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> “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

— Anthony Bourdain

https://henrykissinger.rip/

Nextcloud looks clunky but it certainly isn't heavyweight

We have a lot of them in Gauteng, South Africa; even though they're classified as an invader species. They can only be in urban areas and aren't allowed to spread. They look nice but smell like pee.

They are more pro-West even if it means anti-everyone else; and even if it means spouting pro-war rhetoric. To me, they are a western propaganda mouthpiece.

I don't know what's up with AV1 software decoding but it uses considerably more CPU than HEVC or VP9

I see no one's commented on Global Privacy Control. It's essentially an HTTP header that's supposed to be legally binding with the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA); unlike DNT.

There's a setting on Firefox (Beta at least) that enables it.

See:

https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/

https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/

My parents bought me multiple editions of Encarta in my childhood and I absolutely loved it as we didn't have internet at that time. It was much more than an encyclopaedia; you could explore ancient sites and play educational games. It was great fun.

As great a free resource as Wikipedia is, each article's quality relies on a knowledgable contributor to really make it worthwhile, and those are few and far between. Wikipedia is dry and lacks what Encarta had

Shell and others are calling oil "deep water energy".

This is good PR, nothing more. They aren't going to base their revenue on charging cars; and they get carbon credits to look good.

If you search "BP global warming", the first 7 of 9 results are linked to BP.com about how they're taking action on climate change.

In February of this year, "BP dials back climate pledge amid soaring oil profits. The British oil giant wants to decrease its carbon emissions by between 20 and 30 percent by 2030. It previously aimed for a 35 to 40%." :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/07/bp-climat...

> oil

Shell and others are calling it "deep water energy". This is good PR, nothing more. They aren't going to base their revenue on charging cars; and they get carbon credits to look good.

If you search "BP global warming", the first 7 of 9 results are linked to BP.com about how they're taking action on climate change.

In February of this year, "BP dials back climate pledge amid soaring oil profits. The British oil giant wants to decrease its carbon emissions by between 20 and 30 percent by 2030. It previously aimed for a 35 to 40%." :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/07/bp-climat...

Apartheid Israel has Act.IL shills flagging and downvoting everywhere. If you post some critical news of Apartheid Israel's war crimes on /r/worldnews, within a few minutes you get 10s of comments all with the same rhetoric. Same on here it seems; it's crazy.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act.IL

I can't believe I got perfect on the Mug and America ones! 88%

I've said this previously when a self-driving Uber killed a woman, and I'll say it again:

I don't understand why authorities allow self-driving cars to beta test out in public. I thought Waymo was the best of the lot with something like millions of hours on the road and no incidents, but when they started accepting passengers, it failed to proceed past a traffic cone on a sunny day:

https://youtu.be/zdKCQKBvH-A?t=742

The government should initiate a comprehensive test on a self-driving car's capabilities. In their current form, I wouldn't trust any of the others like Tesla and Uber that think self-driving is as easy putting it out on the road. And that too with Tesla and their cost-saving no-LIDAR nonsense.

These companies should be fined hefty amounts and barred from beta testing out in public.

When I'd used Windows Sumatra was the best; on Ubuntu, I use Zathura which is similar, fast and minimal. But I think most PDF viewers are more or less the same as they either use mupdf or poppler

I realise this isn't tech support but I have no idea why it doesn't work for me. The pmtile file you linked works, but creating my own smaller one doesn't.

But the concept is great to get a map for a project

It looks like YouTube's dark-pattern marketing strategy (highlighting the "Allow YouTube Ads" button), is they'd rather have you enable ads than pay for premium.

They're getting too greedy with demonetising videos and still making money off of them, to the amount of ads they play; same goes for other streaming platforms.

So far on Firefox with uBlock Origin I haven't come across it.

Same can be said of the IDF, them being complicit for Apartheid Israel's war crimes where a majority of innocent civilians have been needlessly killed. They're two of sides of the same coin.

More like Apple decided to self-censor so as to not provoke China, which is despicable. Same happened with Disney and praising the local government where Uyghurs are put in internment camps.

On Firefox Beta, for me it shows the punycode by default even though network.IDN_show_punycode is set to false by default

100% agree. As far as I'm concerned, companies like OpenAI conflate ML models with AI to embellish what it can do to prop up their market cap. It's a language model in the form of a search engine, and it seems news outlets are none the wiser.

Doesn't belong here? Given your biased Act.IL based commenting, I can see why you would flag this. Israel is an Apartheid State and its actions including forcing people to flee and indiscriminate bombing on civilians will lead to innocents dying. Looks like you would rather bury your head in the sand than have people reminded of Apartheid Israel's war crimes.

50% of the population in Palestine are children under the age of 15. In Gaza, it's 45%. One thing I've noticed is news media equating Hamas with the majority of Palestinians, they weren't even born when they came into power.

Apartheid Israel and Palestine are not the same. Israel is the aggressor. Israel and the IDF is not more moral than Hamas. They're two sides of the same coin.

Apartheid Israel has ethnic cleansed so many Palestinians that there are now 5.9 million stateless refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. That's half of Israel's population.

Illegal Settlers living in Palestine can vote in Israel but not Palestinians. Apartheid South Africa did the same, they put the people in their own "country" and so couldn't vote. Israel doesn't want 1 state as that would mean millions more voting. And it doesn't want 2 states as that would mean giving up valuable land.

The settlers kill and burn homes to get rid of people: [steal homes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8) and destroy olive tree groves. They pour concrete into Palestinian farmers' water wells.

They even have a [segregated road system in the West Bank](https://s3.amazonaws.com/VP2/visuals/en/4db97391fe7cb2462249...)

[They control the water completely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...).

[They get 12 hours of electricity a day](https://www.ochaopt.org/page/gaza-strip-electricity-supply)

The Gaza [blockade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip) is a concentration camp of 2.2 million people where 44% are children. No access to water, electricity, aid, medicine. Even the sea is not accessible:

https://www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline100...

Related: [Names and faces of Harvard students linked to an anti-Israel statement were plastered on mobile billboards and online sites](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/business/harvard-doxxing-...)

Calling Israel an Apartheid State seems to be dangerous to people's liberty. What happened to freedom of speech? In the US, it is a federal crime to boycott Apartheid Israel.

Citizen whole-heartedly believes good intentions of the State

There are Palestinian Christians too who are displaced by the illegal Israeli settlers. Israelis are as native as the Palestinians; especially when you consider that Israelis have come from elsewhere in the Middle-East and from Europe. Whereas the Palestinians have always been there, most being ethnically cleansed in the last 75 years. On the other hand, 17% of Israelis speak Russian; they have recently made Israel their home.

But you are arguing disingenuously, you know it, and I'd rather not continue this farce.

I actually love having a small scrollbar. On Firefox, I have it as a tiny sliver that only shows up when scrolling.

  :root{
    scrollbar-width: thin;
  }

And:

  user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style", 3);
  user_pref("ui.scrollbarDisplayOnMouseMove", 0);

in about:config

You can have minimaps enabled in Emacs and Firefox, but I don't see a use for them, to be honest.

What does that have to do with the current-day persecution of Palestinians by Apartheid Israel?

Children under the age of 15 in Palestine make up 50% of the population. In Gaza, it's 45%. One thing I've noticed is news media equating Hamas with the majority of Palestinians, they weren't even born when they came into power.

Apartheid Israel and Palestine are not the same. Israel is the aggressor. They've ethnic cleansed so many Palestinians that there are 5.9 million refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. That's half of Israel's population.

* Illegal Settlers living in Palestine can vote in Israel but not Palestinians. Apartheid South Africa did the same, they put the people in their own "country" and so couldn't vote. Israel doesn't want 1 state as that would mean millions more voting. And it doesn't want 2 states as that would mean giving up valuable land.

* Israel has ethnically cleansed and fragmented areas into [isolated cantons divided by Israeli settlements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves), and implemented [lebensraum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum) tactics. This was called [Bantustans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan) in South Africa.

* [It denies Palestinian fishing past 3 nautical miles in some areas, and not past 15 nautical miles](https://www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline100...)

* [The Apartheid Separation wall](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/73/81/d07381fffef632350bcb...)?

* The settlers kill and burn homes to get rid of people: [stealing homes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8) and destroying olive tree groves. They pour concrete into Palestinian farmers' water wells.

* [They control the water completely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...).

* [They get 12 hours of electricity a day](https://www.ochaopt.org/page/gaza-strip-electricity-supply).

* Palestinians didn't have 3G until 2018, their access is also restricted.

* They [blockade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip) Gaza, making it a concentration camp of 2.2 million people where 44% are children.

* [Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-c...)

* There were `5,248,185` Palestinian refugees in 2020; that's equal to half the population of Israel.

* [Israel dictates who you can marry](https://preview.redd.it/1k7jnev0pq971.jpg?width=1024&auto=we...)

* [Segregated road system](https://s3.amazonaws.com/VP2/visuals/en/4db97391fe7cb2462249...)

* [Israel Forcibly Injected African Immigrants with Birth Control](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-...)

* 50% of Palestinians are children.

As someone from South Africa, I've seen ethnic cleansing and Israel is doing worse. Israel is absolutely an Apartheid state. Various human rights organisations have already stated this.

Since 2000, 11 652 Palestinians and 2 246 Israelis have been killed by someone from the other side. So who is the perpetrator here when one side perpetuates Apartheid policies?

They are blockaded from the sea by Apartheid Israel:

https://www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline100...

Egypt is allied with the US who give them billions to keep it locked.

There's a great Emacs mode, and it looks like it works in the same way, putting it in a file:

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

And hopefully with a Creative Commons licence. Too much stuff gets digitised and put under a "All rights reserved" paywall gate.