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  • When I asked someone about it, they basically used them like bookmarks.

  • 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.

  • Taller is more expensive. That's all.If you have the space to go wider, that's what everyone does.

  • Is that what candle lady said?

  • 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.

  • Yah. But you realize that someone could simply lie to you right?

  • Thata what focus means.If you're spliting your focus onto several things, you're not actually focusing anymore.

  • I'm not sure any of that makes sense.He was an extremely well paid actor for a couple of decades. Is he claiming he doesn't have enough for a comfortable retirement, and is singing to pay the bills? I don't believe that for a second.

  • Cheaper. More flexable.

  • We're not just looking at individual "donations" to single politicians. But hundreds of them, to all the politicians. And even more to create a massive "People's PAC" that gets continuous reliable funding for donations, adds, fake studies and all the other crap we have to fight.

  • They go to the highest bidder.And the wealthy have enough now to outbid whatever we come up with.

  • Even large groups of people can't put together enough money.It also costs a lot of money to organise that kind of thing.

  • Me too

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  • 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.

  • Me too

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

  • Me too

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  • 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.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?