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#3261 2021-05-12 05:52:18

Martin
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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

Looking forward to that.

/Martin


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#3262 2021-05-12 15:10:26

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

OK, wings and horns, not pointy ears so not a fairy.

Hmmmmm


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#3263 2021-05-12 16:08:30

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

ohnonot wrote:

Got my first jab today, praise be!

Got my first shot a little bit ago, going to get my second shot next week. Excited!

=]


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#3264 2021-05-12 16:37:07

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A very slight soreness at the injection site for the first shot, nothing after the second.

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#3265 2021-05-13 03:56:04

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Nice to hear the world's getting along with this.

Does anybody know how to donate to COVAX? They don't even have their own website, and search results only come back with governments donating to it...

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#3266 2021-05-13 04:18:14

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^ I think this is the link...

https://www.gavi.org/donate


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#3267 2021-05-13 04:49:46

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Pythons are not poisonous, and docile as long as they're not hungry. There's a 3.5 metre specimen at large in Yokohama for the last week now. Even has its own Twitter account: https://twitter.com/PythonYokohama

Just don't go near the shrubbery at night!


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#3268 2021-05-13 05:00:10

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

^  Can I at least post may favorite comedy film of all time?

Monty Python Holy Grail, a shrubbery...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UbtcmjfKa8


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#3269 2021-05-13 06:43:26

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ohnonot wrote:

Does anybody know how to donate to COVAX? They don't even have their own website, and search results only come back with governments donating to it...

the wikipedia page says this about private donors which leads me to this Reuters article which leads me to this site.
It is sad that the world doesn't even care enough to give COVAX a proper website (it's a Squarespace website, which isn't proper in my book). Anyhow, the data checks out. Mystery solved.

edit:
oh no, it isn't that simple. There doesn't seem to be one central place to donate to covax.
gavi.org (Gavi) and gogiveone.org (WHO) seem to be the most direct ways to give (both organisations are part of the COVAX alliance).
Reading these two articles there's more options, but I'm leery of any other 3rd party involved.

See my signature.
Y'all might think I'm virtue signalling now, but this was on my mind ever since I got the shot.

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#3270 2021-05-18 14:56:01

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

ohnonot wrote:
ohnonot wrote:

Does anybody know how to donate to COVAX? They don't even have their own website, and search results only come back with governments donating to it...

the wikipedia page says this about private donors which leads me to this Reuters article which leads me to this site.
It is sad that the world doesn't even care enough to give COVAX a proper website (it's a Squarespace website, which isn't proper in my book). Anyhow, the data checks out. Mystery solved.

edit:
oh no, it isn't that simple. There doesn't seem to be one central place to donate to covax.
gavi.org (Gavi) and gogiveone.org (WHO) seem to be the most direct ways to give (both organisations are part of the COVAX alliance).
Reading these two articles there's more options, but I'm leery of any other 3rd party involved.

See my signature.
Y'all might think I'm virtue signalling now, but this was on my mind ever since I got the shot.

Wow! Thanks for the post, this is super useful.

I just now am getting over the effects of my second shot (go Pfizer), and I was thinking almost the same thing. It wasn't too pleasant of an experience but I would rather go through 1 shot like this rather than live for a few weeks on an intubator and have to live with the long term effects of that for the rest of my life.

Would you mind if I appended your signature to the end of mine? I wanna share that info too =]


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#3271 2021-05-19 04:11:10

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One note, a close friend have mine says he has tinnitus as a result of the second Pfizer shot. He's an audiophile who's in his fifties, so I believe him. Apparently it's a not too rare side effect, also loss of smell (which of course means loss of some taste).


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#3272 2021-05-19 05:09:01

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^Loss of smell is a well-know symptom of Covid infection.


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#3273 2021-05-22 23:02:40

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First, that is a first-class quality rant.

Second, I can't tell anything about what it is from they're smug presenters and cheesy video.


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#3274 2021-05-22 23:24:30

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For a while now I have wondered if the Firefox devs have a Monday morning meeting where the question is:
'How can we make it suck worse?'

Some years ago I read that many of the Firefox devs left to work for Google.
Watching what the ones that stayed do I ask myself if they are also employed by Google with the mission to destroy Firefox?

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#3275 2021-05-22 23:36:52

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I'll switch to Chrome on a Debian desktop when Hell freezes over.

I'd go with "suck more" for your rant. "Suck worse" is vague, possibly subtractive.


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#3276 2021-05-25 02:23:53

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As far as I can tell (not much, from the meagre info I've found so far) this is a GUI remake which ought to be undoable by a user in userchrome.css and the like. Or maybe someone will write another addon to get back to the Quantum look. Right now, I forget how I got it, without trawling through config files, but Firefox-esr (78) for me still looks like this, with the old-style menus at the top and tabs next to content (ignore those two conkys):
KfRdgt3l.png
Hopeful it will still be possible to get to this on Fx 89+

Dedoimedo on Fx Proton: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fir … eview.html

Revamping the UI is a lose-lose situation really, and a waste of resources. Privacy is going to be the next battlefield, and here Mozilla has a huge lead over its competitors. Hopefully, this is where the browser's future and focus will be. And trust me, you don't want to contemplate the Internet future without Firefox.

hhh wrote:

I'll switch to Chrome on a Debian desktop when Hell freezes over.

this ↑


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#3277 2021-05-25 05:56:56

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Re: browser wars, chapter 7354:
Just use Ungoogled Chromium (compiling it yourself on a consumer machine is beyond masochistic, so one has to trust in these binaries).

Mike Kuketz wrote good things about it  (I'm sure hhh's German skills are good enough to read the original. Other non-natives click here).

tamberoo wrote:

Would you mind if I appended your signature to the end of mine? I wanna share that info too =]

Not at all, go for it!

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#3278 2021-05-28 10:53:09

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The Mozilla UX redesign in contrast to the latest v8 JavaScript engine improvements in Chrome: "Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily". Sad to say it but that's hardcore engineering vs UX play.

I am always skeptical when I come across such claims. If you can improve a product this much you did a pretty lousy job to start with and is it really true? This is after all marketing.

/Martin


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#3279 2021-05-28 12:52:36

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

I still prefer Firefox, but I tried ungoogled-chromium for a while, and I agree, chromium is much faster. So I assume it is more efficient, probably in multiple ways.

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#3280 2021-05-28 13:04:50

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Re: Completely Off Topic Chat

I think this:

Modern problems require modern solutions, or something.

was worded wrongly.

Maybe:

Modern solutions creating modern problems, or something.

But that's just me.  Change for the sake of change is a no-no and fit closer to John's "lose-lose" line

Nicely put hhh and johnraff:

johnraff wrote:

Hopeful it will still be possible to get to this on Fx 89+

Dedoimedo on Fx Proton: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fir … eview.html

Revamping the UI is a lose-lose situation really, and a waste of resources. Privacy is going to be the next battlefield, and here Mozilla has a huge lead over its competitors. Hopefully, this is where the browser's future and focus will be. And trust me, you don't want to contemplate the Internet future without Firefox.

hhh wrote:

I'll switch to Chrome on a Debian desktop when Hell freezes over.

this ↑

so I'll just double up on those: this and that ↑


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