Discovered AnonAddy (which my friends and I call AnonDaddy) last week and I'm in love. The reply function works perfectly. I cannot stop suggesting it to people.
Unfortunately HackMD rejects the anonaddy.com TLD, so I've had to use my "real" address there, but so far everywhere else it works fine. A clever friend realized you can register a new github account with an anonaddy address and use that to connect to HackMD. Smart.
Great service. Free tier is great. Will probably end up paying and adding my own domain for the odd site that rejects theirs.
The only feature I'd like is greater bandwidth allowance per month on the lite plan. Current limits are 10MB per month free tier, 50MB on $1/mo lite tier, and unlimited on Pro. But fair enough.
This extension to Multi-Account Containers looks great at first -- its Automatic mode spins up a new container each time you open a new tab, then switches that tab to an existing container, should one be associated with the TLD you visit.
The problem is that Temporary Containers does not delete these temporary containers. They accumulate in the MAC containers list. There is no way to mass delete them, nor set them to auto-delete when the tab is closed.
These WILL sync to your Firefox account and reappear on every machine. Over 3000 temp container made MAC unusably laggy. This was so destructive of my MAC experience that I uninstalled both extensions. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there is no way to reset the data MAC syncs to Firefox Account.
Temporary Containers has an option "Delete no longer needed Temporary Containers" which defaults to 15 minutes, but can also be set to immediate.
Are you setting this option to something else?
Temporary Containers works really well for me. I have per domain isolation, which only breaks very very few sites (Gmail and Outlook 365). For those I have regular persistent containers. Alternatively, I can always open a new private window where I don't have this plugin active.
uBlock Origin + Temporary Containers + ClearURLs are a great setup for privacy and security. Actually, I don't need much else aside from a VPN and a few settings in my user.js.
The only thing I miss is Vimperator. Modern alternatives are full of glitches because of inherent limitations in the WebExtensions API.
It's a long-standing bug that also affects me. It's quite annoying since it's easy to irreversibly hose up your sync account by going over the remote storage quota. Maybe you don't have a Firefox account and/or sync setup?
There are related issues opened for Temporary Containers, MAC and Firefox and at least from the public discussions not much is happening about it.
I use Temporary containers heavily and the MAC sync is also enabled but I never see anything like this. Sometimes 1-2 container it remains but I can delete it manually.
Maybe I'm lucky with this.
"Delete no longer needed temporary containers 15 minutes after the last tab in it closes" is a default setting. This is not an issue I've experienced in the 3+ months I've been using this extension.
I don't know what, but something causes it to leak. I've been using it for about a year and several of the low numbered containers have accumulated duplicates:
I don't remember what the default settings are, but I do remember changing a fair number of them (and they are numerous). Definitely not the most friendly tool to casual use. But when fully configured, it is my second favorite addon (behind uMatrix).
I have the same problem (which supposedly does not happen to all users of that extension). I fix it by running this script once a month (it deletes the temporary containers from the containers.json file):
import json
with open('containers.json.bac') as f:
s = f.read()
j = json.loads(s)
ids = [i for i in j['identities'] if not i['name'].startswith('tmp')]
print(len(j['identities']), len(ids))
j['identities'] = ids
with open('containers.json', 'w') as wf:
wf.write(json.dumps(j))
You can reset your sync data for any extension in Firefox.
Just go to about:debugging, click on "This Firefox", locate the extension and click the "Inspect" button. In the case of MAC this should lead you to about:devtools-toolbox?type=extension&id=%40testpilot-containers
In the devtools that open you need to go to the Console tab and run this command:
await browser.storage.sync.clear()
If you want to see the data before you delete it, you can show it with this command:
Huh, I have not experienced this issue, but there seem to be mixed reports in these comments. The numbers continue to count up (this is also configurable), but the containers are actually deleted.
I used to delete manually each container when this happened, through about:preferences container manager, but now there is no more this in Preferences and to remove containers through the Multi-Container extension isn't the best thing.
Tried do that by editing some files too but the hundreds os containers keep reappearing after few days, or on new installations.
this is in BC. every 3-4 months, i keep calling, ask for "customer retention department" and threaten to leave. sometimes i just say "got any promos for me?" and they'll just offer whatever they can. sometimes if they have an attitude, i just hang up and call back for another more friendly agent. i've done this for the past 2 yrs and always ends up with at least a new $5/mth discount added to my bill, so by now my bill is super low.
13gb for $67? What the hell. I thought I had a great plan at 6 gbs for $55. I remember everyone getting the 10gb for $60 deal a while back but I missed out on that one.
That's $67 before taxes. I'm with Virgin (not a recommendation). They tend to call every 6 months (less lately) and ask if I'm happy. I always say it costs too much and I want more data. They gave me two bonus packages (something like $5 for 1GB or 2GB). That's how I got to relatively cheap 13GB.
Nowadays they just look at other plans and say, nope, you're on something better than anything we offer now.
FWIW Fizz is the new hotness here. They have worse coverage outside of metros, cheaper base plans, zero phone customer service (problem for negotiating cheaper deals I imagine), and rollover data, which Virgin does not.
I live in Montreal and intend to do a consumer oriented software startup. I would like to better understand what I would be getting into starting up here, vs. applying to YC. Can you suggest resources for understanding Canadian startup landscape, funding etc.?
Perceived Pros:
- Many STEM grads
- Gaming and AI industry, 2+ top AI schools
- Relatively little competition for engineering talent compared to SV
- Many engineers who are barred entry to US based on country of origin
- Easier work visas (to be confirmed)
- Free healthcare and other social services, and less violence
Perceived Cons:
- Cultural lack of ambition, entrepreneurial dreaming.
- Excessive reliance on government subsidy (the government is the customer)
- Risk averse VC
- Shallow bench of experienced operators to mentor, invest,
and manage
Remember in the SV costs are astronomical, so there's a kind of buy-in threshold necessary which won't make sense for most companies.
Shopify is a perfect company for Canada - they are not making 'tech for other techies' and don't require all the best devs in the world. It took a while to get going, so costs needed to be lower. They can make some income early on, thus 'proving the model'.
There is a reason that the nations top social network started at Harvard, which has an elite status among young people. There's a reason that Snap was started by an attractive young man from Cali, from a the top school in Cali. Glossier, a 'makeup company' is actually, truly a 'social network', and there's a reason it was founded by an ex-model/reality TV star with deep connections in LA/NYC.
On the technical side, there's a reason that certain companies really need to be in the Valley as well.
So if your business needs to be in the Valley, it might make sense to do that, but if it's a 2cnd-tier kind of thing, not something the FAANGS would ever look at, and doesn't require the best technical talent in the world, than you can do it other places.
Montreal a tier 2 cities, Ottawa/Vancouver, not really tier 2, Toronto is probably a solid tier 2. FYI that is actually not bad considering tons of American cities are not tier 2 either. Chicago, Toronto's 'twin' really might not even be Tier 2, there is a weird lack of entrepreneurial activity there for its relative size and power.
Montreal has cheap prices, decent AI grads, stable economy, supportive government, weak VC but the top could of firms are fine places to go for smaller up to round A, and if your business fits well into Quebec's strategy, following rounds can be supported by Desjardins and nationalist players.
It is very odd how vague their product description page is. Naming a product Firefox Reality seems like good marketing: what could be a better brand than all of Reality? However in reality, their site doesn’t say exactly what parent says: Firefox Reality is a browser built for (standalone) XR devices.
I work at a fab lab. We love Inkscape and I train many people to use it each week. Our workshops are exclusively Inkscape focused. Illustrator takes a back seat.
On Mac, xQuartz is a bad sticking point. The unusual ctrl/cmd key swap is difficult to remember. The XQuartz preferences are difficult to parse and must be changed upon install — even I refer to the instructions on the Mac download page every time. A first class Mac app would make it a much easier sell.
We still use v 0.91 as 0.92 moved from 90 dpi svg to 96 dpi svg, to conform to web svg. This can cause problems with our laser cutter software. More important, opening files authored in 0.92 in 0.91 can change the physical size of the drawings. I believe the sizes remain correct if defined in a physical measurement (ie anything but pixels), but some extensions generate svgs whose dimensions are nevertheless affected when opened in the older software. This issue, and the occasional crashing on windows when pasting an image copied from elsewhere, are the only problems I face with this excellent software. Bravo!
The best part of moving day is the free stuff! Everyone is having garage sales and sharing items for trade or for free on Troquer c’est gratos and other Facebook groups.
A similar spectacle happens near me. We've taken to calling it "hippy Christmas" I've dropped stuff off on the curb and it's been picked up in <1 hour by someone looking for new furniture.
In New Zealand that’s how you get rid of stuff. You put it on ‘the council strip’, which is a bit of grass between the house and the road, theoretically owned and maintained by the council.
Unfortunately HackMD rejects the anonaddy.com TLD, so I've had to use my "real" address there, but so far everywhere else it works fine. A clever friend realized you can register a new github account with an anonaddy address and use that to connect to HackMD. Smart.
Great service. Free tier is great. Will probably end up paying and adding my own domain for the odd site that rejects theirs.
The only feature I'd like is greater bandwidth allowance per month on the lite plan. Current limits are 10MB per month free tier, 50MB on $1/mo lite tier, and unlimited on Pro. But fair enough.