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aura, in What chromium based browser do you recommend and why?

none. chromium is a google (-endorsed) product, who put their own little tracking tidbits into the chromium project. if you still want to use a chromium-based browser, i have two ‘suggestions’:

  • brave. renowned in the privacy community but has had a few suspicious moments, and honestly i just don’t trust their whole big-tech thing they got going on.
  • ungoogled-chromium. basically just the chromium browser but without the google shit in it. no extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.

now if you really want a good browser, go for either of the following firefox-like browsers:

  • firefox with arkenfox user.js. firefox as you know and love it, with the arkenfox privacy tinkering. i haven’t tested it and its apparently a bit difficult to install and configure, but i’ve heard its really helpful with privacy.
  • librewolf. a privacy-first firefox fork developed by an independent developer and contributors, no big-tech bullshit. my personal daily driver.

anyway, sorry for the rant, but there u go.

despotic_machine,
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extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.

Not true at all. If you follow the instructions they provide you can install and use extensions with ease via the Chromium Web Store add-on.

hightrix, in Why do most people not post?
  1. People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.
  2. I just don’t want to.
  3. I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.

Have a nice day!

MajorHavoc,

People on the internet suck.

They really do.

can,
  1. I think that happens if they’re commenting from a microblogging service, not a lemmy account.
hightrix,

Well today I learned something.

Thank you!

SamXavia,
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It's as I use Mbin, What does both Microblogging and Threads (Lemmy)

SamXavia,
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Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it's because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.

Damaskox,
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Depends also on the attitude, I think.

I haven’t met many people in this “they suck”-mold of yours. The contrary however…

shinigamiookamiryuu, in Why do most people not post?

It’s probably a federation thing.

Usernameblankface, in Why do most people not post?
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I don’t like being drown out by other comment, I don’t like repeating what’s already been said.

SamXavia,
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@Usernameblankface That's fair enough on big communities but why not smaller ones?

Usernameblankface,
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If the community is too small, there’s little to no response to what I want to say.

Just like getting buried in too many similar comments doesn’t make an interaction, being the only comment with no reply or making a post with no discussion underneath also doesn’t make an interaction.

livus, in Why do most people not post?
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There's the 90/9/1 rule - out of every 100 people 1 provides content, 9 interact and the other 90 lurk.

I created and post in a community, worldwithoutus but even after it got above 100 it's usually just me posting.

livus,
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Duh. I just realised I need to get to 200 before the second poster emerges.

SamXavia,
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@livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there's just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.

livus,
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@SamXavia I think this is something about the fediverse though - in the old, centralised media we were often relatively passively consuming content spoonfed to us by alorithms. Here in the fediverse, it pays to be more active in building and finding content.

It's a bit of an adjustment in mindset and we're all in various stages of that.

STUPIDVIPGUY, in Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

Papa Meat

he might give you nightmares though lol

octoperson, in Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

Don’t know if they’re on the tube, but I never made it through an episode of Brian Cox’s Cosmos without nodding off.

mrbubblesort, in Why do most people not post?
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I want to, but it seems broken for me. Maybe this is just a kbin thing, but every time I try to make a post it gives me a 500 error.

SamXavia,
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@mrbubblesort I suggest to try Mbin it's got a lot of bug fixes as I was getting errors like that using Kbin (Also same UI or if not improved)

ook_the_librarian, in Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?
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Vi Hart is calm and mathy. Here’s the story of Wind & Mr ug.

swordsmanluke, in How do you keep yourself from eating all your candy-stash in one sitting?

Eating super refined sugar like candy causes a chain raccoon of events in your body to occur:

  1. Your blood sugar spikes. Even in non-diabetic people, eating a sugary treat can cause a spike above 150mg/dL (healthy levels are usually below 100 when fasting and below 130 after eating)
  2. Your body ramps up insulin production to help use the sugar.
  3. Because your levels have (probably) spiked so high, your body produces a lot of insulin, but your digestion isn’t sending any more sugar - you already finished digesting it and got the whole load at once.
  4. Your body burns through all the excess sugar in your system and your blood sugar levels fall… precipitously because there’s still a lot of insulin floating around.
  5. Your blood sugar levels fall low enough that your system decides it must be time to eat.
  6. You get the munchies. And since your blood sugar is now lower than your body wants it to be, you crave something extra carby. …Like more candy.

Repeat this process long enough and your pancreas (which makes insulin) burns out. Congratulations! You now (like me) have Type 2 Diabetes! 🎉✨💫

So… To not eat all your candy at once, do a few things to keep your blood sugar from spiking, triggering cravings for more.

  1. Eat fibrous veggies. And eat them at the start of a meal. Getting the fiber into your digestion first slows down processing the rest, keeping your blood sugars from spiking.
  2. Eat carby treats as dessert to a meal, not on an empty stomach. Same reason as above.
  3. If you’ve really gotta indulge, try to drink a Tbsp of vinegar (diluted in a glass of water, so you don’t melt your teeth) just beforehand. The acetic acid in vinegar interferes with digesting carbs. It’s not as good as broccoli, but it helps. (Citric acid does not work like this.)

In addition to the other tips here (Especially keeping treats out of sight), keeping your sugar levels from spiking and crashing helps a lot to curb carb craving.

Caomh_Cynbel, in Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

Wirtual - trackmania streamer and ancient Egyptian expert

coffinwood, in Why do most people not post?

Why are more visitors than artists going to the galleries?

MajorHavoc,

We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don’t tell anyone. /s

coffinwood,

Just disguise your revolution as “performance”. No one will notice in time.

idunnololz, in Why do most people not post?
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Hi. What’s up.

broguy89, in Why do most people not post?

Why do more people read books than write books? Why do more people eat than cook? It’s easier to consume than to produce.

impiri, in What chromium based browser do you recommend and why?

Arc (Mac-only for now) is pretty great and has been my daily driver for a while now. Lots of great quality-of-life improvements, a great approach to tab management, and new optional AI features that are useful instead of annoying.

theherk,

Not open source and last I checked you had to sign in to use it. Can’t imagine why people would use it.

impiri,

I carefully hid some of the reasons I use it in the parent comment

theherk,

Okay, that’s a hilarious response, but what I meant should have been obvious even if my phrasing was poor. I have trouble understanding why one would believe these features outweigh software freedom.

impiri,

Just giving you a hard time. I prefer FOSS generally, but most of my time on a desktop is spent on the web, and Arc’s tab/space management is far ahead of anything else right now. It genuinely makes my life easier. The UX is thoughtfully designed and cohesive; even if I could get close to this setup with Firefox extensions (and I tried), it would be janky (and it was).

I’m very much hoping some of Arc’s UX and workflow ideas will be picked up by browsers generally.

theherk,

Thank you for the follow up. Maybe I’ll give it another spin. I’ve been tinkering with floorp but it isn’t polished.

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