For everybody trying it:
avoid the password sharing feature. It's currently hopelessly broken. The last time I had a look it was a known issue that needs major rework.
IMO that can be worked around be keeping a dedicated database for shared scenarios -- albeit not practically fine grained for every secret. (I don't care, yet)
I recently bought one of the best CO_2 meters available here (and had a CO alarm since before that):
the low temperature boiler (natural gas, 1991) in our kitchen contributes close to nothing to the CO_2 level despite getting its air from inside. Letting it run on automatic a whole workday contributes less than 200ppm in our flat.
But an adult and two kids can bring the level from below 500ppm to above 1000ppm in around one hour -- additionally: doesn't really matter if the doors to other rooms are open or not. Ppm fluctuation is (way) less than 100ppm between rooms.
(All time low 380ppm -- 10% above the world average during my birth :-( , highest 1620ppm)
Yeah, under ordinary circumstances your boiler or whatever should not contribute enough CO to cause problems. It's when something weird happens that you have to worry (usually). Like if the jet is clogged or something else happens that can cause incomplete combustion. Incomplete combustion is your enemy when it comes to CO[1].
* The system doesn't have a separate supply stream -- it takes oxygen from the flat.
An CO sensor seems obligatory to me:
after the chemney sweeper (obligatory in Germany) measured 10,000ppm CO in the exhaust stream (defect, not normal operation), I didn't want to depend on a 25y+ boiler's electronics alone.
CO kills relatively fast.
Even if rare, I don't want to die caused by a rare event that could have been avoided by spending ~50€ (here)
Could be. The others are each building their favourite vision of dystopia for profit. Netflix are selling entertainment shows. Hard to see them as the same class of dangerous but equally doesn't seem to have the same scope for revenue.
These days, it's more like a list of the companies that ruined tech and the internet. Microsoft certainly belongs on that list. Netflix made it better for a while at least.
Yeah, otherwise HRH will be very disappointed in heaven.
Look, Petrus is standing there and only ever to let you in if the rituals were done in order. Otherwise... no luck for you... straight to hell.
That was my reaction as well. Picture a benevolent deity condemning you to eternal suffering because the priest used a wrong word in their protective spell…
Limbo is a place of perfect natural happiness. The only thing unbaptized innocents lose is the beatific vision. Otherwise, they're living much better lives than either of us.
That seems to be one view of the Limbo of Infants, but other theologians were less optimistic.
Either way, do you really think it makes sense for somebody to be consigned to a place like this based on whether a priest used all the right words in a ritual?
CCC 1257 says, "God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments." I think I've seen the hierarchy quote this a few times re this story.
I believe that Rome's position here is that they have been entrusted with specific sacraments as tools / "means of grace," and it's not their place to tinker with them, but that doesn't imply that anyone is automatically consigned anywhere as a result of such tinkering. It's entirely reasonable to believe that God is extending grace in a non-standard way because God agrees that this does not make sense. But the fact remains that it is still a non-standard way and not actually the use of the sacraments as given to the Church, and the Church doesn't have the power to decide how much tinkering is too much. It just gets the sacraments the way the sacraments are.
A bad attempt at a nerdy analogy here is to a sudo rule. An unprivileged user who doesn't have "ALL" sudo access must run specific commands in the way they're phrased in the sudoers file. If the sudoers file says you can run "sudo shutdown -h now," and you type "sudo shutdown --halt now", it won't work. But that doesn't mean that the root account is unable to run "shutdown --halt now" or that root doesn't think the "--halt" version is a good idea. It certainly doesn't mean you're unable to contact whoever is root and say "Hey, please run shutdown --halt now," or that they'll ignore you if you do. If root runs it, it will work, and have the same effect. It's just not what's in the sudoers file.
That's an interesting analogy, and it certainly makes sense that an all-powerful God could grant salvation as a discretionary act even if the wording is not quite right.
But what it seems that the church also believes in the other side of the analogy: that if your command line DOES match the sudoers file, (i.e. the wording IS right), it somehow obliges God one way or the other, and that part seems difficult to believe, even if one accepts the underlying concept of baptism.
I think that's precisely what the very idea of the sacraments is! Full disclosure, I'm a Lutheran, and so I obviously don't fully agree with Rome's take on things, but in this very specific bit, I do agree this is how the means of grace work.
Even in the Lutheran service, where we have a norm of corporate confession in the middle of the service instead of individual confessions (and prescribed acts of contrition) beforehand, the preacher says to us, "As a called and ordained minister of the church of Jesus Christ, and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins." This phrasing is clearly not meant to mean just "Because I am a called and ordained minister, I can tell you for sure that Jesus already died for your sins." It is meant to be an actual thing that happens, through the authority given by God to the clergy - i.e., God is obliged, because God has chosen to grant that authority.
> Historically a sacrament was viewed as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and
spiritual grace given to us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive
the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof" (Anglican Catechism). Lutherans have
traditionally tried for greater clarity by stating that a sacrament is an act that is
commanded by Christ, uses a material or earthly element, and through connection with
the Word is the bearer of God’s promise, as the definition above indicates.
I think I see why it feels sort of "unfair" that God is obligated to do something when we invoke a sacrament - but we're not the people imposing that obligation. God did! It's a "pledge to assure us [of grace]" / "promise" in the wording above, and it's not unfair to make use of that pledge / promise. Going back to the analogy - if I'm root and I give you a sudoers file, you're not imposing on me by running sudo. Yes, you can always ask me to do something and have me form an opinion in the moment about whether I should, but for the things in the sudoers file, you can also just run sudo, I'm not going to be unhappy about it. That's why I put it there!
It seems to me that the alternative position is that every baptism and communion is nothing more than a prayer that God might choose to do something - and might just as easily choose not to do so. To me, that seems harder to believe: you'd have to say that God gave us the sacraments even though there's no particular point in them beyond just regular prayer. Why should they exist, then?
(Also, there's a connection here to the ancient argument of the Donatists, that priests and bishops who apostatized in the face of Diocletan's persecution lost their "powers," so to speak. That view was declared heretical, and the view that won out, advocated by Augustine and others, is that sacraments derive their power from God's grace and the simple fact that they are done, not by the merit of the person trying to do them.)
In Chrome there's an icon you click to switch. Honestly, if someone would create a FF extension that was just that, it would probably cover 90% of what's considered superior in Chrome.
have you used container tabs? those are effectively "different profiles" for what most people consider them. It's still shared extensions and history and bookmarks but you can login with different accounts in different tabs and it keeps that separate.
I use container tabs, temporary tabs and the containerise extension to help manage things. I use it so there's stronger isolation between the websites I visit, and cookies are cleaned up when I close the browser.
That's on my main/personal profile.
I have separate profiles for work stuff, one for each client or organisation I work with. On those, I only access sites that are relevant to the organisation, and I have a lot fewer protections. I keep long sessions, I leave cookies in place, etc. It's a lot more convenient that way.
An important UX difference is that Firefox's default "New Tab" keyboard shortcut doesn't respect the container of the current tab. I've found that it's really easy to accidentally switch back to the main container.
about:profiles looks like a debugging page, not something you use for launching a profile. And I'm not referring to its aspect, but usability. It's not made to be used daily.
I'll have to see if it can be "designed" with userChrome.css or something and I'll give it a try.
The only thing I can think of is that the UI is not as nice as chromes for switching? in chrome you can switch the profile from a menu option and there can be more than one profile active at a time with separate everything including extensions and bookmarks.
in firefox you don't get that easy switch and I am not sure the gui for the profiles is enabled by default. you have to manually start up firefox with a -P flag from the command line to get the profile manager. And you only get one profile active at a time.
This isn't true. As I'm writing this, I have three Firefox windows open, each in a different profile. What makes you think you can only have one profile active at a time?
were there any hoops you had to run to get that to work? afaict that's not possible ootb without adding a flag to the command line. I'll admit that I haven't really tried it since many years ago.
for 90% of the users out there that we need to convince to use firefox: having a command line switch is about the same as not having the feature at all... chrome has a menu item that brings up a brand new window in that profile.
I want firefox to succeed and it's my daily driver.
You do have to use the command-line and there is a single hoop: the `--new-instance` flag. I agree the situation could be made "normal" user friendly and it isn't right now.
When I open Chrome, I can open any profile straight away from the menu. On Mac, there’s just one Chrome icon.
When I open Firefox, I have to go to a page that looks like a developer debug mode, and then open a new profile in a new Firefox instance. I now have two Firefox icons in my dock. I normally work with three profiles, so now I have three Firefox icons in my dock all called Firefox. 66.6% of the time I press the wrong one.
The problem is that Firefox has to be at least as good as Chrome to succeed. Being _almost_ as good as Chrome means people will just use Chrome.
I had to keep shelter in a telephone booth just to survive waiting for a train at -14,8F (-26°C) in Weimar, Germany -- called a taxi.
That's a worst-case, not the "every decent winter in Europe" 14°F
Electric heat pumps extract heat from the environment, this is only really efficient above freezing temperatures. A quick google gives me "-10 C" as a minimum operating temp, or 14 F
My house uses an electric heat pump but has an "emergency heat" function that falls back to resistive heat at much higher cost.
That’s misleading. Yes efficiency drops as the ambient temperature drops, but they are still quite efficient below freezing.
For example here’s one of the units I run at my home: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/56518. It has a COP (coefficient of performance) ranging from around 4 at higher ambient temperatures, down to 1.8 at 5f. So it’s just over half the electricity input per watt of heat output for me to run my heat pump at 5f.
There are newer units and units designed to run in cold environments that achiever much higher COP below freezing than my example above.
Fahrenheit, Celsius, horizontal angle?