He’s got the reich look.

Maybe @[email protected] was in the mood to write you a poem, or at least have an LLM write you a poem.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Washington, Wash.ing.ton. Six foot twenty, fuckin’ killing for fun.

Who’s enforcing whom to comply with what now?

Not a likely scenario but still possible. If one is serious about not getting “doxxed at any cost,” consider Mullvad browser.

1. Don’t give your email address, or use a throwaway one when you join.
2. Pick a username that’s unrelated to any others you’ve used.
3. Use a VPN.
4. Don’t reveal personal details in posts & comments.

I guess you didn’t get satisfactory answers from your first post, but you still haven’t clarified what you actually mean by your question. All Lemmy servers run Lemmy, so in some senses of the term, they’re all roughly equally private, which is to say not very, because all posts & comments are publicly scrapable, except for private messages.

https://lemmy.ml/:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

What is Lemmy.ml

995 work schedule for the techies. The tech oligarchy will never give up their H-1B visa immigrant labor force, because they know they can work them like dogs.

Copypastaing myself:

Mozilla has been going the wrong way for a long time now, as documented by jwz, who was the instigator for the formation of Mozilla 27 years ago.

• 2013-10-02 W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web’s standards
• 2020-09-23 This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla
• 2022-01-06 Mozilla blinked
• 2023-12-29 Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?
• 2024-01-05 My dinosaur just threw up in its mouth a little
• 2024-06-20 Mozilla is an advertising company now
• 2024-06-22 Mozilla’s Original Sin
• 2024-10-03 Mozilla’s CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now

Those shares are generally voting shares, giving them enormous power.

Blackstone is not BlackRock, but yes they are also scary. 📺 So does private equity own everything?

Not only do BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street own everything, they also own shares in each other. Antitrust is dead; it’s basically one big monopoly. These three firms own corporate America

Just be aware that BlackRock is capitalism’s final boss.

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

When the United States entered WWII, the future head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, bemoaned that his country was fighting the wrong enemy. The Nazis, as he explained, were pro-capitalist Aryan Christians, whereas the true enemy was godless communism and its resolute anti-capitalism. After all, the U.S. had, only some 20 years prior, been part of a massive military intervention in the U.S.S.R., when fourteen capitalist countries sought—in the words of Winston Churchill—to “strangle the Bolshevik baby in its crib.” Dulles understood, like many of his colleagues in the U.S. government, that what would later become known as the Cold War was actually the old war, as Michael Parenti has convincingly argued: the one they had been fighting against communism since its inception.

Depending on your threat model, not very important. What are the chances that 1) someone will have hacked Mullvad’s server and installed a compromised version of the browser, and 2) you happen to download the compromised version before the hack is discovered and mitigated? Also, the signature and the package appear to be on the same server, so what’s necessarily going to stop the hacker from updating the signature to match their hacked package? [Edit: It’s a GPG signature, not a simple hash signature, so I guess that’s so not trivial after all.]

This for-profit company saying that I am not the product doesn’t necessarily make it so, and it doesn’t explain what is the product or service being sold and to whom. And just as their Firefox counterpart changed their terms yesterday, they could change theirs tomorrow.

Mozilla hasn’t been moving in promising directions lately. Mozilla’s CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now

Edit to add: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

This doesn’t bode well at all: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/about/

Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.

A free mail client from a for-profit company? What’s the revenue model? Sounds like I must be the product somehow.

The Thunderbird for-profit entity, MZLA Technologies Corporation, is distinct from the Firefox for-profit entity, Mozilla Corporation, and both are wholly owned by the non-profit entity, Mozilla Foundation.

These particular photos are of New York City.