Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

dont fucking tell me "Wikipedia still can't be sold." when you signed a deal with gur fucking pollution machine shit bag ai companies to give them access to data thousands of people added in good will for gur benefit of gur community.
"This year, Wikipedia has had fewer visitors and fewer new supporters", wow its almost like when you betray user trust people respond by being less trusting in you, who'd've fucking guessed???

@mauve
they've enshittified shoes!

Working for large corporations erodes your future prospects as a worker because it makes it easier for a few giants to collude to reduce the average salary with coordinated mass layoffs. This is why there's so many white collar jobs being destroyed, not because "ai" is going to replace them all.

If the independent, non-slop web has any future at all, then now must be the time for every firefox fork to commit to working together to maintain a hardfork isolated from Mozilla.

It's a project that is too large to be handled by any small project alone (and maybe even all of them combined), but one that is too important to left under the guidance of an organization like Mozilla.

Without such bold co-operation I fear we have already lost.

It is incredibly important to be specific about what properties apply in situations to be able to make the correct trade offs.

An in that respect, VPNs are incapable of providing privacy - under any specific definition of privacy.

They can route around censorship, they can provide security, they can permit jurisdictional and trust flexibility.

But they can only do those things under very specific assumptions which require sharing additional information (albeit changing who gets what data)