today's leftovers
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Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
In a recent message to the tech mailing list, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarized the state of the new memory protections work. The thread also includes a followup from Otto Moerbeek (otto@) on consequent changes to the memory allocation mechanisms.
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The Mozilla Blog: The best gift for anyone who wants to feel safer when they go online: Mozilla privacy products [Ed: Mozilla claims to be selling privacy when it in fact selling Firefox users to companies including Google]
The holidays are a wonderful time of the year where we are happily shopping for unique gifts for loved ones online. It also means we’re sharing our personal information online like giving out email addresses or phone numbers to sign up for discount programs or creating new accounts. Whenever we go online, we are asked to give our personal information, which can end up in the wrong hands. Once our information is out there and publicly available it’s even tougher to get it back.
Here at Mozilla, a mission-driven company with a 20-year track record of fighting for online privacy and a healthier internet, we get that. Our privacy products, Firefox Relay and Mozilla VPN, have helped people feel safer when they go online and have blocked more than 1.5 million unwanted emails from people’s inboxes while keeping their real email addresses safe from trackers across the web. So, wherever you go online with Mozilla’s trusted products and services, your information is safer.
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Why I probably won’t run a Mastodon instance
Mastodon, along with many of the fediverse projects run on instances, that is a website / server that runs that software. Usually, the person (or group) that creates the project runs the first instance, after that it is up to volunteers to run their own instance.
It’s best if there are more instances, for decentralization, but there are some people who won’t (or can’t run a instance). Here are some potential reason why, [...]