If the nice people at the FBI show up to your door with a warrant from a secret court set up by Trump show up to your office telling you either implement a backdoor in your app or everyone goes to jail forever, what do you do?

All US-based apps and all the apps that store their data in US-owned cloud providers at very least.

When you are trying to compete with another application, speed matters a lot.

The Linux foundation is still trying to take Servo out of the ground

Colonialism is such a beautiful and logical thing. /s

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.

It’s available in read-only mode since 21st: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.

AWS SLOs are going to shit aren’t they?

In other news: Chinese marketing departments caught up to Western marketing departments in overselling their products.

It’s not a coincidence it happened on the same day. After the first studio did their announcement the others kind of had to come forward to lay their claim.

As IBM said in 1979, computers aren’t accountable, and I would go further and say they should never make any meaningful decision. The algorithm used doesn’t really make a difference. The sooner people understand that they are responsible for what they do with computers (like any other tool) the better.

You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.

Shouldn’t they do it while the COBOL people are alive to fix the code?

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

They have subscriptions to finance Firefox, including a VPN - it’s just Mullvad with a different name plus some integrations with the browser, but if you need a VPN and want to help Firefox it’s a good way to do it

If anyone else offered to pay what Google pays Mozilla would drop Google like an hot potato (like they did Yahoo).

So I wouldn’t count on any mythical alternative unless Microsoft decides to waste more money promoting Bing (which wouldn’t really be an upgrade privacy wise).

Then why don’t these search engines pay for being default?