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cf141q5325on DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests

>At least they should have produced a huge warning telling users that this ignores any local blacklists that are in place.

Its not just here, its unfortunately common with firefox. I still cant believe that firefox just silently disables addons if they are no longer supported instead of giving a giant colorful warning.

cf141q5325on Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

Counting calories isnt the point, its keeping track of your weight and being able to hold it outside of a diet phase. Learning to stop gaining weight. What works for you works for you, thanks for the explanation. I unfortunately have come across to many people who didnt consider the longterm aspect. You are just finally getting yourself up and loose that weight and then everything will be great and "oh man i cant wait for this to be over". That stuff so often ends sad.

cf141q5325on Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

As i understand it, intermittent fasting is a lot more then a mind trick to let you stick to your diet. Its a plateau breaker. Once you are really far into your diet and hit a brick wall, despite the reduction, try a plateau breaker. They apparently actually work, and i am really interested in why. Differently put, I was hoping for medical research here, not psychological.

cf141q5325on Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

>What exactly is a "simple diet"? Not eating certain foods? Limiting portion sizes?

Determine how much calories you get to eat a day to not gain weight. Not to loose weight but also not gaining weight. Once you are capable to hold your weight and understand what gets you how many calories, you reduce. Dont hurry, just get a bit under. Its a marathon not a sprint. No one martyred them self to death in a few month with 200 kcal less a day.

>Research shows that traditional diets have extremelly low compliance rates.

We also have an extremely high rate of jojo eaters. If you never learned to stick to your sustaining energy level when eating, you will go right back up again once you stop with something like intermittent fasting. Or do you really want to do that for the rest of your life? The sad reality is people get just enough motivation to try one of those mystic new fades and are emotionally wrecked when they cant handle the strict regime. Or they keep going and treat them self afterwards. There is no shortcut around learning to eat right, they would have been better off to slowly get their problem under control instead of a desperate hail mary. There is no short term fix for your problem you need long term change. Once you get a stable intake, sure try intermittent fasting to loose more quicker. But remember that you are not going back to before but to your sustaining level. That part isnt optional you arent just dieting you are changing your food intake permanently. If you never learned to just watch your calories and tricked yourself into loosing weight you are screwed. I dont see how intermittent fasting can be seen as a first go to. You need to introduce a diet before you can change your diet. In other words, not "just a few more month" but "Congratulations, this is the new normal now."

cf141q5325on Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

Its not a "get somebody to do something". Getting someone to loose weight is a lot like getting someone to stop doing drugs. If they dont want to do it, you are pretty much screwed unless imprisonment is an option. You yourself stick to your diet or you dont.

I think the question pushs on an underlying issue, namely how many people start up with plateau breakers and torture themselves instead of following a simple diet.

So the question is, what is this intermittent fasting? Is it just a psychological trick to get you to stick to your diet? Is your brain tricked into wanting less food or are you tricking your body into loosing more weight? As far as i understand it, its more then just a mind trick to stick to your diet. That is where the comparison with the - 8,6% reduction would come in great. But i doubt you would get much information with just comparing the absolute losses instead of looking at the individuals and how far they are into weight loss.

cf141q5325on An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

If you are interested in the topic, i can highly recommend "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror" from Alfred McCoy for an analysis how torture changed and how it works today.

cf141q5325on Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats

I wouldnt say Syria and Ukraine are anything the EU has their hands full over.

cf141q5325on What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in

The mind numbing thing to me is you wouldnt even have to believe in climate change to understand how incredibly screwed we are. We are already done for without multiple degrees of temperature increase. Climate change is just the last nail in the coffin. We are wasting non-replaceable resources at an unfathomable rate to sustain growth for growth sake. A lot of people still dont seem to understand what "finite" means. One day stuff is out. And that day is coming closer. And instead of prolonging the time we have left to search for solutions, we waste the remaining resources for growth as if there is no tomorrow. Which to be fair, there wont.

All of our progress since the industrial revolution was made possible by cheap/free energy. Once we run out of everything from energy to fertilizer to metals to sand to our ecosystem and its biodiversity, there will be no slowing down, there will be collapse. Without fossil fuel based fertilizers we can say goodbye to the idea of food safety. Especially since modern fertilizers are the only thing that allows the dirt we use instead of actual soil to grow anything. And despite that we are still burning this stuff for personal transportation and having ingenious ideas like growing biofuel, of course also unsustainable in overexploitation. Because fuck yeah! Better yet, we are actually trying to replace oil in the transport and energy sectors with natural gas. The natural gas we need to not be faced with an incredible productivity decrease in food production. Its like people are straight up mad, we are talking about electric cars replacing fossil fuel to keep our transportation network running, and of course the freedom of getting to drive around in your own car. Completely ignoring how many batteries we could actually build before we run out of lithium without an real option for recycling. We were all born right in time to witness the waste of the last few hopes we have for decelerating and long term survival of human civilization on a few more years of unsustainable growth. And the best part, none of this was inevitable. And none of it is a surprise.

cf141q5325on What is energy, actually? (2011)

Progress, as in "your cancer progressed to stage 4". Growth can have downsides, be it what is growing or the costs of growth.

cf141q5325on This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists

I mean quite a few people treat it differently, you just have to look as far as some of Nobels decedents. Wyattpeak linked the article a bit below.

>It is a deceptive utilisation of the institution of the Nobel Prize and what it represents.

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/the-nobel-family-disso...

Not to mention one of its awardees, Hayek.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...

cf141q5325on Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

>If so, the statement "It has changed me for the better" is really just saying "I feel better than before".

The point is what changed is the perception of your emotions. Instead of feeling stuck following your every negative thought you suddenly realize that you can influence how you feel. You dont just feel better then before, you arent still high, you found a way to influence how you feel. You are no longer stuck to the road, but realized that you can leave the road, turn the autopilot off. The way you deal with emotions has changed fundamentally by leaving the observer role. And who are we if not our actions. I would also say, anything that makes me decide to be a more aware and happier person is a fundamentally positive development as it gives me the opportunity for more meaningful decisions. And with me being happy, these decisions will likely be positive.

At the core of this question is your view on humankind. I dont think happier more self reflective people are a bad development. I think the best way to make the world a better place is by making more people happy. I think you have a higher capacity for doing good things for others if you arent miserable yourself, if you arent just coping with day to day life. And you have better chances to reduce bad unintended consequences if you work on being more self reflective.

I think the examples you bring are more caused by reevaluating ones moral compass then by changing how you function.

cf141q5325on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

Require a strictly unconditional opt-in you can revoke at any time and the problem of data collection solves itself. None of these business models would work if they required meaningful consent. The missunderstanding about who is allowed to use my data is at the core of this problem. We tend to talk a lot of the lawless west that (was) the internet, but we somehow fail to mention an industry who has exploited missing regulations on private data. Just because they werent banned from exploiting this until now, doesnt mean it should continue any longer.

cf141q5325on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

You getting paid is the difference. Its the same way most corruption regulations work.

cf141q5325on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

You can also track people if they install your adware.exe. The emphasis on install. What software you install is an entirely different threat scenario then visiting a website.

cf141q5325on Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

Good point, but buying a new mainboard often also means buying a new cpu. I dont think you will be able to fit any of Intels current cpus in the EOL motherboards.

cf141q5325on Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

Its planed obsolesce. Intel wants you to buy new hardware.

cf141q5325on Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

So you buy new hardware.

cf141q5325on What people get paid to work in journalism

Lets take the argument one step further. You could take the room full of software engineers and automate most writing. Business, sports, not a problem. So the question is, how many journalists work as actual journalists in their field and which are easily replaceable by AI or unskilled humans. Here i think the initial comparison comes back. You could also get the room of software engineers to get a newspaper running. Full of clickbait, chum and all the other psychological tricks to get people hooked over shit content. Producing such content is an organization task like any else. Its not quality content but it doesnt have to be, you only need clicks. You wouldnt have journalists, but how many do we currently have who also work as such in "functioning news organizations"? Unless payed by a benefactor with deep war chest, very few journalists get to do any real journalism, simply because its not a profitable venture to pay all the research that didnt turn into big stories. The few that do have been on their deathbed for a while.

So on that level, sure, journalism isnt a profitable career option. The stuff that you do get paid for likely can also be done be anyone else who can handle the advertisement financed industry. Its the basic crux of the problem, journalism isnt profitable. Trying to solve that problem by trusting the market will leave us without professional journalism.

cf141q5325on Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt

Its a bit more complex but you can see how OP has a point if you look at countries with a state mandated pension system, Germany for example. While I dont think blame will get us anywhere, the idea that the last generation leaves us a pension system that might have some similarities to a snowball system is hard to argue with, especially if there is no political will to fix this. The last big debate ended with the government making no changes and declaring that pensions is safe till at least 2030. Which is not really that big of a trust boost for someone who is planing to retire a lot later. Not even mentioning for how many its clear that they will get a pension on or under the level of welfare. So despite the knowledge, that me getting a pension from the pension system is lets say unsure, i will keep paying the the pension of the last generation who will be entering their retirement in the knowledge that the system is broken and unsustainable.

We dont have a generation conflict yet, but if the government keeps ignoring the issue in the hope of it becoming the next generations problem there will be one. Looking at the debate on climate change, where the question what the current generation 50+ is leaving us behind, I hope we will be talking about pensions as well.

cf141q5325on Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

The Librem 5 is another price point and I think its trying to achieve another goal. I dont think they are in any real competition. For the pinephone, if one of your main goals is the final pricepoint, how much % of your devices cost (and development time) are you going to invest into a (unfortunately) niche feature? And are you risking the robustness of your phone for it? I think the way its done is the cheapest, yet still functional way, which this phone is all about.

The Pinephone is at its core a proof of concept made cheaply available to jump start development for open source linux smartphones. Once its shown to be working we can talk about every day competitors to existing smartphones, but thats at least a generation away. Librem is trying to achieve this to begin with by marketing it to privacy and security conscious users. I am really curious if that will succeed, but i fear people will expect it to match the comfort of their current smartphones at that price, which is a really difficult thing to do. Looking at history, it took a while till Linux became a realistic option as an OS for a home computer for people who dont consider them self geeks. The pinephone isnt reaching for the moon but makes the first step.

To the other point, this will be my first smartphone as well and is intended for daily use, just not with GPS, LTE and SMS.

cf141q5325on Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

I mean i think its about what you expect of the device. Many users would likely be unhappy with having the buttons pressable on the outside due do being prone to an accidental disable-able. Its a fringe feature. Having the option to reversibly disable these components is exactly what i am looking for. So while I will be unlikely to use GPS and LTE or the simcard for that matter, I am not sure about WIFI, cam and microphone yet. Either way, It sure as hell beats soldering them off. Hopefully the cover is also as easily removable as promised. But even if not, i would still get one if all killswitches were 0 Ohm resistors.

I think just posting the link here gave the wrong impression. Its an open Linux phone with HW-Killswitches. If that sentence on its own doesnt have you grin like a kid on Christmas, its likely not yet the device for you. But as was often said when talking about the Pinephone, its a start. At this point the target demographic is still developers not people who are looking for an open source replacement of their current smartphone. Its why the batch is called "brave heart". While there are operating systems booting on it already, the expectations Pine set when the developers edition came out were rather low.

cf141q5325on Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinep...

>The detachable back panel – which covers the privacy switches, pogo pins and the removable battery – is made of a durable soft-touch plastic.

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone

> Privacy Switches: LTE (include GPS), Wifi/BT, Mic, and Camera

edit: You can see them at the first link (picture "PinePhone mainboard + daughterboard (prototype) "), its the little switches above the sdcard reader

cf141q5325on German government expands subsidies for electric cars

And here a reminder to the "Abwrackprämine" the scrappage program from 2009 to help the automotive industry through the last financial crisis. Different to the programs in other countries, the German scrappage program coincidentally didnt require the new car to meet any modern emission standards.

cf141q5325on Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

Really cant wait to get my hands on a pinephone, it looks absolutely amazing. Hopefully I will be quick enough to get a BraveHeart model for christmas, I would rather not test my technical skills with assembling the developer edition.

Hardware switches for almost everything and open source software :D

cf141q5325on Leaving Prison at 72

I would argue that cars once moving do pose an intrinsic danger. Driving is really dangerous, you are basically driving a mobile weapon. And not just dangerous for you but for your surroundings, similar to firearms. Sure, its always a question of how they are handled, but if you own a gun or drive a car, you are, at least at some level, a danger to your environment. Even if its just a driver having a stroke and crashing into a crowd or a gun owner having a muscle spasm at the wrong time.

cf141q5325on Leaving Prison at 72

Those are crimes in itself not inherent side effects of drug use. Domestic violence and an increased aggression level are drug specific and driving under the influence is also possible with legal drugs. You can also become a similarly dangerous driver with enough sleep deprivation.

Speeding on the other hand is reckless endangerment, if you are to fast, your stopping distance will become to short for the given environment. As a result, you will run over a kid if one crosses the street at a dangerous position. You driving to fast at this position will have the effect of a run over kid, with the only variables being whether or not a kid is just crossing the street at this point. You already made the decision to drive to fast to have a sufficient stopping distance. Your similar decision of taking drugs doesnt have inherent consequences, it only has an influence of the decisions you make after that, for example a drunk barfight. The same could however also be said for other things which influence your mood.

Driving under the influence is a much better comparison to speeding than druguse itself. Not sleeping enough is not dangerous, however driving while dozing off is

cf141q5325on Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

In this case, with Mozilla Corporation as well as the budget mainly coming from google instead of user donations, you have a point. They have a financial interest in higher user numbers. Your statement is however not universally true. If you have a large enough userbase to finance development, or are an open source project, as a non-profit growth is not something you need to spend money on. That really only matters if you have a profit interest. Differently put, you dont need everyone to use your software, it is enough that its available for people who need it. With more growth you get a litany of new problem with having to do something with the incoming money as a non profit. That often means feature bloat, while, "keep it simple stupid" would have led to a better solution. Not to mention adding features the new userbase requests. In the worst case you end up with a completely different product which for many of the old userbase and volunteers is just as bad as if the project was canceled altogether.

All of this not to mention that, while it makes sense for Firefox, the thought that my donation to develop Firefox ended up in some marketing budget irks me deep down.

cf141q5325on Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit

Thanks, i wish you also all the best to reach 1k soon as well. I know I sound a bit manic, but its not an artificial mood change thats the reason for my personal development but the perspective that i can influence how i feel. That i am not trapped in what ever behavior and thought pattern I am currently in. Its like i tried to solve 3d problems in 2d and now know that there is an additional axis i am actually making progress. Even if all the positive development would vanish due to outside circumstances tomorrow, I now know that I can work on my self and how to do that.

cf141q5325on Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit

Some European countries have very promising research projects supplying selected heroin addicts (with a long enough history of discontinued therapies) with medical heroin. They go to a state run distribution station once or twice a day and get a dose. With that acquisitive crime are no longer an issue and the subjects can reintegrate into a normal life.

cf141q5325on Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit

Same here, but as a side effect to two doses of magic truffles with a few month break between them (15gr and 25gr respectively at ~120kg. With the weight, remember fresh truffles are a lot heavier then dried shrooms). Granted, i have only been sober for half a year but i dont really have the urge to start again. I didnt think this was an option before. But just describing it as "stopped drinking" also cuts it short, I am happy again for the first time since what feels like childhood, I lost the death wish I was dragging around with me for close to a decade and i am actively working on self reflection and self improvements. I am self aware enough to cut stuff out that makes me unhappy and I actually like myself. If you told me that a year ago i would have laughed in your face, but it gave me a very subtle change of perspective that helped to break out of destructive patterns.

With all the upsides, it is however still necessary to warn of the dangers of taking mushrooms without knowing what to expect or taking care for set and setting. If you are thinking about taking psychedelics I can recommend the book "The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys", though you should better be taking a guided trip with someone who has the experience and who you trust.