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Speaking for Tracking Protection on IE, the Easylists TPL lists on the official IE gallery site is severely outdated[1] (Last updated Nov 7, 2017) This page from filterlists.com[2] offers an updated collection of TPL lists

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/iegallery

[2]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/collinbarrett/FilterLists/...

XzetaU8on Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

Abandoned by Mozilla, not by Pale Moon/Basilisk though.

http://thereisonlyxul.org/

XzetaU8on More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria

https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/HumanMicrobiome/wiki

XzetaU8on Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes

Firefox is also planning to add support for off-screen image lazy-loading.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535749

XzetaU8on A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa

Vela Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident

XzetaU8on Chrome Extension Manifest V3 Could End UBlock Origin for Chrome

Further discussion here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

XzetaU8on ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System

Yes, the person behind the parent comment.

XzetaU8on ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System

Please watch this [1] it will probably help you understand why the Nibiru/PlanetX claims are nothing but a fairy tale.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fepV7dqh5vg

XzetaU8on Ask HN: How to consume HN?

XzetaU8on Google is rolling out a new Chrome design across all OSs next month

You can enable the new design even in stable Chrome 68

Windows/Mac/Linux:

chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md ("Refresh")

Android:

chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-modern-design

XzetaU8on Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study

A few thoughts regarding today's big carb study in The Lancet:

- This study will get tons of press, with misleading headlines all over the place. Like this one we already saw: "Low carb diets shorten your life unless you are mostly vegetarian."

- Nobody actually knows which diets are best for longevity, as it's an impossible question to answer without a trillion dollar randomized trial. Supercentenarians eat a wide variety of diets, calorie/methionine restriction helps in some animal studies, etc. A collection of observational evidence (like in the Lancet paper) is helpful for noticing overall patterns, but can't say much about actual diets. One high-carb diet could be high in candy and cake, and another high in fruit and tubers. The Lancet study wasn't able to address diet quality.

- The Lancet paper is not one study, but two: a long-term observational study in the US, plus a meta-analysis of international cohorts.

- The "easy" conclusions (low carb bad, high carb bad, high meat bad) are not so easy. The broadest way to cut dietary data is by macronutrient, so the result interpretations aren't always useful. Those with high and low carb intake are more likely to be on a diet, for example, and dieters can be more likely to have health conditions they're trying to address.

- When you meta-analyze heterogeneous data sets, problems arise. There's no good way around this, since the different data sets are from different research groups, and individual-level meta-analysis is thus rarely possible.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/Examinecom/posts/2146299502057199?_...

XzetaU8on Lubuntu is taking a new direction

> Qt is 27 years old. It came out for Windows 3.1.

Same as NTFS file system then

XzetaU8on Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

https://twitrss.me/

XzetaU8on ‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says

No it's not, grape juice contains excessive amounts of sugar.

XzetaU8on 1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape Capsule

It was for us as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

XzetaU8on Ask HN: What’s your favorite Chrome extension?

`uBlock Origin/Extra, uMatrix, FeedBro