Get a fun error message on debian 13 with firefox v140:

"This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn't support these advanced features.Please use Chrome 116+, Firefox 139+, or Edge 141+ on a device with platform authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, etc.)."

That is funny it won't even show us the homepage.

We are allowed into the blog though! https://confer.to/blog/

Great new way to lock out potential new users. I bet large part of users interested in privacy are using Linux and some fork of Firefox.

In KeePassXC:

> Your authenticator doesn't support encryption keys. Please try again using 1Password — some password managers like Bitwarden don't work yet.

I'm getting that that on macOS with Firefox 139+, for whatever reason...

I was also getting this, but works today.

The share buttons on iOS seem to fail like 15% of the time as well. Randomly.

Requiring skip is good, but the part about focusing on illegal ads is better. If all ads were for soda, cars, and other legitimate products, that would be one thing, but so many ads are for straight up scams these days.

Considering how unhealthy soda is to consume, I'd ban those ads in a heartbeat right along side tobacco and alchohol. The UK just banned all TV and online junk food ads and I'm alright with that.

> The UK just banned all TV and online junk food ads

Unbelievable, when you consider the sheer volume of betting ads they have.

Yeah but the gov relies on that income. £2.0-£2.5 billion

Is that the income from gambling advertising or the income from gambling?

This is also why taxes on vices should always, always, always be revenue neutral. Lawmakers should never have to choose between reducing demand for a vice and revenue.

or maybe we can let people think for themselves

Marketing for cars and soda isn't that far off from actual scams. Ads are a big part of why (especially American) car and food culture is so toxic. The ad-driven demand for sugary drinks and large, impractical, environmentally unconscientious cars has almost certainly caused more death and misery than many actual scams.

Soda ads are actually banned in some jurisdictions so it's not really a cleanly legit product. You can make the same argument for ICE cars.

Google and others are putting 2FA notifications in their regular apps like gmail. I had to open my gmail app to get a 2FA code instead of my google authenticator app today... which is very weird and probably increases the needed security of the gmail app in addition to the size

They use the YouTube app for this also.

You really think 2FA notifications cause so much bloat?

Google Auth on ios is 38MB. Assuming the core code is probably ~5-50%, which would be 2-20MB added to the gmail app.

On the middle side of that range, extra features adds up fast.

With continuous delivery and access to preview and beta features, the documentation is fragmented and scattered and half of it technically is for the previous version of the product with a different name but still mostly works because microsoft can't finish modernizing most software...

And the customer support is not great until you start really paying the big bucks for it.

gimp is actually pretty good, but things are in different places than photoshop and that's a huge change.

Philosophically this is what we need more, but linkedin is absolutely tanking engagement for posts that have links.

Because it's not benefiting them in any way when users leave the website, especially to some 'unsafe/unapproved' website.

This needs to happen in order for the US to deal with its debts.

Only works if the US actually sells bonds and not just T-bills. Otherwise the market can just price in inflation.

probably a couple of dollars a month, which would be very tough to actually make work. Even facebook only makes a few hundred dollars a year per person in the US.

Nah, you can get a plan for a couple dollars a year as a one-off https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/iot-resource-center/iot...

Amazon had a data deal for Kindles for a long time. If we're assuming nefariousness, the embedded SIM would only be used for analytics/telemetry not for content, so it shouldn't be too much data.

If Neilsen will give me $1 to have a journal of what I watch, they might give Samsung something to have actual logs.

Nuclear plants, like most large thermal plants, are almost always located near large bodies of water and return that water downstream so it doesn't really matter?

It matters if people don't want to see the rivers full of dead fish, so last year there were already shutdowns because of heatwaves.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-s...

It does when you care about the environmental impact of your cooling (and also consider the fact that droughts are an increasingly severe problem).

It matters when the level of that body of water drops by a lot in summer and the water temperature rises at the same time. Add environmental laws (cooking the fish is discouraged), and your nuke plant needs to go into safety shutdown pretty reliably every summer.