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zzxcvbon Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

> where would I need to click to switch profiles?

Go to about:profiles. From there, you can create and switch between profiles. This is not as convenient as it perhaps should be, but I did find one add-on that claims to simplify the process [1].

[1] https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

zzxcvbon The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition

I pre-ordered it from the linked website. Maybe it's only available for certain regions?

zzxcvbon Most readable, low eye-strain colorscheme?

The Modus Themes, which are included with Emacs, are great. These are high contrast themes adhering to WCAG AAA.

They have been ported to Vim and VSCode, but IDK about JetBrains.

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

https://github.com/ishan9299/modus-theme-vim

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Binx.mod...

zzxcvbon Ask HN: How to move away from Google

I'll suggest Searx/SearXNG as a search engine. It's self-hosted, but you can find public instances at https://searx.space/

If you decide to go the self-hosted route, it's trivial to deploy with searx(ng)-docker. Being a meta-search engine, it can pull results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, dictionaries, torrent sites, etc; this gives it a degree of customisability that traditional search engines don't have.

I'll also mention Whoogle, which serves as a libre front-end to Google, although it doesn't currently support any other search engines.