It's more about things similar to Microsoft Recall, I don't think whistleblowers are going to send their messages where other people can see their screen.

I never knew about the spaceship Easter egg, good fun.

Edit: it's the recent Android version easter egg that's mentioned in the DISALLOW_FUN section.

Imagine stumbling upon a fully operational pink refrigerator, stocked with cold beverages, nestled incongruously in the heart of this arid wilderness. It's not a hallucination or a mirage—it's a deliberate and whimsical creation by the Namibia Tourism Board, designed to surprise and delight weary adventurers.

Those two sentences pretty much cover it.

The caps lock makes sense! A key logger will get confused when you type your passwords in.

After being virtually dead, it's had a lot more development over the last few years(?), with steady progress towards passing the tests and supporting the specs (including reporting spec bugs and vagueness). It's still a long way from being generally usable.

The focus is on making something that could be embeddable, although there are basic browsers using that embed. The focus seems to be on for use-cases like Electron, which doesn't need all of the web APIs.

I don't use it or contribute (yet), but I have their blog in my RSS reader and so keep an eye on it.

I was reading through that, waiting for them to mention marine fuel (which they do). Cleaner fuel is causing less cloud cover, so we've been accidentally geoengineering a cooler climate for a while - until we "fixed" it in 2020.

I read/watched something a few years back arguing that we should shoot sea water into the air from cargo ships to restore this beneficial effect.

Attacking and undermining inconvenient legal institutions, straight out of the fascist playbook.

We need to avoid what I call super-spreader events.

Or what everyone else calls the Kessler syndrome.

The North Yorkshire power plant, which burns wood pellets imported from North America

So the trees are grown in America, processed in America and then transported across the Atlantic before getting to Yorkshire? That must use up all the carbon budget before it's even burnt, surely?

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Good, I guess.

It's an increase in reported monthly users, as now activity like voting is also considered, not just posts/comments.

I'm team Firefox, very happy here. There's a small amount of optional telemetry to disable to maximise your privacy, and it has the best plugins because there's a lot of choice and they're not purposely crippled.