Firefox has few tricks to prevent finger printing

1. There is a built in finger printing protection which helps a little bit but not perfect
2. There is containers: Putting different websites into different containers isolate them from one another so for example opening a website selling toys in one container would prevent your facebook account that is running in different container from knowing about this fact.
3. There is an extension called NoScript. This allow you to do what you want (block javascript) but since - as many others said - 99% of website won’t work without javascript, u could selectively allow certain javascript from certain domains while blocking others. By default all javascript are blocked but then u test enabling some to see what is the absolute minimum for certain website to work. NoScript remembers your selections so you only need to do it once per website.

Abdul Nassir of Egypt did that in the 1950s, didn’t end well

Ironically those are all bug fixes.

“But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.”

does this also block blind people who depend on an e-reader?

what is the problem with saying: is this your flashlight?

when you try to connect to a VPN you send certain request. firewalls could read that request, determine its an attempt to connect to a VPN and block it.

wireguard protocol is easy to identify and block. wireguard was designed for efficiency and speed not for circumventing censorship

There an Arab historian called Maqrizi who lived in the 15th century. He wrote about south Egyptians monasteries saying: "… and most Christians of these monasteries the knowladge of Southern Coptic dialect [ Egyptian language ] followed by Northern Coptic dialect and Christian women of the south and their children almost speak nothing but southern Egyptian and have complete knowledge of Roman language (he means Greek since Romans in Egypt spoke Greek).

In addition to that many christian prayers are almost entirely in Greek. Its possible that really simple people like farmers may have not spoken Greek but most Egyptians had to understand it since it was the legal language of the country

Exactly this. Most Egyptians could speak Greek by the time Romans ruled Egypt and continued to learn and speak Greek until Arab conquest when Greek eventually became irrelevant

6 questions a day to be precise

Yes, this is the correct answer

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/what-happened-to-www/

How is this “new” ?

Article from Feb 2025

https://cybersecuritynews.com/job-interview-process-delivers-malware-via-fake-chrome-update/

This one from 2023

https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/north-korean-hackers-pose-as-job.html

can you give an example ?

why is it fine to lick calcium? wouldn’t that cause sever burns?

It would solve this kind of bugs for sure

Can’t wait to see the day where Linux Kernel is 100% written in Rust

Oman gain nothing from the ships passing through the straight right now.

However if Iran gets its way and toll the ships there would be some money flowing toward Oman.

If I am Oman, I don’t see why I would fight against that

The worst president so far

On modern Linux system yes but old Unix servers (or even recent?) would run it no problem

Edit: It was initally introduced by sun microsystems in 2005 and was later adopted by GNU

Sun Microsystem didn’t introduce it in 2005, rather it simply disallowed rm -rf / altogether

Later GNU introduced --preserve-root and after that made --preserve-root the default and added --no-preserve-root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)

rm -rf /* should work just fine