When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.

Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser. Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.

Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.

But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?

You’re thinking short term.
And, what do you mean save me? Am I dying?

I can’t wait for Servo

It only encrypts the data within the HTTPS packet. But where that packet is going is still transparent.

It also doesn’t do anything for non web traffic. Email through SMTP or IMAP, FTP, lots of things don’t use HTTP at all.

But VPNs aren’t supposed to make you anonymous.
They secure your data while in transit to/from the exit node. Maybe that’s your job so you can access their LAN. Or it’s a public VPN that secures your dada from the local WiFi or ISP you’re directly connected to. That’s all it’s built for.

I heard yammy, not yanny, every time. Which at the end of the video seems to be wrong. I did hear laurel when it was pitched down.

But that doesn’t really help what I’m saying, because I’m not listening to your speakers in your room with you.

Do you have trouble understanding people in the real world?
How oftin?

Apparently this isn’t an autism thing any more. It’s a pervasive problem lots of people are having in the last 10 years or so.

I do have auditory processing problems, and frequently misshear people in the real world. But practically never when watching things, even Nolan films. I literally don’t understand how more than half of people report needing subtitles on full time. I’d love to find somone offline who has this problem, and watch something with them to try to experience what they are.

In my experience as a kid, directly managing my emotions was practically impossible at that age. That’s got little to with autism though, a lot of kids are like that. The autism just means there will be different triggers than most other kids.

Many of my difficulties as a kid were in not understanding something everyone else just knew intuitively. For example, when playing a competitive game with friends, family, or classmates “The Game” doesn’t actually matter. Which game, who wins, who looses; These aren’t why people are there. But that’s how everyone talks about it. Everyone pretends that’s why they’re there. The reality is they’re simply using it as an excuse to spend time with each other. “The Game” serves no purpose beyond giving structure to a session of socializing. If you can explain that to him, and he can grok it. It’ll cut off much of his concern for wining. Maybe not completely, as some people are just annoyingly competitive. It’s possible he’s one of those. In which case I’d recommend switching to cooperative games.

Changes in the schedule are only a little different. Again because of how most people talk about things, it seems they’re fixed. When in reality most know intuitively, plans and schedules are dynamic. I eventually learned to do what I call “Planing for Chaos”. I needed to learn that every schedule is only a hope, not a guarantee. And when inevitably things don’t go as planned, I needed to come up with contingencies. Some generic: Put on headphones and listen to something while I wait. Others are more specific: If this doesn’t happen, I’ll go do this other thing instead, then check back. But it depends on understanding that the schedule is never anything other than a hope.

Disagreements are going to be the most difficult. I’m still not good at that. I generally avoid them, which I know isn’t good. Mostly because when I don’t, I will get… Intense. And I’m a rather large man now. It’s extremely easy for me to intimidate or even scare people when I get upset. And that’s never what I want to do. It generally works against me, no matter how compelling my argument.

Good luck. I hope that was some help.

Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won’t send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won’t work.

I put in one for GrapheneOS and another for Servo the browser engine. Not sure which is more important.

Processed foods are not universally bad for you. Some are healthier than others. The idea is to try a bunch of the better ones, see which you like.

As far as unprocessed foods. Apples tend to be very consistent. There are lots of kinds. Find one you like (mine is Honeycrisp) get lots of those for quick snacks.

File size doesn’t matter.
Both are portable and wouldn’t be moved while in use.
And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD.
But they’re still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.

I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.

Do you mean external drives?
Movies don’t need much speed at all. And HDDs have much better cost/GB than SSDs

In this case. NYC is a very public transit dependant city, so making busses free will help. Creating city owned grocery stores in under served food deserts will help. It’s also one of the most wealth un-equal cities in the world, so adjusting taxes can help.

Privacy is antithetical to ActivityPub federated networks. Everything on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pifed, PeerTube, etc is absolutely public. There is no way to prevent people from seeing anything to post to any of these services.

Real privacy needs to be a built in function from the very beginning. It’s not really possible within ActivityPub.

Everyone needs to understand this. There is no privacy here. There won’t be, because there can’t be. That’s the way it is.

He’s not even mayor yet.
And his stated initial goals are all about affordability.

He can replace the police chief whenever he gets around to reforming the police. Until then, it’s politically better to maintain stability in one area, while overhauling another. Don’t fight wars on multiple fronts if you don’t have to.

Of course they do. Just ask any random person if you can look at everything on their phone.

It’s a combination of ignorance, convenience, social pressure. They prioritize those over some amount of privacy violations.

Haven’t noticed