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THE ONE THING that I hate about Firefox.
  • Are you sure you don't have some other software updating Firefox in the background?

    Normally this only happens on Linux when your package manager updates Firefox while it's running, and on Windows that doesn't happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

  • Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
  • Ok, let me break it down because clearly I didn't explain it well.

    What is supposed to happen, scenario 1: the client encrypts your messages with the public key of the recipient, sends it to the servers of WhatsApp (or whatever service) along with some encrypted metadata indicating the recipient, which then forward the message to the recipient.

    What could happen, scenario 2: the client does the same, but also encrypts another copy of your message with a public key that belongs to WhatsApp, and send both versions to the WhatsApp servers. They decrypt and keep the second version while forwarding the first one to the recipient.

    Or, scenario 3: they just never bother with end-to-end encryption, and always encrypt it with the WhatsApp key, still sending it to their servers which then reencrypt with the recipient's key before forwarding.

    In all cases, messages are sent only to the WhatsApp servers, not two places. The only visible difference is in scenario 2 where the communication is larger. You can't inspect the metadata of the message with your network sniffer, because it is also encrypted, so there's no way to rule out scenario 3.

    If the protocol is designed to be transparent by not encrypting the entire payload sent to the servers, and you have access to the recipient's private key (those are big ifs) then you could show that there is indeed an end-to-end encrypted message in there. But this is true for how many of these proprietary services? Maybe for WhatsApp.

  • Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
  • Almost all services in that list are closed source, so even if they use end-to-end encryption nothing stops the client from sending all your messages to anyone they like after decrypting (in fact some of them already have it as a built-in feature in the form of backups).

  • World's population at 8 billion people visualized
  • I'm pretty sure it's impossible to keep everything arranged "correctly" geographically while keeping the proportions correct and having them be regular shapes. If anything it's impressive that you can get it as close as this.

  • Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet
  • In the UK your dishwasher is typically connected only to the cold water intake, so that's not a problem unless you have multiple showers in your house... that said, water heaters are often limited to either heating or hot water (not both at the same time), but that's not an issue in practice since you're not going to be using the hot water for long periods of time.

  • Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian
  • Then you must not have read the linked article, which mentions three companies that have done just that.

    Roaming charges made an unwelcome reappearance for UK mobile users heading to mainland Europe after Brexit. EE, Three and Vodafone were all quick to reintroduce the daily or monthly charges to use their mobiles while in the EU – which typically add £2 a day.

  • The penguin propper
  • The way I described it, there would be an odd number of flights every day, so the average will also be odd.

    Imagine there was only one flight. Day 1 it leaves Edinburgh and lands at Heathrow. Day 2 it leaves Heathrow and lands back in Edinburgh. Then repeat again. There is exactly one flight every day, so the average is odd.

  • The penguin propper
  • A plane starts the day at the airport, does an even number of flights back and forth, and then one last flight and ends it at another airport. Repeat the next day but in reverse.

  • Chicken posting
  • Sea urchin is "uni", the cat is actually called "Yuni". It's just Google Translate translating it weirdly.

    Edit: after looking it up, the cat is indeed actually called "Uni". It does say "Yuni" in this post though

  • Visualizing the World’s Most Widely Spoken Languages in 2023
  • Only if they only spoke one language. Googling indicates there are somewhere around 1.45 to 2 billion total English speakers, so just knowing English might hit 25% already.

    Edit: Also, the graph only lists languages with 50 million speakers, so the real proportions are smaller.

  • England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report
  • The EHS defines these as “homes that are primarily used as holiday homes (by family, friends or let to others as a holiday let) or are occupied while working away from home.”

    This clearly doesn't include regular rental properties, so I don't see how it shows landlords are not a problem.