Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they’ve gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.
So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here’s what you want to do:
In the url bar, type in about:config
It’ll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.
One by one, you’re going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:
Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that’s peachy.
The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we’re just tidying the garden a lil bit.
a niche ship had me deleting all my filters on ao3 and just raw dogging it in there. discovered that I’m even more of a freak than I previously believed and also that sometimes you gotta give that tag you hate a try
we have been in the lowest depths of hell you and I
girls with adhd playing long rpgs like “i am overwhelmed by the state of the save file i left off with last time my attention arbitrarily fell onto this game. time to start from scratch.”
“yeah i fucking love this game. i’ve bought it on console and pc, and then the remaster too. i have no idea how it ends, i only get 40% of the way through the main story each time”
You will never be a mad scientist like the motherfuckers at r/macarons
Luckily this lady is just a pastry chef and not building death rays
The base Macaron is in itself a very technical task, and they’re notorious for being difficult to bake. Lots of things can go wrong: your merengue can be the wrong texture, the merengue can refuse to foam up at all from trace oils in the bowl, the ingredients love to misbehave if they’re not measured precisely, a shell can refuse to form or dry cracked, the oven can have weird drafts that make the cookies sag, your flavor ingredients can mess up the recipe, you can break the shell trying to release them from the tray, and so on. It’s almost stupid hard to get consistently viable macarons, and these people practice a lot to get to this point.
Not to be deterred from the already difficult task of creating good macarons, these people are making experimental flavors, irregular shapes, complex designs, even handpainting designs with foodsafe watercolors. Sometimes for free.
I’m glad this kind of technical skill and dedication is put towards delicious cookies, because if these people were into making bioweapons or something instead, we’d all be so fucked
