Wait, really? I've found the new outlook opens emails faster than the old one, especially the HTML-heavy ones that my work loves to send me.

The refactor to the rules UI is really nice too, the old one was so crusty. Can't comment on the timezone issue though.

Damn, it is actually scary that they managed to pull this off. The backdoor came from the second-largest contributor to xz too, not some random drive-by.

I'm honestly not against this. I know a lot of people will be furious with Mozilla about doing anything related to advertising, but as the article says:

And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet, and the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.

We may dislike ads, but the vast majority of internet users are not going to engage with content that requires you to pay up front. Creators and journalists need money to survive, and currently, ad-supported viewing is necessary for that to happen.

Instead of just hoping that advertising somehow goes away, I'm glad that Mozilla is working on ways for ads to exist without mass individual user tracking. I wish it wasn't necessary, but wishing won't change the world.

My top three would be Rimworld, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Metroid Prime.

Honorable mentions to Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Windwaker, Subnautica... There are so many great games out there that it's hard to pick a top three!

I think it's worth getting. I liked how they made it so different from the base game, and still managed to create an interesting mystery for you to unravel that gives background to the base game's story.

I didn't like how heavily it leaned into horror though. Horror's just not really my thing - there was one section in particular that was super stressful for me. But if you can tolerate (or enjoy) the horror elements, then you'll like the DLC.

My first game was Yoshi's Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.