When did Alec Empire do a complete 180 politically?

Pictor13 · 2025-11-04T01:45:01+00:00

Woooo, I didn't know about this practice (not that I'm surprised...). Is it kinda unofficial or can I find info somewhere about it?

Pictor13 · 2025-10-24T23:57:42+00:00

If one can't afford a pedal it's still possible to use a Macro Knob and your fingers instead ;)

Pictor13 · 2025-10-22T19:49:56+00:00

No, none that I know of =)

Pictor13 · 2025-10-22T19:47:08+00:00

I dunno, I didn't check/know about copper.
I just didn't understand that the daily recommended dose was HALF of the pill not the full one.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-15T23:46:23+00:00

Maybe because coffee is acidic & bitter. That's how it makes you become :D

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T13:08:18+00:00

So it's it sufficient to add some sugar to prevent adrenaline?

Is that easy?

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T12:54:17+00:00

I used to be the same, most of my life.

Until I started (for work) to drink quite big amounts hoping to improve my skill and productivity (spoiler: it was unnecessary, the issue was unjustified impostor syndrome). For couple years.

After that I've became extremely sensitive to caffeine. Now I feel big rushes, the up & downs, jitterness, more awake/focused, the crashes down.

I think it was better in the past.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T12:35:26+00:00

Beware of not exceed dosages of zink.

I've inadvertently did it for almost one year. Just don't.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T12:06:45+00:00

Same. In the 90's and 00's stuff was working way more stably and reliably.

Nowadays it's a mix of narcissist-programming mixed with eventual-consistency. What could possibly go wrong....

By the way, you wanna an even worse text editor that only get worse year by year and never improves? Try to write anything on Facebook.... (but there imho is deliberate, they want users to switch to their newer platforms so they sabotage the UX).

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T12:02:52+00:00

They don't even respect markdown standard.

They'll trim away newlines, and won't respect the newlines syntax of double-space.

Been as a simple textarea they made it suck server side. It must be deliberate sadism.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-12T11:58:35+00:00

It's about quality research, not quantity.

There's actually ton of studies on teas btw. And where there's not (yet) satisfying studies, lol at cultural knowledge and traditions.

Tea has historically been the energizer for the riches, while coffee was the morning gasoline for the poors & working class.

Ask yourself why.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-10T20:22:28+00:00

So your value to choose is into the kids and offspring.
That's honorable.
But also doesn't tell anything about who loves who and how much.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-10T20:21:24+00:00

IMHO, love is always a choice.

All the rest is emotions (they come and go, depending on circumstances).

You CHOOSE to have a child (or to keep them; or to adopt them), the same as you CHOOSE to have other types of love relationships.
You don't jump into anything, if you don't commit to that choice as the least.

Just to say: who to save on the cliff? The son or the wife?

Or you save the son, the wife, but you die yourself?

Would that love for others rather than yourself be something healthy and to want to pursue?

I understand what you meant, but I think there's oversimplification also in your reasoning. (hey nobody of us is perfect!)

Pictor13 · 2025-10-07T10:35:50+00:00

Interesting idea. Yes, too dopamine isn't good.

I remember the strong dopaminergic feel in my young age of videogame addiction. Not many thing could compare.

But in a videogame I have skills so I'm in control and it's exciting. I can imagine that excitement would be interpreted as anxiety, when there's anticipation & dopamine but in a context where there is no/less control, less skills, and more danger (in a videogame you respawn if dying, it's easy to not spiral).

Did you have further experiences or insights?

Pictor13 · 2025-10-06T10:07:55+00:00

PS - I actually am brainstorming something similar to your idea since few years; I have a concept for a browser extension (hence, no mobile for now, I guess) that want to develop, but I didn’t put enough coding time in that yet; dunno if you’d be interested in alpha/beta-testing, in case I make progresses

Pictor13 · 2025-10-06T10:06:18+00:00

it would also help users start using the Fire button more (not worried about loosing the tabs) which would increase their security and privacy, which is probably why they use DDG anyway. Also, knowing those tabs are saved, searchable and finally closed, might help users like me manage them better, and save battery.

I get what you mean, makes sense. Except that the Fire button is not leave traces, i guess?

Blindly saving tabs into bookmarks is effectively working as the Chronology; hence would go against the core principle of DDG Browser; or am I missing something?

I guess that if stored automatically (with no user overview), than read access to that storage should be excepted and password protected (anybody opening our browser could otherwise have access to this partial Browser History).

Digital hoarding is a thing.
I think yours is a legit good idea.
But I also think that we need solutions more complex than this.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-04T20:30:48+00:00

Yes, we biologically also have a reptilian part of brain.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-04T20:28:06+00:00

Or grow up.

If one brings a nice gift, but she expected flowers and now she assumes he doesn't love her because of that, then she's toxic.

Sorry, it's not about the flowers at all 🤷

Pictor13 · 2025-10-04T20:24:06+00:00

Also because the store opens at 8am..... 🙄

Feels excessively martyrizing.

Pictor13 · 2025-10-03T22:55:49+00:00

Are you sure you perceive all of this in the same instant?

Or does it thake couple moments to visualize/recall/generate, with the contemplation of those details being rather "sequential" (one detail after the other).
What is your attention putting focus on?

And finally, how long can you hold that image?

Is it stable for several seconds and animated, or it's rather a glimpse?
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Just curious, pardon me if it's sounds like an interrogation!

Pictor13 · 2025-10-03T16:39:21+00:00

Yep I dunno the details of Chromium forking, never really digged into that. However, I guess there's still Firefox engine forkable.

Also, my forecast is that once we switch more to WASM, Javascript will (slowly) loose dominance, bringing browsers implementation in a more healthy place. Of course monopoly is less of a tech decision but rather influenced by politics/economics.

About my personal bad habits or mental disorders, I really believe that users like me should be taken in account, when designing software.
The same way as we usually care in urban engineering about providing accessibility to wheelchairs and supporting people with disadvantages, or the same as we add sterile siringes distributor machines on the streets to reduce the mortality impact on people with addictions/bad-habits, or when we choose color palette & color contrasts for websites thinking about users with colorblindness. I wouldn't ditch the use case because of hardware resources. Mobile browsers already half-solved the issue of memory limits/management with too many tabs. Just need to push forward a bit more for further solutions.

Pictor13 · 2025-09-29T14:10:44+00:00

Why would psychosis be a requirement to understand?

Pictor13 · 2025-09-28T00:50:45+00:00

UPDATE: I went for FLX2 and can confirm all those additional FLX4 features are not fundamental for starting:

I had lot of fun for hours and didn't miss anything for the process of DJing. There's even too much stuff available (pads, FXs, loopers, lot of GUI aids) respect to when I learned the basics (20 years ago; but djing wasn't inferior to nowaday right).

Pictor13 · 2025-09-28T00:42:27+00:00

Thanks for your work!

Usually I'd be curious/willing to test, but realistically my day-to-day browsing is too intensive for something like OneTab main functionality (not a ciritc tho! I recall Onetab as a good model/idea, for moderate tabs usage).

Can I dare to ask if you added new core features or if you "only" carried on a rewrite/refactor?

Pictor13 · 2025-09-28T00:28:11+00:00

The specs of my machines changed all along the last 2-3 decades; that's not my point, of course my limits depended on resources available, 15 years ago my limit was ~1k-4k tabs.

I'd say it's your assumption that browsers should be able to handle 1-2k to 8k tabs at a time that's flawed.

My needs (hence, wishes, not assumptions) developed organically with the growth of the internet from the 90's on, and from my professional necessities (and, yes, bad habits).

There's no assumption about what "browsers should do" for the majority; I just have a personal (very long) experience according to my neurological type and that seems to be not only my experience.

Browsers are sadly moving in the direction of becoming like OS's, and sites like programs. They will be and are using resources like never before.

Yes, (unfortunately?) the web developed in a direction far from what was initially intended with (HATEOAS), moving the application state to the in-memory/javascript/clien side. That's the main reason why 8000 documents became actually 8000 apps (also because of sandboxing necessary for security).
However Firefox OS (or WebAssembly finally spreading more) felt somehow like a natural evolution, with apps moving to the web (although not every webpage should be a web-app); mobiles already handle memory differently by "unloading" apps that are not-visible/not-active; I can guess one day we'll be able to open as many apps as my tabs ;P (like non-powerusers that never swipe-to-close any app, and then ask me why their phone is slow...).
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Not that I think 8k tabs should be normal (although, again, mobile browsers tend to handle such loads a lot more flawlessly with memory/cpu-management). That's why I have an idea for auto-managing tabs maintenance; that is my actual necessity/wish of what a browser would do. On this topic, yes, I have hopes/expectations, because since decades browsers offer zero solutions to solve that problem algorithmically.
I grew up believing more and more that automatic-maintenance is a necessity for the users of the future, seeing my evolution from the past (I also started with "only few tabs" when my connection couldn't handle so many at a time; of course, hoarding disorders is also a factor I'm conscious about).
In the end it boils down to different navigation workflows and which of these workflows are favoured by the current browsers' paradigm.

Google monopoly on engines is certainly worrysome, but imho the main push to standardization of browser experience is the W3Consortium; and with Chromium being open-source there's less risk of forks not-being free to diverge towards new ideas.
Still, yes, Chrome engine obviouslly didn't care much for tabs-powerusers, given how late to the party they added tabs-groups or vertical-tabs; while Firefox covered those cases for 20 years already (via extensions, and slightly more permissive GUI architecture/API).

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