firefox web compatibility at mozilla. certified member of the blockchain hate club, and the AI hate club. for science, you monster.
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German "Internet" experts in a nutshell: InterNetX, one of the biggest domain registrars, part of United Internet (the enterprise also owning 1und1) has now introduced their latest "security enhancement":
Automatically expiring passwords.
Almost a decade after the internet world agreed that those are an impressively stupid idea.
I'm so incredibly tired.
I'm not even sure if this is @stalwartlabs's fault or Apple's fault, but as a WebCompat person, this bug fills me with a lot of joy. And pain. https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/issues/1611
(I am so sorry.)
What happened? I'm somewhat ignorant as to what the "right" behavior according to any spec is, or even if this is covered by a spec, but since I noticed this "broken" on Stalwart while it worked fi...
why is now everyone hyping that "Canada’s DevOps Platform" company product thingie? that's literally just a hosted Gitea, they just don't say that. and given how much they're trying to hide - or deliberately not mention - the fact that it's just Gitea, they strike me as the kind of company that also don't feel a need to contribute back. according to that company's website, it appears like the "company" also just a single dude, which is kinda the worst thing you could have from a business continuity POV.
that's all around pretty scummy and shady behavior. if Amazon would just set up a Gitea instance using some weird name like "Creative Code Collector" (promoted as Amazon C3 because that's what they love to do), we'd all be - rightfully - trashtalking them. why is this other thing being praised? it's still scummy behavior, it doesn't matter who does it.
if you ever thought you were anxious about your work, try sending a system addon background update to all firefox users. 😐
looking at real-time'ish telemetry data with the percentage of clients with the update installed never gets old.
There is finally a complaint against Deutsche Telekom about their, in my opinion, unfair peering practices (in German): https://epicenter.works/content/keine-zweiklassengesellschaft-im-internet-buendnis-reicht-beschwerde-gegen-deutsche-telekom-ein
It's a practice where they're trying to get money not only from their customers, who pay for internet access, but also from online services using very restrictive peering policies. The result is often that networks (and server owners) who don't pay Deutsche Telekom, experience connection issues with their users.
Epicenter.works, die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv) und Stanford-Professorin Barbara van Schewick haben bei der Bundesnetzagentur eine Beschwerde gegen die Deutsche Telekom eingereicht. Ziel der Beschwerde ist es, Verletzungen des europäischen Netzneutralitätsgesetzes durch die Telekom zu beenden und die Internetqualität für Millionen von Telekom-Kund:innen zu verbessern.
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yeah i'm sure this is fine.