RE: https://mastodon.social/@raphaelrobert/116816274242387568

That's disappointing. Mullvad was one of the few VPN companies I had significant trust in.

I doubt this will compromise anything to do with their service's actual privacy or security, but a moral compromise is still a compromise for me nonetheless. I won't be giving any money to Mullvad or recommending them again going forward unless they can find a way to make up for this.

Do better @mullvadnet

#mullvad

I've been using @kagihq for a while, but what happened this morning really shows just how damn good Kagi is compared to other search engines.

I wanted to look up a book.

Since I'd ranked them higher, Kagi showed me Goodreads, for a score and reviews, and bookshop.org, so I could buy from a local bookstore, then the author's site.

DuckDuckGo had Amazon (🤮), then the author's site, then images with "AI images" set to "show"

Google had images, Amazon, a bookstore in the wrong city, and Forbes.

And thus is the problem with reliance on a single web services provider.

In case your Signal messages aren't working, yes, it's a general service disruption.

UPDATE: It's #AWS.

https://downdetector.com/status/signal/

#signal

Cool job posting at ProPublica

We are seeking a computational journalist to join our data team to use their technical knowledge, as well as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and large language models, to help us investigate the world and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach.

Journalism experience is a plus, but we especially encourage applications from people with quantitative/research backgrounds, such as statistics, data science, AI and machine learning. Ability to code well is a must.

Ultimately, we’re looking for someone who would pitch us on ideas that use technology to do things we hadn’t dreamed of doing. That could be renting a boat to test the WiFi networks at Mar-a-Lago, having students scream into black-box hardware or using the power of programming to fingerprint and cluster propaganda videos.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4371750006