There’re a lot of privacy enthusiasts who seem to view privacy as a binary. So because Mozilla isn’t perfect, it’s as bad as can be.

They also commonly have little understanding of the underlying technology, law, business, etc., which I guess is why they can’t do any threat modeling. They’re just really scared of a nebulous threat they do not understand. Which I can sympathize with.

But privacy then becomes more about “staying pure” in some abstract sense, rather than about avoiding concrete threats.

(As a tip to those who want to do better, any real security starts with threat modeling. There is no such thing as perfect security, it’s always a tradeoff. So you must do threat modeling to make sure you’re putting your resources where they will make a difference.)

Depending on where the burn is you can just put the burnt part in a container with cool water instead. It’s much more practical to walk around with your hand in a cup than to be standing next to the faucet.

Repeating what they heard is very different from automatically processing the chat to harvest personal information about the participants.

Just because some data is publicly available doesn’t mean all processing of that data is legal and moral.

You’re both getting side-tracked by this discussion of recording. The recording is likely legal in most places.

It’s the processing of that unstructured data to extract and store personal information that is problematic. At that point you go from simply recording a conversation of which you are a part, to processing and storing people’s personal data without their knowledge, consent, or expectation.

There are LED bars for mounting in your rear windows to display text to those behind you

Gay.

It’s the Gay Intersex Marxist Program. Obviously.

This is an outrage!

Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.

Aluminium smelting is so energy intensive that Iceland, a country with a population of less than 400 000, is the world’s 12th largest producer of it, even though the raw materials aren’t mined there. Iceland just has cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.

Here’s a trick that works for me (who mainly have trouble getting started with things).

Decide that you only need to do the thing for 10 minutes. Set a timer for 10 minutes and get started. Then when the timer rings you’ve gotten going and will likely want to continue (forever).

It’s mind boggling how different the modern concept of work is from how it was for 99.9% of human existence.

I’m sure the hyper-optimization, hyper-specialization, the alienation, and the constant flux of modern work contributes greatly to the problems we are experiencing.

Even when there was no “adventurous alternative”, work was a lot more grounded in society and had a lot more downtime at pretty much any point in history.

I really recommend the whole series. It explains the origins of cop shows and their use as copaganda, as well as analyzing everything from Marvel movies to Paw Patrol in their depiction of law enforcement.

Any url that ends in .io is pronounced as if it was Italian.

I recently played Curse of Strahd and that dude had food that had been sitting out since before he was a vampire and entire rooms full of cobwebs.

Or it measured how rare it was for them to get candy. The most interesting thing about the experiment is honestly the many ways in which it was flawed.

Then change the keyboard shortcuts of your terminal so that it does that. If you can’t, then switch to a terminal that lets you change the keyboard shortcuts.

A neat thing is that a lot of command line programs use readline. So learning and configuring it will also be useful in for example the Python REPL and calc.

Here are some neat configuration options you can put in ~/.inputrc

set completion-ignore-case on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set completion-prefix-display-length 9
set blink-matching-paren on
set mark-symlinked-directories on

And if you are a sensible person who is used to vim

set editing-mode vi
set show-mode-in-prompt on

Never found even harvesting to require more than the occasional puff of smoke. But we had Buckfast, and made sure to replace the queen of any aggressive colony. Maybe you have more aggressive breeds.

Looking around there does seem to be people who use tobacco. I guess poisoning the bees probably makes them more docile 😅 Still a bad idea though

This sounds strange. You really don’t want to make them abandon the hive. You want to disrupt the hive as little as possible.

I don’t believe they’d use tobacco, as nicotine is especially toxic to insects (and has a long history of being used as an insecticide).

Beekeepers burn paper, woodchips, or really anything that burns well that they have on hand (that isn’t toxic). Source: Have used smoker while handling beehives.