Here’s how to disable PPA: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...

Also worth noting it's automatically disabled if telemetry ("Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla") is disabled.

Though even without disabling it, PPA is currently in limited rollout and only visible to Mozilla websites in the first place, so it would hardly cause any harm for now.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/

> worth noting it's automatically disabled if telemetry ("Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla") is disabled

When I was using FF, i noticed that updates often revert settings to default. What pissed me even more was that there is no clear "Disable auto updates" checkbox, I had to create policies.json file in Contents/Resources/distribution folder for that. This was hostile, I'd never win the battle with developers.

A film that explores this is Antonioni’s Blowup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup

Recording my first EP!

1st published song, Piano Place Hold in Am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOhb-wHdFQ

QuarkXpress for typesetting, Photoshop for painting pixels, and Macromedia Freehand for turning scanned drawings into vector graphics.

Was still using these in the early 2000s. Good times.

https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-scho...

FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_Clinic

Anyone know how to change the default :date output to YYYY-MM-DD instead of MM/DD/YYYY on macOS?

I’ve tried the following in default.yml and reloading the config, but it’s not working and Claude, Gemini, and myself are stumped :)

  matches:  
    - trigger: ":date"  
      replace: "{{mydate}}"  
      vars:  
        - name: mydate  
          type: date  
          params:  
            format: "%Y-%m-%d"

Solution: Edit the # Print the current date section in…

  /Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/espanso/match/base.yml

…to read:

  # Print the current date
  - trigger: ":date"
    replace: "{{mydate}}"
    vars:
      - name: mydate
        type: date
        params:
          format: "%Y-%m-%d"

I shell out to POSIX `date` on Linux and I believe also on Windows:

    - trigger: ";tod"
      replace: "{{mydate}}"
      vars:
      - name: mydate
        type: shell
        params:
          cmd: date --iso-8601

I know it's not perhaps helpful, but I have the _exact_ same code, and it's worked for ages on macOS. Do other matches work correctly?

I have it in `~/.config/espanso/match/base.yml`.

Put it in match/base.yml

One way to do it in social media:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/05/The-CoSoc...

Why is the letter behind a NY Times paywall and not on the National Academies’ website at https://www.nasonline.org/ ?

The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/scientists-l... — has a link to this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu_...

Historian Bret Deveraux, writing in October 2024:

> Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on Nov 1, when I hope to have a post answering some history questions from the ACOUP Senate to start off on), but this was an essay I had in me that I had to get out, and working on the book I haven’t the time to get it out in any other forum but this one. And I’ll be frank, some of Donald Trump’s recent statements and promises have raised the urgency of writing this; the political science suggests that politicians do, broadly, attempt to do the things they promise to do – and the things Trump is promising are dark indeed.

> Now I want to be clear what we’re doing here. I am not asking if the Republican Party is fascist (I think, broadly speaking, it isn’t) and certainly not if you are fascist (I certainly hope not). But I want to employ the concept of fascism as an ideology with more precision than its normal use (‘thing I don’t like’) and in that context ask if Donald Trump fits the definition of a fascist based on his own statements and if so, what does that mean. And I want to do it in a long-form context where we can get beyond slogans or tweet-length arguments and into some detail.

— https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...