Where do you think all of their code comes from, a team of 10 guys in a shed?

Of course not! Don't be ridiculous. Only Fred's allowed to use the shed.

I read it as a vector cross-product, the result being completely orthogonal to both "safe" and "ai".

uMatrix is an extension I find indispensable, but it works off domain names, whereas this one claims to work off IP addresses.

I understand that he's reaching for Escape as we speak.

That depends entirely on the frequency the towers are running on. Low-band 5G (600-700 MHz) would be used for most rural areas, and that has a fairly huge range.

Urban deployments of 5G apparently tend to run at 2.5-3.7 GHz (mid-band), which requires a tower every few km. I imagine that the limited range can actually be regarded as a benefit in densely-populated areas because the lower the range the fewer people each tower has to serve, so you reduce contention by splitting the load between more towers.

Anyway, the point is that you can't judge how it will perform in a rural area by your experiences in an urban setting because it will be configured differently. Essentially, rural 5G should be a like slightly-better 4G.

Indeed, and it looks like it already has. The 15 states with the highest death rate right now (expressed as deaths per million people over the last 7 days) are:

1: North Dakota (57)
2: South Dakota (35)
3: Arkansas (33)
4: Florida (31)
5: Mississippi (31)
6: Tennessee (28)
7: South Carolina (26)
8: Louisiana (24)
9: Iowa (21)
10: Kansas (19)
11: North Carolina (19)
12: Georgia (18)
13: Missouri (17)
14: Texas (17)
15: Ohio (16)

In case you're wondering, New York is #44 with only 4 deaths per million. That is despite being ground zero, having an extremely high population density and the federal government actively trying to sabotage them. The state with the lowest death rate by this metric is Vermont, with 0 deaths per million people.

Immediately followed by the sentence "However, taking into account the available studies [...] governments should encourage the general public to wear masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission (Table 2)".

Table 2 lists the situations in which the WHO recommends various masks, and for what purpose. Notably, the WHO advises the general public to wear non-medical masks "in public settings, such as grocery stores, at work, social gatherings, mass gatherings, closed settings, including schools, churches, mosques, etc" for source control (i.e. to limit the spread of the disease).

Here's the document you were referencing, under Guidance (2) Advice to decision makers on the use of masks for the general public, page 6.

In fact, the whole paper is 12 solid pages of telling everyone to use masks, yet you presented one singe sentence out of context and claimed the exact opposite.

Marketing fluoride would have had more bite.

You remember correctly, but that was decades ago. Qt went open source in 1995 and has used GPL since December 2000.

That's a dangerous plan. Once you deplete the helium in the moon there won't be anything keeping it up in the sky.

What do you mean? I'm using 4 different profiles in Firefox right now without any problems.

Sort of... It got bought out by a totally-not-nefarious corporate nebula called Golden Brick back in 2016.

Some ex-employees from Opera who weren't keen on the move got together and build their own new browser, called Vivaldi, in the spirit of the old Opera browser. It's market share isn't huge but it works well, so you have that option.

The title is correct. 29% want to keep daylight saving time (the practice of switching between 2 different time zones - dubbed "Standard" and "Daylight" Time in North America - depending on the time of year), while 71% want to abolish DST and stick to one time zone or the other. The 71% that wants to get rid of DST includes the 40% that want to stick with Standard Time and the 31% that wants to keep Daylight Time, but TFA doesn't mention how strongly they care about which.

DST is that practice of switching between two time zones, not the name of one of those zones.

By changing what the defaults are in the next version. If you install or update to a new version of Firefox then you'll have whatever defaults are built into that version. If you don't then you will continue to use the old version with its old defaults.

No, they are not going to remotely change configurations. This is only about defaults. If you chose not to use DoH then you will continue to not use it.

Try something. Click on "Show full results for fingerprinting". Not open a new tab and go to https://panopticlick.eff.org/ again there, without closing the previous tab.

Does the new result still say your fingerprint is unique? If it successfully fingerprinted you then it should say that your fingerprint is the same as 1 other recent test. Unless they saw that your fingerprint matched another one and just assumed it was the same person, which would sort of defeat the purpose of the test.

Remember - there are 2 ways to defeat fingerprinting: to look the same as enough other people that you can't be singled out, or to always appear different so that you can't be matched to your own previous fingerprints. Both approaches come with trade-offs, but I personally favour the second.

Anyway, you should now have 2 panopticlick tabs open. Your result of 17.59 bits sounds to me like it's relying almost entirely on Canvas/WebGL fingerprinting to identify you. Click on "Show full results for fingerprinting" and scroll down to "Hash of canvas fingerprinting" and "Hash of WebGL fingerprinting" and see if those match. If they don't then Panopticlick may have been mistaken when it thought it could track you by fingerprint.