Ashelyn

Wouldn't that break relativity tho if you treat the earth as a fixed point? Stuff really far out would have to be going absurdly faster than light to orbit the earth once every 24h. I feel like that's one of the ways to tell whether or not you're rotating, or stuff is orbiting you.

I had my suspicions that the issues I've been running into are mostly because of the worsening botting/scraping situation, and in part due to the general very slight preferential treatment Chromium browsers get on the wider Internet, where anything weird coming from Firefox automatically looks more suspicious because it's an underrepresented browser already.

I typically just look up "Firefox Hardening Guide" and follow what looks like the best of the first few results every time I do a fresh install. Because of that, I don't know exactly which guide I followed last, but this one echoes a lot of the steps I remember taking. I've since turned webRTC back on because it kind of broke discord(... I know, I know, discord is terrible for privacy but it's where all my peeps are at!) Didn't tweak everything outlined in guides such as the one linked, but pretty much whenever there was privacy to be gained seemingly without significant website breakage, I'd toggle it.

The user agent thing was bizarre, especially since it was also on Minecraft.net! I swapped to a generic Chrome on Windows agent and it instantly started working again and let me use the site as normal again. That said the user agent thing doesn't always work... But the fact that it does sometimes may be a clue to why websites seem to hate my configuration.

I don't use a VPN currently

I have found that it happens more frequently with sites I've either not been to before, or not visited for a long time... Again it does seem to go away after 20 minutes or so for any given website, I just find it weird that it seems to be happening more.

I might have been exaggerating the degree to which this happens... It's been only around 5-10 occurrences since the start of the year, but it happened so rarely before that point in time I barely noticed. Could also be a coincidence, it's just barely enough though that I've been starting to get suspicious and wonder if anyone else was having issues

But yeah no VPN or anything and it's occurred across 3 of my devices, only thing in common was Firefox and that I've taken steps to harden it on all of them

No, I haven't had/used a VPN while this has been occurring. Main reason I made the post was that it has started affecting my work computer as well trying to access files from various websites for pdf specs

I was thinking of a short lil bunny wearing a top hat and monocle with one ear sticking out of the center of the top hat but that works too

I could comment on the notion that one owns one's girlfriend but regardless, you should definitely self host if you're sharing deeply personal information with a program

Sounds like a Pal name lol

This is the actual ad, the video the person above linked cuts periodically between the actual ad and drop-in skit scenes carrying the joke well beyond the point of being funny (imo)

https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU?si=TP0jPKxxj1-n1A0g

Still some weird undertones there tho

Sorry, let me rephrase: while you can make a good approximation of the average person's schedule in many places due to 9-5 culture, it will, at best, still be just that—an approximation and there will be a significant number of people who didn't follow it. If you need to know a specific person's availability, you will still have to remember details about their routine, and then also convert their time zone to your own or clarify "whose time" you're talking in. That adds an extra burden on top of the whole AM/PM confusion that can occur as well.

If Alice lives in a timezone 4 hours behind yours, and you both have work until 5pm in each respective timezone, you've probably already calculated that difference and just kind of know that she's not off work until 9pm, and she's doing the same mental calculation that you're off work around the time her clock hits 1pm. This doesn't even take into account other obligations or scheduling.

Point is that there's already lots of memorization going on. What difference is it if you wake up at t=2.25 global vs 8:00AM local if it's light out and most others around you get up at the same time and work for a roughly equal interval to 9hrs including the unpaid lunch? Communicating with people further away requires figuring out schedules regardless.

Of course, nobody is used to dealing with the time in this matter. Transition difficulties aside, however, it's not objectively any more difficult than the juggling of coordination we already have to do. People just seem to have a weird attachment to everything having "normal" times even when it's all quite relative in this case.

Edit: grammar and stuff

You don't know my schedule just because you know my time zone lol

One of our cats has a problem with marking personal items left on the floor, even though she's fixed. We think it's partially because she has bad eyesight and so marks stuff so she always knows where it is. It's usually, but not exclusively, something I or my SO wear or have worn recently:

✔️ My purse
✔️ My jacket. Probably three times
✔️ SO's backpack
✔️ My backpack that was sitting in the closet unused for several months
✔️ Articles of clothing that didn't make it into a laundry basket
✔️ The top of the cat tower when we moved it into the living room (trying to assert dominance I guess)
✔️ Rugs (I dunno under what circumstances, she hasn't marked their replacements. She will re-mark previously marked and washed rugs though)
✔️ Towels that don't get put up

The solution has more or less been to stop keeping anything important on the floor.

The other cat likes to occasionally pull towels onto the floor so he can use them as temporary bedding or snuggle up against them. You can probably guess what sometimes happens after he leaves them there.