.org

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    Comment #34399635

    AMO does not require a manual review nor the extension to be uploaded publicly. You can sign it through their site and then distribute it elsewhere. Also, I don't see how you can c…

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    Comment #33966207

    A streamer has to compete with every other streamer for viewers/income. They're basically trying to sell their personality / themselves to the audience. As other comments mention, …

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    Comment #33894598

    I'm personally a fan of SpaceSniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

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    Comment #33722554

    Works fine for me on Firefox 107.

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    Comment #33709992

    Usage times, usage intensity, list of all extensions, country of origin. I don't understand why they'd need those to improve Firefox. Next thing you know they might try to increase…

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    Comment #33707751

    Couldn't crash reports be separated from other telemetry data, possibly with a dialog letting the user whether to send a crash report or not? IIRC, the dialog used to actually exis…

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    Comment #32673406

    Someone already made a Stable Diffusion extension for Photoshop: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...

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    Comment #30696970

    Not exactly what you're asking for but you can setup SingleFile[1] to automatically save each page you visit. Then there's also ArchiveBox[2] which can convert your browser history…

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    Comment #30670614

    Does the canvas need to be created and removed as it comes in and out of view? Using requestAnimationFrame() might also further improve responsiveness.

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    Comment #29603365

    You can start from the official tutorial: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro

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    Comment #29460993

    Ah, the classic. In order for your issue to be resolved you have to make the news. Really sad how this applies to many/most online services.

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    Comment #29415531

    I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating …

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    Comment #29415489

    https://github.com/Farow/startpage

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    Comment #29415104

    I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page…

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    Comment #29335273

    I'd recommend [SingleFile]( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile ) for saving web pages, [Obsidian]( https://obsidian.md/ ) for taking notes and [Syncthing]( https://syncth…

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    Comment #29243605

    It throws an error on empty or non-integer values: https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even/blob/master/tes...

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    Comment #27903295

    You can also specify a template file through the registry. There are a few default directories where windows looks into: https://windowsforum.com/threads/add-file-templates-to-the-…

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    Comment #27831555

    > do you really think Google could get rid of third party cookies tomorrow and not get sued out existence? Considering that ad blocking extensions still exist, yes. The browser (us…

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    Comment #27465425

    If you're using uBO, it's defused by default: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.35.0

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    Comment #27306472

    I feel like substack has proved that high quality writing can be monetized really well by providing contracts in the range of $200k/year for some of its writers.

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    Comment #27273353

    Hopefully they'll copy Chrome as usual and bring back RSS support.