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Their founder recently donated a large sum of money to an extreme far right/nationalist party in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Donation_to_the_%C3%96...

Being cruel to your employees qualifies, regardless whether they care about the product, IMO. And it seems like those employees did care. Words matter and shape the environment people work in.

I think the skull already did a good job of that

Not everyone passing through HN is a racist. These things become canon when nobody opposes them.

It's up to you, really, to only use flatpaks that declare tight permissions and implement the proper protocols to safely access resources they don't declare.

This isn't always easy and a lot of software on flathub is old-ish, so people tend to open up permissions since it's difficult to implement all these features properly. In my experience people will rarely stand in your way if you try to improve a package.

The fact that this is up for debate already says all. For anyone passing through, read the blog posts and his social media feeds, make up your own mind.

That only works until they realize what's going on. Then you will be expected to output so much that you will have to prompt for 40 hours a week.

In multiple European countries, national ID numbers are public information that can be searched by name and address (i.e. Sweden)

People had to raise hell to get that, while being made fun of by their CMs on social media. Even the opt-out is full of silicon valley dark patterns. Whoever is calling shots about the product at Mozilla doesn't have your best interests at heart.

Wow, your mom lets you have TWO scrollbars?

Posting this without actually looking at what these stand for is more than useless.

People need to be paid. People want benefits. People need to be taught how to edit. Children need to be taught how to research. People need to be brought together to figure out where the site and the tech is going. People want to feel safe participating in their community. If Wikipedia had only ever been "server costs" it would be nowhere close to what it is today.

GoDaddy is the worst registrar, consider it a liability in any of your setups and switch immediately. I've had similar experiences, save yourself the trouble.

Maybe "accidentally killing fossil fuels" will be DT's singular good deed

You are being, and have been, played. What is happening to the left now is exactly what you thought was happening to the right before Elon.

You should try asking ChatGPT to just write you a single paragraph instead next time, it would have the same amount of information and maybe it wouldn't be so obvious

That's by design, their own agents running on their hardware in their network will pass every recaptcha on every customer site

Glorp 5.3 Fast Thinking actually steals this diagram correctly for me locally so I think everyone here is wrong

Most of the drive-by LLM PRs we get are useless, waste our time and are super verbose on top of that. I don't review code like that anymore.

No, you are correct, that is a HackerOne employee filtering the report before someone at Valve looks at it, a lot of companies have this set up and it's not great.

I would be surprised if responsible Valve staff would agree that this is not something they should fix at some point.

It's not done yet.

Quality open source work does not materialize out of existence for free. If you don't want to drive your project through a corporate sponsor that will want to steer it, this is the only way.

And as you can see in the post, this is not just code, it's also people being hired to do docs, planning, conferences, community, design work, web dev, things that are rarely done well in open source because they are hard and people can get paid for them elsewhere.

There has been plenty of direct action in recent years, but I can't really think of any on a global scale. Lots of smaller things on a German level, like journalists reporting about infiltrating a Great Replacement conference hosted by the second biggest political party here.

CCC always has been explicit far left/green, looking at its history, as other people in here have mentioned.

I think it would be fair to say that the club as a whole has become more open about that, I think that's more owed to a lot of folks driving initiatives feeling like the walls are closing in on them though and I can't exactly fault them for that :)

Culture changes. Hacker culture in Europe changed too, young people are moving up and taking positions in local organizations. You didn't change with it, and you're not open to accepting that change, so you are feeling out of place - that's simply how this works.

A lot of those people will feel welcomed and will be treated with respect that they don't usually get everywhere else. They decided to embrace that, it comes at a cost - like you feeling weirded out and not showing up - but they're probably fine with that being your problem to figure out.

Good luck to Microsoft trying to port a billion lines of C++ mazes to Rust with their bullshit machines, I'm sure they won't give up on that one after half a week

I will say that I'm surprised no other LLM picked this up, since the issue should be somewhat evident to people familiar with C++ and how COM works. COM APIs cannot represent "owned" strings.

Still better than whatever JS rats nest they came up with for the new Outlook.

I think you should read DHHs recent non-technical blog posts (highlights like "As I remember London") and make your own mind up about that. Me and a lot of other people on the internet want nothing to do with it.

If someone at work was writing blog posts with white-supremacist code, then yes, I would probably go to HR and they would probably get in trouble. Maybe they wouldn't be fired, but they would be placed on another team. And then the people on that team would find the blog posts, and the same thing would happen, and they would probably be let go at some point.

Because people that do that type of thing usually cannot shut up about it.

The Telekom story mentioned in this article is 100% as bad as they make it out to be, most of the users we support with issues reaching our services are with Telekom Germany. Or in an authoritarian nation that blocks access to western services.

That will never happen, AI cannot be allowed to fail, so we'll be paying for that AI bail-out.