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ubbr··on One-Pedal Driving Explained
Automotive engineer here. What the article and many posts here miss: one pedal driving is just another user interface mode to capture the driver’s intent. The system itself always recuperates energy instead of braking, if possible. If no intent to decelerate is given, sailing is more energy efficient than recuperating.
ubbr··on New method identifies the root causes of statistical outliers
Why focus on outliers and not all quantitative causal relationships in the graph like "tell me what causes X"?
ubbr··on Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”
I am super satisfied with the Containerise extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/containerise/) as alternative for Multi-Account Containers. It lets you map whole classes of domains to unique containers, which is an awesome and robust solution for logins involving a lot of redirects. Here are some example mappings which also catch all real subdomains (but not "fakeamazon.com"):

@^(.+\.|)amazon\.(de|com) , Amazon

@^(.+\.|)spotify\.(de|com) , Spotify

ubbr··on DNS Privacy Considerations
The most severe, currently completely unresolved, DNS based privacy thread is not even mentioned in the RFC:

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd...