Did they say why?

Audit.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/vpn-services/mullvad-ivpn-mozilla-vpn-top-consumer-reports-vpn-testing-a9588707317/

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/8/9/infrastructure-audit-completed-by-radically-open-security https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvad-vpns-servers-have-undergone-an-independent-audit-and-the-results-are-in

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/22/vpn-server-audit-found-no-information-leakage-or-logging-of-customer-data

Some of them don’t even log the data required to cooperate with requests. Mullvad is one.

Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don’t use a VPN because of shadowy “hackers” who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can’t be trusted.

How about this?

I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won’t meaningfully improve my privacy or safety

Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.

They don’t even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless

Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.

Does the API distinguish between banned from a community vs banned from the instance? Might be good to distinguish them visually

I’m torn on this topic because on the one hand there’s enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you’re leaving them behind.

I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don’t regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.

Yeah I would be shocked at 4GB of text haha

Patent trolling is buying up patents from their actual inventors for the purpose of suing and extorting money from companies that actually make use of the tech, while not actually doing anything productive with them.

Two facts here: 1) they invented the tech, and 2) they used the invention to legitimately produce items for sale.

Trolling is not a fit for this.

Why does this constitute trolling, though? That means they actually did invent and produce the tech for that whole period, doesn’t it? I could understand filling a provisional patent and then only pulling the trigger on the whole shebang when you actually have to protect it.

While that’s true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.

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Maybe some examples would be in order.

Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.

I sort of agree. These things appeared overnight in a bunch of cities. It’s not surprising to me that we didn’t and don’t have cultural best practices around them.

There are always going to be inconsiderate people, like those who don’t pick up after their dogs or don’t follow traffic laws. We don’t respond by getting rid of dogs and cars.

Bird, Lime, and others should have invested in acclimating the culture to the presence of the scooters, helping ensure people weren’t going to react like the top level poster (“I hate these things, get rid of em.”)

I personally used them when they were first out and I happened to be visiting LA. They were useful, convenient, fun, and affordable. And most of all, low-impact compared to the alternative.

It’s a loss to not have something like them as a transportation option. But considering the carelessness of the approach, I suppose it wasn’t long for this world. Typical silicon valley pirate stuff; “disrupt” the culture on VC dime, try to push expenses onto someone else, and try to cash out ASAP. I like them; just wish they had been done better.

Called DeepSouth of alll things

The team named the supercomputer DeepSouth based on IBM’s TrueNorth system, which started the idea of building computers that act like large networks of neurons, and Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion.

The name also gives a nod to where the supercomputer is located geographically: Australia, which is situated in the southern hemisphere.

I mean ok, but still, to call anything related to a brain DeepSouth 😶

Speaking with the Financial Times last week, Figma chief executive Dylan Field said: “It is important that those paths of acquisition remain available because very few companies make it all the way to IPO. So many companies fail on the way.”

I.e. “Our business model never included plans for us to actually have to compete!”

When those young people comb through the terms of service before opening an account, they’ll sure be in for some intimidation

I’m on lemmy. Obviously, I think about Marxism-Leninism.

Lol ok. Back to minitel with the lot of you.

Erm, that makes all the difference. We’re talking about Google robbing you of choice. Which they are doing by replacing v2 with v3.

Of course Firefox is not doing that.

I’d argue that part of controlling your own browser is being able to make that decision. Manifest v3 will rob you of that ability.

Even if so, does evaporating cause it to exit the water cycle?