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Mullvad are the 'good VPN provider'.

They make an effort to store as little customer info as possible, including getting rid of subscriptions to reduce payment information they have to keep [1]. Despite subscriptions being a great way of getting consistent revenue.

As well as card, they allow payment in cash, crypto and quite a few others.

They have open source clients and are one of few providers with an official client on F-Droid.

They don't try to lock you in for years. It's €5 per month no matter how long you pay for.

They have regular external audits. [2]

If you read their website you'll find they focus on privacy rather than 'watching TV while you're on holiday'. [3][4]

Mozilla use Mullvad for Firefox VPN. Tailscale have partnered with Mullvad. [5]

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/were-removing-the-option-to-crea... [2] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits [3] https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters [4] https://mullvad.net/en/chatcontrol [5] https://mullvad.net/en/help/partnerships-and-resellers

These look like they might be the slides from SPJ's talk at Haskell eXchange this year.

I'm hoping they'll upload a video soon, which'll probably be a lot more fun than slides. They've only got the recording up for one of this year's talks so far.

https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/13688-haskell-exchange-...

The main advantage Flow has over Typescript is soundness. Neither language is sound, but Flow tries a bit harder, and so there are fewer cases where you write bugs that 'should' be caught by the type checker.

Here are a few examples of unsoundness in TS: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?strictFunctionTypes=fals...

https://flow.org/en/docs/lang/types-and-expressions/#toc-sou...

Every Door and StreetComplete seem to do different things, with a bit of overlap.

StreetComplete works by asking you for more details about certain things that are already on the map. It seems like Every Door doesn't ask you specific questions but lets you add any details you like, and also add new points to the map, which StreetComplete doesn't let you do.

StreetComplete is meant to be usable by a complete novice. Every Door looks like it's for mappers who already have a bit of an idea of what's going on and want more control over what they can add to the map.

I use Dvorak for 'real' keyboard typing but I don't feel an advantage from having Dvorak on my phone. If anything, having common letters spread out, and not all on the home row, is helpful in making swipe patterns more distinct.

If I've understood the linked post, the login panel doesn't have to behave or look different if someone gets the username and password right. You could still show everyone the 2FA input.

It's suggesting that if the username and password are right but 2FA isn't the system should let the account owner know.

Huh, interesting. Maybe it's changed, maybe I'm misremembering.

In either case NewPipe has picture-in-picture playback and audio only playback. Not sure what else I'm missing from Premium.

Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free.

Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/

It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.

Sorry to hear about that.

I doubt it makes you feel any better, but isn't that an effective cut of 4.4%?

As a starting point, original pay was 100% of original pay. A year later, the same amount in real terms is, in nominal terms, 106.2% of the original amount (at 6.2% interest). But, if you're being paid 101.5% of the original amount, in nominal terms, then in real terms you're being paid (101.5/106.2) = 0.9557... of the original amount. Which is about a 4.4% cut in real terms.

Check out Fairphone; they do a similar thing but for phones. https://www.fairphone.com

It works for me with Firefox on NixOS using Noto Color Emoji, from, I'm assuming, noto-fonts-emoji.

I downloaded the (unofficial) Common Voice app [1] and it provides a link to some guidelines [2], which also aren't official but look sensible and seem like the best there is at the moment.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.commonvoice.saverio/

[2] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discussion-of-new-guidelines...

Not quite the same, but you could check out https://vimsnake.com/

This happens if you press F11. If you click the balloon that says "Start the prank" instead then you won't get this issue, at least in Firefox.

> Printers have been domestiprintered for half as long as scanners have been.

It's only available in the beta builds at the moment.

The announcement on Signal's blog: https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/

According to this tweet, this shows the Zuck himself uses Signal: https://twitter.com/michilehr/status/1378666681451569153

This doesn't seem to work with Firefox. A blue splash fills the whole screen and stays there until I move my cursor outside the window or right click.

Affiliate links seems like a type of advert or they at least share some of the arguments against implementing them on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funding_Wikipedia_th...