kbal

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[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 7 months ago

Pick one that has a wireguard config generator, so you don't need to use any client software besides the normal linux wg client.

I'd also look for one that accepts anonymous payment methods. Even if you don't intend to go to the trouble to use that yourself, it's probably a good sign if it's available. Mullvad is pretty safe and served me well until they stopped doing port forwarding. Proton, windscribe, azire, and airvpn were the ones that seemed most recommended when I went to look for a new one a few months ago.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 8 months ago

I spent a small moment wondering whether or not this was the real Olga Loiek in the video, but I guess the heuristic that says the real one is probably the one who's not telling you how great China is or which brand of makeup to buy still works for now.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did they change the headline, or did you come up with the more click-baity one just for us?

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 8 months ago

I would not blame this on the new CEO unless there's some evidence to support it. Wanting to incorporate more ads into the browser is one of the things the previous CEO was known for, and maybe that brilliant idea being met with hostility was one of the things that persuaded her to depart from the role. Whatever this new feature was to be, it most likely had its origins during her tenure.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 8 months ago

It seems highly likely that you have mischaracterized the meaning of browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.userEnabled but it doesn't matter. The mere existence of browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.userEnabled is damning enough on its own.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's not the difference between this and the usual kind of enshittification. The users are one side, the advertisers (and google) are the other. Nothing unusual there. The difference is that this time it's driven by desperate grasping at straws, rather than barefaced greed.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, if what you want is inexpensive, simple, and durable you might be looking for my favourite keyboard which apparently they're still selling. I haven't needed a new one in 15 years or so but it doesn't look like they've changed the design at all.

Whether a "mechanical" keyboard is worth it just depends on your taste, but in my experience they do wear out much more quickly than this thing I'm typing on.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 8 months ago

Your post calling for peoplpe to contribute something of value to the discussion contributes nothing of value to the discussion. This comment adds to the noise by pointing it out. Such is the way of Internet forums since time immemorial.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 8 months ago

It's not that easy being free Having to wonder if you picked the right instance When I think it could be nicer being Zucked or Musked or Spez'd - or something much more profitable like that.

It's not easy being free. It seems you vibe with so many other federated things. And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like influencers in the feeds - or big brands in the web.

But free's the color of fedi. And free can be cool and friendly-like. And free can be big like an ocean, or dank like a meme, or round like a blobcat.

When free is all there is to be It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder, I am federated and it'll do fine, it's pretty good most of the time!

And I think it's what I want to be.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'll just go ahead and assume that the downvotes are because it's fucking twitter (and @firefox@mozilla.social is still 404) not some kind of animosity towards furries.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Preliminary calculations show that it would take decades to break this cryptographic separation [between a subscriber account and its associated network traffic]

The unnecessary rubbishing of Android VPNs seemed like one red flag in there. Is that another one? It seems both unlikely given the kind of traffic analysis that could be brought to bear, and very unimpressive that the hypothetical time to break it is measured only in decades rather than the multiples of the age of the universe that seem more normal when discussing things that are meant to be cryptographically secure.

But it would nonetheless be interesting, if Google hadn't shut it down last year as seems to be the case far as I can tell.

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