>"But Heinrich started to wonder if the cameras were actually making students less safe after seeing news reports that data captured by Flock cameras in Illinois had been shared with U.S. Customs and Border Protection."

Um, that *does* make them more safe. You might be ideologically at odds with enforcement of immigration law. But you certainly didn't seem to care about privacy when you had them installed, did you?

>"More than half of students at the far west suburban Chicago campus identify as Latino."

So? Are they here illegally? I am guessing the overwhelming majority are not and ICE would have no interest in them. Just like the police will have no interest in the 99+% of students that are not committing crimes.

I don't like Flock (or their clones) because I believe the invasion of privacy is too extreme and they don't have enough controls or oversight (like requiring a warrant for every use). They absolutely will help reduce/solve additional crime, but so would strapping GPS bracelets to all people or having curfews or banning cash or other overkill measures.

>"Students were afraid to come to class."

Ridiculous.

Hybrids *are* ICE. The wording of the article and summary is ridiculous:

"Gas cars are now a minority of the world's new car sales," reports Electrek." "Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49%"

All HEV or "hybrid" vehicles contain an ICE (internal combustion vehicle) and use gas, and are, therefore, "gas cars". And it is true that there are tons of HEV's being offered now.

>"With permanent Daylight Saving Time, the latest sunrise in Atlanta would be 8:45am vs 7:45am without. If you are trying to get to work/school by 8am, you are up in the pre-dawn hours either way."

Exactly my point I was making. A large majority of people will be in the dark on waking, leaving, driving, and probably even arriving to work/school, anyway. So it isn't going to totally "solve" the issue for most people. Although it is true there will be more times there is light when waking on the thresholds of the changes. Yet they completely gloss over the sleep disturbances that occur for many people when trying to adjust their schedule due to the time changing.

There is no perfect solution. Only tradeoffs, and it will vary by latitude. Hence, let States have all three options and they can decide what works best for them.

>"Well, yeah, of course; but the question is why did Congress make it that way? It just seems like a rather odd place to draw the line."

Never made any sense to me.

>"States are allowed to choose between implementing twice-yearly DST switches or sticking with year-round standard time... but they can't choose permanent DST?"

Because Congress made it that way. They can just as easily make it so States can choose all three options instead of just two. We can see how unpopular permanent Standard Time is, since only two States use that option. I suspect more than several would choose permanent Savings Time if given the ability.

HubSpot appears to be one of the worst Email spam entites in the world. I block them completely. I wish they would cut 100% of their jobs and just go away. Constant Contact can follow along with them. Grrrrrr

>"The health evidence points to standard time, largely because morning light matters for our body clocks, sleep, and mood."

That entirely depends on where you are and when you wake. For many people, being forced to adjust to a time change twice a year can really screw with sleep a lot more. Some people take weeks or longer to adjust.

>""Our biological clocks need morning light to stay synchronized with the 24-hour day," said Simon Fraser"

And in the winter, where I am, it is still dark in the winter when I wake most of the time, so it never really solves that "issue", if it even is one. The difference is that with permanent Daylight Saving Time, it would not be dark when I return home, so I was have at least some daylight I could actual use after work. And if necessary, I could set a timer with bright full-spectrum lights each morning before waking in the winter.

Again, it depends primarily on your location and latitude and when you must awaken. Which is why the best idea is to allow States (or in this case Provinces) choose what they want to do for themselves:

1) Stay on Standard Time permanently
2) Stay on Saving Time permanently
3) Change time twice a year.

What is right for Maine isn't necessarily the same as for Virginia or Florida. They have very different latitudes. They can experiment and see what is best for THEM, rather than forcing the entire country into a single mode.

But if we can only have a single change/standard, I would vote for either permanent time option, rather than the insanity of switching time twice a year.

>"A browser that does not support ad blocking is a non-starter. You simply can't use today's Internet without ad blocking in place."

I agree. It is why you should use Firefox + UBO, or one of its forks (LibreWolf, WaterFox, whatever). But that is why I said the use case is for things like a wiki, documentation, appliances, or for testing. The same type of things one might do with Dillo.

According to the site it has no support for:

* Tabs
* Multiple windows
* Modern video
* WebGL
* WebGPU
* Extensions/Plugins

It reminds me of a more modern Dillo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... except with Javascript and more CSS. It could be useful for appliances that just need an HTML viewer, access to a Wiki, documentation viewer, or for testing.

It is a small subset of https://nordstjernen.org/ which is much more capable (but much larger/more complex).

>"Who can live on that? Not in 2026."

Maybe not with MS-Windows. Works fine with Linux for most use cases. I manage lots of Linux machines with 8GB of RAM, even more with 4GB. Admittedly, 4GB is tight.

>"Go to about:config and toggle browser.nova.enabled to false."

Thanks! Color me surprised... although Mozilla has always been pretty good about adding disable options for many of the changes they introduce (much better than other browsers). Of course, it is likely that config entry will eventually disappear. But maybe by then something else will happen or replace it and it won't matter.

Hmm, I hadn't noticed. Why didn't author post something in the main readme? If anyone knows which might be taking the crown, please post... Aris recommends

https://github.com/QNetITQ/Wav...
https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/...

Anyway, I have Aris-t2's working fine, and yes, with a separate search box, just like you, with every Firefox through now 154. Also tabs on bottom, square tabs, and other stuff. Will update to 157 soon so maybe it will break at that point. I hope not.

>"Can you turn it back to rectangular tabs in tool/settings"

I doubt that. And themes only change colors and backgrounds.

But you can make actual changes with Userchrome. It takes a bit of effort, though. I have my tabs square and always outlined and against the content, in a traditional way, using it.

https://www.userchrome.org/
https://github.com/Aris-t2/Cus...

>"These clowns keep finding new ways to waste screen real estate."

1) Nothing is larger than before or using more space.
2) They just brought back compact mode, which REDUCES the screen real estate. Turn it on and be happy.

I am OK with people complaining about things, but at least make them valid complaints...

>"Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign"

Exactly how is slightly more rounded tabs/address bar and some slightly different icons a "major redesign"? (It isn't). BTW- I hate rounded buttons and tabs, so I use mods to fix that anyway. It isn't new, they have had those rounded for a long time.

Anyway, it is good they brought back compact mode, I could not fathom why it was taken away in the first place.