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Pope Scotty doesn't know

That Jesus and me

Do it in my van every Sunday...

Not up to me, I would have done the same as you suggested.

But we're taking about this in the context of this infographic. So we have to distill this down to:

Should FF be with, or above, Brave?

I assume we're also taking about relatively low-barrier changes that most users can implement. So vanilla FF vs vanilla Brave, there's a difference. Can we harden FF? Sure. Will 95%+ of people do that with Librewolf or 3 dozen other forks out there? Why bother when there's nuance to be gained with other forks? So now vanilla FF stops being relevant.

And to be clear, I don't use Brave unless I absolutely have to. I don't love it, but vs. normie Vanilla FF, there's a slight edge.

Lol, no. Here's a list of all the things that panel doesn't account for.

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/browser-hardening-privacy-anti-fingerprint-and-anti-telemetry-guide/198039

Also, there's nothing close to even attempting privacy without strong fingerprint protection anyway, which I should have also mentioned. Vanilla FF allows a bright shining canvas fingerprint that Brave and Librewolf disable.

FF doesnt deserve much better than Brave as it sends telemetry, so both on tier 2. LibreWolf would fit for tier 3 or maaaybe 4.

I love this. I hadn't ever considered something like Tor and added friction as dividing the wheat from the chaff readers.

The problem with this period in time is that it's awash in low effort shit. This is like placing your own book of philosophy in the library.

Are they playing "Duck Duck War"?

Not many. The thing about globalization and repealing the 20th century is that its a wobbly 3D Rube Goldberg domino landscape. 1-2 dickheads per continent is all it takes.

Sure, but a lot of the bats have to actually have rabies first. If that's not in the mix, you're just converted in bat shit.

Dont forget, it's also a fuckton of ghosts.

You're correct, however, keep in mind that authoritarians have fragile egos and are often focused locally, often on how to further subjugate their populations and garner favor. That usually means conflicts like insurgency or cross-border attacks like Russia into Ukraine (x2), Russia into Georgia, US into Mexico/Canada, India and Pakistan fighting over Cashmere, PRC and Taiwan, Serbia and Kosovo, Kenya/Somalia/Somalil and, Uganda and eastern DRC, etc. etc.

Boomer pissing contest fantasies of China and the US duking it out in the Pacific are foolish as neither wants to risk direct conflict with no tangible gains expected. It's a guarantee of either outright loss or maaaaybe a Pyrrhic victory of you already control your media. No landing party flotilla will land in Los Angeles or Hong Kong. The US only stands to lose.

Not at all.

What we'll get is not one big World War of Axis vs. Allies, but everyone at war with some kind of small regional pissing contest or insurgency.

Sure, most of the world will be in some form of conflict, but it won't be a "World War" in the same sense of a 20-on-20 prolonged conflict with well-defined nation-states on each side. Not that this opinion survey can really capture that.

The conditions is what makes this basically airborne anything.

What makes the disease airborne is a confined space where there's so much literal shit, piss, blood, and/or saliva all around that when things that flap their wings and stir up the air, in fact, stir up the air, that droplets of their bodily fluids with rabies in it are simply statistically inevitable. By that same process, airborne Ebola is possible as well. So is airborne HPV, or HIV, or Polio.

I usually blame the birds, but the talking car deserves some shade.

There's tons of possible reasons for this:

Did you recently hit maybe age 35 or older?

Drinking more in the evening?

Working out less?

Stressed out in general?

Too much screen time before bed?

Thin curtains and not realizing the sun comes up earlier every day as summer approaches?

Birds?

Something you can hear outside that's waking up, like a loud car that drives by at the same time, people talking, etc.?

Impending sense of doom overall?

Because it's so much better when they're charismatic assholes?

Spoiler: Author discovers gossip can be fueled by social media, blames social media for human propensity to gossip.

Of course, but at that point I have no passport and I'm the victim of a crime, so I have to go to the embassy to get a temp passport and ask them to help me figure out how to get a new flight and cancel credit cards.

At this point the question is where are my house keys to get in and pay a taxi guy mad cash from the airport to my house?

Y'all know they give you backup codes for your 2FA, right?

Coded printout in my fire box. Encrypted version on my home laptop. Worst case scenario is losing my phone and passport on day 1 of a long trip.

Holy shit. This happened to me last week.

Turned off Safe Boot when going back over to Win on a dualboot after 6 months. Wanted to avoid updates nuking my dualboot option. (Edit: As was a Win issue 6 months ago)

...enter Bitlocker recovery for Every. Single. Logon.

Just need to do one thing that needs genuine Win11 fingerprint and then I'm doing a 22.1 fresh install.