There's a new version of Firefox that should fix most of the problems that happened over the weekend

The solution is to download the new edition and restart your browser, and you SHOULD be good. You shouldn't uninstall your add-ins/extensions. Personally, I have a feeling that this update isn't an absolute fix and we're going to have another Firefox update later this week. Just a hunch. But this should get most of your extensions back up and running. I was fortunate in that it only disabled one of mine, and it was a pretty trivial one.

The problem was that they let a security certificate expire, which caused a bunch of extensions to become unsigned and forced them to stop working. Certificates can be quite fiddly to work with, and chaos ensued. We'll see how well their fix worked. They worked hard to get it out before the business week started, so we shall see.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-fix-restores-broken-browser-extensions-but-not-everyone/

I just merged 12 issues of Lumberjanes comic ebooks into one volume with Calibre!

I expected I could, and found a plug-in that did it! Very easy, which was appreciated.

I spend over an hour a day nebulizing lung drugs, and I can't do a heck of a lot while doing it, and I figured comics are a good way to spend that time. Digging in to my old Humble Bundles, I found I had two collections that had 1-8, then individual epubs holding issues 9-20. And it SUCKED resizing them after loading them into Apple's iBooks program. I'd resize the window, and it would open two pages. Then I'd have to flip it back to single page, rinse, repeat. Then last night it occurred to me that maybe I could use Calibre to merge them into a single file!

And thus I did!

I had to load a plug-in, which was painless. I also loaded one for turning Wikipedia pages into epubs, which I look forward to exploring. Wikipedia used to have such a thing, but it disappeared. They have one that'll turn one or more pages into a PDF, but then you use your ability to reflow text if you change text size or margins.

Happy, happy!

Germany's health minister proposes fine of €2,500 for Anti-Vaxxers!

He also proposes banning them from day care to protect kids too young or unable to be vaccinated.

I can get behind that. Germany is also having problems with a measles outbreak, and they're fining anti-vaxxer parents in New York, but only up to $1,000, not the almost $2,800 being proposed in Germany. The law proposed requires a certificate showing the child has been vaccinated or has had measles. In addition, daycare centers can be fined for admitting children who have not provided proof of vaccination! However, the government is not throwing legislation out without funding: they're putting €5mil annually out there for vaccinations, which can be provided by most doctors and specialists.

Germany had 500 cases of measles in 2018 and has 300 thus far this year.

This was a concern for my wife and I when we did our river cruise from Prague to Berlin because we knew there were live measles in Europe, but it wasn't nearly the problem then in 2015 that it is now.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/germanys-health-minister-proposes-a-2790-anti-vaxxer-charge/

ETA: One of the comments to the post was: Gee, I guess this means Jenny McCarthy is going to take Germany off her travel recommendation list!

ROFL!