My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

I love Handmaid’s Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

I never claimed to have Muslim friends though, just arab friends :P
About religions, I’m a “phobe” of them all.

I’m sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I’m not sure if there are communities or if it’s individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it’s the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it’s not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom’s godfather was Lebanese… but that doesn’t matter because I’m sure you already know everything about me and my country’s history.

I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race… my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture… none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region’s resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.

Yeah, yeah, all these books say do A and don’t do A and the hypocrite choose which he likes better to say which is right and who’s the true Scotsman… theoretical or historical contexts matters little on street-level reality. Meanwhile, I can safely say all the crap I want about Christianism and even wear anti-Christian symbols, however one must watch his back if he does the same with Islam.

I thought that by always referring to books in the plural, calling it the desert trilogy, and mentioning the Dark Ages, it was obvious that I’m not singling out the burning of the Qur’an as good… in my country, it’s not Muslims who have infected politics and try to push religious law, but a sect of fundamentalist Christians… yet, the laws they want pale in comparison to sharia, so I feel sorry for countries with people on the streets calling for sharia.

You are asking the wrong group to stop being asshole*

Burning religious books is a reaction to religious people being assholes… when they are not assholes people don’t burn their books. It reminds me this cartoon I saw once, a priest beating a guy with a huge cross calling him sinner, infidel, or whatever, and then the guy gets fed up and takes the cross from the priest and breaks it, then the priest starts crying religious intolerance.

She is pretending the Muslims are ok with it and he is just being silly and juvenile and no one cares, but in reality Muslims have already rioted and murdered several people for it.

Yeah, the real reason is that the followers of these books want to push their beliefs onto others, turn them into laws, and ignoring them won’t make them go away. In every place where the followers of these books became the majority, the minorities are extremely repressed. The last time we were entirely ruled by those books, it was known as the Dark Ages, but there are several other countries currently living in their own Dark Ages because of the same desert trilogy. That book literally says its followers should kill me and others just because of the way they were born, so fuck it, it deserves no respect from anyone, it has nothing to do with race, it’s 100% religion.

Thank you for showing the difference between the magical land of the internet and the real world.

If people following those books could stop trying to impose their stupid beliefs on others, that’d be great… You don’t see anyone burning Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist texts, do you? Well, I mean, except for when we see Muslims destroying historical and archaeological sites of these and other religions because they’re not their religion…

because it goes against lemmy.ml ToS of no homophobia, no sexism, etc

Yep, they are afraid of violent fundamentalists but also of liberals trying to cancel them…

Hmm, yeah, perhaps it’s better not to have those by default, as it is privacy/security‑oriented… It would be fun to discover how many users change those settings though, if only they gathered telemetry data xD

I just remembered this documentary I watched about industrialized food, and when they created cake‑mix powder in the '50s the housewives didn’t like it because they didn’t feel like they were making the cake, so the industry removed the dried eggs from the recipe just so the housewives would have to add the eggs and whisk the cake themselves and feel like real bakers… look at us, we are so selective about our software and like to fine‑tune it to our needs. If it already came all configured for us, we would feel like normies hehe

I don’t think LibreWolf should allow that DRM crap and other vanilla shit like that, but I don’t quite understand the project aim. Is it to be a browser for daily-use or a browser that is to be used only for when you want extra privacy (so it doesn’t try to be convenient)?

Mullvad is quite broken for daily-use, and I guess it wasn’t designed for that anyway. You can’t save password, cookie exceptions seems to not work properly… you seem to have to either erase everything when you close the browser or erase nothing, so in that way LibreWolf is way more friendly for daily-use - I especially liked being able to add Enhanced Tracking Protection exceptions, because I few sites I visit has CORS chatboxes.

So although very configurable for daily use, the out of the box experience suggest the project is not for that?
If everyone using allows saving browsing history, passwords, and add cookie exceptions, I guess those should be the default (most bad reviews I saw complained about it, because not having those as default put it into the “inconvenient” class of Mullvad and Tor), and a prompt asking if you want to stay logged to that site when you save a password so that it’s automatically added to exceptions would be nice too hehe

I read it once and couldn’t find the post again, but I managed to find some stuff:

The kernel hack was in 2003:
https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/

There is no official communication between the NSA and Linus Torvalds. In 2013 when he was asked about a Linux backdoor for the NSA and said no while shaking his head yes, it’s officially considered just a joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRsgkdfYJ8

Later that year his father mentioned it again… is it an official hearing? It seems like they are also questioning people from Microsoft, but I didn’t find info on that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRYyWn7BEo

In 2022 a lot of information about Bvp47 came to light, a Linux backdoor NSA was using for more than 10 years - I didn’t find any info about this exploit being possibly because of systemd or not.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-linked-bvp47-linux-backdoor-widely-undetected-for-10-years/

Red Hat introduced systemd in 2010. My info about it being a subsidiary of a Big Tech was incorrect and I removed from my original message. It was only bought by IBM in 2018.

From what I heard, people hate systemd because Linus Torvald was approached by the NSA to create a backdoor on Linux, he said it wouldn’t be possible to change the kernel because there were too many eyes on it, there was a mysterious hack of kernel.org introduced a mysterious code but it was spotted and removed… well, what was the only other thing common to all Linux? The sysv-init, but it was too small, too tight, too specific for them to create a backdoor there, they needed something big, bloated, doing way more than it should do, like it was just supposed to start the system but it can also do unrelated stuff like handling DNS, and an American company shows up bringing systemd, that solved all the problems the NSA had to create a backdoor on Linux, and all distros jumped into the honeypot :)

Well, I gonna try to minimize the use of canvas (and figure out why it works for one and not for the other) or just try to go without it. Thanks.

it’s weird because the other script in that same .js, showing three random images from a .json list, also use canvas, and it’s working fine even on Mullvad and Tor :S

https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/