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Each and every one of the creatures we descended from, stretching all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth, has survived by killing before being killed. We are the final product of a string of millions of killers.

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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet (gadgettendency.com)

The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

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I can’t seem to find the setting. Is it not available for Firefox for Android (Fenix), do you know?

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To add to others, wind also is generated when a rain “microburst” occurs.This happens frequently in the southwest U.S.

A microburst is when a very large amount of water is dropped out of the clouds. The gaining rain speed pushes the air below it out of the way. The air is pushed outward horizontal to the ground, which in essence is a massive wall of wind.

Often in the Sonoron desert a microburst causes the wind to push a lot of dirt from the ground surface to be blown out with the wind. When this happens it’s called a haboob. The wall of thick dust and particles can be up to a mile high and as wide as a city.

Below is a link to an image of a haboob over Phoenix, Arizona.

Haboob over Phoenix AZ USA

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Not if they are regulated to put an “In Full or in Part AI Generated” label on it.

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Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to contribute your knowledge. I appreciate it.

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...

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It’s pretty scary how media can influence us so much, even when we think they aren’t, and even when we think “only dumb people fall for it.” No my friend, the majority fall for it. Not cause they’re dumb, but because they’ve scienced the hell out of human nature and know precisely how to do it right under our noses. It started with marketing and advertising that works well, unfortunately. They’ve cracked the psyche code. Media adopted it. Big tech improved it. Gah… this is turning into a rant about capitalism; I didn’t intend to go there. Eek.

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Privacy? Firefox [at least on Android] has Trackers.

6 Trackers = 1747 Classes


<span style="color:#323232;">598 tested signatures on 23677 classes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(13792756)
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Adjust
</span><span style="color:#323232;">°Google Play Install Referrer
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google AdMob
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Google Firebase Analytics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">²?Sentry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Mozilla Telemetry
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">*Adjust
</span><span style="color:#323232;">183com.adjust.sdk.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">*Google AdMob
</span><span style="color:#323232;">5com.google.android.gms.ads.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">*Google Firebase Analytics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1com.google.firebase.analytics.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*Mozilla Telemetry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">343mozilla.telemetry.glean.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">44org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">616org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*°Google Play Install Referrer
</span><span style="color:#323232;">11com.android.installreferrer
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*²?Sentry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">544io.sentry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">file:///data/app/~~kGEETamkCtNrtff0YUQwJA%3D%3D/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-uIpZWar9aqI8JdCRKxBL4Q%3D%3D/base.apk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">MD5sum: 898c5776bd4ae16ccbf3a17b463d55d1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA1sum: 045059895e3b387343c00ae2d80d85e1ef24b37d
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA256sum: e63240e437b73c64991c27a23d3ffe1fb3b7e8d3b49346b6dcd8a43cc782b75e
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">CN=Release Engineering,OU=Release Engineering,O=Mozilla Corporation,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA1withRSA
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">md5: b1e1bcee2733025ece9456e419a814a3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sha1: 920f4876a6a57b4a6a2f4ccaf65f7d29ce26ff2c
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sha256: a78b62a5165b4494b2fead9e76a280d22d937fee6251aece599446b2ea319b04
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Fennec Scan:

2 trackers = 1157 Classes


<span style="color:#323232;">598 tested signatures on 21823 classes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(12812985)
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">²?Sentry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Mozilla Telemetry
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">*Mozilla Telemetry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">342mozilla.telemetry.glean.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">31org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">568org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*²?Sentry
</span><span style="color:#323232;">216io.sentry
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">file:///data/app/~~k4F0B9l9UkHypp0nn27niw%3D%3D/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid-_WwVR-gNLaGHpnUII6BfVg%3D%3D/base.apk
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">MD5sum: 392619da4257fda7f9fd888afedba8b5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA1sum: 8781f7d8b48ee92af264af324362719bddcff56f
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA256sum: 06151ec252361697a743388911ea571a145a7e32996b8a9affb59d1e1c609075
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CN=FDroid,OU=FDroid,O=fdroid.org,L=ORG,ST=ORG,C=UK
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">SHA256withRSA
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">md5: 344552de69704d24e09dba05230df2c8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sha1: f5545ec2f9681d40ba4211a0967a3bbd4f4bf54b
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sha256: 06665358efd8ba05be236a47a12cb0958d7d75dd939d77c2b31f5398537ebdc5
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Doesn’t seem to be available for Android.

YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star (www.nbcnews.com)

YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star::YouTube has blocked Russell Brand from making money off its platform and the BBC pulled some of his shows from its online streaming service in the...

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I think we’re there. The future is today.

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It was a burger I ate when the chef was going to kill us all.

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Tried. No go. It doesn’t change with the font size of the title bar.

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Okay thanks. May try it. Or may juts switch to i3 or xfce. I installed i3 the other day. Took a few hours of playing with it before I became comfortable with it.

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Font size did not affect change.

JoeClu OP ,
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the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme

I don’t understand what that means.

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Still couldn’t find anything in Cinnamon Spices. Oh well.

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How does one do that? Through the Themes icon in the menu bar, under Preferences, I was able to double click on the following themes. Adapta-Nokto, CBlack, and Windows 10 Light Theme.

There is a checkmark to the left of them indicating they are installed. But I can’t seem to activate them. I double click on them and nothing happens. Right mouse button and middle mouse button does nothing.

When I go back to the Themes tab under Simplified Settings, they do not appear in the Style drop down list.

How do I activate these themes I downloaded? I see they are in ~/.themes as expected.


<span style="color:#323232;">~$ ll ~/.themes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">drwxrwxr-x  5 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 ./
</span><span style="color:#323232;">drwxr-x--- 26 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:55 ../
</span><span style="color:#323232;">drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 Adapta-Nokto/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">drwxrwxr-x  7 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 CBlack/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 Windows-10/
</span>

So I found an option under Themes Tab called Desktop. When I click it, the downloaded themes are available to select, along with a million other ones. I selected each of my themes but really didn’t notice much difference. The Start Menu changed a little bit. Very underwhelmed. Is theming only available for the Start Menu? No title bars, windows, background, icons, mouse looks different at all.

I must be doing this wrong. ??? The Mouse Pointer, Applications, and Icons buttons don’t list the new theme as an option to select. ?? I guess I mistakenly thought a “theme” impacted most aspects of the GUI. ??

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Can you recommend one with a short window title bar? I’ve tried numerous ones that appear in the Main Menu -> Preferences -> Themes: Add/Remove Tab. None of them thus far has made any difference regarding the height of the title bar. Or are you suggestions to get these gtk themes from elsewhere?

How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?

My parents are 57 and 63. My mother is erratic, forgetful, and when she gets mad she sometimes screams and throws things. My father is slowly going deaf, getting slower and more stubborn and forgetful as well. They can be infuriating sometimes, but I know that they’re aging and I can’t be mad at them. How do I deal with...

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Treat them how you would wish to be treated when you are old, forgetful, stubborn, deaf, and slower. Getting old can suck. It’s angering. It hurts. They are humans with emotions. Don’t forget that.

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The one that doesn’t allow advertisements or rampant bots.

The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative (www.businessinsider.com)

The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative::The unmanned aircraft are ideal for suicide missions, the Air Force says. Human rights advocates call the autonomous lethal weapons “slaughterbots.”

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6 million dollars apiece is cheap?

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Oh okay. I didn’t realize that. Wow.

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I agree with you. A long time ago, those of us “in the know” techies could parse the difference like it was a native language. When talking anything but computers, it was always the SI of 1000. When talking about computers, it was always 1024.

I think the masses were confused and the SI purists felt their SI prefixes were being corrupted. So they made a distinction/standard between binary numbering system prefixes and decimal numbering system prefixes.

I hate it. Feels wrong because I’m old and set in my ways. People like me are confused because we still use the old nomenclature, and when someone else uses the old nomenclature (when talking about computers), it’s ambiguous to us because we don’t know which numbering system they are using (e.g., binary as opposed to decimal). I still have to ask and half say binary and half say decimal.

I suppose if they’re teaching it in high school and college it’ll become native soon enough, if it hasn’t already with the next generations.

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I wasn’t talking about HDD sizes, but I know the person to which I was replying was talking about HDD’s specifically. I shou,d have clarified I was talking in more general terms (CPU RAM, NVM sizes, etc.)

I remember being miffed about the advertising of the HDD sizes. So I think you are correct there. Wish I could go back to the mid 80’s and do some research on my old HDDs and floppies. I honestly just can’t remember, so thank you.

I hate the new prefixes, not just because they aren’t the older nomenclature, but because they feel ridiculous to speak out loud. If a less silly sounding prefix was chosen, I probably wouldn’t be tainted about it.

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This is exactly right. Divergence was small when sizes were small. Good point.

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The question I have, are sales of these products down? Do these implementations work to reduce unhealthy consumption? Are hospitals and medical offices seeing less revenue? If they don’t actually work, what will?

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I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn’t too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that’s what Elon says anyway; I’m not in web commerce so I don’t know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?

I think news companies are going bust?

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So for like 600 months. That’s 50 years for a decent house. When 50 years roll around, it’ll be far more than that so you’ll have to keep saving but you’ll never get there.

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As some said on Slashdot: ART is Asshole Research Transport.

If you read the book(s), you’ll get the reference.

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i read the article. It says 1 in 5 die from it. It’s spreading due to warmer water. It thrives where river water and salt/sea water mix. If you have scratches or abrasions, it can enter that way. One person who survived said he will never go into water again.

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Beware of Chicken by CasualFarmer

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It isn’t like anything. One moment you are counting down, the very next moment you are waking up. Time does not pass for you. It’s one instant (counting down) to the next (waking up.) It’s very strange. Like you skipped through time. Like you magically moved forward in time instantaneously. You will never have memories from when you are under.

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You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.

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I like the last one. Interesting to think about.

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Marketing and advertising. They show a huge, juicy, scrumptous nice quality burger. You go to buy it and it’s a cold, limp, tiny, frail nothing burger.

There used to be a law about false advertising. But it doesn’t seem to be enforced anymore. Marketing and advertising can lie straight to your face. Its not right and shouldnt be tolerated.

And Americans are so complacent about it, they say things like, “It’s , what’d you expect?” Instead of demanding what was advertised. It’s soul crushing. It’s like we’ve given up.

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These are my favorites.

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

  • A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

StarTalk Radio

  • Science, pop culture, and comedy collide on StarTalk Radio! Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, and his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities, and scientific experts explore astronomy, physics, and everything else there is to know about life in the universe. New episodes premiere Tuesdays. Keep Looking Up!

Unexplainable

  • Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know … and then keeps right on going. This Vox podcast explores scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and all the things we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes every Wednesday.

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

  • A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?

Literature and History

  • With millions of downloads, hundreds of hours of soundtracked content, and an overall emphasis on the cultural history behind famous works of literature, Literature and History is one of the most popular independent podcasts on its subject. Starting with Sumerian cuneiform in 3,100 BCE, Literature and History moves forward in chronological order through Assyriology, Egyptology, the Old Testament, Ancient Greece and Rome, and the birth of Christianity. The show’s current season is on Late Antiquity (or 200-700 CE) and the dawn of the Middle Ages. A typical episode (they average about two hours) features a general introduction to a work of literature, then a full summary of that work that expects no prior knowledge, and finally, an analysis of the cultural, biographical, and historical forces that gave rise to the work in question. Original symphonic and ambient background music is woven throughout each show, and all episodes offer free full, illustrated, footnoted transcriptions as well as quizzes for purposes of review. The show has no advertisements, and its host takes pride in a professional approach that avoids chitchat and ephemera and gets straight to the educational content. You can listen to the episodes in any order, although most listeners begin at the beginning and proceed from there, as the podcast itself is chronologically organized. Doug Metzger finished his Ph.D. in literature in 2011. His chief scholarly interest, following his dissertation work, continues to be 19th-century realism and postbellum American philosophy.
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Runnngi / jogging

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A lot of wealthy individuals “park” their money in things like real estate and art. For the art, they safely pack it away in warehouses. There’s a whole industry that’ll do it for you. A lot of them dont even see the art. It’s just a wealth parking vehicle.

Another avenue is starting one or more non-profits and philanthropy organizations for the money.

And another is a living trust, to avoid probate when you die, to maximize the inheritance for your surviving beneficiaries.

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No, this is real. An iPhone to kids is like a social status symbol and potential family wealth indicator. Of course it’s absolute bull, but just as adults are, kids are horribly manipulated by marketing and advertising too. Kids have glommed onto phones for conspicuous consumption whereas adults glom onto cars and houses for said signals.

Of course not all adults or kids do this, but a great deal do. That’s where the stupid bumper sticker comes from that says, “He who has the most toys at the end wins!” Very ugly stuff, in my opinion. And if there is a devil, that’s where it lives mostly.

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Will we start seeing everything say “Made in Vietnam” now instead of “Made in China?” Vietnam is also a communist country, so why would the US do this?

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What’s the difference between Orbit and Tor Browser? I always wondered why people download Orbot instead of Tor Browser?

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I sometimes use this one called InviZible Pro on F-Droid. Have you ever used that? In addition to whole system TOR, it also has Purple I2P and DNSCrypt. Was wondering why one would use one over the other regarding whole system TOR? Just curious.

github.com/Gedsh/InviZible

Question for software developers: how do you organize your To Do list at work?

I’m asking because I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient way for me to handle my notes at work. Currently I just use a txt file in Notepad++. I use this file to track all of the stuff I have to do, such as tasks for stories I’m working on, next steps for projects, discussions I need to follow up on, questions and...

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Todo.txt plain text file. Use Vim. Date and todo statement. Sometimes more for explanations. I never delete anything in it; just make an X next to todo’s I’ve completed. File goes back many years. I can easily search for something I did a long time ago.

And then there’s MS OneNote for capturing howto’s, quick script one-liners, cheat sheets, diagrams, notes on various industry interfaces, etc.

Then there’s SCM for bug, feature, and track tasking.

And usually notepad paper and pen for meetings, which if there are todo’s, go into my electronic todos.txt file.

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IRC and ICQ

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Good one!

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Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I’m not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.

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Do you? I’ve tried. Not fun. I use vim everyday on my workstation. On Android tiny keyboard, hard pass.

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Is ‘ifconfig -all’ no longer a thing?

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