Unfortunately, CustomCSS is dead. See announcement:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAris-t2%2FCus...

It still worked for me perfectly with the previous Firefox ESR (140.x), but with 153.x I suddelny got my search box (yes I want a separate search box, not automatic search from the url bar!) with double line spacing. No other issues though.

The announcement has a couple of other recommended projects as suggested migration paths.

Get locally produced stuff instead of imported ones from overseas. "Local" does not necessarily mean like from nearby farm, but whatever has minimal time spent in logistics.

Problem with shipping fruit from faraway places is that they are typically picked raw, and then they ripen during the months they spend in a shipping container and finally get an artificial ripening (e.g. with ethylene gas) at the end of journey. Of course they do not have nutrients or taste.

Just wondering, since related topic is Tesla FSD. EU is right now debating on whether to allow FSD across all member states. Some member states have permitted it already, but the big decision is still to be made. There's an interesting report from Belgium where Tesla FSD decided to disobey traffic laws around pedestrian/cyclist zones (going 50 kph in 20/30 kph zones, overtaking cyclists in bicycle lanes, etc).

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johanna.be%2Fimages%2F...

Results start on page 12, but summary include the nice snippet

"Performance in home zones was similarly concerning. Of the 12 tested home zones, FSD exceeded the 20 km/h legal limit in five cases (42%), averaging approximately 26 km/h. In two-thirds of the tested locations, the system incorrectly isplayed a higher speed limit, typically 30 km/h or 50 km/h. Given that home zones are specifically designed as shared spaces here pedestrians, including children, may occupy the full width of the street, these findings raise significant safety concerns."

So yeah, I'll just drive myself unless car manufacturer assumes full liability when it decides to run over some kid on their bicycle.

Seriously, there's a ton of articles about this, but here's a link directly from Google:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.google.com%2Fand...

Steps 1 & 2 are for the one-time 24-hour cooloff, step 3 is just like before. Oh and note 2e: "After the security delay is complete, you can choose whether to keep the advanced flow on for seven days or indefinitely."

What on earth are you talking about?

As others have already said, you need to give *one-time* permission to sideload. The only question asked is if you want to allow sideloading forever or for 7 days. Those are the timeframe choices. It's not for every single app.

So, get a new phone, go through the menus, allow sideloading, allow forever, reboot phone, 24 hours later you can install whatever APKs you want.

Ok, sorry, but while I get the initial backlash for when Google was going full Apple-style walled garden, the new approach where you need to *one time* enable "yes, allow sideloading" after you get your device (and wait 24 hours) is just fine.

The 24-hour waiting period is exactly for those scammer cases where they ask you to "download and install random APK from some https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscammers.are.us%2F0wned.... real fast or your money is gone, emergency!" - it stops those.

Of course Google can change those terms later, but at that point you might as well install Lineage or Graphene (or get Jolla phone and use Sailfish - they have launched new product just recently). For now that *one-time* 24-hour waiting period is just fine and I really don't get the complaints apart from some scaremongering about "they'll try to lock it up again in a few years". Ok, and then what? It's not like those heavier options for degooglefying are going away?

Well, there *is* the Ford argument ("If I had asked what customers want, they would have said faster horses") so sometimes new tech will find it's uses.

Sometimes "world is not ready" - product comes along that doesn't really take off, but a decade or two later someone makes a cheaper and more polished version that sells like hotcakes.

And sometimes it's just crap being pushed out with the grand thought of "if you build it, they will come". Who remembers all the stuff that poured forth 25 years ago with the dotcom bubble? LGR ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40LGR ) likes to sometimes videos out of them.

But yeah, for this one my guess is that this is a solution looking for a problem. Considering that AI-generated porn hasn't really taken over human actresses despite that industry usually being in forefront of all kinds of tech, I wouldn't bet on this one either.

"I'll america you in your americaing america!" – Smurf Intelligence

They are a *bit* more sophisticated than that. Basically, they are saying "here's a ZIP, it's just a git repository" - essentially, they are saying that here's a git bundle for you (instead of exposing that to Internet and asking you to do a git clone).

What happens then is that you unpack that repository, do your changes, and then do a git commit for the "assignment" they put up for posterity.

But then the pre-commit hook that they have configured fires and runs some binary blob that was included in the repository. This would of course not happen with a git clone, but when you just download an innocent-looking ZIP that has a src/ and .git/ subdirectories and git log shows "Version for applicant interviews"...you might be fooled.

So it's not just "yeah download this .EXE and allow it to run as admin okthxbye".

Blizzard intends to ratify it as well?

How about avoiding those impacts in the first place? Or would that be un-American?

In other news, scientists are looking into geoengineering to cool our planet, so we can continue to drill-baby-drill until kingdom come.

The directional explanation reminds me of the backreaction conjecture. The basic idea is due to the inhomogeneity of the real universe: as the gravity within each concentration of matter (such as a group of galaxies) pulls it into a tighter clump, the distance between such clumps appears to increase.

I've only come across this idea because of Syksy Räsänen, who is famous in Finland for his goth looks and pro-Palestine activities. So the theory doesn't seem to be widely known.

I haven't seen any serious attempts at reducing emissions, quite the contrary. Sure, renewable electricity generation is a growing industry, but it's only a small part of the total energy budget that's growing fast. With a nation whose official motto is "drill baby drill" and an AI slop industry powered by gas turbines, it's hard to believe the story of renewables saving the world.

Instead of asking how we can power our cars with more climate-friendly sources, we should be questioning the need to drive around so much at all. If it weren't for the petrol industry, we'd probably spend our time more creatively than sitting around in traffic jams. In the early days, the automobile was a more efficient alternative to horse power, but then we ran into Jevons paradox. We're now seeing the same paradox in action with AI data centers; the computers that were supposed to save time and energy are now wasting it.

I'm OK with some form of climate engineering to cool the planet, but only if we're also serious about reducing emissions. Climate engineering shouldn't be an excuse that lets us continue drilling and burning our planet into ashes.

It's for the people who use their phone 99% of the time. Us people who comment on Slashdot either on a laptop or a desktop with a 42" screen aren't the target market.

I find the realtime effects in Audacity 3 pretty handy, though they're a rather limited selection. For example, I use a separate Nyquist plugin for nicer compression, which means it's not realtime. I try not to rely too much on a single piece of software, as they seem to come and go, and maintaining old versions on up-to-date distributions is not fun.

Real Men (TM) use Ecasound for multitrack processing on the command line, like I did back in the 00s.