As I said, use the CustomCSSForFx addon at https://github.com/Aris-t2/Cus... and enable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in about:config.

All you have to do then is edit a single configuration file, and in that just comment out/in the options as you like.

Only problem is that when a new version of Firefox lands, this addon needs to be updated too and then you need to do a diff for the configuration file. That's why I use ESR so I don't have to do that too often.

I'm using Firefox ESR so that I don't have to do reconfiguration of the customizations at https://github.com/Aris-t2/Cus... except about once per year. As long those CSS customizations work then I'm fine with Mozilla foundation spending their money however they like. That addon is magnificent.

My Firefox still looks exactly like it did 10-15 years ago. I still get my status bar, I get my tabs below toolbars & address bar, and icons are still the same.

Yeah, stuck in my ways, I also use Openshell on the Windows PCs I have to use so I get Windows 7 look. I don't mind learning a new UI paradigm if I see a clear benefit and it's going to remain for a long while. Change for the sake of change...bah.

Problem is that at some point they are just going to include cellular modem in there and phone home. Getting an IoT package from Vodafone Global and an eSIM costs peanuts. After that happens, you basically need to open the chassis and try to find where the antenna is and disconnect it.

Original post (not by me):
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My team caught someone who sent an AI to interview in their place.

It sounds so crazy that I didn't believe it until I reviewed the transcripts:

Interviewer: "Can you tell us about yourself?"

Candidate: "Absolutely! I'm a passionate professional who thrives in dynamic environments."

Interviewer: "That's a really insightful answer."

Candidate: "Thank you! You're absolutely right."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right too."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right about that."

Interviewer: "We're both absolutely right."

Interviewer: "This is going really well."

Candidate: "It really is."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right."

The transcript goes on like this for 14 more pages.

Thank goodness we're using AI to screen our candidates, otherwise we might have wasted our time talking to someone who can't even be bothered to show up to a call.

In Finland, the local burger chain Hesburger has been coming up with plant-based patty. They have been doing it for many years now, one press release (in English): https://www.hesburger.com/abou...

Anyway, prices (PDF, in Finnish) https://www.hesburger.fi/mello... says that the "Veke" cheeseburger is 1,80 euros, while regular beef cheeseburger is 3 euros exact. They are probably selling it as a loss leader but someone must have come up with the math anyway to sell it at a *cheaper* price point than a regular cheeseburger.

Anyway, I've tasted it a couple of times...and the patty by itself is ok-ish but dry. In a cheeseburger I cannot really tell the difference, but without cheese at least I need to have a larger drink and the taste is clearly different despite mayo and pickles and whatever else on it. My guess is that this is due to lack of any and all fats - whatever vegetable oils they are using just doesn't work the same way. However, when using that imitation patty with cheese, the cheddar seeps into it and it tastes pretty much just like a regular burger would.

Anyway, doesn't look like the imitation patty requires doubling the price.

No. The new transfer done by HBO (and also released on Blu-Ray) two years ago is good quality - the film has been rescanned. The CGI sequences that were pre-rendered in NTSC (480p, 30 fps) have been upscaled. The film transfers are probably intentionally soft to make it clash less with the upscaled CGI sequences.

Note that the Gathering (Pilot) and other TV movies (Thirdspace, In The Beginning, Call to Arms, etc) as well as the sequel series Crusade have *not* been updated.

My daughter plays Roblox. They are asking her to take a selfie to get assigned to an age group.

https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/...

Seriously, they are planning to use some AI doodad to place you into a group "Your estimated age helps place you in the appropriate age group (5-8, 9-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18-20, and 21+) to customize your experience on Roblox". I've known people that have baby faces in their 30's, and I've seen preteens that have started showing off beard. And this is all based on some image recognition thingamajick?

Most countries at least in EU have some sort of governmental identity mechanism, that allows you to make strong identification to any service. Why does this have to be some sort of AI magic that steals your data, when this all could be handled by a simple federated identity tokens. Just go to your government site, ask it to generate a signed token that states "On this day, holder of this token is X years of age", lifetime of token can be like 15 minutes. No need for government to learn what were you visiting and no need for the service to know all other details either.

They are already utilizing some third party to do the selfie recognition and evaluation, why couldn't the same third party pass a token between gov website and the service with the same price?

I know a few people who actually did make *some* good money with bitcoin - they were geeks who had actually mined it early in the game - like pre-2010, when it was still computationally very cheap. They had basically ran that miner as a kind of fun little process in the background - same guys who had run things like Seti@Home or Folding@Home.

Then they had forgotten about the whole thing, and 5-10 years later noticed that the little toy is suddenly worth around 10000 USD/EUR per BTC. They sold at that point and were able to make down payments for a house with that crypto.

But like with any pyramid scheme, you can win if you get in *really* early.

I read it a few times over the years. One of the things it mentioned were the relations between and United States. For most European countries it was usually "Relations between US and are warm. Collaboration and cooperation are common in areas of....".

I guess they would have to chill all those entries shutting things down instead...

Huh? Haven't seen that happen in...10 years or so, and even then, only on Windows. And even then it was mostly some obnoxious software update checkers or something that just started up on boot. On any other OS they were either not there (iOS/Android) or didn't steal focus (Anything Unix-based).

Since you mention Teams, when it starts up, yeah, it fills the screen, but after that, well, if a call comes in, it appears at bottom right corner. Unless you set DND.

I really have no idea what you (or the story) means. I guess it's the same thing as when some folks claim that there are ads on the Internet?

You could move it around all the way from Windows 95 to Windows 7.

Heck, search youtube for those videos where they upgrade one windows version to the next all the way from 1.0 to 10 (or 11). I know I remember one where they set custom colors around Win 2.0 and those settings persisted all the way to 7.

Now your choices are "dark mode" and changing font sizes. Hooray.

Whenever I install new app on my tablet or phone, one of the first things that happens on first startup is request by the OS "Do you want to allow this app to send you notifications". By default I say no, unless it's specifically a messaging app.

Windows also has this for notifications in system tray.
So does at least KDE for Linux desktop environments.

You can also change these settings later if you first give the permission and then start getting too many notifications.

I know that when I installed Booking.com's app to allow easy check-ins when we did a tour of Germany last summer and drove from place to place. I allowed notifications in case any of those accommodations would like to contact me. Turns out I instead did get those meaningless spams so I just...turned them off!

And you know what, some of those apps even have notification categories that you can enable/disable so it's not necessary to even have a coarse filter of all or nothing, but *that* part is up to the developer. Most of the applications I use are something that only matter when they are in the foreground, so just turn any notifications off.

What can these exploits do?

For the "slow" chargers (EVSEs), I'm not too worried. Worst cases:
- They could allow someone to do "unauthorized" charging if it's behind a key
- They could potentially do a denial of service (make the EVSE not connect)
- If you have limited the current in the charger configuration, the EVSE basically signals the car "you can slurp up to X amperes", if you can hack the EVSE to tell car to grab as much as you can you could, I guess, blow a fuse or in worst case, start a fire. Or just cause the car to charge faster.

However, are there any details on what could they do with DC charger? I'm thinking that a probably "simple" way to fry an entire car would be to push 800V when car is based on 400V system. I mean, the protocol stack that fast chargers use is apparently ridiculously complicated, there's a whole IPv6 stack on top of which the BMS and the charger communicate, and also allowing for things like payment and the like, so question is can they access the parts that directly handle the electrical stuff? Worst cases then become possibility to fry any car that gets hooked up to it.

But FTS, how does one maintain code when you have no idea of what is in it? Start over again?

I've actually done this a couple of times:

1. Get LLM to generate some code, perhaps refine it a bit.
2. Run into a wall because the LLM cannot get past some obstacle (or it does, but then also breaks things elsewhere).
3. Start a new chat, paste the code previously generated by same LLM, say "I came up with this code snippet, it doesn't work. Make changes so that it does X".
4. Get working code out of it.

Maybe the assumption is that it would also work for maintenance of larger code bases...

That's weird. For me, "cash" has been always, way back when I got an allowance from parents, "stuff that you just spend on candy and other crap and it doesn't really count", while cash on bank account is the "real money" that I actually need to budget.

So I pay with credit card that I pay in full at the end of each month with zero interest, and if the balance on the card(s) seem like they are going over my budgeting threshold, I'll cut down on non-essentials. Cash is just crap that falls between couch cushions - these days for bank accounts and credit card balances you can get *exact* amounts on how much you have.