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History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book! (thebaffler.com)

submitted 5 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

archive link since the baffler was so fond of telling me I had only 1 free article left, meaning refreshing the tab would most likely lock me out of reading the page

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can't do shit when they always die.

[–] cornflake@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Using Firefox Focus as default mobile browser also handy for this

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

(sorry, this rant isn't directed at you, but)

for FUCKS SAKE, mozilla

Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android[4][5] and iOS smartphones and tablets.[6][7] Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox,

jesus christ can these people have a worse fucking product development team and/or strategy?

this company squanders so fucking much potential and goodwill, holy shit

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Temp containers in Firefox is the greatest extension ever.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

it's so good

and it just goddamn works

on my workstation I have that + Choosy (there are other-OS alternatives to Choosy as well), and I profile-route things as needed along with fallthroughs into complete memoryholes for things I want as little state as possible on

(I hate the modern web so fucking much)

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

true! I really need to squash the Lemmy bug that kills my session when I switch tab groups on mobile

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been using mlem on iOS as my client, if you want something to try out

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have it installed, but haven’t tried it since our instance launched! I should give it another try soon and see if they’ve implemented the admin frontend yet

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mlem dev here! Admin features aren't live quite yet, but they should be available as part of an upcoming beta in a couple of weeks or so.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

nice, I’ll definitely keep an eye on TestFlight! thanks for all your work on Mlem!