Trump says he’s bringing back plastic straws in new executive order
The shocked anger reaction coming from Trump is priceless as he finds out that there really weren't as many immigrants as the far-right proclaimed there to be.
No doubt that number got inflated, much like it would in a game of telephone, when it was making furious rounds through the conservative disinformation machine. I hope he feels just as stupid as anyone who voted for him and are finding out that he really did not represent their ideals nor their best interests after all.
Yes, Please.
Actually it's not that hard and it's even probably possible to even host SearXNG on the same hardware, or kind of hardware, that you've hosted your Pi-Hole or DNS server on.
I actually self-host my own SearXNG and Invidious instances and customize the settings on both, and it's super useful. (Example: My SearXNG instance is aware of my Invidious instance on my network and will use it to load videos when Invidious is queried via the !iv bang. By doing this I'm not relying on public invidious instances so much; which oftentimes experience downtimes...because youtube hates those more, and frequently bans the public instances.)
This is all doable with a little bit of Docker or Podman action and a bit of editing the appropriate YAML files prior to composing the containers.
So you might be able to spin up a SearXNG instance locally on your network for her to use and configure it to use Google and any other search engines she might prefer. Then use something like LibRedirect (Firefox and Chrome plugin) to redirect her to the local SearXNG instance. (instead of using Google)
A video about setting up SearXNG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLypfM9U-g
Regardless of that; another shenanigan exists for those who did make it to the polls; Gerrymandering.
Yes; it's horrid as it sounds and it limits the voting power of lower class people, as well as the power of people who are considered to be "ethnic minorities" by the party in power. If there's a neighborhood of blacks next to a poor neighborhood; well both find themselves districted together and their cumulative votes are diminished by how the votes are counted by district such that a 2-3 victory for Democrats; is actually counted as a 2-3 victory for the Republicans...all because the Republicans were already in power somehow and managed to re-district the place so that the vote result never changes anything...unless the unlikely event that all three neighborhoods choose to vote the same way occurs.
Yet another shenanigan exists where voting rolls are frequently "purged" due to false assertions of fraud and onerous and routine registration becomes necessary, which isn't a problem if you don't work full-time in the USA; but good luck getting a day off work if you do work full-time and need to vote. (Hint: YOU DON'T; OR ELSE YOU GET FIRED WITH NO RECOURSE!)
Even if that wasn't enough already; many times the voting times, locations, dates and even rules change from year-to-year, and sometimes even month-to-month.
What worked this time might not work next time. From ID requirements to ballot order manipulation or even other flat out shady practices like misleading or leading poll questions on the ballot are all employed.
The media is even worse; and frequently spouts simple and blatant lies. they could literally be absolutely passionate about their issue in particular and still end up being misled or lied to; as there's no accountability for this. This would result in mistakenly casting a vote for the wrong candidate who would then go on to not represent the will or needs of the citizens voting for them once they're in power.
The average American, just simply can't always be on top of every one of these things 24/7. It's easy to get taken by any one of them by surprise.
^ Another American here; and I second this notion! ^
For some concerning reason; Fwy can't even find the YouTube version of this video without manually concatenating the video ID to the watch page of fwy's personal invidious instance. Please, make sure the video is searchable if it's intended to be live.
An invidious link; this one will take you to public instances so you can find one that's up and running.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=B9BWXvn-rB4
Fwy's own instance, unfortunately, isn't public; it's only shared with fwyfwy housemates on a VPN solution.
This is unsurprising. A Chinese model will be filled with censorship.
Ah; yeah. Mullvad Browser is what I mean clearly; as I mentioned it's maintained by a company, which while they are currently trusted by most people; are always a few management changes away from becoming corrupt and abusing customer trust.
In general Fwy does not agree with the Privacy Guides assessment; and feels that the concerns about the project are simply not credible without stronger evidence of excessively slowed or missed updates.
Project devs do have lives and I'm not personally going to punish that; so long as the software remains reasonably maintained and free of bugs while still considering the project's number of devs.
Is it better than Mullvad Browser? Probably not in the strictest sense; but I'm also not happy with "Mullvad Browser" either; as this browser makes more choices that breaks functionality than Librewolf does in the pursuit of privacy.
Additionally; I cannot trust that "Mullvad Browser" will not enshittify; it is maintained by a company who is REQUIRED to some extent to make profits. That breeds enshittification. Mullvad would be one bad CEO or core executive team shift away from potentially being targeted as a profit vehicle and it's privacy benefits weakened or removed entirely so the company can make money.
In general I trust Librewolf on a pretty regular basis to protect my privacy when my Addon-driven version of manually hardened Firefox breaks up a websites functionality too badly. It provides essential privacy protections without breaking too many things and serves as a good baseline browser.
As a rule; I keep several different browsers installed to mitigate lack of website function and isolate away any websites that would be more invasive in what privacy protections must be disabled to use properly. "Setting-Hardened and Privacy-Addon-driven Firefox" is what I use day to day, but "a semi-Amnesic* Librewolf (Incognito windows if untrusted website)" is second and is used daily in trusted website scenarios or in case a website is breaking too badly from plugin interactions. Finally; a fairly vanilla and infrequently used copy of Ungoogled Chromium is kept on hand for situations where Chromium is just required; where I can spin up empty profiles easily for anything I don't trust and configure it to just flush everything on exit.
Nice writeup as always. I always wondered about Session but it seems like they have the same "I rolled my own" crypto nonsense as Telegram has; and we all know how bad that one actually is as it's not correctly implemented at all; even if the underlying protocol is otherwise good.
I suspect they probably do far more than their title lets on; but damn that's an extremely unfortunate title to have. I can't imagine that particular part of the title sells well on the resume.
That said; I think numbers 2 through 5 could probably see their pay halved or cut by a third and they'd still be fine. I wouldn't push anyone below 200k though. I didn't suggest the Chairperson because it appears that Mozilla isn't actually paying them, some other entity is doing so and it's being reported here for "tax purposes".
Note: This isn't to suggest that they need to cut these folks' pay right now; it's just observing where Mozilla might reduce spending if it were to become necessary to keep things going for them. I am actually assuming good faith that each of these folks are well worth their current pay.
FreeTube is a useful project as it allows you to "fallback" on a non-preferred frontend.
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
This allows you to continue to use Youtube irregardless of which frontend is (potentially not) working.
In 'Settings > General' you'll want to select "Invidious API" as your "Preferred API backend" and specify your favorite invidious instance in the "Current Invidious Instance" field and click "Set Current Instance as Default". This locks FreeTube into the specified instance.
Then, when you notice that FreeTube is issuing notices to you about your favorite Invidious Instance being down, you can wander back to 'Settings > General'; hit the "Clear Default Invidious Instance" Button and wait as FreeTube magically contacts the "https://api.invidious.io/" page for you and selects a new, and hopefully online and working Invidious instance. (You may have to hit this button several times to roll a working instance, Hit the button, check the subs page and see if everything loads, repeat if it falls back on the Local API.)
When you run into instances where you can't roll up a good Invidious instance; the built in Local API is running a NewPipe Extractor like API directly from your FreeTube client. Not the best; but at least it keeps things working while you wait for the Invidious devs to fix things up; and it still reasonably preserves as much of your privacy as it can while doing this to the best effort it can.
...Sadly this doesn't work when Google manages a double combo of breaking both Invidious and NewPipe; but I have found that this is less often the case and the devs of either project are usually fairly quick about getting fixes out. Bless their hard work with a donation sometime maybe, if you can.
there will be bills brought to the floor that require raw milk to be served at elementary schools.
So prove that is what they are doing. Otherwise your argument is just pure hyperbole. I get that conservatives are dangerously stupid; but don't spread falsehoods; that's how they get a turn at the stump to convince more people to join their stupid cause.
Just because it can, does not mean it will. I've yet to see any hard evidence of probabilities either; but I welcome any evidence one might present to that effect. I am always skeptical of science news reporting; as oftentimes they blow things out of proportion.
I find it frustrating that no discernable effort is being visibly made to pass this project on to another dev or group of devs.
Just unceremoniously announcing it's going down. After a successful fundraiser at the beginning of this year.
I don't know where the funds went, nor do I understand the abruptness of the closing of the project. I'm suspecting that this is a ragequit. Something happened somewhere quietly that led to the developer deciding that they cannot maintain any longer.
This is, in short, quite disappointing.
To anyone; if you do respond to this comment; do not try defend them. Instead, try to provide more context, or evidence that shows I have misread the situation. Arguing about how long he worked, or how passionate he was in the past, does not change the current facts. Provide more facts if you must argue.
If they want to drink raw milk and cough their lungs out; I am not going to stop them. The conservatives clearly wish to be left alone in their stupidity and lack of education, and we can't force them to pursue knowledge.
I also suspect that the bird flu (H5N1) is not (as of yet, at the time this post was written...) likely to mutate to spread in a human-to-human context. It's not impossible for it to do so though...but the mutation(s) have not yet reached a point where humans can pass it on to each other by breathing the same air; I would guess that a significant contact (Like breathing, eating or touching a very very very large amount of a bodily output that contains the virus) is likely needed to spread that virus; as that's how it's spread from animal to human so far. TL;DR: I could be wrong; but I don't believe it's capable of a pandemic yet. Science has not yet presented enough strong evidence that this is spreading from person to person. I welcome any citations to prove that wrong however. Thankfully I'm not conservative, and do welcome being shown that my suppositions are indeed wrong; as long as it's done respectfully.
Hearing this sort of law go into effect just makes me sadly want to ban anyone from the UK from my small communities.
I'd hate to be forced to do it; but I certainly would immediately start swinging the hammer with IP range bans and banning anyone who is clearly professing to be from the UK.
Unfortunately the kind of laws they're trying to pass do nothing to fix whatever problems they have Online; and are basically meaningless political posturing. I feel sorry for people in the UK and strongly recommend they start using VPNs; as it's the only way to ensure they won't get snared up in the ensuing waves of bans when compliance with the OSA law that they let get passed is mandatory
The shoe is clearly on the other foot. It's not so easy to manage when politicians are allowed to get so uninformed that they go out of their way to pass bad laws.
That's not third person; those are specific pronouns that Fwy uses personally.
If I can't buy it, and own it, for a reasonable price - Piracy is acceptable. Copyright holders are required to sell/license their product in an accessible and reasonable manner in order to assert their copyright over consumers.
If I can't legally obtain a copy for a period of time longer than a year - Piracy is acceptable. Withholding copyrighted products to make them artificially scarce or to manipulate sales of other products is the same as the previous scenario; it is a failing to sell your product in an accessible manner.
If the only manner of sale is 'a streaming license of the content' - Piracy is acceptable. If I cannot go to any retailer and buy a physical copy legitimately, expect users to ignore unreasonable terms of sale to access their content in a format of their choosing. This physically sold copy may be reasonably more expensive than the digital license edition; but not over significantly in excess of the cost of box/media/cover art. Make a profit; not a mint.
If the only version of physical media is over-encumbered with Rights Management or other digital restrictions - Piracy is acceptable. Sold physical copies must be playable on any compatible device as determined by the media format with minimal exceptions. We shouldn't need to connect our BluRay players to the internet every month to pull fresh certs down and lose the ability to play new BluRays when the player runs out of cert storage or becomes unsupported.
We don't have to. The straws will do all the heavy lifting for us. /s
It's insidious stuff, those PFAS. :3