I understand retiring Pocket after a long, long run.

But what’s up with ending FakeSpot? They just bought that. They spent an undisclosed amount of money and are now abandoning it.

Is the FakeSpot shuttering a sign of money totally wasted, or should I be concerned that the FakeSpot TOS allowed them to sell user data (specifically in the event of an acquisition) right before the Mozilla acquisition?

Their mod history is fucky, shows mod history 3 years ago before showing what happened 3 or 4 days ago. Feel free to verify.

Huh.

Gemini is nice. It’s got some serious QOL improvements over Gopher too, for those of us that like a little formatting or structure.

I think the current Register title is a little more informative (and cheeky, which is common from their reporting):

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

If you subtract a negative, you do end up with more value…

[Instance]?

Since it looks related to the jurisdiction of a server and not a community

Mattermost recommends Microsoft Windows’ BitLocker for encryption. It does not have E2EE

any server that (openly or secretly) keeps chat history can ignore requests to delete it

Twice as true for any client!

The best thing a server can do is simply be a temporary relay before messages get to those clients. And the messages themselves should be undecipherable. (I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but for those who don’t know, that’s how apps like Signal work.)

I think you meant to reply to hobgoblin, not me

I thought this project was dead and gone years ago. The worst ideas never really die.

It sounds like a helpful tool, but you might have to use some manual review because I don’t think an automated system can easily avoid all the false positives and false negatives.

I was experimenting with similar stuff that counts mass downvotes, and I think it yields some interesting results.

I don’t see any inherent problem with the two things you say are problems: neither DoH, nor the idea that a browser can override default settings.

I’m not a fan of defaulting to Cloudflare, but this seems more like a case of picking your poison. Somebody’s going to get a crack at the domains you’re visiting, are they not? It seems better to encrypt these queries than to allow a middleman to intercept them.

Regarding override default system settings, is this really a problem? I prefer browsers that give people extra options, and I would find it worse if they suddenly took this option away.

The judge was so moved by a call for forgiveness that he increased the recommended sentence… Or if that’s not the case, that’s some poor writing in the article

I think [email protected]’s point is nothing but apologetics. I looked at the post they linked to, which helpfully highlights dog piling that was initiated by a couple pro-authoritarian communities:

cross-posted to:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

According to the people doing the brigading, the article is only wrong because it was written by sources that are too Western for their nationalist liking.

An AI version of Christopher Pelkey appeared in an eerily realistic video to forgive his killer… “In another life, we probably could’ve been friends. I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives.”

The message was well-received by Judge Todd Lang, who told the courtroom, “I love that AI."

While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video.

Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means, its surreptitious interception of Briskin’s personal identifying information certainly is a relevant contact with the forum state.

Established norms for things like privacy and consent should have carried over into the online space. They didn’t, unfortunately - maybe this is because people viewed the Internet as “not real life,” but it is now clear that was a huge legal and cultural oversight.

2021: “Facebook’s internal research found its Instagram platform contributes to eating disorders and suicidal thoughts in teenage girls, whistleblower says”

(Whistleblower is correct.)

Muhlheim, the finance chief for the organization’s for-profit arm — which in turn helps fund the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.

I’m looking and not finding

But Plohman (via the last link) is. According to this (PDF warning), that’s $415,519 total.

On the for-profit side, who knows! It’s anybody’s guess.

I don’t trust myself to handle secure encryption. Nextcloud has given up on providing client-side encryption at all… So the obvious choice for me is Immich.

Although since I’ve fallen for Ente, I’d probably use that instead.

Unfortunately, Nextcloud has given me so much pain in my attempt to make it E2E that I’ve basically given up on using it at all. For stuff that’s not images or passwords or notes - which is a fleetingly small list of things - I tend to use either Filen or Proton’s services.

Israel is a useful state to strengthen the American grip abroad (it carries out American interests without an American label) plus it’s the perfect testing grounds for unethical surveillance (and worse) on the people both within and outside its borders