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No need to restrict it then

Plenty of users will benefit from restricting it or even disabling sideloading entirely. I know my mother in her 70s can't be trusted with downloading random crap from the internet.

> I know my mother in her 70s can't be trusted with downloading random crap from the internet.

There's a very simple fix for that, that doesn't involve her being a benchmark for others.


> you're always going to be competing with "I could build this myself"

Even more so these days with agentic coding


Why would we need to store the createdAt value in a file? The filesystem already stores this information. We could just store the text which would mean no Json would be needed.

I'm using "filesystem" a bit loosely here.

The important parallel I was going for was "file format" as interface between apps (= lexicons being an interface between social apps).

If you want details on the actual data structures, check https://atproto.com/specs/repository.


Firefox also had it when it was called Firebird, and I'm sure Mozilla had tabs.

According to their own blog [0], Opera implemented tabs in 2000. The earliest version of what became Firefox was released as "Phoenix" in 2002 [1]. Phoenix was renamed to Firebird in 2003 and again to Firefox in 2004 [2], in both cases due to name clashes.

[0] https://blogs.opera.com/news/2026/01/opera-one-r3-new-browse...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History


Mozilla later added them after the concept became popular thanks to Firefox. Mozilla and Firefox browsers coexisted for quite a while and Firefox was the lite version of Mozilla that didn't include E-mail client and other such features that Mozilla did.

OpenStreetMap (the DB behind this map) is incredible. It has so much useful information inside it.

I would say 10% of the homes in my estate in Derbyshire have rooftop solar. We haven't gone for it yet because I still think the cost is too high. It might work out when electricity gets even more expensive.

Is there any truth to the climate sceptic claim that solar in the UK can’t generate useful power with our bad weather and cloud cover? I always said that it’s not like Germany has better weather but they have tons of solar. However it would be great to have an answer from the UK.

It definitely generates useful amounts of power, especially in the summer. The problem is that we still need gas plant, and the distribution infrastructure ready for the rest of the year when it isn't so effective.

In the last year, 2.11% or 308 MWh of our electricity came from solar: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly

By way of comparison, that same source shows Germany generating 2.16% (527 MWh) of its electricity from solar so its pretty similar: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/12mo/monthly


EVs are typically heavier than ICE cars so will cause more tyre wear.

Yes, but typically by a small margin. Close enough that tire wear is dominated by driving style. The problem is that instant torque is simultaneously addictive and also maximally damaging to tire tread.

The F-150 lightning weighs about 25-35% more than the ICE version. That's a significant margin.

They're probably not downloading every svg each time they scrape the site. Probably focused on scraping the text.

What? No, I mean the HTML for the SVG contains a custom URL for an API request. There's no scraping involved on either end.

Could be added to the llms.txt proposal: https://llmstxt.org/

If your bank has a website.


If not, you should seriously consider switching banks (while you can). I suspect that such banks do not take security seriously: Giving control over your phone to Apple/Google is not security.


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