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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzDirt Man
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    6 hours ago

    Just read one of Ursula Le Guin’s books where humans sent off some unwanted people, no scientists, to another planet and they brought up how hundreds of years into living there, they still give arbitrary names to things. E.g. naming an animal Heron because it kind of resembles one, but this is an alien world, so it is really not.

    Anyways, at one point one of the characters asks why people still use the name Victoria for the planet, as this was named by Earth people. And then suggested to just call the planet Mud, since they got so much of it. Was half a joke but later in the book some people do use Mud as a name for it.


  • The open links in private tab works fine still. However what OP means, and I can confirm that, you were able to setup Fennec to always start in private mode when you open it, without making a specific shortcut for it.

    I just checked in Ironfox and there it still works like that. I could however not find a specific setting that does this.

    So this makes me think, OP, what you and I were using was maybe never intended to work as expected but potentially a bug that got fixed. You can still open links automatically in private mode and you can add the extra shortcut for when you manually start the browser.














  • Yeah, what an idiotic comparison. The one thing is a game franchise, specifically designed to get you hooked on it and “collect them all” which obviously means you need to know what you are collecting. Plus the name yelling thing.

    The other thing is… life. How many average 8-year olds are travelling the world to see all animals? They certainly don’t have unrestricted access to the internet (hopefully) to lookup animals. There’s no reward for knowing that.

    Just a shitty comparialson.