That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

They also kicked Jack to the curb went he tried to go full Musk on content moderation.

They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.

The repo alone has 114 contributors, and that’s assuming no one copied code from any other project. It’s not that small.

One thing I’m missing in all this, did the dude change the license from GPL without the other contributors express permission? That on itself would be a massive violation of the GPL

That’s why decent rulers have a 0 and a margin:

Your rulers start at 1? That sounds annoying.

They didn’t plot shit, the Conservatives lost the election on their own. Under Starmer, Labour managed to lose half a million votes.

Ireland systematically trying to make the EU a race to the bottom is hilarious /s

It was a joke to make the point that vim can be the easiest tool to use if you are trying to do a complex task.

Easy is relative. What are you trying to do? Replace a value in an yaml file? Then nano is easier. Trying to refactor a business critical perl/brainfuck polyglot script in production? Then you probably want to use vim (or emacs if you are one of those people)

For desktop you probably can use something like https://github.com/TCB13/LoFloccus/ to save the bookmarks to a file in Synchthing. (Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this myself)

One thing is allowing the other is actively collecting and processing the data.

Also no. But 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

You are speaking like there are only two alternatives and none of them involves following the law.

Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”.

Mozilla can’t send user data to an “aggregation service” without explicit consent, no matter how much propaganda they use to explain it.

Why is Mozilla coming from the position that what advertisers want is reasonable or acceptable in any shape or form? The advertisement industry existed for centuries without the ability to spy on people and they were doing just fine.

Edit: this being opt-out instead of opt-in also violates the GDPR.

Before that don’t forget to voluntary submit a summary report of your activity to the NSA.