Will they change their business practices to respect their users’ privacy though?

Spoiler: they won’t - if they did they’d go bankrupt in a matter of months.

Amen.

In that case, maybe he should cumtribute indeed.

I still can’t forgive myself for not having asked a chick for her number after I had a good dance with her at a party…25 years ago. She was very pretty, exactly my kind of woman, at least physically, which is presumably why I was afraid to ask. It made me realise that I absolutely prefer to deal with the pain of rejection than to deal with the resentment and self-loathing of not having asked a woman out, asked for her number or even just talked to her.

People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.

FFS will people ever use “it’s” and “its” correctly ?

Because of this, I’ve always had ‘mixed feelings’ (to put it mildly) towards Mozilla, and sometimes I really struggle not to hate them. They’re (yet) not Google or Microsoft and that’s cool, but besides that, I also cannot think of more than a handful of good decisions against a ton of pretty awful ones, so right now I’ve settled for ‘a necessary evil’, which is pretty sad considering their potential.

What they are doing is not much different than leaving a bunch of 6th-graders to supervise themselves…

Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole has so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world’s top 3 metropolitan areas

‘AI vegan’…

Where I come from, saying something that stupid will get you killed.

“Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many”

No shit, man.

My father and his first wife married at 17, had their first child at 18. She (i.e. that first child) had her first child at 17, who in turn had her first child at 18. My father thus became grandfather at 35, great-grandfather at 53; and I became uncle at about 7, great-uncle at about 25. Kinda cool tbh.

Since that happens to the best of us, I envision writing a wrapper script around {n,}pfctl that asks for confirmation upon detecting that you’re logged in via ssh through a specific port AND detecting that the new rules would block that port.

Still baffles me how many people are convinced that you can ‘wipe properly/thoroughly/enough’. It’s exactly for that reason that I avoid sitting down in public transportation. Anyone who either possesses the instinct of not wanting to smell like shit and/or has had the ‘privilege’ of cleaning someone else’s butt (say, a small child or an adult in need of special care) knows that the words ‘wiping’ and ‘hygiene’ can only be used in the same phrase if there’s also the words ‘wet’ and/or ‘wash’ and/or ‘soap’ in it. Otherwise…of course your f****g chair stinks.

I’ll just throw in the mandatory ‘always on the wrong side of history’ cliché.

Exactly. Only small businesses and individuals have to honour the GDPR, not them.

In Briar, it’s only possible to send images - not any other file, as of this writing.

They have a very clear stance on not rushing releases, and focusing on security and stability rather than features, which is laudable, but on the flip side that means one must probably wait for months, if not years, for new features.

I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?

If being a corporate hoe taught me anything, it’s that you should NEVER sacrifice your health, including your mental health, for a company.

If you burn out, no colleague is going to care for you. If you fall ill, no boss is going to visit you. If you die, oh, you’ll very much have someone from the company go to your funeral : they need to be sure you’re indeed dead so that they can stop paying your salary.

Reminds me of IP over avian carriers ☺