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I'm a web developer and I have a deep love of Firefox. I've been on it since version 3 and I'll be with it to the bitter end. I love that uBlock Origin is still available and while the news of Firefox's declining market share can be quite concerning, I hope it will be around for a long time.

I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is quite cold for a big majority of the year. I have dabbled with supplements because I get a couple of major colds every year.

I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D, but I've also heard it can be quite bad for you if you have too much in your system (and it's hard for your body to flush excess amounts).

If there a safe level of Vitamin D supplements where you won't run this risk? I don't drink milk either because I'm lactose intolerant.

That's what I thought too when they touted this meteoric rise to 100M in the early days of Threads.

If it's tied to Instagram, and these users aren't using Instagram while they're on Threads, isn't it basically the same difference?

mpv is a key part of my home theatre automation I wrote in PHP.

It runs on a Pi 4. PHP assembles playlists with a Dolby ad, a vintage dancing hot dog ad, trailers, and the feature. It runs mpv through proc_open.

It monitors the progress and controls mpv through a socket to know when to dim or raise the lights, open or close the curtain, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YEVGWJjvI

Not sure why I got downvoted— for context to non-Canadians, a core policy of the Conservatives is to defund the CBC.

I mean, they'll probably shut down if Pierre Poilievre assumes power, though.

I really enjoyed Flexbox Froggy and felt like it helped me a lot better than Grid Garden. Maybe my brain just isn't a grid-oriented brain— CSS Grid never seems to stick.

I'm getting a 502 error with a robot graphic.

EDIT: It's up for my partner beside me, and it's up for my mom in Calgary, but still down for me.

Thank you for this— I was equally frustrated I couldn't look up Canada too!

Can't send any messages on Messenger on my phone, but facebook.com appears to be working fine.

That's fair. I learnt my lesson and have a shock-absorbing case now.

Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope, but I'm an AIO guy and I have zero interest in putting a tall Mac Mini on my desk. I ended up adding a 32" TV as a second monitor and it's good enough.

No, sorry, I meant it was so fragile, it no longer exists— I bumped it off my coffee table and the screen shattered (fell 18" to a hardwood floor).

I balked at spending over $700 to replace the screen. It definitely was leaps and bounds more performant than my 2012. I also hated the lack of MagSafe.

I usually baby my computers, but I did accidentally step on my 2012 MacBook Air when I was in college (I had placed it on stairs while doing a photo shoot with some classmates). It was fine.

My 2012 can't receive macOS and Adobe upgrades, but my partner is happily using it for basic browsing and photo editing.

I had a 13" M1 MacBook Air. It was an OK machine to move to from my 2012 MacBook Air, but the thing was super fragile.

Let's just say it's been retired while my 2012 is still going strong (my not-so-technically-inclined partner uses it for basic browsing).

I now have a 15" M2 MacBook Air and I have to say: this machine is the laptop of my dreams. It could be one of the best computers I've ever owned.

Now I'm just holding out for a 27" or larger iMac. I have a 24" M1 iMac and while I have gotten used to the screen being smaller, I still really could use the extra real-estate.

I am a web developer and media producer. These machines handle Premiere Pro and Blender just fine for my purposes. I have zero interest in getting the Studio.

I hesitate to post this here because I probably can't handle a rush of traffic if it gets attention, but I've been working on this at prezince.com.

Just launched an MVP on February 1st and it is very much alpha software.

It's a social network generator, essentially Wix or Squarespace for social networking.

You go through a simple wizard to choose what type of feed your network is based around (like Facebook/Twitter/Insta, YouTube-like streaming, TikTok-like vertical videos, or classic chat), how connections work (follow/follow back, request friend/confirm friend, or automatic for teams), what it looks like (fonts and colours), what features it has (right now, like button, comments on posts, and trending topics), and who can access it (public or invite only).

I very much learnt PHP and MySQL back in 2007 because of how cool I thought Facebook was, and I miss the early way the site operated.

I also just see how it can be a solution to a lot of different problems. My family is using one as a replacement for group chat on Signal— we can keep discussion centred around posts in the feed which only we have access to.

I'm a small user— only about 250,000 objects in storage and a lot of those cold storage behind Cloudflare, but I've been using SeaweedFS for years.

I think since v0.7— I was always intrigued by Facebook's Haystack.

SeaweedFS been super reliable, efficient, and trouble free.

I only have a half dozen web servers, but I used CentOS for everything so I'm sad it's the end of the line.

That being said, I've recently completed moving entirely over to Debian and there's just something about it I love so much more...

My partner and I decided to buy a Wii together for our first Christmas in 2009. We had a lot of fun playing online with our friends and strangers until the services went offline.

It looks like those servers went offline in 2014, but it felt like we didn't get this service for very long.

We pretty much decided from that experience we'd never buy a console again.

We've had these in Winnipeg for as long as I can remember, but this is Canada where 5-pin is king.

I first saw them in the late 90's at Uptown Alley which was located on two levels of an old movie palace.

They definitely tangled a lot when they first went in, but it seems like the technology here got better overtime.

Really interesting to see Dougald Lamont trending here on Hacker News: he was most recently the leader of Manitoba's Liberal party.

He lost his seat a few weeks ago in a provncial election where the party was reduced from three seats to one.

I've been obsessed with this number for most of my life. It's like I see it on every clock I look at, or on every license plate in front of me.

There are random things about it like channel 37 has significance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_37

Apparently Robert Fife told the PMO they were going to run this. The government asked them to hold off for a week, and then The Globe and Mail said "no, we're running it in 24 hours."

This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React version.