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If there is such widespread demand for such mechanisms as some comments suggest, why did it take coercion through law making to bring it to market?

Because manufacturers don't want it because it reduces their revenue?

What is uncomfortable about Librewolf? I thought it was basically FF without telemetry and UBO already baked in?

I appreciate librewolf but when I used to use it, IIRC its fingerprinting features were too strict for some websites IIRC and you definitely have to tone it down a bit by going into the settings. Canvases don't work and there were some other features too.

That being said, Once again, Librewolf is amazing software. I can see myself using it again but I just find zen easier in the sense of something which I can recommend plus ubO obv

Personally these are more aesthetic changes more than anything. I just really like how zen looks and feels.

The answer is sort of, Just personal preference that's all.


I like to think all of my actions are a consequence of my mental conditions.

Not a chance, all of our actions are disconnected from our mental conditions and have been pre-decided for us.

Never heard this take before. Care to elaborate? It seems like crop failure and disease are the typical causes of food shortages, if not outright human logistical failures. Sounds like saying pouring gasoline on a tiny fire is the only reason we aren't cold (ignoring that more firewood would be the solution). An unsustainable solution is not in-fact a good solution. So if your assertion is correct, then we should all prepare for our thatched huts in which we will starve.

Not the person you're replying to, but I think I can explain it this way:

The quality of life of a human being is directly related to the amount of free energy (i.e. thermodynamic free energy, not free as in no cost) they have access to. Life must be able to generate more energy than it needs, even tiny bacteria. As humans developed, we found more ways to access and utilize free energy.

There is a phrase: Energy return on investment (or EROI). You can map the development of humanity pretty cleanly to an increasing EROI over the entire course of our history.

Fossil Carbon allowed us to explode our EROI and gave us access to never before seen amounts of free energy. Unless we find ways to maintain that EROI, our quality of life will necessarily diminish.

Obviously we need to cut our use of fossil carbon. And if we don't, we're simply going to run out, and then we'll be stuck anyway. But we also don't have anything with a comparable EROI to replace it with.

This is the root problem we're facing. If we had working fusion, it would be a whole lot easier to decarbonize.


> Green Revolution techniques also heavily rely on agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and defoliants; which, as of 2014, are derived from crude oil, making agriculture increasingly reliant on crude oil extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution


Those are derived from crude oil only because for a long time that has been the cheapest way to make them, not because oil were necessary in any way.

And it was the cheapest way only because most prices are fake, because they do not correspond to the cost of closed cycles of the materials used to make a product.

All those things require mostly energy, air, water and a few abundant minerals and metals to be made. Technologies to make them in this way have already existed for almost a century (e.g. making synthetic hydrocarbons, to replace oil), but they are still very inefficient. However, the inefficiency is mostly due to the fact that negligible amounts of money have been allocated for the development of such technologies (because as long as the use of fossil oil is permitted, there is no way for synthetic hydrocarbons to be cheaper), in comparison with the frivolous amounts of money that are wasted on various fads, like AI datacenters.


I think their point is more along the lines of the energy availability of Fossel Fuels allows for the Mass Farming and Construction that we do, not so much that we can pour it on a fire in place of wood.

40–50% of the nitrogen in our bodies come from fossil fuels via synthetic fertilizers.

You clearly haven't given a lot of thought to questions like "where does all this cheap food/housing/heating come from?"

The fact that fossil fuels -- since their mass adoption in the late 19th century -- are the single largest cause of improved living conditions is standard economic history.

> An unsustainable solution is not in-fact a good solution.

It was a perfectly good solution. It replaced wood fires which are clearly worse. Coal was great until natural gas became available. As solar/wind/nuclear become abundant, they are conintuing to displace fossil fuels.


This all seems very confused. I would say you clearly have not thought this through, but that would be fairly rude given the tiny scope of this comment thread. If your definition of better (or perfectly good) is: makes me more comfortable in the short term then I can understand that perspective.

So your opinion is that humanity should not have burned fossil fuels, we should have kept burning wood, until solar/wind/nuclear were invented? Seems obviously wrong.

Almost anything is better than the destruction of the biomes that support human life. I'm not really sure how there is even a discussion to be had about that. But anyone who claims "coal was great" either doesn't understand or doesn't care.

I personally like when you open any office doc, do nothing to it before closing and you get the scary warning asking if you want to save your document (to onedrive) implying all is lost if you select no. I am sure millions of tech unsavvy people have been conned into sending their data to Bill Gates.

I tell my friends and family to never click unsubscribe links, unless they had proactively subscribed. Buying something from a company that requires an email does not count. unsolicited marketing emails are spam and should be treated as such. Double so if that company sends marketing emails disguised behind support@company.com.

> Double so if that company sends marketing emails disguised behind support@company.com

That’s typically not a disguise but a clear means of indicating that you can reply to the email


No, sending marketing from support emails is almost certainly trying to game spam filters. Marketing@company.com would work for the allow replies purpose.

> sending marketing from support emails is almost certainly trying to game spam filters

That is not how spam filters work.


If I've interacted with a specific email address, like support@company.com, my email provider will put them in my inbox.

How is it not a disguise? It means you can't block marketing emails without also blocking the legitimate support emails.

Why do you think it is bad for communities to set their own standards?

Because if a eBike meets already well defined federal class specifications it is considered a eBike, and not a motor vehicle, and other than setting reasonable speed limits in high foot-traffic areas, local regulations do nothing but complicate life.

What is intuitive to you, may not be to others. Might you be engaging in intellectual self trickery?

I guess there is people that are willing to die over the hill that there is nothing sacred or divine about being alive. I'm not very interested in playing that game.

No, you’re the one playing the definition game. You took a word out of a sentence GP said, completely changed what the word meant, and then argued against the new definition.

Never mind that you need to learn about the god of the gaps. But what you’re doing here isn’t even relevant to GPs main point.


Is this still true if the guest network is on its own isolated vlan?

Correct; this appears to be a hardware-level problem.

Removing anonymity is not a solution, just a different problem.

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