boatswain

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[–] boatswain 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While Snowflake is a pretty cool and worthwhile extension to run, I don't think having a proxied connection to Tor will help Iranians if they just don't have an Internet connection at all.

[–] boatswain 4 points 1 month ago

Gotcha, that makes sense to me; cheers.

[–] boatswain 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am, yeah. Like I say, I'm just not understanding what they're suggesting Cloudflare should be doing differently in this case, other than not invoking Vance and Musk (which granted is pretty gross to do).

[–] boatswain 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

So your argument is that one of the biggest DNS resolvers should just bow to censorship imposed by a single nation? I'm not really getting what you think they should be doing about Italy's demand. Are you saying they should just pay the fines and keep doing business there?

[–] boatswain 21 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It reads to me like they're being responsible and not bowing to censorship; seems very similar to PornHub's approach to age verification laws. What would be a better course of action here, in your view?

[–] boatswain 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It seems like open and shut false advertising. Why is it ok? Retailers should face the consequences of their actions.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who wants a stadium, though? Those things are a blight.

[–] boatswain 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds very Zen; thanks for sharing

[–] boatswain 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"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.

[–] boatswain 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] boatswain 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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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