Opera 12 followed that ideology.

Opera1217_en_Setup.exe ---------- 10,046 KB
Opera1217_en_Setup_x64.exe --- 11,327 KB
--- Then a few versions back, it wasn't much larger either, and basically had a WebServer built-in.

For some unknown reason Chrome/Blink requires ~35MB, and FireFox ~50MB.

When I first started using Opera in the late 90's, it was ~3.5MB, Mozilla with a Mail Client was over 25MB.

These AMD-based boxes are a steal compared to the "barebones" NUC's that Intel is pushing. Although HP showed off a half-decent Intel based micro PC at CES (value/$) --- when it comes to on-board GPU you are almost always better off with an AMD solution.

I asked a few months back now, about the possibility of BSD on Digital Ocean due to all of the SystemD shenanigans of late. Got an email notification today that FreeBSD droplets are now available on Digital Ocean. It will be interesting to see if other VPS/Linux providers follow suit.

CB.

It is sad, and somewhat scary, just how accurate Marilyn Manson was in his interview in Bowling for Columbine. The gist being, "keep the masses afraid. scared people spend money."

I've been pretty happy with the non-mechanical Corsair Raptor K40. Corsair also has a mechanical keyboard line with the same design but with cherry switches. Unfortunately, the price has jumped up to the Logitech price points --- previously the K30 was ~$40, and the K40 was ~$50-$60 (when it was stocked by Amazon LLC, instead of 3rd parties).

The only "short-stroke" keyboards that I've seen are pretty much just laptop-style derivatives.

I think we might see some improvements to some browser extensions and will get some control over the font situation.

One possibility that could be enabled today with a UserScript even:

Choose which fonts to allow the browser to see/use, make it an array, filter the page's HTML, replace any fonts that don't match with Arial.

Beyond that you would probably want an extension that has functionality like RequestPolicy, so you could allow some sites access to "all fonts", or one could get even more finely grained down to which individual sites can use which font.

Although it could even be done at the OS level. It will be interesting to see who does it first. If the browser is truely caged and segregated, then it should only have indirect access to system level folders.

In Canada there are 5 "main" companies.

Telecom: Telus, Aliant,
Cable: Shaw, Rogers, Eastlink

Much like the US, you will never have overlapping Cable service, and Telus and Aliant don't compete with each other either.

It looks like the Chrome team is working on the "let keyword", whereas according to Mozilla's own MDN, they plan to remove the "let" keyword? or they let anyone edit MDN resources.

Their DRM stance, like U-play (on top of Steam), Tages, internet required to not only launch but continue to play many titles. It all still continues to this day, even after a few years back they made a big PR announcement about reducing/removing DRM from their gaming titles. Yeah, well I never saw any change whatsoever and their older library of games still are infested with Tages and more.

If I see Ubi as the publisher, I just skip it. Although it looks like I've either accidentally purchased one of their titles, or it was so cheap ($5) that I gave it a go.

e10s still interferes with pretty much any addon that needs to have some type of JS input to the page/window.

RequestPolicy, likely all UserScripts (e.g. Greasemonkey and kin), LastPass (last I tested a week ago, was still non-functional).

Although Nightly with e10s enabled does at least appear to be working (better) with addons that only need to have input/listeners/control of the GUI.

I think its more about Firefox not releasing ram, than memory "leaks", but YMMV.

It may not be memory leaks, but Firefox refuses to release RAM once it hits a certain threshold - somewhere in the 2-4GB range for x64 (Nightly, and Waterfox); prolly a similiar range 2-3GB for 32bit FF. Easy to accomplish, open a bunch of images or dozens+ of tabs, once Ram usage hits 2GB+ start closing tabs...

It's likely the upper-end of the 2GB range, but still FF is unable to manage it's own memory usage.

Thanks, I forgot about that. At least it wasn't added to the "display" property. And there's less need for browser specific css extensions:

-webkit-box-sizing: border-box; /* Safari/Chrome, other WebKit */
-moz-box-sizing: border-box; /* Firefox, other Gecko */

Why does Elon Musk have a competing payment processor?

Years ago now, my bank wouldn't refuse a withdrawal that was set to come out in 2 days time, that would cause my balance to go below 0, and cause a $50 NSF from the bank and an insufficient funds charge of $25 from the company that was going to try and take money. Even though in one or two days time after the automatic-withdrawal date my check would be deposited to cover the initial charge. I couldn't afford a $75 charge for nothing. So I cancelled the account and withdrew all the current funds.

Once someone has your account info you are screwed.