Leaving Reddit & Salvaging My Posts!
I’ve decided to leave Reddit, but before I go, I’m rescuing some of my best posts and comments! 
I’ll be reposting them here on my blog & sharing updates as I continue digging through my #Reddit history. 
If you’ve read r/firefox over the years, stay tuned for some tech talks! 
Check out the first update here: https://www.quippd.com/social/posts/2024/12/09/leaving-reddit-and-salvaging-my-posts.html
I’ll keep adding more as I go! #socialmedia #technology #firefox
In my first salvaged post, I wrote about #movie recommendation sites!
I discovered MovieLens years ago when developing my collaboratively edited social news site way back when (a story for another time) - it is an #opendata recommendation platform that is also a research project by the University of #Minnesota.
It also predates the current #AI revolution, if that matters to you.
https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2017/03/02/movielens-personalized-movie-recommendations.html
Moving on, I wrote about my thoughts of #mozilla #firefox's prospects after the demise of XUL-based extensions post version 57.
I revisited this topic over time, but in 2017 we were deep in the middle of discussion around whether this would be the death of Firefox for a significant portion of the "power user" base.
Did you lose extensions? Did Firefox die for you then?
Do you agree with me that Firefox post-57 is still a good browser? Read on:
At some point my interest in #opendata intersected with meatspace and I started contributing to #openstreetmap
I posted about how to get started editing on it back in 2018 - since then, I updated the post a bit to talk about my current mapping activity and how you might want to map on #android
Hat tip as well to @aredridel for their thoughts on digital redlining that felt important to mention in my updated post.
I'm one of those people that still has a non-streaming music library stored locally, so I had set up #Airsonic to manage my #music library and manage conversion from #flac and other music formats for playback on mobile.
To scratch my own itch, I configured Airsonic to convert my FLAC music transparently to #opus on download, and shared my config.
Hope it scratches your itch too!
https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/08/12/does-airsonic-support-opus.html
Starting off Friday with a post about containers in the #firefox #browser.
Containers allow you to segregate your cookies on a per-tab basis, allowing you to separate your cookie jars arbitrarily.
In 2019, someone had a question about the #facebook container that #mozilla released, and how it differed from the standard container #extension.
If you use Facebook (why?), I think it is worth using: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/04/is-there-any-difference-between-facebook-container-and-firefox-multi-account-containers.html
I saw @hipsterelectron mention that #duckduckgo is pushing Bing #AI excerpts of pages.
I'm still looking for a #search engine when looking for information on the web, not an oracle, so I tend to try to actively ignore AI results.
Still, it reminded me that other options exist, like @StartpageSearch. After I talked about them on Twitter, their account actually followed me!
Read the post: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/11/14/what-search-engine-do-you-use.html
Here's one for the #linux users -- specifically those who run #debian or derivative distributions like #ubuntu and #linuxmint
If you put a web browser binary somewhere on your filesystem (like inside of $HOME), the rest of your OS doesn't know that you can use that app to open links.
I pointed someone over to a resource on how to teach Debian that your manually-installed browser can open links: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2019/02/05/how-can-i-set-a-manually-installed-browser-as-the-default-on-debian-ubuntu-mint.html
Hope it continues to help people!
Something more interesting for the former #Mac fans now using #linux -- you may wonder why Linux users try to run #windows apps when they can't find a Linux native app rather than a #macos app - aren't Linux and MacOS more similar, given that they are both #unix systems?
Unfortunately, it isn't easy to run Mac apps on Linux, even years later: https://www.quippd.com/social/comments/2018/09/18/when-linux-native-software-isnt-available-why-do-we-emulate-the-windows-version-arent-mac-and-linux-more-similar.html