Donald Ducks?

Probably a Canadian Geese trying to sneak into America.

It's amazing that anything that is critical of Trump on the news is "fake news", but when Trump tells lies and Fox News says clearly incorrect things it isn't. As far as "communist" stuff, you wouldn't know what communism is, even if you were to go line up at a food pantry because you can't afford the cost of your own groceries.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, we have Trump in the White House right now as evidence of this huge problem. I expect Trump would see a planet killing weapon to be something he would activate.

The use of AI as a tool for people who can do the work themselves makes sense, but the use of AI by young people so those young people don't have to know how to do anything is the problem. Back in the day, you were allowed to use calculators once you got far enough into math classes that doing the basic stuff wasn't the challenge, it was the setting up of formula to solve the problem.

They look for excuses for why this or that isn't going well, but the basic problem is that teaching analytical thinking and problem solving is something they wait on until too late. Children need to be taught the idea of problem solving, not just "how do you solve the following in mathematics?", but more, "you are trying to do this, can you figure out the steps needed to make it happen?" Without teaching problem analysis for things outside of mathematics, we get generations of people who couldn't figure out how to do ANYTHING on their own. Aiming to make the entire generation a bunch of people who just do what they are told is why we have the majority of people at risk of even basic uses of AI eliminating their jobs.

They also look at social media for a number of problems, as though that is the reason children have emotional problems while their parents are out working two jobs each and the children are left alone most of the time. Being a "kid" is difficult enough, school, social circles, or a lack of real friends, the list goes on for reasons why most kids will feel depressed and even hopeless when they can't EXPECT that doing well in school and college will get them a job. The idea of, "why even try doing anything when it won't help me?" is a good reason for kids to be depressed, and socializing is the only distraction from life seeming to be full of misery.

So, teach analytical thinking, and get an education on how to solve problems...that's how you get children who will have a decent chance of a career that AI can't take away for at least then next 20 years.

I was referring to two party states, however even in one party states there are limits to your right to record, for example you may have to be a party to the conversation and not just eavesdropping or in a place with a reasonable expectations of privacy. One party consent doesn't protect someone from other laws regarding recording.

Sounds like th epublic needs an OSS version of Leonardo to even th eplaying field and track police and elected officials...

Even in two party or all party consent states the laws generally only apply if there is an expectation of privacy, and thus usually not in public spaces.; as always the laws are more complex than"require two party consent to record..." That doesn't make it any less creepy to walk around recording people.

What feature can just be enabled remotely the way you are complaining about? The issue is "when features with vulnerabilities are enabled, then going to a web page that can compromise the vulnerability might be able to do things". You just assume that all features can somehow have a vulnerability that will let a remote web page change the browser settings, and that's a STRANGE thing to ASSUME is happening.

I've never seen Firefox updates that just decide to change settings that I had put in place the way you are claiming, but if you are such a special butterfly that you feel a need for some fully cut down browser, go to command line lynx and be happy with the lack of graphics and potential things to compromise you.

Modular approach doesn't have to be plugin/add-on as the method. We aren't living in the 1990s, they COULD have it where features you disable in settings unload the feature from memory. This doesn't mean there isn't room for plugins, but when you have to compete, many people look at the features that come already included as their reasoning for picking one product over another.

Yea, those tears in the casks are due to vandalism and Democrats and of course, Joe Biden ...

I start by turning the old-school menu bar on, and go from there. It's not difficult, and easier to find things than the UI you find in Chrome or Edge.

Disable the feature in settings, and then you won't care. It's not like certain other browsers where you need to give an obscure command in the main bar to get to a feature to turn it on/off.

When almost every person wants a given feature, does it make sense to require it to be an add-on, or a checkbox to enable/disable the feature? The majority of the stuff you don't want can be disabled via settings.