If ever Firefox actually starts to disgust me and not just disappoint me, I’ll stop maintaining it and look at forks.

But it won’t be Librewolf, because the default settings are just a cargo-cult of self-contradictory “privacy enhancements” without any sane threat model that make the browsing experience much worse for little gain.

Only between the student and the university. Towards third parties, a degree is not a proof of work. It’s just a certification whose value depends on trust in the certifier. Of course they have the power to revoke it.

There are more legitimate reasons they could do so, like if evidence of plagiarism is found after the degree was granted.

My mother would have trouble using a small phone at its default display scale. Large text, small screens and poorly designed UIs do not mix.

I think unreported employment is being handled by customs and the tax administration, not the police.

Also, migrants include naturalized citizens and people with permission to work.

In Germany:

I don’t remember ever seeing “combined lights” with single red or yellow lamps and multiple greens. Level crossings often have only red and yellow lights, missing green.

Traffic lights are positioned at the entrances to intersections, not the exits. They also come with backup signs (stop sign, yield sign, etc.) for when the lights are disabled or defective. Working traffic lights override these signs.

Solid green also means an unprotected left turn that must yield to oncoming traffic.

A green arrow traffic light can override a solid red to give you a protected turn. A green right arrow on a sign gives you an unprotected right turn on a red. Without this, you cannot turn right on a red.

Flashing yellow means ‘caution’ in general and is usually used on auxiliary lights to warn about crossing pedestrians after a turn, who have right of way. When the main traffic lights are flashing yellow, they’re disabled or defective.

I remember that the city I grew up in, long ago, used to disable many traffic lights at night. Their website claims that “due to the large number of visually impaired and blind citizens, the traffic lights at the most important traffic junctions are kept in operation at night”, so I guess this still continues. The village I’m living in these days has no traffic lights at all.

(Also: be careful, because the pineapple is just as interested in eating you as you are in eating it.)

Are you talking about the bromelain? It rapidly makes milk and milk products bitter and also irritates the mouth.

It’s about adding API to Vulkan for access to the hardware encoding units that you’re complaining about.

Cross-platform, I guess. However, the only platform of commercial interest (and that I know of) that offers Vulkan as the primary, supported API is Android.

Some? I’d say this applies to almost everyone.

It’s neither. There are no voxels. Maybe “polygon creatures”.

Es ist echt grausig, insbesondere für all die kleineren Websites, die CloudFlare’s Free Plan nutzen und nur für die DTAG über EWR (New York) geleitet werden.

EIne einzige bargeldlose Transaktion zusammen mit der Payback-Karte sollte reichen, um deine Bezahlkarte für immer mit deinem Payback-Profil zu verknüpfen.

Ich bezahle mit der Android-App meiner Bank, die eine girocard und eine Visa Karte enthält, und nicht mit Google Pay kooperiert. Ich frage mich, was Google hier noch an Daten sammelt, außer dass die App und NFC benutzt wurde. Die Datenschutzerklärung liest sich relativ generisch (zu jeder App passend) und die App scheint keine zahlungsbezogenen Daten zu sammeln.

(AFAIK ein Unterschied zum Apple-Ecosystem, wo man an Apple Pay nicht vorbei kommt.)

Well, Wikipedia claims

The Earth has an internal heat content of 10³¹ joules (3×10¹⁵ TWh), About 20% of this is residual heat from planetary accretion; the remainder is attributed to past and current radioactive decay of naturally occurring isotopes.

In that sense, it’s the only renewable energy source we have that’s not indirectly powered by the sun. It’s most similar to (proper) nuclear power, but the latter isn’t “renewable” because it requires digging up fuel from the crust.

Isn’t geothermal mostly nuclear power?

Only iPads.

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn’t really solve our problem.

Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

Where did I say that?

This is a nonsense comparison as these features serve completely different purposes, while only having in common that advertisers currently use user tracking to achieve the same.

Topics data-mines your browsing history for information about your interests and reveals this information to advertisers in order to improve ad selection. It’s meant to replace ad networks tracking each individual user’s visits to connected websites and building that profile themselves. Since this is, in a way, much more powerful than tracking cookies, Chrome has a scary dialog asking for it to be enabled, and I don’t think we’ll be seeing it in Firefox. “Using different links” cannot replace user profiling at all.

PPA doesn’t provide any new capabilities to advertisers. It’s a privacy-preserving way of measuring ad campaign success that is currently done by ad networks tracking individual users from ad impressions to conversions. “Using different links” is also defective, as advertisers need to connect ad impressions to conversions even if they are not immediately connected through a click on the ad.

If these features become generally available, this reduces the leverage advertisers have on legislators to prevent tracking from being outlawed. Mozilla will be hoping Chrome picks up PPA.