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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, I’ll check the thread.
Yeah I switched from trust to paranoia, it seems, hopefully I’ll settle on a middle ground.

Honestly I don’t think I’m technically adept enough to check this myself. I was following firefox privacy guides, and the (much more competent) people writing them were puzzled about those two.
Of course it’s not necessarily malicious, but it has became hard to be trusting.

In the end I kind of just gave up on privacy, I take mitigation measures as a symbolic gesture, but still assume someone’s watching over my shoulder whatever I do online. Not a good feeling to be honest.

How would I check exactly what data firefox is sending home?

firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

There are unexpected connections to these two domains that cannot be disabled using firefox options.

Easily? How?
AFAIK no matter what you do, firefox still calls home sometimes.

From what I can tell, the idea is to make you feel like, with a little bit of effort, the privacy thing would be achievable,
but when you actually try, it’s a whole different ordeal.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

I have absolutely no idea, you could try asking the devs or look into webtorrent.

Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

What’s illegal information?

He’s very unthreatening at least.

Because front page wasn’t user generated anymore.

I think there’s a moral issue in giving youtube money.

Feels like a spin to me to be honest.
They used to say the same things about lead before transitioning to the current “unsafe at any dosage” view.
Labeling everyday products as carcinogenic would work to muddy the waters after a few damaging papers on industry important products. I remember the ‘red meat is cancer’ craze breaking out suspiciously close to the first studies linking glyphosate to cancer.

My euristic will be to take popular belief into account. I see it as emergent intelligence by trial and error, not merely nonsense.
You do you of course.

In my mind, the main reason to avoid edulcorants (including stevia and acesulfame), is that they taste like shit.

Yesteryear’s conspiracies are today’s common truth. Getting slowly used to that one.

Trying to find some that haven’t been talked about yet:

Echo. It’s a fantastic experimental infiltration game with an AI that adapts to your way of playing. The setup is very impressive.

Pathologic: one of the three playable characters (the Changeling). It’s a bizarre russian game, with an unique world, and messy gameplay. Can’t recommend it enough.

Va11 Hall-A: chill bartending game in a cyberpunk setup.

The Blackwell series: comfy, kind of amateurish point and clicks by Wadjet Eye. I like them very much.

Transistor: weirdest game by Supergiant. You play as a redhead with a talking sword. I don’t remember much about it except that it was good.

The Fall: (pushing it a little bit, since the protagonist is an AI, but I’ve always seen here as female.) Criminally underrated puzzle games, disguised as metroidvanias.

Eliza (by Zachtronics): the only visual novel I enjoyed. It’s hard to explain, it’s about AI, burnout, whether tech dehumanizes people, and solitaire.

Hedon Duology: for something completely different, it’s a slightly kinky retroshooter, with amazon Orcs fighting demons.
It may sound a bit dumb, but it’s excellent. Huge levels, interesting worldbuilding, and a gameplay based on exploration, puzzles as well as shooting.

There’s probably a ton more, but that’s all I can think about at the moment.

This looks amazing. Almost better than the original in some ways.
But playing Doom in 1:1 aspect ratio is masochism.

I’m still angry about it.

Missing the wad