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Firefox's responses are absolutely shit, for sure.

But Firefox has all kind of promo things (the latest I saw was adverts on their overview/links page - which you can also disable), so the presence of a config item for this doesn't mean they intended for it to show up where it did.

it's a bit unclear what they intended here but I see a lot of people assuming the absolute worst intent.

That Firefox would fully intend to insert full page unskippable adverts of it's own into unrelated websites is a major accusation and there is evidence this was an accident.

Looks more to me like bleepingcomputer purposefully sensationalized the issue as clickbait.

Just another example of state capitalism. Another huge handout to Tesla.

I personally happen to think it's fine for a government to do this kind of thing, but let's call it like it is!

yeah this is probably how it will happen if it becomes law. But UK-based companies won't want to take the chance or will have to immediately cave to the slightest legal pressure, so UK companies will be stuffed.

I wonder if the UK government can compel the likes of Apple and Google to prevent UK users installing the apps from their app stores?

Refusing to comply and threatening to walk are just two different approaches to protesting this and it's not clear to me which is the most effective.

But I think I trust Signal to know the better approach (whichever they ultimately take - they actually said they'd walk "if the alternative meant undermining our privacy commitments".

I don't think it is practical to just refuse to comply with a government like this - especially if you need to charge money (which Tutanota do) and especially if you're nearby, legally speaking (Are Tutanota in Germany?).

And given that Signal has "walked" from other authoritarian regimes but people in those countries still have ways to use Signal, I'm still betting on Signal.

only 1% of people can lose more than 5kg and keep it off.

if almost 100% of people can't do something, describing it as "not hard to fathom" completely misrepresents the issue.

lol I did exactly this at school too. My first version wrote the passwords to local disk and whenever I logged in anywhere myself my login script would gather them up. Til I realised I could leave myself logged in and write to my home dir.

I love how this same vulnerability was discovered independently and exploited by students all around the world!

I have autoplay of videos turned off. but I played a video, changed tab, the video ended and youtube went on to play another unrequested video, carefully selected to make me watch more ads.

As terrible as youtube can be (I currently hear it autoplaying some unwanted next video on some other tab I can't find) I love how we've gone from Le Prince recording a video on a roll of paper in 1888 to being able to watch that same video almost anywhere in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiYFEHI9o8

Their privacy policy very strongly suggests that they are the data processor only when the account owner (Publisher) provides the email address, which they call indirect subscription.

Direct subscribers are users who subscribed themselves via the Revue service. and the privacy policy says nothing about providing direct subscribers' private data to the Publisher.

Their closure announcement does not distinguish between the types of subscriber.

So either the Publisher is only getting the indirect subscribers' info (and isn't being told they are losing the direct subscribers) or the Publisher is getting direct subscriber info which the direct subscriber never agreed to allowing (unless that is a separate agreement from the privacy policy, in which case presumably some permission was indeed obtained).

> "In the meantime, you will be able to download your subscriber list"

...

> "Twitter, Inc. has not obtained permission for you to use subscriber information for any purpose."

Twitter thinks it has permission to provide account owners with their subscriber lists but explicitly says that those same account owners have no permissions of their own for the data.

I do not think this is how how most countries' data privacy laws work.

This is a very murky situation and Twitter seem to be writing it all off with a wink and a nod.

human beings can often find situations like job interviews stressful. OP is probably a human.

One of the requirements of the GPL is that credit is given (and indeed this is needed for enforcement to work because the GPL leverages copyright).

I for one am glad the US is finally looking into who on earth is causing these awful climate problems. Turns out it is Turkmenistan and "likely Russia".

Obviously almost everyone has a device to receive BLE whereas zigbee is a bit more specialist.

I've been playing with some arduino hardware that supports zigbee as well as BLE, and BLE is trivially easy to get working where the zigbee stack is much more complicated and much less documentation. So I would guess that plays a part too.

thanks for this, but just a warning that ecowitt use different frequencies in different regions.

"The frequency of products sold in US/CA is 915 MHz ; The European 868 MHz；The Australia 433 MHz."

Peterson developed very serious health problems, resulting in an extreme autoimmune response to food and ended up on pain killers and an induced coma. I would not take dietary advice from him.

> It doesn't make any sense to say that the service the city provides is not part of the economy.

Your city doesn't issue currency though, so it's still different. Neither do corporations.

> they spend every penny they take in, because it makes no sense for them to do otherwise unless they are trying to intentionally reduce the amount of money circulating for some reason

I am specifically talking about doing that. The article claimed that the stimulus money would never come out of the economy. I suggested it can. I think we're in agreement.

Perhaps we're just disagreeing on a finer detail: you say taxing alone does not remove money from the economy - the government needs to then not spend it again. Which I think is a fair way of looking at it but implies some things I'm not sure are definitely right. It's not like there is a vault with gold in it.

My landlord is dramatically different to a government quite obviously.

Surely if a government takes money in tax, that money is no longer in the economy. Isnt it in the one place we can say that the private sector cannot access?

Is the US federal government required to immediately respend all tax takings?

The article already establishes that the maximum money the federal government can spend is not limited by tax takings.

Is the minimum money it can spend somehow limited by tax takings?

> we’re talking about another three quarters of a trillion dollars of stimulus remaining in the economy and never coming out.

doesn't money leave the economy when it is taxed?

Code here https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable

Written in Rust.

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

he's too humble to mention the Knuth is my Homeboy tshirts: https://geekz.co.uk/shop/ that once existed :)

> assuming people are at an employer's mercy is not a great place to start

I don't assume that. It's just a matter of who has the most power under what circumstances. Employees usually only have any power at all if there are alternative jobs they can take.

So when there is lots of unemployment, people are at an employer's mercy.

Neoliberalism has this covered though and maintains a certain degree of unemployment through monetary policy. Look up "Non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment" (NAIRU).

it doesn't work too well for the employees if there aren't alternative jobs or a social security system for them to go to. They're then at the mercy of the employers.

at least without unions. Henry Ford's anti-union tactics were extreme and quite violent.

That's a myth. Ford increased wages only to stop the high levels of staff turnover, which was affecting productivity and quality.

I was interested in how many of the trees they've found to be viable, but since they've only planted 50,000 and the drones plant 40,000 a day, they've only been working for 1.25 days so presumably they have no idea.

there is truth in that but it does not cost 65 dollars to stock and deliver a sled.

Their github avatar has similar iconography:

https://github.com/kernc

And this other user has the same avatar and explicitly says they are buddhist.

https://github.com/neokin

no other signs anywhere I can see that give any cause for concern.

Had my booster in the UK yesterday and thought that sitting in a room with a bunch of other people for 15 minutes was surely an infection risk itself!

They let us leave after 5 minutes anyway.

I didn't say developers "gave up", but even as of 2019 it didn't seem like things were moving forward in any meaningful way.

Even just for OMEMO support, we all had to compile a plugin for libpurple/Pidgin, and it didn't even have full UI support so was very difficult to use when things didn't work automatically.

We used a gajim but iirc, to get OMEMO support we had to compile that too.

But I'm truly glad to hear the ecosystem has improved - I would have much preferred to have stuck with XMPP. But in 2019/2020, Matrix offered all this and more and worked very well. It was impossible to make the case for us to stay on XMPP.