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:librewolf: #LibreWolf's obsession with preventing everything HTML canvas is gettin on my nerves... It even ruins pasting images into the built-in #PDFjs PDF viewer, but you only realize that AFTER you're done and open it in another viewer, to realize that the image is all f*cked up. 🙄

In one respect, many leftists/liberals are no different from the right: their reflexive, fundamental opposition to everything that comes from the other camp.
Forcing an end to Iran's nuclear program and, ideally, laying the groundwork for the Iranian people to send the mullahs to hell shouldn't be a 'controversial' issue, imo.
But some rather defend a fascist-clerical regime that executes hundreds of people every year and oppresses its population.

Some of the country’s largest liberal foundations are quietly working to raise at least $250 million
to help civil groups push back against President Trump and what they see as his steady drift toward authoritarianism.
The effort is in its early days,
working to secure initial commitments.
But the scale of the collaborative undertaking has turned heads in the tightly networked world of philanthropy.
It comes as donors are licking their wounds and many efforts to …

Liberal Fund-Raising Drive Seeks $250 Million to Aid Pushback Against Trump
Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without attracting unwanted White House attention.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06415 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased AI can Influence Political Decision-Making
As modern large language models (LLMs) become integral to everyday tasks, concerns about their inherent biases and their potential impact on human decision-making have emerged. While bias in models are well-documented, less is known about how these biases influence human decisions. This paper presents two interactive experiments investigating the effects of partisan bias in LLMs on political opinions and decision-making. Participants interacted freely with either a biased liberal, biased conser…

Drove through the Blackwall Tunnel to Greenwich and back to Islington yesterday.
South of the river it's all 30MPH speed limits and everything feels too fast and scary compared to the sedate and pedestrian-friendly 20MPH limits in the north.
Since I last went through it, it seems the Blackwall tunnel has added a toll.
The TFL website for setting up to pay the tolls is absolutely awful. Failed in Librewolf, Failed in Firefox. Failed because VPN. Took me four attempts in three different browsers to get it to take payment card details.
Demands *no* special characters in the password?!? And doesn't even tell you what the specific problem with the password is, just "doesn't meet the rules above"
Uses awful validation questions like "mothers maiden name". Bad enough practice to use them at all, but the "memorable date" question restricts to ddmmyy format so you can't even put in a date from outside this century.
For some reason asks for a PIN and and Password both!? Pointless. Then actually refuses the login form if you supply both!?

Setting up the auto-payment doesn't seem to have covered the charges added to the registration plate yesterday, so had to do the payment-details entering yet again to deal with yesterday's charges.
Email validation message contains the link only in the HTML of the email, not the text version, so viewed in Mutt it has no link.
And this all seems to be separate from the Dartford Crossing charge, which had a less crappy but still pretty crappy signup.
Good god council programmers suck at web-dev.
#driving #london #tfl #blackwallTunnel #greenwich