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Just dropping by to say: Hi Pomax! Long time no see, hope you're doing well!

_Fantastic_ tutorial!


Glad to hear you liked it! Buying that HOTAS from you "to see if that makes MSFS fun or whether I should just get it refunded" may have sent me down a rabbit hole that was deeper than I could have ever expected =D


Haha! that's so great, I'm glad the hardware found a good home :)



This seems a lot like https://github.com/humphd/nohost


Does nohost let you host sites that others can access, or is it just available in the local browser?


Considering this hasn't received an update in two months, it seems unsafe to install and download it. There have been many fixed security issues in Firefox just in the past few weeks.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/


This installs on top of Firefox currently, so all of those fixes are still in place.


The Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have vastly different budgets and staff, and have very different ways of supporting the same mission.

The Foundation focuses on advocacy and movement building around internet related topics (i.e. Privacy & Security, Digital Inclusion), while the Corporation focuses mainly on Firefox, Research projects (Rust, WASM, WebVR), standards work, and other "product" related things.

(source: I'm a Mozilla Foundation staff member)


In Firefox, you can right click on any search box and there's an option to "add a keyword search"

For a Wikipedia search, you'd set the keyword to "w" and then you'd get the identical behaviour you have in Chrome when typing "w foo" in your Awesome Bar.


Ah, there we go. I don't get the same visual cues which confused me a bit but those aren't actually important at all. Thank you very much.


There's a "Past Recipients" section on the MOSS page: https://www.mozilla.org/moss/


Hmm, it looks like the Caddy web server got $50,000 at one point (in 2016 apparently). They were the ones who recently decided (in mid 2017) that it was a good idea to add HTTP headers advertising the names of their sponsors to their open source version. Then, when someone forked their project, they filed a GitHub issue one hour later accusing the fork of trademark infringement! See the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923

As to this year's MOSS recipients, Ushahidi received almost $200,000. They're a Kenya-based startup that was the darling of the Nairobi tech scene a few years ago but have increasingly come under criticism for their leadership during a recent sexual harassment scandal:

https://qz.com/1026890/kenyas-ushahidi-is-investigating-sexu...

Furthermore, one of their affiliated startups, who was making a "rugged" router powered by OpenWRT, was violating the GPL and was being quite dismissive and condescending to those of us who pointed out that they should be releasing the source code of their product. I covered this on my personal blog at the time:

https://mjanja.ch/2015/05/brck-in-violation-of-the-gpl/


I'm not sure why people are so worked up over caddy. The http header "feature" got promptly removed, and the trademark infrigment claim is necessary for them to avoid dilluting their trademark. Furthermore, they politely told the fork maintainer about the infrigment, it's not like they sent a bunch of threatening lawyers...


Shocked the developer of caddy couldn't retire on that $50K


I'm sad about pears search, the IRC channel is dead and there's been no meaningful activity in the repo for a while.


I've been quite happy using Cmder

http://cmder.net/


On my Ghost blog, I use Nginx to cache the pages that Ghost outputs. It works very well.


I think you're talking g about Tasker


Also an old classic that does this is Llama. E.g. you can use it to change ring/silent based on time and location, turn on/off wifi etc.


Yeah that's the one.


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