There’s also the possibility they’re just a good person.

Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn’t? I wonder what privacy means to OOP

Identifying the source of an article is very different from the common use case for search engines.

1:1 quotes of web pages is something conventional search engines are very good at. But usually you aren’t quoting pages 1:1.

Eh, the AfD has always, and still does, represent some extreme positions that the CDU is still far away from. Remember that the AfD was founded as an anti-EU party, a position they still hold. The CDU has only really copied the AfD when it comes to migration. Otherwise they are still very different.

Even the Merz CDU is left wing compared to US democrats. Remember all the social programs we have, for example public healthcare.

Context for the non-Germans: The CDU has led our government for 16 out of the last 20 years. The CDU leading is not a significant shift. But the pressure that’s being put on by the AfD is certainly an issue.

You can leave off your tinfoil hat; the surveys (by many different organisations) predicted this result fairly accurately.

Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year

Not doubting them, but I don’t understand how that’s possible.

Storing the email addresses and expiration dates takes an irrelevant amount of storage space, even if they had billions of cutomers.

Sending the emails should also not cost thousands, even if a significant amount of customers regularly let their certificates expire (which hopefull isn’t the case).

So where are the tens of thousands of yearly costs coming from?

all the downvotes confirm the ccp is here

Not all who disagree with you are paid by a government. Sometimes people just think your take is bad.

I personally think it’s good that the USA did it back then and I think it’s good that China does it now.

Independence and wealth for all.

Wuff

You seem like a very relaxed person

Restraining order against whom? An unknown person using throwaway phone numbers?

Tl;dr: They use proper workflows for building the OS.

No Idea why they advertise this on their end-customer facing sites.

Source: https://universal-blue.org/

The money Google pays to Mozilla has a direct ROI, since more people use their search engine.

Giving money to the Rust foundation only helps Google very indirectly, by being generally benefitial to software companies.