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"Mixpanel is aware of reports that Pornhub has been extorted with data that that was allegedly stolen from us," Mixpanel told BleepingComputer.

"We can find no indication that this data was stolen from Mixpanel during our November 2025 security Incident or otherwise."

"The data was last accessed by a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023. If this data is in the hands of an unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel."

So Mixpanel may well be just disclaiming responsibility here to limit exposure, but if they're correct, then it's not necessarily true that ShinyHunters are behind all the MixPanel stuff.

I've been using NewsBlur since I read Cory Doctorow's piece about RSS readers: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

It works fine, and I'm just on the free tier.

It would be helpful if this included an explanation, rather than just an assertion. Can you explain how FPTP allows this, and how proportional representation fixes it?

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Maybe Cory Doctorow can? https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

Pretty close! It's tar-soaked hemp fibers (rope traditionally being hemp), called oakum. Sometimes cotton under that for filling if needed. To me it still feels more about carefully easing out, particularly since paying out also has other uses that aren't rope related, like falling off to leeward after a tack.

As long as we're being pedantic, when you pay out pitch, you're not covering the deck with it. You're making lines of it that go in between the deck planks. It's basically caulking. You actually have to be careful to not get it everywhere (not least because pitch is really hot when you're paying it out), so just like when you're paying out a line, there's a sense of careful control and easing out the pitch.

I've been on the $5 a month plan, and go over probably half the time. The months when I do go over, it just means I start the next month a couple of days early. I'm probably actually somewhere around $6 a calendar month; my Kagi month is probably only 28 days or so.

Ah, but "Platner" and "Palantir" have most of the same letters!

Surely the x axis is time, and the y axis is "some metric", right? Otherwise, spot on.

ChatGPT, of course! What's the worst that could happen?

Yeah, that's what my dad says, and he's a medieval historian, so I believe him. I guess it's possible that lifespan in 1901 was much shorter than the middle ages, but that seems unlikely