I have been using Zen as my main for over a year, and it has some random things beyond defaulting to vertical tabs (which was one of the reasons I tried it out since all of the extensions for them always felt wonky to me). Even lets you drag the window around like you do with horizontal tab bar (much easier to find free space to grab without accidentally pulling a tab into a new window for me). Some Chromium browsers also do this. So that does mess with my muscle memory when I switch over to FF and need to move the window and can’t.

One kind of nice thing they have is that their version of “Peek” called “glance” kind of loads a page on top of a page without opening a whole new tab. It is kind of wonky in some links work fine, while others will just continue to the page in the original tab and need to press alt when clicking. Might be kind of a “it’s just a new tab with extra steps” thing for some folks, but has been something that I have found nice to have.

Also had split tabs before they were added to FF if I remember correctly. Along with having “workspaces” that can have their own pinned tabs and and extra higher layer of pinned tabs above those. They look kind of like the boxes that are present if pinning tabs on current FF but did it first.

Outside of that, I think they managed to make the “look” of the browser better (another personal taste thing). Though FF has gotten some of the “look” closer to Zen.

Nothing “ground breaking” if you are already happy with FF. Just a pretty solid fork for people that aren’t looking for something super hardened like Librewolf or even Mullvad. Early days updates had a chance of borking your GUI layout on big releases, but haven’t had any issues with it in like 8 or 9 months. Overall the updates when I first started using it kind of reminded me of how early days of FF would actually excite me with obvious changes (not just GUI/UX) that felt like upgrades. This might be a non-starter for folks that prioritize GUI/UX staying more rigidly the same. Which is very valid.

GIMP is much more memorable for good or bad. I got over the name like 5mins after I first learned about it years ago. WLBR is so bland outside of the spelling. At least Blender kind of sounds like it blends elements to make something, and Plasma sounds like it would look nice. WLBR sounds frumpy/bland (though I would like to know what it will stand for), which is about as bad as trying too hard to sound “fresh/sexy” from a marketing standpoint. Maybe they could have gone with GRIP (GNU Raster Image Program) if the actual concern was about “offending” people while still being easy to remember? Idk, I suck at naming things.

I would love to have an excuse to put that on mine. If the job is tech or imaging related, then they would already be aware of it. For the others, at least it might cause a laugh or confuse them long enough to look it up (which means you might get remembered and taught them something). Just have to own it and not pre-apologize for it, power move, and don’t even act like it is any different when speaking at an interview (just like any of the other stuff you have listed). That or just put “GNU Image Manipulation Program Project” and leave it at that since it sounds “professional”.

That being said, I hate how overly “professional” people try to make every little thing sound much more “impressive” than they are. But I respect that you care more than I do/would, so no hate for you likely being much more likely to land a job. lol

One personal anecdote about wild resume with regards to a video response to questions I listened to while my boss was having to watch to make first picks for real interview. There was a woman that said her name was “Lix Dicks” (I can’t remember how it was actually spelled). I was like “Wait wait wait, did the sound just glitch out??” and my boss also had the same look on her face. We replayed it a few times trying to see if it was our PC or maybe the video. But my boss went back to the text of her resume, and shit was real. The person ended up not making it due to availability listed in a different section (her other previous work and qualifications would have had her much better than most of the others). Best believe we were sad that it meant the in-person interview didn’t happen. We still remember her though. Perfect qualifications AND such a wild name was such a loss for us.

Installed, did notice that even though I tell my phone (Samsung 24U) to use it as default assistant app. Google still opens when holding the home “button” at the bottom of my screen. When I tell it to have the floating bubble the app itself is cool.

Get console OSes since PlayStation BSD stuff could be useful for something, and Nintendo stuff just because they always lose their shit and show their true colours. Modern Windows source code for moving React OS forward because they deserve to hit a real release after so long. And of course all of the Creative Cloud shit to remove reasons for still paying the Adobe Tax.

It seems to be back up on the store now.

Maybe, might also be that since tech literacy has degraded since his leak. Which means that they don’t care because they are overwhelmed with the information that they don’t understand. Hell, I imagine that a lot of the press that where sent the information didn’t fully understand.

The average person likely defaulted to what they always do, and just assumed that the leak meant the feds had to stop and treat it like any other historic reveal (example being stuff like COINTELPRO and believing that it was bad but isn’t done anymore). Hell, a shocking amount of libs honestly thought that Biden was going to bring Medicare for All (even though he said he wasn’t) just because he said “the Democratic Party is the party of healthcare” a few times.

Came to check if anyone had already linked hak5. Glad to see you had shared the link!

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Looks like he just saw an Android icon pack around the same time default icon style was shifting towards that same look. And just turned it in with a fancy story about how he “played with many shapes” (then show some quickly drawn or even some he did try) “before it just hit me” vibe. I wonder how many in-house employees might have come up with the same and just overlooked.

They are much much more likely to use phones/tablets/maybe even Chromebooks. Torrenting is much easier with a PC. Torrent apps for the others do exist, but do require understanding how to use them (and not use them if on cell data without actual unlimited plans). They are used to just streaming things and not really care about keeping the actual files. So even being patient enough to wait for a file to download is at least a good thing I guess.

More efficient if the file is less popular or super niche with few seeders with tiny upload speeds or no seeds (due to age of the torrent or the before mentioned). Torrents for sure are more resilient as far as being harder to just shutdown a site. It is still nice to constantly have all options possible to make getting files easy. Though I will say that torrents are more efficient the larger the file. 4k media being a very good example.

I have added all the houses on my street to OSM and used StreetComplete for things. The only very frustrating thing I hate is that my house is technically in a tiny town’s zone as far as utilities, but my street address is under a larger small town. I have made sure that my house and the others on my street have the mailing address town. But when I search it on Co-Maps it still shows the tiny town name. Which if I wasn’t aware of this happening, I would think the address I searched isn’t the same place. Does anyone know if there is a way to force OSM to use the correct address?

I wanted to like ME because the only thing keeping me on Waze is the user reports for traffic/cops. But they really need a better UI for it. I click report and there isn’t a clear display that it went through. And when I did see that someone had reported a car on the side of the road or a crash (I can’t remember which), it doesn’t show a marker in the actual map. Just had a small mention alert at the top and wasn’t clear where it was. Otherwise it is smooth in animation and works for navigation.

I always forget to do that. Good to be reminded from time to time. lol

Would be really nice if AA during the deal was able to get docs from Nvidia like they did with music from Spotify. Like source code that could be used for drivers on Linux or older cards that aren’t updated anymore. Schematics would also be fun to see. Not really for AMD, Intel, or some of the larger Chinese homegrown companies to use. But for people that do hardware repair.

Obviously drivers wouldn’t be able to be offered by the distro repos or the major FOSS drivers for legal reasons. But maybe separate patches that could be applied to the less functional FOSS ones by the user. Maybe help with some of the projects that use software to make non-Cuda cards able to run programs that would require modification to run without Cuda. But I know extremely little about that outside of knowing the exist.

Since Nvidia is fine with getting pirated books, seems like they would have a fun time trying to sue for code piracy. None of the above is easy and straight forward, just would be funny to see happen.

Thanks for the link, the nightmare that is unexploded ordinance is a real issue land or sea. I have seen some random videos from people that do magnet fishing or similar small salvage cleanups share about finding some scary shit. Not sure of the channel, but one guy found a lot of ordinance in a park of a big USA city from WW2. Apparently fell in the lake/river (can’t remember which) while in route to be sent to Europe. Also seems common for magnet fishers in Europe to find old grenades and stuff. Which would be true of any places war takes place.

True, and I am sure that the issue is low enough depending on locations (if they lay them far outside of normal shipping lanes). But the same holds true for locating wrecks even when looking for them and having vague ideas as to general areas ships sank. At least if looking in areas that don’t already have history for being where a lot of ships went down. Which I imagine the companies laying the cables tend to avoid for the headache of both causing issues for the cables, and dealing with underwater archeologists trying to preserve sites.

That does sound like a nice watch regardless of my question. Always nice to get recommendations for docs!

Thanks for the link! A little surprised that the article didn’t show up when I was searching.