Mikina

The only exposure I have with how Amish work is from Newport's Digital Mininalism book, and it sounded pretty reasonable. (Don't know how correct it is, though)

The way he put it, they don't outright ban and refuse all technology. Every time a new tech comes out, they have a few people give it a try and then decide as a community if/how to best use it without sacrificing their core values.

For example - a telephone? We don't want that, because then it would break the sense of community if you could just call anyone, without having to call on them/meet then for dinner, etc. But, we'll have one phone in a village in casr we need to call for outside help in an emergency.

Assuming that's true, I would suspect that especially in regards to medicine, they would be pretty open. But yeah, I guess it absolutely depends on the community, and how cultish/reasonable are the people making these calls.

Routine visits are not covered per the last point, no?

This is the first time I'm hearing about semver contract. I always assumed the x.y.z versioning was pridever, which was the first definition I found. And that says nothing about backwards compatibility.

So it might as well be the case of the XKCD.

https://pridever.org/

I might've been wrong, see other replies to my comment. It might've been some kind of honor equipment rental, where you can borrow sporting equipment, instead of it being a locker for people to store things in.

But the context of the post is basically the same. City did something nice, people vandalized it :D

Oh, you are right. There seems to be some text on the outside. Might've been just some equipment to borrow.

Ok, it might need more context :D

I would guess that the City of Mississauga has installed public equipment lockers for people to store their things in, and within days, all of them had broken glass because someone has stolen the equipment stored inside by other people.

But I'm just guessing based on the picture. I wouldn't expect the context to be much different, tbh.

At this point, any time there is "next big update" of anything, I don't want to have anything to do with it.

Kernel might be an exception (I mean, I did work in cybersecurity, so I understand the importance of updates pretty well), but still. I don't think there has been an update of anything I've been using that wasn't just an enshitification bullshit in the last few years...

I was judt thinking about this, especially considering that it's very probable that most of the money I spend are eventually financing lobyiing and who-knows what else, if you were to track them down simillarly.

But, if it's true that 75% of the donations the party has received is from the Mullvad co-owner, there is a chance that it would allow them to keep on surviving even when they shouldn't, and if they manage to get elected (which unfortunately seems to be more and more of a trend), it can cause a lot more harm than a little bit of lost privacy.

I don't know. I don't want to stop supporting Mullvad, but if that means also giving a far right party a better chance at surviving, then it sucks.

There's still the second owner who can maybe convince him, or strike a deal.

A lot of people boycoting Mullvad over it might be the motivation he needs, but it's not an easy position to be in, and I'm not getting my hopes up.

He can also maybe just take/sell his half and fork out? But even to me, who knows nothing about running this scale of business, that sounds like something unreasonable.

You are right, that's what I was trying to say that there's not much they can do about it. I haven't mentioned it directly, but by "Mullvad", I mostly meant the second owner. It's now mostly up to him to either somehow deal with his co-owner, or just loose hopefully a lot of customers.

Lot of people boycotting Mullvad because of this is the only thing that may help in this regard, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

That is a really difficult situation to be in, and I don't envy them. I'm struggling with coming up with a solution to this, when one of your co-founders, that you basically can't force out if I understand it correctly, is using his own money, he made from the company, but it's still his own, to go against your mission.

If they can't convince him to not do that, there's not much they can do.

I really like Mullvad, it's the only VPN that I feel kind of safe abiut and trust them, but if a part of my money goes directly to fund extremistic parties, then I simply won't do that and will be asking for a refund. I really hope they figure something out.

But Mullvad could also react a little better, by emphasizing that they would remove him if they could, and that they are working on a solution. Because it kind of isn't their fault, and it sucks to be in a position like this. Currently it's like Tesla or SpaceX saying that they don't agree with Musk's values, and that he's spending his own money they have no control over, as if that was an argument why it's fiine to buy Tesla or invest into SpaceX.

But unsubscribing from Mullvad is the best thing we can do now, hopefully the co-founder loosing his income will make him reconsider the PR of his personal spendings, and the dropping number will force him to reconsider.

Sure!

I highly recommend using the matrix-ansible-docker-deploy. It has a pretty good documentation that should not give you much trouble, if you have at least very basic self-hosting experience (i.e can get a domain, a server, and set up SSH and firewall ports), and configuring it to do what you want is usually just adding a single config line into vars.yml when setting it up.

Once you get to the configuration step in the quickstart, where you change a few rows, also take a look at the more in-depth configuration documentation, and scroll down to the chapter about configuring bridges/bridging other networks.

For example, setting up a messanger bridge is literally just adding matrix_mautrix_meta_messenger_enabled: true into your vars.yml when you are setting it up.