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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Firefox starts with a bigger disadvantage than both Chrome and Safari on mobile. On iOS, it’s all Safari under the hood anyway, so a lot of people don’t see any point switching skins. On Android, in my experience it works well, but you still find occasional sites that expect Chrome and miss features on Firefox, especially around Google Pay.

    I used to use Firefox on Android several years ago, but at the time Nightly had significantly better performance than stable or Beta, and I think some extensions were also only supported on Nightly. Stable or Beta didn’t perform well enough for me to warrant choosing over Chrome. But because of the nature of nightly, every now and then an update would introduce UI or UX bugs, or occasionally even battery/performance issues. I use my phone as little as I can, so when it’s frustrating if it doesn’t work right when I need it. So, I have moved away from Firefox on mobile.

    I’ve actually switched to Vivaldi. It works as well as Chrome in terms of sites playing nicely with it, and it also has good customizability. It doesn’t support extensions, but that alone isn’t enough for me to pick Firefox.



  • I’ll start with two new addtions for me:

    • Capy Reader (code, F-Droid). While curating my Feedly subscriptions, I decided to try switching to some RSS feeds instead, which I had previously put off because I hadn’t found a client I liked. Capy Reader is excellent both in performance and user interaction, and I find I much prefer reading my sources this way than through Feedly now.
    • Readeck (code). Not technically an app, but the website works perfectly well through a mobile browser. A read-it-later service that snapshots web pages and displays them in a friendly, customizable reader mode. The only downside is that it doesn’t cache the full content of the saved pages offline, so you can’t use it without Internet access.


  • if you regularly switch between espresso and pour over/immersion

    I think this is the biggest con of this grinder. The dial does have multiple turns, and you will need multiple turns to go between espresso and filter range. So the problem then becomes keeping track of which range you are in and getting back to the other one. And because the dial doesn’t have very high precision, relatively speaking, it will be hard to get back to the exact point in the other range where you were before.

    To me, this would become frustrating quickly. If a small difference in grind setting is fine for filter, I would find that for espresso I have to spend a lot more time dialing in, and, the worst of it , that I would have to re-dial whenever I switch back from filter.

    While I think it’s a good grinder for espresso overall, I would personally not get this if I plan to alternate between filter and espresso. I would perhaps look for a grinder without multiple turns, one where getting back to the previous position is easier and more obvious.














  • Sure, I get that. The issue is that as soon as you introduce the ability to install apps from outside the App Store, it becomes possible to trick unsuspecting users into clicking buttons they don’t understand. By designing a web page to look like an actual Apple page, a malicious party could convince users to “opt in” to outside sources, in a similar way in which phishing websites harvest users’ online banking credentials. Currently, this kind of attack is entirely impossible on iPhone.



  • I think that’s exactly the problem. The real user benefit will be very small, but in order to enable those changes, functionality will be implemented on everyone’s phones to support sideloading. In my eyes, this increseas the attack surface against iPhones. Time and time again alt stores have been used to distribute fake apps and malware on Android, and the victims are often those users who haven’t asked for sideloading and are unlikely to use it intentionally.

    Yes, maybe this will enable an F-droid equivalent on iPhone and it will be great to have direct access to open-source apps. But is this niche addition worth potentially reducing the security of all iPhones? I’m not convinced.