DangerousPie

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 flags that are changes that you may or may not want to make, unrelated to AI. Not sure you want to run a 3rd party shell script just to do that…

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 with no user interaction.

It's still better than <span> or <div> 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://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/

Debian has a leader and also seems to be more a volunteer organisation than a full company: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization

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 make decisions, take responsibility and set a strategy, but in my experience that is almost always a disaster.

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 of it.

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 director/CEO for this. You may be able to get away with paying them slightly less than market rates if they are doing it for a good cause, but if you want someone competent you will need to pay them a relatively high salary to compete with other employers.

Expecting Mozilla to somehow function without a CEO, unlike pretty much every other charity in the world, is just not reasonable.

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 allegations and parliamentary inquiries into their actions since then.

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 removed quickly.

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 probably still too cheap. The only reliable way to change that is to increase supply (build more, create incentives to rent out places) or lower demand (improve transport into the city, make other parts of the country more attractive to live in).

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 mile road trip and need to charge on the way you'll have a problem, but I doubt that's a very common use case.

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 expensive and may have other disadvantages. And for some plastic items there may not even be a viable replacement - for example I'm not sure how you would replace flexible pouches.

So to make any sort of sensible decision you need to know how bad these plastic particles really are, to weigh that against the cost of avoiding them.

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·day for infants drinking microwaved water and 22.1 ng/kg·day for toddlers consuming microwaved dairy products from polypropylene containers.

Furthermore, an in vitro study conducted to assess the cell viability showed that the extracted microplastics and nanoplastics released from the plastic container can cause the death of 76.70 and 77.18% of human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293T) at 1000 μg/mL concentration after exposure of 48 and 72 h, respectively.

If I'm reading this right, they exposed these HEK293T kidney cells to far higher concentrations (1000 μg is 1000000 ng, and that's per mL) than toddlers would be exposed to from these containers. So the fact that the cells die doesn't really mean much, since exposure to too much of anything will cause cells to die.

The real question is whether the exposure you'd receive from occasional microwaving would be enough to ever cause any meaningful health problems. Unfortunately papers like these always like to talk about dramatic metrics like 'billions of nanoplastics' without putting that into any meaningful context.

Actual paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942

The real question is whether the exposure you'd receive from occasional microwaving would be enough to ever cause any meaningful health problems. Unfortunately papers like these always like to talk about dramatic metrics like 'billions of nanoplastics' without putting that into any meaningful context.

The Economist's obituary section is usually well worth the read, and this is a nice example. You can also listen to it through their free Intelligence podcast.

It works fine without spaces for me.

Interesting. I use ^history all the time and it has been working extremely well for me. It's the number one thing I miss every time I use Chrome.

Huh, looks like you're right. Maybe they fixed it at some point?