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Vincent

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  • Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)

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  • Signal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950

    So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)

  • Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez wins new term as Spanish PM following election gamble – Europe live | Spain | The Guardian

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  • I get the parliamentary kerfuffle, but I kinda mean opposition against secession in general. As I understand it, it wouldn't so much be like giving Native Americans random swaths of land, but giving the people living on specific swaths of land (which might be mostly Native Americans) that land, and no more influence over how the rest of the land is governed. Sorta like allowing California to become its own country, I suppose - why would other Americans have a problem with that, if the Californians wanted that?

  • Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez wins new term as Spanish PM following election gamble – Europe live | Spain | The Guardian

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  • As an ignorant non-Spaniard, can anyone give a quick ELI5 why people are so strongly against the separatism that they show up with 100k+? I can't imagine getting terribly annoyed at regions wanting to leave my country? Unless it would be my own region, I suppose.

  • Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details

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  • I'm very excited about how the Linux community generally seems to be moving towards various approaches to immutable systems - all of them having in common that system updates are going to be a lot less likely to break. The future is looking good!

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

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  • Ah yes, people are indeed known for always reading long readmes and fully grasping the consequences of their actions, especially if those occur long after said actions :P

  • GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

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  • Great work by Sonny and Tobias. Really happy to hear that more effort will be invested into accessibility, as I feel it's really been lagging over the past couple of years.

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

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  • Yes, but as soon as it is accessible via the GUI, more and more people will start getting blurred Google Docs (and similar weird issues) without knowing how that happened - because that's already happening even with people who know enough to make changes in about:config.

  • Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

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  • I hope you're right!

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

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  • I mean, you're just saying that if you don't dial it up to eleven, but just to nine, then you'll hit less breakage. Which, sure, but that's kinda my point: a usable browser needs to strike a balance, and that's exactly what Firefox is trying to do - which is really something different from "needing a 180-degree turn". Firefox by default is stopping way more tracking than e.g. Chrome, and guides users to installing e.g. uBO.

    Also note that most breakage isn't immediately obvious. For example, if you turn on privacy.resistFingerprinting, then Google Docs will become blurred. However, by the time you see that, you won't be able to link that to the flipped config. This is the kind of breakage that many "hardening guides" cause, and by that, they eventually lead people to switch to Chrome, which is the opposite of what they're supposed to achieve.

    And sure, Librewolf draws the line at a slightly different place than Firefox does. But the main difference is not sending data like hardware capabilities, crash stats, etc. to Mozilla - which don't threaten democracy or result in hyper-targeted ads, but do enable Mozilla to optimise the code for real-world use.

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  • Let's hope so, feels like orgs were able to build up a reasonable amount of pressure in such a short amount of time.

  • Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

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  • Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

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  • It does kinda depend on whether this manages to actually pass...

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  • I think the EP voted down Chat Control for now, but this is a different thing.

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

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  • A Mozilla dependent on Google seeing value in Firefox sending searches their way is at minimum as good as one in which Mozilla doesn't exist and everybody uses Chromium-based browsers, by definition - and in practice, way better.

    But yes, more non-Blink engines in use in general would also be a better world. Alas, that, too, isn't the world we live in.

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box.

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  • Same for translations btw, Firefox didn't have built-in translations for a while because Mozilla had to painstakingly work on a research project to figure out how to do translation locally, on your machine, without sharing the page you're looking at with an external server.

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box.

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  • Spell-check doesn't send things to a server in Firefox - that's Chrome (and only with a particular setting, IIRC).

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box.

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  • I'll emphasise that the "handful of concessions" are concessions to usability, not to having to share data with Google or DuckDuckGo. Firefox is still an incredibly private browser, especially if you consider the rest of the landscape.

  • Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

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  • But also keep in mind that it couldn't exist without Firefox/Mozilla existing. A world in which more people use Firefox over Chromium-based browsers is a better world.