I was running a server hosting a Gutenberg mirror at home 30+ years ago. And no, it’s not public.

I assume. I mean, they do make money somehow, and it’s probably not by getting pirated.

All of the anime pirating sites are riddled with ads.

As if the commercial sites were any better…

Who would have thought that such a thing could happen? Apart from anyone knowing enough about computers, I mean?

No idea what exactly was used. This was done when they built the building, way before my time in the company.

I can tell you it does work. I’m working in a lab painted with such stuff. No, we are not doing anything nefarious, but we had developments stints into wireless and radio technology, and having a properly shielded room to work in helps avoiding trouble with the neighbors. I don’t think they would appreciate getting their wifi jammed when someone here is trying to find a bug in a sender or something like this…

Complain to your bank, obviously.

He killed the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Theoretically, no company is allowed to transfer data of European citizens to US-based servers anymore. Sadly, Ursula von der Leyen is lacking the balls to act on this.

Not actually suprising. They got used over the years to be pulled over the barrel by each and every app. Why should they differenciate between American data leeches and privacy infringers, and those from China.

“We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China”

Now you Americans know how we Europeans feel when Google, Amazon and Facebook store our information on American servers. Hint: The protective wall between Chinese servers and their government are about as good as the one between American servers and their government - at least for non-US citizens. The last thin veil of privacy for Eurpeans has been ripped to shreds by Trump last week.

How about reading the text to the end:

Months after the release of the AirTag, Apple launched the Tracker Detect app for Android phones, where users had to initiate the scan. Google and Apple since have continued working together to make it easier for Android phones to detect unwanted AirTag trackers and for Apple phones to spot Android trackers. Recently, Google rolled out automatic smartphone alerts for unknown Bluetooth trackers, similar to what iPhone owners receive for AirTags.

I don’t f-ing care about US soldiers and spies being tracked. What concerns me is that many many more normal people have most likely been tracked, too.

Regarding AI, there are only options on what would be great with AI. There simply is no option “No, I don’t f-ing want AI” in a Mozilla product.

I want a Browser and an EMail program. Not something that tries to do thinking for me.

Once upon a time, gopher was actually a supported protocol. Translating from gopher to HTML is an easy job.

My first introduction to the web actually was “like gopher, but with hypertext and a gui.”

Take only fresh installed devices with you with only the absolute necessary data and applications. Create a new email address for anything on this device.

I always remove anything after /ref= from an Amazon link before I forward it to my wife (she has the account and does the orders).