It’s spez so of course they’re going to go for NSFW subs. Pretty sure that’ll just cause people to move to Onlyfans and other, already NSFW platforms.

Can’t really see anyone paying for sub access apart from porn.

It’s the circle of enshittification

Dr. Disrespect: I’ll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.

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Economy 2.0 is next week I think (hope!) - so this is just vanilla breakage.

Manor Lords all the way. There’s a big Cities Skylines II patch coming out this week (I hope). I might fire it up and check it out. It’s getting close to “release quality” after pretty crappy release.

So your requirement with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we’re talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you’re stuck with Samsung.

Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You’ll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.

There’s some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.

These wearables are pretty complicated high end devices, I wouldn’t really give them to elderly parents who stuggle using a normal mobile.

I think it might be better to look into other tyoe of devices like pager systems from caregivers, if you’re worried about health issues.

Gamers are so fucking weird. Really enjoyed the show. Hope they make 2nd season.

That’s not quite right. Mastodon does not have any privacy at all and it’s not safe to treat it as privacy platform.

What makes Mastodon worth using is the federated model and lack of commercial engagement algorithms.

I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8

Oh no.
Anyways

Yeah, that’s a shame. Hasbro/WotC isn’t the best of companies.

It’s good that they’re not selling to Tencent. But it’s a shame they’re not selling.

I thought the blog was hot garbage (my entire original comment here: https://beehaw.org/comment/2044864 so I won’t repeat it).

I’d like to offer an alternative - https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

Well that was a well paid hit piece. For the record, I am happy with Firefox and its functions, I’ve been using it since the start.

I am rather worried about Mozilla’s new laser focus on AI and the Corp CEO compensation bonuses are just bullshit.

I’m hoping we won’t be forced into a completely Google dominated web because I thinking at that point it’s time to abandon it and burn everything to the ground

BBC feed had a video - looks very much like runway collision https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-67862184 (scroll down)

Well, that article was a hot mess.

I appreciate the authors effort and they are correct about lack of “what is VPN” articles that are not written by VPN-vendors in marketing purpose. But I’m not sure if this was it.

Writing an article meant to “debunk” misconceptions and getting two core concepts, Security and Privacy mixed up right from the start wasn’t very good.

A lot of time was spent on explaining HTTPS and how it somehow magically makes you and your data secure on the Internet and it completely missed to mention who the potential threat actors thwarted by HTTPS are?

Could have probably used a chapter on how actual threats (both security and privacy) work and how don’t have much to do with the level of encryption your TCP/IP connection happens to encapsulate.

The last chapter with the first 3 bullets was pretty good though. That could have just been the whole article and it would have been alright.

Oh well. Attempt was made.

Running FF on Pixel 7. Have only uBlock Origin, no other addons. Runs great, never any problems. Syncs with my desktop.

Yeah, well it’s the corp that pays that CEO bonus salary, not the foundation.

Yeah, noted.
I did go and read the report myself. The blog combines lot of stuff and makes its own narrative, but it’s not wildly inaccurate as far as I can see and I can’t say it changed my overall level of disappointment.

The strategy letters from the Chair and the President are full of AI mumbo-jumbo and they’ve expanded the board from six to ten people, taking on four new members who are supposed to be able to guide them towards this new, fantastic AI-filled future. Quite large percentage of the board is now meant to be there for “building better future with AI”.

Their income is still largely (81%) tied to one customer and the rest are scraps from VPN and Pocket subscriptions. Basically the whole corp sits well and truly in Google’s pocket.

The Foundation President gets $300k year, the Corp CEO gets $600k year, but somehow also qualified for $6.3M bonus totaling $6.9M. That’s a nice raise from $5.4M last year. Sure, the CEO compensation packages are globally totally fucked up and I guess it’s easy to point to “competitive roles elsewhere” and motivate the need for year on year extra millions, but they have been firing people due to shrinking revenues, so not sure what her performance bonuses are tied to.

As to them abandoning Firefox. That’s perhaps a claim taken too far. Gotta do some creative between the lines reading. They say they’re building this fantastic, bright AI future on the base of their core products (so Firefox and Thunderbird). I think they’ll stick around and I think it makes sense for Google to keep it going in some marginal market-share capacity order to avoid anti-trust watchdogs.

Ah I see, well that makes the post double disappointment