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They said "seemingly."

Nice. I'm planning to install it after work.

The tab previews are pretty nice. Good QOL, assuming it doesn't kick my GPU into overdrive to make it.

If "a state of emergency" doesn't protect workers who are fleeing said emergency in the same way that jury duty and voting rights do, then they are broken and need to be fixed.

My midwestern US schooling taught me almost nothing about African or diaspora history beyond the slave trade. When I learned that there was a whole big huge continent whose history I didn't know, I was fascinated. Simultaneously, I was awakening to the systemic injustice that Afro-folks experience in the United States, and wanted to learn as much as I could about their background and context.

I mean, in fairness, at least the Mig-29 and F-117 are contemporaries, and deployed by enemies. I've seen playsets that include (iirc) an F-16 and a B-17 dogfighting against one another.

Maybe so, but I would say they're more alternatives to Firefox than any of the Chromium forks are to Chrome (except Arc, I guess) by nature of the fact that you don't have to strip telemetry out of the Gecko codebase in order to ship a private fork.

It's also worth noting that almost all of this stuff was open-source. If you wanted to, you could still use most of it, continue development on it (and in some cases, such as FirefoxOS, its development is continuing without Mozilla's involvement). Not so with stuff killed by Google.

You currently only have three choices in web rendering engine, unless you want to go REALLY esoteric:

• Blink

• WebKit

• Gecko

Blink is Chromium, meaning Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, Vivaldi, ug-c, Konqueror, etc. It is built, maintained, and controlled by Google, and currently has an approximately 81% market share on the internet.

WebKit is Safari, and is only really usable on Apple products (and is the only engine available on Apple's mobile products outside the EU). It enjoys about a 9% market share as a result of its wide install base.

Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation for Firefox, yes. But if you want any sort of web independence, you have to have a browsing engine that is not controlled by a major corporation. Otherwise, you're just going to have a duopoly that can make whatever web decisions they want to.

Can't possibly be the bridge as a whole. When I said "certain sections," I meant, like, every third square centimeter or something. If the entire bridge inertial dampeners were completely offline, our heroic crew wouldn't be jumping madly across the bridge, they'd be a thin paste of organic material on the wall.

Actually, having individual sections fluctuating could explain some of the wilder dives Kirk & Co did during battle sequences, now that I think about it.

Really, Don? This is your big play for the news coverage this weekend? Weak.

Yeah, but they're maneuvering at appreciable fractions of the speed of light when they travel at impulse, so there's no way anyone survives if they're all offline. They have to mean that the primaries are offline, or they're offline in certain sections, or something like that.