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  1. Comment on Thanks to recent US law, Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets in ~transport

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    A welcome development (to our overlords).

    A welcome development (to our overlords).

    10 votes

  2. Comment on Don't trust Firefox to backup your session in ~tech

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    That's fair. I may have just been much luckier with chromium than firefox

    That's fair. I may have just been much luckier with chromium than firefox

  3. Comment on Don't trust Firefox to backup your session in ~tech

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    Fair analysis. I think my other comment addresses this somewhat, so I'll be briefer here. This feature basically just works in chromium based browsers, and it's important to many. Whether or not...

    Fair analysis. I think my other comment addresses this somewhat, so I'll be briefer here.

    • This feature basically just works in chromium based browsers, and it's important to many.
    • Whether or not there are technical challenges, Firefox would be better if the feature worked reliably.
    • Therefore I'd hope they'd be addressing those challenges as their competitors have.
      • (I expect they probably are tbf).
    1 vote

  4. Comment on Don't trust Firefox to backup your session in ~tech

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    Well.... The fact that the session does generally persist between closes and restarts illustrates that there is recognized value in that behaviour. In other browsers it reliably works. Further, if...

    Well.... The fact that the session does generally persist between closes and restarts illustrates that there is recognized value in that behaviour. In other browsers it reliably works. Further, if the session were truly intended to be ephemeral why implement the restore behaviour at all? What would be the product-argument for implementing a feature in a way where it only sometimes works? Surely nobody would choose that implementation?

    Beyond that, if people are using it in this way, and finding the unpredictable nature of the restore frustrating, then a better answer than "this isn't how we intend this to be used", might be "let's accommodate this use case".

    On a personal level, this behaviour is one of my blockers in switching to firefox as my primary browser, and it sounds as though that's the case for a substantial minority of users. On edge or chrome one can just trust the sessions. They've not failed me in years.

    Firefox is benefited by increasing market penetration to increase web designers' support of their browser; blockers to transition like these are counter-productive to their mission.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Don't trust Firefox to backup your session in ~tech

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    I'm not sure there's any reason that should be the case though. If bookmarks were unreliable, it would be reasonable to demand they should be, rather than to suggest one ought to keep their...

    I'm not sure there's any reason that should be the case though. If bookmarks were unreliable, it would be reasonable to demand they should be, rather than to suggest one ought to keep their bookmarks in plain text in a dot txt or something. Sessions being apparently randomly ephemeral is a bug, not a feature.

    10 votes

  6. Comment on USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis in ~food

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    Are they used a lot in industry? I feel like a lot of ready meals, and pasties and that tend to always include egg (stupid veganism!). So this would affect more than just consumers? That being...

    Are they used a lot in industry? I feel like a lot of ready meals, and pasties and that tend to always include egg (stupid veganism!). So this would affect more than just consumers?

    That being said it does seem as though populist does as populists do.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Puerto Rico is dying in ~society

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    Oh wow shocker the Paul brothers are moving in now. "Is the reason tax?" "well... that's one vertical." - cut to them riding dune crawlers down once public beaches.

    Oh wow shocker the Paul brothers are moving in now.

    "Is the reason tax?"

    "well... that's one vertical." - cut to them riding dune crawlers down once public beaches.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Puerto Rico is dying in ~society

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    Jesus Christ and I thought we did Northern Ireland dirty with brexit. This shit is shameful. I suppose direct & explicit imperialism is alive and well in the land of the free.

    Jesus Christ and I thought we did Northern Ireland dirty with brexit. This shit is shameful. I suppose direct & explicit imperialism is alive and well in the land of the free.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on How often do you replace your phone? in ~tech

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    I've enjoyed the pixel 5 so much that I spent more on my 4th than my 3rd; they've become something of a rarity at this point. (All 4 are refurbs with screens I've ultimately seen mostly off - good...

    I've enjoyed the pixel 5 so much that I spent more on my 4th than my 3rd; they've become something of a rarity at this point. (All 4 are refurbs with screens I've ultimately seen mostly off - good enough as reserves maybe.)

    Phones just keep getting bigger, but this lil fella is palm sized. One wee thumb stretch and the whole screen kingdom is mine. If there's not another normal sized phone for a normal sized person when I inevitably drop this poor chap then it'll prolly be another p5 for me.

    My priorities and those of BIG cellular just don't align anymore 😞

    13 votes

  10. Comment on America's coming Weimar moment (2022) in ~society

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    To add some context having just listened, this doesn't focus on, or significantly talk about, Trump. More about the power the judiciary has over a democracy and its validity. It's very good.

    To add some context having just listened, this doesn't focus on, or significantly talk about, Trump.

    More about the power the judiciary has over a democracy and its validity.

    It's very good.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration in ~enviro

  12. Comment on How nine popular YouTubers helped US President Donald Trump win a second term in ~society

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    That doesn't contradict what I was espousing. The Wikipedia page indicates the long history of the phrase, dating back to the 1960s. It has only much later been co-opted by hamas. Its usage far...

    That doesn't contradict what I was espousing. The Wikipedia page indicates the long history of the phrase, dating back to the 1960s. It has only much later been co-opted by hamas. Its usage far exceeds that narrow scope and definition.

    For example, I don't believe a plurality amongst the tens of thousands of liberal minded folks marching in the uk - using that very refrain - are advocating for violence against Jews or Israel. Rather they're marching for a peaceful solution.

    Its a quagmire I don't see any solution to myself, so I don't hold strong opinions on how to resolve any of it. But I don't think it's accurate to prescribe hamas' interpretation of the phrase's usage as the definitive one, or to condemn people who use it as aligned with hamas when many who use it are evidently not.

  13. Comment on How nine popular YouTubers helped US President Donald Trump win a second term in ~society

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    It's not really a hamas slogan, though they are one of the groups that use it, loaded with their own interpretation of it.

    It's not really a hamas slogan, though they are one of the groups that use it, loaded with their own interpretation of it.

  14. Comment on US President Donald Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht in ~society

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    Precisely this. He's getting the reverse luigi treatment. I guess trying to assassinate people to protect business rather than to hold it accountable is a-okay in Donnie's book.

    Precisely this. He's getting the reverse luigi treatment. I guess trying to assassinate people to protect business rather than to hold it accountable is a-okay in Donnie's book.

    16 votes

  15. Comment on Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud in ~health

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    It's part of the meta. We have lore now.

    It's part of the meta. We have lore now.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on I hate 2FA in ~tech

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    In the EU, gdpr means they can't use 2fa data for other things. That mightnt be relevant to everyone, but it sure is to a lot of folks!

    In the EU, gdpr means they can't use 2fa data for other things. That mightnt be relevant to everyone, but it sure is to a lot of folks!

    2 votes

  17. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~health

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    Dark water was an incredible documentary. Anyway, often with types of things, the problem seems insoluably big. I have to remind myself that phasing out asbestos, leaded petrol, and small pox all...

    Dark water was an incredible documentary.

    Anyway, often with types of things, the problem seems insoluably big. I have to remind myself that phasing out asbestos, leaded petrol, and small pox all probably felt similarly at one stage, but folks stepped up, and thank god they bloody did.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Erling Haaland has signed a new ten-year Manchester City contract, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2034 in ~sports.football

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    I'd love to see a sanky of the income vs the expenditure. I just can't connect the wages (in terms of outflow) with the income streams. Though ofc it mostly must make sense, cause it's happening.

    I'd love to see a sanky of the income vs the expenditure. I just can't connect the wages (in terms of outflow) with the income streams. Though ofc it mostly must make sense, cause it's happening.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Erling Haaland has signed a new ten-year Manchester City contract, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2034 in ~sports.football

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    Half way to a £billion just from wages, never mind endorsements. For one player. Make it make sense. Not an observation of haarland specifically, but rather the wider economics of soccer.

    Half way to a £billion just from wages, never mind endorsements. For one player. Make it make sense.

    Not an observation of haarland specifically, but rather the wider economics of soccer.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on ADHDers, how do you speed-up, bypass, or otherwise eliminate the "ramp-up" period required for big tasks? in ~health.mental

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    The very start made me giggle at first with the phrasing: "I was diagnosed as an adult 5 years ago". Like adulthood is a disease.

    The very start made me giggle at first with the phrasing:

    "I was diagnosed as an adult 5 years ago". Like adulthood is a disease.

    3 votes