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dan1101, (edited ) in Have you ever learned anything on the spot?

I was looking at someone’s photos on an iPhone and we both discovered you could cut parts of the image out with a long press and drag (IIRC.)

Bitrot,
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You can make them into stickers and put them into messages, can even have them moving. That stuff was an advertised feature though.

YourAvgMortal, in What are some must have Firefox plugins?

Any extension to re-enable right click. It’s annoying when they try to block me from downloading a picture/video, copy pasting, or inspecting elements

Konstant,

Someone mentioned Don’t Fuck with Paste

ilinamorato,

You don’t need an extension. Shift+right click always overrides JavaScript.

Shadow, in Have you ever learned anything on the spot?
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My entire tech career.

General_Shenanigans, in What are sites like this for?

Sometimes it’s SEO bullshit. Manipulation of site associations and keywords to boost the rankings of other sites they’re associated with. Not for these sites specifically, but some other site. It’s weird and stupid and has to do with trying to reverse-engineer how a search engine ranks its results.

argentcorvid, (edited ) in What are some must have Firefox plugins?
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recipefilter.

Makes most recipes appear as a modal dialog covering the stupid blogspam that the sites put up.

There’s another one that I can’t remember the name of on my desktop computer that allows you to block domains from web searches. Like pinterest.

Edit: it’s uBlacklist

Jarix, in Have you ever learned anything on the spot?

That I can change the cursor position when typing by sliding left and right on the space bar (key?)

And also if you long press the enter key it brings up a shortcut for emojis/gifs

Bitrot,
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On iOS you can also move up and down between lines and select text with the spacebar (hold space, tap on keyboard somewhere else with another finger, drag space to select).

Jarix,

Neat for ios users!

paddirn, in If you could travel to a place and time while you're a certain age - where would you go?
  1. My Dad was still alive, parents were still together, I’d only be 6 years old, so not too much expected of me then. Relatively happy time for the family.
dhhyfddehhfyy4673, in What are some must have Firefox plugins?

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, NoScript imo. Some sites run an absolutely absurd amount of scripts and the majority are not required for the site to function. So at best, there's no value from letting them run.

tal,
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That used to be a must-have for me about 20 years back, but today, it just breaks too much on too many websites.

I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites, but I don’t think that whitelisting them is really practical today.

Dehydrated,

I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites

That’s what uBlock Origin already kinda does for you. It’s not just an adblocker, it also blocks tracking JavaScript from various sites as well as a bunch of other crap.

tal,
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Mmmm…okay, but the parent comment I was responding to does have a point in that there are some benefits to blocking Javascript above and beyond just trying to deal with tracking. Like, if you’re on a laptop, there are sites that will burn a lot of CPU time – and hence battery life – doing nothing useful. Or, on an older machine, it can speed up page loading.

My issue is just that unless you’re going to turn it on yourself on a site-by-site basis, killing off Javascript breaks too much of the Web today. It was a viable option to just have on back when there was a meaningful portion of the world that didn’t have Javascript available and web developers designed pages to deal reasonably with its absence and you were willing to deal with flipping it off on specific sites to deal with the occasional breakage…but today, it’s a huge portion of the Web that doesn’t work without Javascript.

Dehydrated,

No don’t get me wrong. uBO doesn’t block all JavaScript. It has lists with individual scripts that are known to be used for ads or tracking, and these get blocked. All the other scripts load as usual. This already improves website load times and probably also battery life. Another interesting solution for reducing CPU load may be DNS based blocking. That way, the CPU is not impacted at all, the browser tries to load the script but it just silently fails, because the DNS records for the tracking and advertisement servers won’t be provided.

GlitzyArmrest, (edited )
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I prefer uBlock Origin on hard mode instead, personally. Of course it probably isn’t as through.

notExactlyI20, (edited ) in What are some must have Firefox plugins?
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As a college student, my must have plugins are

  • DarkReader
  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers
  • Sponsorblock
  • TWP - Translate Web Pages

and the goat itself, >!uBlock Origin!<

const_void,

I find DarkReader to be pretty slow. You might want to look at Stylus. It works on a per site basis but it’s much faster.

notExactlyI20,
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Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.

reversebananimals, (edited ) in If you could travel to a place and time while you're a certain age - where would you go?

I would love to be a person* in my late 20s - early 30s in 1920-1930 traveling amongst Western European cities.

Art Deco, The Jazz Age, surrealism and cubism in art, the birth of radio, electricity and cars, Albert Einstein and Nicolai Tesla expanding the scientific consciousness of the human race while Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Women get the vote while Egypt and spiritualism grip popular imagination. Monarchies crumble and democracies rise.

It would have been an incredible experience to live through.

  • Of course, a lot of people were unfairly treated during this time too. Its easy romanticize the good and ignore the awful.
Towerofpain11,

That sounds awesome. Experiencing this in your early 30s when you have a bit more wisdom would be great.

White111, in Countries that let anyone in?

Usa?

Phen, in Have you ever learned anything on the spot?

A ton of stuff. One that I figured out by myself and not many people seem to know is that in most softwares you can triple click on a word to select a full paragraph of text (double click selects the word). It works on code editors and IDEs as well, to select one line of code.

corsicanguppy,

“softwares” makes as much sense as “traffics” or “emails”; i.e. none. And now you’ve learned something more.

joranvar,

Thanks! I’ve used emails as a plural of email for a long time, referring to the messages. Not a native speaker, maybe it’s something Dutch people do with some loanwords. Never softwares or the (more recent) codes, though.

Lemminary,

Nah, people do say “emails” all the time and it’s perfectly fine.

Eg. “But her emails!”

joranvar,

Heh, thanks. I did just look up what people on StackExchange thought about it, and in short: both are correct, although the word originated as a mass noun (uncountable).

favrion,
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I have also discovered that accidentally.

MisterNeon, in If you could travel to a place and time while you're a certain age - where would you go?
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Tenochtitlan 1519 and I guess I would like to be 28.

ryathal, in Countries that let anyone in?

Assuming you don’t mean the US, but it’s basically the only place that let’s anyone in, even if it’s a limited amount by region.

uienia, (edited )

You would have to be very ignorant about the US immigration rules if you think it let’s basically everyone in.

ryathal,

Compared to every other country in the world, it’s exceptionally permissive.

scytale, in Countries that let anyone in?

Try southeast asia. Lower cost of living and can get by with english. As others have said, you can’t just go apply for citizenship. You’ll have to become a permanent resident first, and you need to work and live there for a while to do that.

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