Any languages besides Spanish planned?

People want them because they’re posturing conspicuous consumers.

Ditto except why not put the freezers in Dubai

My hunch is that those layoffs are going to come from the more peripheral efforts like that malware startup they acquired

Haha amazing logo

I might even suggest that having an mp3 or other file-based record collection is still in the same vein.

The big departure, imo, is people who don’t own their music collections. They rely only on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whatever and just stream.

One day, when their contracts with the labels or whatever expire, or the service is discontinued, or you move to another country… your collection evaporates. It’s happened before.

It “stems” from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .

Your article itself says:

Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.

Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say

In June, the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of Moroccan and Algerian descent in a Paris suburb sparked almost two weeks of riots across the country in which schools, buses and police stations were torched, shops looted, mayors assaulted and police attacked in nightly clashes. The violence, which did not specifically target Jews, was fuelled by widespread resentment of perceived police racism.

And if that weren’t enough, it’s already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.

The government initially banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations

So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.

All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.

Some of them don’t even log the data required to cooperate with requests. Mullvad is one.

Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don’t use a VPN because of shadowy “hackers” who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can’t be trusted.

How about this?

I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won’t meaningfully improve my privacy or safety

Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.

They don’t even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless

Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.

Argumentum ad hominem. They’re right about this and they deserve plaudits for being the ones to open the case.

I’m torn on this topic because on the one hand there’s enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you’re leaving them behind.

I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don’t regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.