For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.jacobin.com
Bypass paywalls clean update issues
Although my version of Bypass hasn't been updated for over a year, it has been working fine.
But my latest attempt to read the New York Times indicates that it has been detected and/or blocked.
When I try to update it via gitflic.ru/ I can't seem to manually update it either. Firefox says the file is corrupt when I drag it into the browser or update (add) file via settings.
I'm assuming it's because it's a zip file but when I unzip the folder there are no files in there that firefox recognises for me to add (only a changelog, licence and readme).
Can someone please clarify - for me and anyone else likely to encounter similar issues in the future - what I might be doing wrong.
thank you!
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thanks for the clarification and link.
So which of the many xpi files should I be manually adding please?
I'm assuming its the one that says latest.xpi (and not the previously numbered files).
De viktigaste vänsterkanalerna på nätet är webbtidningar, organisationshemsidor och de stora sociala medierna som Facebook, X, Youtube, Instagram och TikTok. Av mindre betydelse är Bluesky, Mastodon och andra sociala medier.
Emoji problems
I can't see emojis anymore, they don't work on librewolf.
I first noticed this under a post titled something like "try telling a story using only emojis". The comments were empty.
If I open the same page in brave browser, they work as intended. I can't see emojis in apps like libreoffice either. Is there a way to get system-wide emoji support?
(I am on Fedora 42)
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I had a similar thing happen recently following a NixOS upgrade. I wonder if it's something that changed in Firefox.
In my case, the solution was to set useEmbeddedBitmaps = true
in fontconfig. Which is unlikely to be directly helpful to you on Fedora, but maybe there's an equivalent option somewhere?
Iranians out in the streets chanting “Yallah Yallah, we want a nuclear bomb” 😂😂😂
ساسان 🇮🇷 (@eghtesadnia)
Iranians out in the streets chanting “Yallah Yallah, we want a nuclear bomb” 😂😂😂Nitter
This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!
This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!
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Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank
Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank
Anthropic and Amazon have also warned job-seekers about using AI tools, even disqualifying applicants if they’re caught.Emma Burleigh (Fortune)
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⚡️⭕️ Pakeh settlement resident to Hebrew Channel 11:I received my new house yesterday and it was destroyed today in the Iranian missile attack
⚡️⭕️ Pakeh settlement resident to Hebrew Channel 11:
I received my new house yesterday and it was destroyed today in the Iranian missile attack
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2024 - Evidence of a stolen election
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.substack.com
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curableThe Hub
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?
Shared here for public benefit.
Before going to a protest, demonstrators or observers should note that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, your location can be tracked and your unencrypted communications, such as SMS, may be intercepted. Additionally, police may retrieve your messages and the content of your phone if they take custody of your phone, or later by warrant or subpoena.
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The Markup
Simple steps to take before hitting the streetsthemarkup.org
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?
Shared here for public benefit.
Before going to a protest, demonstrators or observers should note that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, your location can be tracked and your unencrypted communications, such as SMS, may be intercepted. Additionally, police may retrieve your messages and the content of your phone if they take custody of your phone, or later by warrant or subpoena.
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The Markup
Simple steps to take before hitting the streetsthemarkup.org
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Iran launches 4th round of retaliatory attacks on Israel
Iran launches 4th round of retaliatory attacks on Israel
TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) – Iran has launched dozens of missiles in yet another fresh retaliatory attack on Israeli targets.Mehr News Agency
Iran fires 5th wave of retaliatory strikes, explosions reported across occupied territories
📆 _Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:31:32 GMT_TEHRAN – Multiple Hebrew-language media outlets have reported that Iranian missile strikes targeted various regions across Israel, including major cities and northern territories.
Iran army: Suicide drones successfully struck targets in Israeli-occupied territories
📆 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:03:31 +0000
IRGC Chief Advisor: 150 Israeli targets struck as part of operation True Promise III
📆 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:18:46 +0000
I never even tried, and none of my former employers took me seriously. "Oh, isn't it cool, we have a Punk now, too!"
Thoroughly enjoyed surprising them by doing exactly what anyone else would expect: quitting the instant they started doing shady shit. Blindsided the lot of'em.
NO KINGS! Tomorrow on Trump's birthday, we protest across the entire nation. Check the website for No Kings events near you!
No Kings Event Map: nokings.org/#map
Find one near you, write down the address and time, and head out tomorrow. (You don't have to sign up for anything, all you need is the address).
Recommended that you bring a mask, hat, water and snacks. Safety Goggles or Glasses would also be a good idea if you have them.
Bring a sign or the US Flag if you have one.
For privacy reasons you may want to avoid bringing your phone, or place it inside a faraday bag (a really well sealed tinfoil pouch will work, and put it in airplane mode to avoid draining your battery) until you get home.
If you have a first aid kit, it wouldn't hurt to bring it, just in case.
cross-posted from: 50501.chat/post/330808
How to Make a Faraday Cage: 6 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
The Faraday cage (or shield), named after Michael Faraday, is a device that is used to protect from electromagnetic radiation. A Faraday cage may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material, or a mesh of such materials. This...Jessie Antonellis-John (wikiHow)
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US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
New Executive Innovation Corps brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap, with four tech leaders set to jo...www.army.mil
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
New Executive Innovation Corps brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap, with four tech leaders set to jo...www.army.mil
Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab
Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab
But Elon Musk still needs to deliver the Cybercab before any of that can happen.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Anker is warning consumers to stop using its PowerCore 10000 batteries immediatelyAndrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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Beaverton/Hillsboro line, OR
I have a confession. Every single photograph before this one was captured on either an iPhone 6+, or an iPhone 11 Pro Max.
For a very, very long time, I had justified to myself “oh, I don’t need an actual camera, my phone is just as good.” However, three weeks ago I picked up a DSLR for the first time and I fell in love with the sheer power and expression such a tool has.
So I got a small one, a baby, a Canon Rebel T7. After a bunch of crappy shots because I was still getting used to it, I think this one is good enough to share. It doesn’t meet the par of my previous work, but it feels like I have much more control over what I create now. This is magnificent and wondrous.
Thank you for seeing me make art with actual relevant tools!
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[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
- Source.
> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
- Source.
> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
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[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
- Source.
> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
Iran becomes first country to shoot down fifth-gen F-35 fighter jets belonging to Israel
Iran becomes first country to shoot down fifth-gen F-35 fighter jets belonging to Israel
Iran has become the first country in the world to successfully shoot down fifth-generation fighter jets by targeting two stealth F-35 fighters belonging to the Zionist regime.PressTV
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Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’Andrew Roth (The Guardian)
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Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.
Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed herOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
California police illegally share license plate reader data to ICE
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agenciesMohamed Al Elew (CalMatters)
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in reply to Godric • • •If one tribe is bad, the other one must automatically be the good one.
There can never be such a thing as TWO bad tribes fighting each other.