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Not ironclad but pretty good. Issues with it that first come to mind are the live operating system image was already compromised when it was written to say the USB disk, or compromised firmware, and of course user error (nothing to do with ransomware in this case). I am not familiar with this stuff so I may be missing something very important, if so tell me about it.

On that page it says that it is recommended and that "Firefox only recommends add-ons that meet our standards for security and performance.". I have had no problems with any performance issues with it. However, you have to be very careful with it and make sure that if you are filling out a form or something that you tell the addon to keep the tab. Auto Tab Discard has the options to keep a tab for the session, or always keep tabs for a specific site. Just make sure it keeps the tab for a page that you are writing something on, otherwise you might lose information not submitted. I am not sure about this, I don't remember testing it, but just be safe.

As for the about:config settings, I believe they were these two:

browser.cache.disk.enable = false

browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size = 512

The first one is obvious. The second one limits the cache to only storing it if the entry is less than 512KB. My reasoning to change was that it should this to a smaller value was that smaller things like tiny images would be used across pages whereas larger things are less likely to be.

One I didn't change was browser.cache.memory.capacity, look it up if you want. From memory, the one that really seemed to matter was browser.cache.disk.enable to false, I really don't know why.

I hope it works for you. Have a good day.

One of my bigger annoyances with Firefox at the moment is that it writes to the cookies.sqlite and cookies.sqlite-wal files consistently every few seconds. This writing all the time behaviour has led to Firefox being called a 'SSD killer' a few years ago when SSDs were not as durable as they are now. Every chance I have tried on the about:config settings to try and fix it hasn't worked, got rid of session restore etc, no dice. It looks like I will have to put the Firefox profile directory on a ramdisk to fix this, softlinking the password files to the HDD, because they are the only thing I care about getting written to disk straight away.

There were problems with internal off the shelf applications whose user interface was built for IE6 only. The funny thing is those applications still worked well with the Firefox of the time, but IE9 broke compatibility with them and the applications didn't work on IE9, but IE10 got released and was compatible with them again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

Second, how about having a way to add meta-information to web pages/articles saying what is okay to use as preview and what is not. This looks to me like the long term solution to all sites and services on the current web. As long as there is a single, non-specialized way for browsers to ignore attributes/tags/other info they do not use then it does not add complexity to browsers.

About 10 months ago I got emails from a company that developed an development environment that was I was mildly interested in. They presented an offer with said it was free so that people could help educate themselves during lockdown. Unfortunately the terms was after 1 year you needed to pay something like $1500 if you didn't cancel, these terms were right at the bottom of the page and very hard to spot. Paid through PayPal and the about $1500 was there right in front of me. I cancelled it on the same day.

A company offering that sort of deal waiting for people not to cancel and saying it is to help people during the lockdowns is just awful.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf

There is one thing they could do to stop people putting the wrong liquid in their car. That is to key the nozzle to only fit cars which support their fuel, so petrol pumps nozzles only correctly fit petrol cars, diesel pumps only fit diesel cars.

Completely agree with you on you main point, software should be made correct and resilient (more than other things) because it can be made so.

Fences by Stardock (https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/) does that, doesn't quite look like how a smartphone does but it is essentially the same.

Of course, you could just create folders on your desktop (or taskbar) for a not so great solution.

But yes, having Windows natively support that feature would be better.

  def find_xy_coordinate_of_dogs_cats_and_baboons_in_picture(picture: Picture) -> List[XYCoordinates]:

  def find_dogs_cats_and_baboons(picture: Picture) -> List[XYCoord]:

'xy_coordinate_of_' taken out because XY coordinates are already in the return type. '_in_picture' taken out because the information is already in the 'picture: Picture' parameter. The return type 'List[XYCoordinates]' changed to 'List[XYCoord]' because Coord is well known as an abbreviation for a coordinate and having XY in front of it makes it completely obvious. Removed the 's' from the end of the return type because it is already contained in a list and shouldn't be pluralised. It would be pluralised if you are returning a list of lists of coordinates.

There are problems with having huge function names, especially if other programmers need to use the functions you write in their code. One is the amount of screen space needed to use your function, this bites when the could be many functions with long names used in a single expression, long names can be harder to understand in that context. There are reasons that mathematical operators in programming languages are usually one character, things like '+ * - /', it should be obvious the problems people writing in that language would have if the operator names were replaced with things like 'multiply'. Now imagine mathematics being written in a verbose English style, it is not done this way because of all the extra effort it would take to write it, and all the extra effort it would take to understand it.

Far more could be done with more sophisticated user controlled monitoring tools, which could say monitor the network traffic, application accesses to any information on the device etc. No reason it cannot be done, and they may be there already.

Also device does not need to have their applications mandatorily locked to an App Store to get the benefits. Optional use of the 'official' app store is fine too, which is what isn't there on iOS. You can choose to just get your applications through the 'official' app store. Someone else not getting their applications through the 'official' app store does not magically put those applications on your device, and thus does not decrease the security you may get from the app store for you.

The most egregious I can think of is the Russian government after the Bolshevik revolution. It had the death penalty for being in possession of certain books. In the end these censorship loving people (for other people, not them) killed tens of millions of people they governed (gulags, deliberate starvation of masses of people for instance), yet it is hardly talked about.

These bad effects of not censoring that people talk about seem so pitiful and small compared to what has happened when people willing to censor other people have got into power. Seriously, people stating things like 'sunlight is the best disinfectant" does not seem to have much evidence going for it' are promoting things that totalitarian groups are very pleased to have, and despite asking for evidence, they provide no evidence that what they are trying to push is not far worse than what they are purportedly against. Along with the destruction of freedom that censorship brings to all the people that it applies to. Those that promote censorship can not be hypocritical and start with themselves first, but they won't, I'm sure they will scream loudest about how horrible censorship is if some other group got the power to censor what they may want to say.

But since you go on about advertising, that is a way for groups that want it, is to be able to force people to listen to their message. This robs people of their agency to listen to what they choose to. Censorship also doesn't allow people to listen to what they choose to. This makes advertising and censorship very alike. They both result in a persons loss of freedom to choose what information they get.

On the whole I have been very happy with LineageOS as it has allowed me to continue to use my phone for years longer than I would have with the simply bad manufacturer updates that almost completely filled the internal disk space and stopped updating something like 2015 with Android 5. Less unnecessary expense, less eWaste, thumbs up.

For me, I would definitely go with a phone manufacturer that supports rooting their device and put LineageOS on it if I think I need it. I may not install it, but the option for the future is the main thing.

The people creating propaganda are also interested in enforcing censorship if they are in the position to do so.

Propaganda and censorship work far better together than individually for groups that want to brainwash society into certain beliefs.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/isps-in-au-and-nz...

What's interesting is the Prime Minister made it explicitly legal for ISPs to do this. Couldn't find the exact news on this but a search turned up the following article which is sort of what I remember https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/04/soci-a04.html .

The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter are testing the limits of democracy and radicalizing everyone to cancel one another.

This is the important part from the GP. If they were under the AGPL or say a new better GPL which patches the problems with GPLv3 then those companies that have destroyed the open web would have at least had to buy the work or do it themselves. Even if that doesn't have a huge impact on the state of things, at least project maintainers can say that they are not contributing to it.

I currently have a Brother HL-2140 (also has HL-21 model number) and it has 'manual duplex'. This means if I want to save paper I have to mark a corner of the first page before printing and see what orientation it prints compared to that mark (it is not intuitive). I have been printing one page at a time because of this, although now I have written this down I realise I could do better.

Edit: Didn't see your last line about chrome://global/content/config.xhtml , now I can get the old behaviour back. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

With the MIT licence they can distribute proprietary software based on your work and not have the source available, as this is not required with the MIT licence. So you have no way to get the changes or improvements other parties have made if they choose not to give them to you.

Take what I am saying with a pinch of salt, others can give a better explanation. I'd suggest looking it up yourself.