Russia Tries To Deliver The Killing Blow To VPN Use.

Eventually, the same will happen in the West. VPNs are a method of existing outside of state and corporate control, and won’t be tolerated for long.

It’s not 4K, but if you want what appears to be a pretty decent monitor for a good price, check this one out.

It’s still ~123 PPI and an IPS panel. Great for $170.

I remember when a monitor like this was $3,000+.

It is shocking when you think about it how much is done societally solely to benefit rich people.

If most people realized how much better lives rich people live than the average person, there’d be an immediate revolt.

Starting to use Google Chrome more and more as Firefox is slated to destroy any reason for using it as version 57 approaches.

Unsurprisingly, most extensions (and many of the most common and useful ones) are not compatible and never will be.

I understand the reasons Mozilla made most of the decisions it has made, but I think they are stupid reasons that have only harmed the organization and its goals.

That said, the organization is really terrible (as most are) at gathering data and interpreting it. Their data approach is “use the data to find what we already believe is true” rather than attempting to discover the truth.

Mozilla will be dead and gone in 3-5 years.

Taking away control from the user has absolutely nothing to do with security, by the way (these are not mutually exclusive; that is a false dichotomy). It’s just a convenient cover story. Mozilla is just following the spirit of its times, just as most people and organizations do.

And that spirit is paternalistic authoritarianism.

I plan to stop using Firefox by the end of this year. I’ve already stopped one small company from using Firefox and switched them to Chrome, and will do so for any others where I have an advisory role.

I’ve watched the first six episodes of 13 Reasons Why and I know why so many who fashion themselves adults despise it, and it has nothing to do with its likelihood of increasing suicide attempts.

No, it’s because it depicts teens as wantonly cruel and adults as willfully oblivious. In other words, it depicts reality.

It puts a spotlight on the barbarism and sadism that adults either ignore in their own kids or actually promote.

People don’t like the show because it’s too like life, too ready to focus on very real failures.

It’s not superheroes shooting lasers out of their eyes or virtuous teens uniting to defeat an evil empire. No, it’s a girl like millions of other abandoned by everyone around her, thrown to the wolves, and then told it’s her own fault or that she just wanted attention.

Only a show that touches on something real could cause such an outcry.

That’s the reason for the ban attempts and why people are attempting to derail a second season. The work is a real and unflinching indictment of them, our society, and its failures.