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3M pays $10.3bn to settle water pollution suit over ‘forever chemicals’
  • 3M has known for half a century[1] that the effects of PFAS are dangerous, yet ignored the danger. The parallels with the fossil fuel industry (climate change) is noteworthy here. There's other industries that come to mind; tobacco and pharma for instance. Until these companies and the people responsible are truly held (criminally) accountable, instead of given a slap on the wrist (i.e., cost of doing business fines), nothing will change.

    [1] https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/

  • I really want to use Firefox, but feels a bit odd
  • I don't get a lot of the negative sentiment here. To me Firefox is vastly superior to Chrome. Mozilla refactored and optimized performance years ago, which fixed many issues I had back then. It's open source, not driven by the interest of gathering data for the purpose of selling ads. I've set it up in exactly the way I like with some extensions and customizations that aren't possible in the Google browser. I can have hundreds and hundreds of tabs open without my computer grinding down to a halt. Is it perfect and aren't there things that can be improved? No. But it's pretty near to me.

  • Prevent sidebar reloading when re-opening

    Hi folks, are there any extension developers here? I've a question, not sure if it is possible.

    I created a very simple extension which opens chatgpt in the sidebar. This works great, but the thing is, every time I open the sidebar, it refreshes the page. I don't want that, I'd rather it opens where I left off. Is there any way to accomplish this or is it a pipe dream? I'll post my code here: manifest.json:

    ``` {

    "manifest_version": 2, "name": "ChatGPT Sidebar", "description": "Displays ChatGPT in sidebar.", "version": "1.0", "browser_specific_settings": { "gecko": { "strict_min_version": "54.0a1" } },

    "sidebar_action": { "default_icon": "icons/ChatGPT_logo.svg", "default_title" : "ChatGPT Sidebar", "default_panel": "sidebar/panel.html" },

    "permissions": ["tabs"],

    "commands": { "_execute_sidebar_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+Shift+9" } } }

    }

    ```

    And the panel.html:

    ``` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://chat.openai.com/" /> </head> <body></body> </html>

    ```

    [edit] formatting

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