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u/RadicalRebel@sh.itjust.works
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Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors' flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.

This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.

Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!

The preference goes in the "user.js" file inside the profile directory, should be found in about:support by searching for the Profile Directory/Folder. It's probably something like:

~/.librewolf/< random-string >.default/

You need to create/edit the user.js file, here's the command:

nano ~/.librewolf//user.js

Then add the line:

user_pref("browser.newtab.url", "file:///home/username/path/to/page.html");

After this, save and restart the browser. There's a chance this just won't work as browser.newtab.url was removed ~ FireFox 40. It was replaced with an extension-based API, so ya, this might not work in modern LibreWolf... But it's worth a try. Otherwise, an extension like New Tab Override should let you set a file:// path for new tabs. It hooks into the browser.newtab API that replaced these older preferences, but I know you haven't any much luck either way.

From my understanding after looking into this, you should only need to point the new tab URL to your local file using the file:// protocol via:

user_pref("browser.newtab.url", "file:///home/username/path/to/page.html");

Yet, any CSS, JavaScript, and images must be on your local disk as well and referenced using the absolute paths or the relative paths from the HTML file's location. If you still run into issues following these steps, it's probably the Content Security Policy blocking the scripts or external resources of your local HTML file. Before setting it as the permanent new tab, try testing the file manually first with:

file:///home/youruser/path/to/page.html

Also, be sure all the styles and scripts load correctly, then apply the config method resulting in a successful test.

The amount of repos available to add to F-Droid makes the app selection pretty deep in my experience. Here's a few:

Izzy Droid - https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo

Guardian Project - https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo

Ironfox - https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo

Futo - https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo

Fedilab - https://fdroid.fedilab.app/repo

Molly - https://molly.im/fdroid/repo

Briar - https://briarproject.org/fdroid/repo

Anonymous - https://anonymous.gratis/fdroid/repo

There's a bunch more repos you can find online, but I've always enjoyed having these enabled. Additionally, there's the Aurora Store from F-Droid, which allows anonymous access to the Play Store. There's also Obtainium, which will directly access developer's GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg/SourceHut repos as well.

Since you posted your comment, there's been a large produce company tied to the Taco Bell cases (Taylor Farms). As someone in the field of microbiology, this isn't just bacteria that can be controlled with disinfectants and sanitizers. This is a protist with a structured life cycle that spends the majority of its life as an oocyst. This SUCKS as it's resistant to heat and pretty sticky in this stage. So the only options for eradication will involve stopping all manufacturing for weeks and creating an insanely dry environment so the pathogen eventually dies from desiccation. Nonetheless, the more concerning issue is the source of the pathogen, as at this scale, it must have involved a contaminated water supply that was used to grow the crops. So while Taylor Farms will have to destroy a ton of product and shut down production for weeks, there's a chance as soon as they're back at it they unknowingly source more contaminated water, unless we clearly identify and address the issue.

PS: Humans are the only known vector and host for this specific protist species!

I'd recommend KDE over GNOME, especially if you're coming over from Windows. My take on Linus's move is he's tinkered with Linux 5+ days a week for ages, so GNOME makes more sense. But as a nerd who doesn't work in tech, I love KDE as I can tinker until I'm content and changes are just made in settings. Either way, I'd say finding the Desktop Enviornment you like is more important than the distro!

I prefer Fedora over Bazzite as it gives you more control, but this also means it's easier to break. Bazzite is an immutable distro, whereas Fedora uses the traditional mutable root filesystem. But despite the difference, Bazzite uses Fedora Atomic as it's base OS.

Just as a fun little factoid, Linus Torvalds runs Fedora and while he was using KDE for a while, he switched to GNOME as he felt it required much less fiddling around with than KDE.