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#TechTip you can enable manual adding of search engines in #Firefox by adding this variable in about:config:

`browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` as `true`

Then in the search settings on about:preferences#search a new "Add" button will appear

Oh btw you can actually download any file from Google Maps in full resolution (and with original file name 💀) easily

All you need to do is to click "Report a problem" in the dropdown menu next to image's author

File loaded on the page that will open is a raw uploaded JPEG with just the metadata stripped lol

#TechTip #Google #GoogleMaps

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For those curious: yes, cohesive dreams are normal and common for me. But usually it's like being in an exciting movie, not an unscheduled disaster drill 😐

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“the trans broadcast protocol”
i thought we called it activitypub but alright

dreams, unpleasant 

Apparently my brain decided to do an unannounced simulation and review of "having a stroke" in my dreams, and concluded that my response time and procedure are insufficient for rescue.

Gee, thanks brain.

Their claim is that regular Synapse will also get performance improvements, just only the ones for small instances, which might have been a credible claim if it weren't for the fact that I *am* on a small instance and it performs like shit just because I'm in a lot of rooms, which incidentally has always been the metric for "big instance" with Matrix, so y'know

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lmfao, Element now has a proprietary version of Synapse that gets performance improvements, guess we plebs get stuck with the slow one

Honestly one thing I enjoy about retrotech is that it's static. I never have windows 95 autoupdate on me and suddenly there's copilot or recall.

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OH: "By that definition, every video game is either tetris or chess"

Soliciting opinions on Bookstack! Please tell me what you love, hate, or otherwise about it!

I hope that now and forever every CEO and corporate executive, corporate board member, and Wall Streeter lives in fear of the direct consequences of their actions which harm consumers, their employees, or the public at large.

It would be just and fair.

@FirstProgenitor this is going to sound insane but I had a dream that you posted an image of a house and for some reason I boosted it and then you replied to me with “I’m legally entitled to your house now” and showed up on my doorstep

Me, being very smart and proactive: I'll write down notes about this coding idea so when I get to implementing it I can read them and remember my thought process

Me, later, reading the notes: what the fuck was I talking about, what the fuck does any of this mean

What is with websites these days fading content in as you scroll down? It's like someone looked at an N64 game and was like, know what this ecommerce site needs, distance fog

How to tell that someone works in software security: when they evaluate software options, they don't look for the software without any security issues, but for the one whose security issues most credibly look like genuine oversights rather than negligence

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