Ephera

Seems like they just asked people “Would you be willing to give up owning a car for good?” and then people got to respond with:

• Yes, definitely
• Yes, probably
• No, probably not
• No, definitely not

It’s described in the report on pages 19, 20 and 150.

The five on the left are where cars are most dispensable, and the five on the right are where cars are least dispensable.

Big difference to the Wikimedia Foundation is how much money they need. The Mozilla Corporation (which develops Firefox) has around 750 employees.

Optimistically, only 500 of those are devs and work on Firefox. If you pay those a wage of 100,000 USD, that makes 50 million USD of costs just for wages.

Firefox has less than 200 million monthly active users, so everyone using it would need to donate $0.25, or alternatively 1% of users would need to donate $25, yearly.

That’s a lot of money to hope people donate, and this is a very optimistic ballpark estimate.

Yeah, the amount of money they get from donations is so tiny compared to what they need for developing Firefox, that they don’t even divert it for Firefox.
They use it for activism, community work and in the past, they’ve also passed it on to other open-source projects, which are also important for the web but don’t have the infrastructure or public awareness to get donations directly.

Well, it’s still a useful comparison for cities. Good traffic planning brings people into the city center via rail and buses, and then they make sure the city center is walkable.

That way, they can fit the most people into the city center, without it turning into a massive traffic jam.

Because for the longest time, we lived in tribes. If you got thrown out of your tribe, that was essentially a death sentence.

In my country, it’s pretty much mandatory to take a first-aid course, so hard to conceptualize that, but I do find it attractive when someone’s active in the Red Cross or a volunteer fire department, or heck, actually works in the medical field.

Yeah, I find the similarity most striking with LibreOffice Draw vs. LibreOffice Writer. It very much feels like Draw is just a superset of the features of Writer.

There is certainly some differences, though, e.g. text doesn’t automatically overflow onto new pages, text boxes don’t automatically increase in size, things like that.
Everything is a lot more static, which is great for layout, and less great, if you just need to type out some text.

Nah, I dislike all the other people using Excel. I once saw it used for providing a deployment configuration, which then got parsed from that Excel and pushed into a repo. Like, goddamn, just let me edit the repo directly.

There’s so-called desktop publishing software.

In the open-source world, I typically see Scribus recommended.

KISS launcher is also good: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

It certainly looks a lot like Helvetica. Probably could be any of these Helvetica clones:

I will also say that it feels a lot like Inter to me, which it’s not as the i-dots aren’t round, but maybe you’ll enjoy that one anyways…

I think what really bothers me about the aesthetics is that the shapes are broken up by the coloration. For example, the pin icon for Google Maps looks almost like a hook, because the yellow has little contrast on this white background.

I considered that, too, but I do not think this is it, at least not generally, because of how many people showed up to that ‘revolt’, despite it only affecting relatively few people.
I guess, it could be, though, that just the speakers were conspiracy nuts and the audience then just went along with it due to the lack of block party attendance.

lol

What I find perhaps the most worrisome about this whole ‘revolt’ and that these people believe it’s some sort of conspiracy that brought about these bike lines, is that this is a result of them never having chatted with the parents of Jimmy from three doors down the road, who are worried about their son biking to school.

If they had any connection to Jimmy’s family, that alone would override any mild concerns they might have about being inconvenienced. They don’t have that connection, because they walk out the door, climb into their car and then emerge from it 3 miles later. You don’t meet anyone living on your road that way.

Man, I know US food is …something else, but still, what the hell is this thing?

Apparently, the 5 layers are:

• Beef
• Cheese
• Beans
• Nacho Cheese Sauce
• Sour Cream

A.k.a. 5 times protein for no fucking reason. That’s going to taste like garbage, unless you make it entirely too greasy, too.

I guess, it being called “beefy”, that’s its whole gimmick, but that still doesn’t explain why it exists in the first place. When you could be eating something with a multitude of flavors, which doesn’t sit in your stomach like a brick either, why do you choose just a lump of meat?

Kind of more crappydesign than assholedesign, but yes.

I guess, this is most of the changes they do: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/

There’s maybe a handful where I’m not sure, if you can do them via settings.
One where it’s technically the case, is that they remove Pocket at compile time. But to my knowledge, Pocket integration is pretty much a glorified bookmark. There’s not much code to remove. And it can be disabled via about:config by setting extensions.pocket.enabled to false.

I guess, to be fair to LibreWolf, Mozilla has been helping out the Tor Browser devs since forever, so most things needed for Tor Browser are just a toggle in the Firefox settings.
As a result, though, there’s also lots of settings, which partially need expert knowledge. So, there is definitely room for different presets. But yeah, still leaves the question, whether one really needs a different executable to adjust these settings.