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selfhoster69on Google Maps launches Street View in India

> although I can understand why given so many terror attacks in the past

Yeah like India has the highest terror attack rate in the world.

selfhoster69on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

Wait, Epiphany on elementaryOS is 100% WebKit? Had no idea tbh.

selfhoster69on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but Edge has been consistently better than every other browser I've tried.

I have about 30 tabs open across 3 windows on my 10 yo. laptop, that I upgraded to 8GB of RAM. If I try to open even 10 tabs in Firefox, the laptop slows down to hell.

Running a local speed test to my Linux server on MS Edge, I get ~910Mb/s download (CPU maxes out) and ~980Mb/s upload.

If I fire up Firefox and run this same test, I get ~260Mb/s download/upload, with the CPU maxed out of course.

selfhoster69on iOS 16 to support Web push notifications in 2023

Same here, it's far too annoying.

selfhoster69on Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

> Btw, is the mandatory touch bar thingy back? That would be a step back in my book.

It is not. The Touch Bar 13" MBP was updated with the new M2 chip but kept the old design.

selfhoster69on Sunset of libspotify

Can confirm this. This is also one of the reasons why I moved to librespot-java.

selfhoster69on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

Isn't there terrible bandwidth restrictions for the GCP free tier VMs?

selfhoster69on We unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness

I wonder where that cable comes from and who maintains it.

selfhoster69on Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

Every day, I'm ashamed of the Modi government that has been elected twice.

Very recently, his party also won a key constituency, headed by a monk that has failed to condemn the astonishingly high number of females rapes.

If Modi were to stand for election today, he would probably win again. The majority of the people in India seem to be very fond of nationalism and its seemingly quiet transition to fascism. It's very disturbing to say the least.

selfhoster69on Chrome 100

Or if they did not change the viewport size and instead appeared as a popup like how it is on Edge.

selfhoster69on Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)

Kind of regretting storing all my photos on Google Photos. Downloading takeout data always has missing photos :(

selfhoster69on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

A cron job on the network gateway that creates iptables rules to drop connections to x IPs sounds like a good plan.

selfhoster69on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

I just tried it, makes everything so unreadable.

selfhoster69on Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

I don't think so. Didn't a recent software update change this?