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Congratulations, you have discovered the concept of shoplifting!

I had a look at what it actually does in the Firefox settings and all it seems to do is to disable one AI feature flag, change the default search engine, and then set a few other f…

They also demonstrated how this could be used to silently find out someone’s phone number and then hijack a TFA validation call from an app like WhatsApp to take over their account…

It's still better than or though, isn't it? Which is what most people are using right now...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sarepta-sarepta Thoughts from Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline).

PostgreSQL is just a community of volunteers as far as I'm aware, not full-time developers employed by the project. FreeBSD seems to have three paid directors: https://freebsdfound…

How are you expecting to run an entity with developers, support, and operations without any leadership? I don't know if you have ever worked in a larger team that lacked someone to…

They have cut back on those a lot now, haven't they?

Aren't they just piggybacking on Mozilla's work though? The point is to make the work that Mozilla is doing sustainable, not to pay someone else to ship a slightly modified version…

Or in slightly less fatalistic words: In any entity with more than 1-2 employees you need someone to make decisions and be accountable for them. The normal solution is to have a di…

Interesting article, but picking Johnson and Cummings's handling of Covid as a positive example is a very odd choice, given their falling out and the numerous corruption allegation…

Sounds like all of this could be solved by not manually paying your rent at the last minute?

They are also available as part of their excellent (and free) The Intelligence podcast. Always worth a listen.

European alternatives: https://europepmc.org/ https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home https://www.ensembl.org/

Keep in mind this is the incidence of cancer diagnoses . The quality of healthcare, diagnosis standards, and amount of preemptive screening varies heavily between countries.

Fun! This takes me back to coding up websites in plain HTML in Notepad. Coming up with the right hex codes for colors was an essential skill!

Must be region/account specific. I get crypto.com, bitcoin.com and coinbase as the top three results. Nevertheless I agree these should be moderated better and scam apps need to be…

You wouldn't have to put up with a soggy straw if we tackled the real problems instead.

Aren't most properties in Germany unfurnished?

That's what happens when you artificially cap prices.

Basic ecomoic theory tells you that when there is more demand than there is supply, prices will go up. If 50 people are applying for a single room at 600 EUR then even that is prob…

Better link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-66990100

Who says you need to charge it in 10 minutes? Plug it in overnight or while you're in the office and suddenly this becomes a lot less of an issue. Sure, if you're going on a 1500 m…

Because every decision in life is about trade-offs. Sure you could completely stop using plastics in the microwave, but that means buying new items that are potentially more expens…

I don't have access to the paper, but just reading the abstract it gives these numbers: > Exposure modeling results suggested that the highest estimated daily intake was 20.3 ng/kg…