They can, do, and will keep doing so. Damaging projects and efforts in the process.

Google is Mozilla’s biggest source of income, and google developers have actively contributed code to the Firefox engine.

So you decide for yourself what level of independence you assign to it.

Without the buyout, the company would have failed even earlier. Doesn’t help the employees either.

My employer. Who owns the laptop. And forbids me to fuck around with it…

I haven’t heard of either, let me check if I can run those with my user profile and not break anything I need to log on to our corporate network in the process.

Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll double check.

I tried and it doesn’t update, even after a clean reboot with no browser open whatsoever. However I did find another entry in the Firewall that comes up right on boot, which is a service called MS.Edge.Webview2, which seems to be triggered through the Teams App. I’ve now completely uninstalled Teams, and after a fresh boot the ad (or “media control”) seems to be gone now. Guess I’ll be using Teams from my phone or via browser in the future.

Thought of that as well, but all ads are blocked and I get this popup even with the browser closed and after a full reboot (not just suspend and reactivate), so it must happen on system level, I assume. Checked my run on startup applications and services, and they appear to be clean as well.

Nah, they’ve been forcing kids to sing the anthem every morning almost as long as the US, where they got the idea from.

Sure, though quite a few of those things are not explicitly written down, and court transcripts are only published in high profile cases, so you won’t find any official reference to the group size. So it’s mostly from second hand experience and hearsay. You pick up one or the other thing if you live in China for nearly a decade.

But here’s some official reading - I hope the sites are accessible from outside China, that’s something I can’t validate right now.

You should be good to go with google translate; though specifically for Chinese legalese, I suggest yandex translate (assuming you don’t speak Chinese):

https://m.66law.cn/laws/1470356.aspx

https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/llyj/202111/t20211130_537133.shtml

http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0416/c205462-32079979.html

https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_20925867

It’s sufficient to mention it in a wechat group with >10 people, which already qualified as instigating “the masses”.

Oh nice, thanks! Will give it a shot.

I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.

Just sign up for their API and use chatboxai.app (free software), use the GPT4 API code, and you’ll use the model through an alternative front-end for pennies on the dollar.

I’m using it extensively and rarely spend more than 1,20 - 1,50 a month.

They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

The concept is doable for sure, but I’d reconsider the draining issue. The volume of a hot tub is quite something, and if you’re using any kind of soap or other chemicals, you’ve got a potential environmental challenge on hand. Even if you only use biodegradable stuff, that doesn’t mean that plants will rejoice being smothered with soapy water.

For the heater you’ll need something with a decent wattage to get it up to temp in short enough time, so make sure you’re not overloading the circuit. Those outlets in some shed are often not the best.

Propane/butane would work as well, but in that case you’ll need to take care of proper ventilation as well. Or just leave the door open.

I can’t wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

Discord is great for casual chatting. Was it ever intended to be a forum though? For that use case, it’s completely impractical.

Excellent choice of music. Though I gotta say I even prefer their older albums when they sounded less refined. Same with Ensiferum, over time they just got a bit too polished for my taste.

Sure, I’d take that over ads anytime.