FriendOfDeSoto

Machine translation is not good at tone. So if a friendly fuck you is a different expression from one uttered in anger, I'd be very careful. Puns and slang only if it's established enough. By which I mean is been around for a while and the model could train on it. Hyperbole will also be tough because if it's devoid of tone how would the computer know? And even if you run instant spoken translation I wouldn't trust any assistant to get it right.

Wrong community. Nothing mild about that.

The Yahoo!tech writers went on a deep dive and watched a YouTube video.

Bah humbug that's obvs called schadenbetrug.

You may be as outraged as you want. I just pointed out that Mullvad didn't do anything (to their detriment, at this point) like the title of the post suggested. That's misrepresenting the facts. If you feel like that distinction (a company endorsement vs. a private donation) doesn't make a difference, that's fine. I get that. I left Proton when their CEO was praising the regime of 47 for tech regulation. I just believe we should be mad for the right reasons. Facts are good.

It's been pointed out here in the thread that the majority of the donation to the horseshoe loonie party may in fact have come from other income streams, as Mullvad doesn't pay an awful lot. I don't know if that's true but that would put another spin on the story as well.

There is no shortage of c@>=s in the author community either. Let's not mention her name again. She's probably a lot richer and therefore a lot more impactful with her magic money than this mad meatball. In my estimation, a dollar spent in the famous magician universe will have a lot more negative impact on the trans community than a comparable amount of kronor at Mullvad for immigrants to Sweden. The bigger threat there are probably the Sweden Democrats and they're already in parliament as the second largest fraction.

This isn't good. It's also not entirely correct. Mullvad isn't financing this party directly. One of the owners took his money he made from the company and donated it to the loonies. He could've bought crypto with it, spent it in blow maybe, but he didn't. "Mullvad is financing this party" is not correct. "Your Mullvad fees may have ended up indirectly financing this party" is correct and an ongoing concern. So is their tepid response to the story breaking. I would still advise caution, hammer them with public outrage pressure on the socials, and hope they get rid of the loonie party donor before you bankrupt an otherwise serviceable VPN provider. If that guy is still there in a couple of months, by all means leave.

There is no shortage of c@<%s in the tech sector.

Yahoo!tech digging deep for a story there.

I'm not sure I understand the issue with fortifying the edges

Imagine a stack of papers on your desk. Clumsy you knocks over your coffee cup. Coffee hits all the papers, gets between them, everything is ruined. Now imagine it's got spine binding. The coffee will not get into all the pages. Now imagine, somewhat unrealistically, attached under the spine binding is a little halfpipe sunken in the desk. Most of the coffee now flows away on the pipe. The drainage acts a bit like an anchor keeping stuff in place on the side.

I recognize that this is perhaps the motivation of the tech's peddlers right now. It's not a foregone conclusion that this is what's going to happen.

Just from an economic angle, they need somebody to pay for all of this. It isn't self sustaining. If we have no more jobs, no more artists, and all live broke, hand to mouth, who is going to pay for all this processing hardware they bought on credit, let alone the services they try to push on us that don't work? Until they can plug us in like in the Matrix there's still hope.

People would run into the oncoming traffic on the other side more often if the lanes are slanted inwards. And you have a single point out failure for the drain in the middle (e.g. blockage). Leaves will travel. I'm not an engineer but I play one on Lemmy: you don't want your road to get washed away in a storm. If the edges aren't fortified with a predetermined escape for water away from the road's foundation, you run a higher risk of erosion.

Not this again. For the love of God.

I am in Japan where they have just discovered a cartel of ice cream manufacturers pushing up prices. Supply and demand. This is capitalism, baby!

This is a lawsuit, right? It'll go through a few judges' hands on appeals and what not and by the time the companies get their slap on the wrist in 2-5 years they will have made so much money it doesn't matter.