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This is not evidence to the contrary

besides the whole rocket blowing up thing?

SpaceX is a well-ran innovative company

their rocket just blew up

(Edit: Thankfully, the admin announcemeny comes up if I sort by hot + local.)

I'm planning on switching servers this weekend. If only there were one that was really good I could switch to...

The number of trees Ecosia plants after you see

1 ad: 0

100 ads: 0

1 million ads: 0

Like every other ad provider, Ecosia only makes money after you click on the ads. So staring at them doesn't do you (or them)/any good.

If you were sketched out before, look again. It got so much worse, I had to update my post.

Well, at least it was a private company rocket ship and not my tax dollars.... Right?

I was paraphrasing and trying to be nice. Fine, you didn't say humans yearn for the workplace. You said humans existentially require the workplace.

I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless

No offense, Vincent, but your methods don't work: Firefox Connect has ignored requests like "Add StartPage" for years and uses the platform to announce other search engines getting added instead.

Please don't dissuade people from using effective methods

This is good news. Mozilla made an ethical mistake, and pushback caused them to correct it rapidly. If anything, this restores my faith in Mozilla at least a little.

I've noticed a worrying trend among Firefox fans: too many of them supported this mandatory telemetry for on-device features.

They had never held this position before. Mozilla made a change, and too many fans simply adopted it uncritically.

Personally, I believe everyone should have internal ethical guidelines that aren't mandated by their favorite corporation. Mozilla's recent behavior has been particularly egregious because they push an ethical manifesto on their website and they promise every application they produce upholds them. Hopefully it should be clear to people that Mozilla's stated goals are good because they are good and not simply because they came from Mozilla. If Mozilla updates their principles to suck, then they'll suck. Ethics should not be treated like a religion.

But this blog post is good news. It demonstrates that criticism actually has merit, and that Mozilla can be coerced into rolling back bad changes.

I hope the Firefox fans who adopted Mozilla's silent stance just a couple days ago will rethink their positions and decide not to be so harsh when they see criticism of Mozilla.

According to technical experts, internet service providers across the country have begun implementing a rule that limits data transfers from sites using Cloudflare to just the first 16 kilobytes. This technique is relatively subtle but effective: very lightweight, basic websites can still load, creating a façade of normal internet function, while modern, media-rich sites are effectively broken.

16 KB per website? What part of the normal internet is that small? What part of the indie web is that small?

e.g. look at the smallest sites on https://512kb.club/

Or is this just 16kb per request, which would make more sense with the following explanation:

Analysts report that similar throttling is also being applied to other major western hosting providers popular with Russian users, including Germany’s Hetzner and the US-headquartered DigitalOcean... [they] are widely used by Russians to host private VPN servers, which allow them to bypass the Kremlin’s ever-widening blocklists.

AFAIK, VPNs maintain a long-standing connection that would definitely use more than 16kb at a time.

Not posting to social media? That's absolutely un-American!