Ah, right. I forgot that they’re based in Sweden. That’s understandable if it’s simply a lack of familiarity with the language, but, still, I would expect a company like Mullvad to at least have one native-equivalent English speaker to look over their public facing English stuff. None of this is the end of the world, ofc — I’m just mildly surprised.

There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?

Five Guys have better service that is free

It wasn’t free — they were charging money for it:

Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service

Yeah, take a look at the solution at the top of the post.

That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was “under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.”, which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example’s idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I’m not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn’t making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I’m not really sure where the issue lies.

And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.

I’m not sure if they count as underrated, but the band that immediately comes to mind is The Dear Hunter.

We’re constantly running out; but every fes years, we figure out a new way to extract more oil/make do with the addresses we currently have.

It’s a supply and demand situation. We run out of things not only when they are physically exhausted, but also when it’s not economically viable to find ways to make more. But when demand increases enough, it will eventually become economically viable again.

Local Only Communities

Local communities are an interesting concept, though I am concerned about unintended side effects. I have noticed many times that people from other instances chime in to meta-communities to provide some alternative viewpoints and context when instances are discussing interactions with the rest of the network. I worry that some will become too isolated/sheltered. But I suppose, in the end, that’s ultimately up to the individual instances to decide.

Lemmy can now federate with Wordpress, Discourse and NodeBB.

Increased federation capabilities is always awesome to see!

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

This is a clever solution. I think this is a good way to go about it.

RSS feeds now include post thumbnail and embedded images.Security

I really appreciate the continued attention given to keep RSS alive.

A security audit was recently performed on Lemmy.

Awesome! And congrats!

• Added Community local_subscribers count
• Support for custom post thumbnail
• Indicate to user when they are banned from community
• Added alt_text for image posts

Great features for improving the polish and user experience on Lemmy!

Would you mind pointing out examples of them boycotting the software? From what I saw in their comment history, it was mostly them talking about moving away from centralization on lemmy.ml.

Lemmy needs proper polls.

Windows -> Ubuntu -> Arch Linux

That only exports settings (general account config, saved posts and comments, blocked users, communities, and instances, etc.). That won’t export all of the user’s own posts and comments.

FreshRSS supports HTTP authentication, and there’s an open issue for adding OAuth support.

Manufacturing and boot processes have to be modified to make sure nothing leaks out and everything stays put.

Meaning that software like systemd-crytpenroll would need to be updated to support this? I suppose what I’m trying to ask is this: As a user, if I want to set up full disk encryption using a TPM (1.2 or 2.0?) module, would I need to do anything different/novel during installation if I wanted to ensure that the bus is encrypted? And, if so, what would I need to do?

TPM bus is not encrypted on Windows too and you can break into bitlocker protected laptop.

By chance, do you have an official source from Microsoft that states that? I was unable to find any official documentation to clarify that when I looked.

Video Source

This video that you linked is the same video that I linked close to the end of my post.

What is your argument to support this statement?

You got it wrong. What’s your empirical evidence to support your statement?

I don’t really understand this. You claimed that it is impossible. Saying something is impossible is different than saying that it hasn’t happened. To claim that something is impossible is a final statement where certain rules can never be satisfied. As such, you certainly can provide an argument for your claim. That being said, my counterargument would be a simple example: Person 1 wants an apple, and Person 2 wants money. Person 1 and Person 2 agree that 1$ is a fair price for an apple. Person 2 gives the apple to Person 1 in exchange for Person 1 giving 1$ to Person 2. Person 1 is happy because they have an apple, which they wanted, and Person 2 is happier because they received money, which they wanted. The net satisfaction is greater than zero — both sides received something that they wanted.

If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.

Not at all. This is capitalism.

I can use one simple example to counter that: If one can find an example of a monopoly then the market in which that monopoly exists is not capitalist — one example to prove that point is private utilities.

Nearly 90% of their servers are blocked to do common internet tasks .

Perhaps your browsing habits are severely impacted by Mullvad being blocked, but that doesn’t seem to be the universal case. I’ve had the occasional hiccup with a few sites that block VPNs (Mullvad’s IPs), but “90%” is quite an exaggeration when compared to my personal experience.

Such a thing is impossible.

What is your argument to support this statement?

The current system is working exactly as intended

If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.

Tomorrow Never Knows — The Beatles

Classic intrinsic monopolies.