Perhaps you’re right. I mean it should be easier to detect screwworm than a prion. I was thinking of if people got screwworms from the cattle. Eyych.

Good, this could be waaay worse than mad cow and we need to protect Canadian herds. And given the current US administration, we have precisely zero assurances they’ll be inspecting properly down there.

In fact, we should ban ALL cattle right now from the US. It’s what they would do to us…

People need to start working on hacks to freeze or patch Google Play Services ASAP. (Is that even possible, or is it protected at such a low level that it can’t be replaced/modified without rooting? If so, GrapheneOS or other AOSP-based alternate ROMs without Play services would be our only hope.)

The cat-and-mouse game that will start once this is rolled out is only a temporary solution; legislation and making google roll back this decision is the only long-term solution. That, and real Linux phones running something other than Android.

“… used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.” Uhm, Gemini does not use HTML – that’s the freaking point.

I can’t be arsed to try to edit the Wiki page but this is just entirely wrong.

Wonder if the frogs are finally noticing how hot that water’s getting.

This time, I’m not so inclined to be sympathetic to anyone considering entering Canada to dodge the draft. Americans need to face their oppressors, or the whole world keeps suffering.

Yup, cannot get more “One Law for Me, another for Thee” that this, right?

And there is a US law on the books, if I recall that is commonly referred to as the “Hague Invasion Act”. They’ll literally send troops if the ICC ever tries to take a US politician or high-ranking civil service member into custody.

So much respect for international law /s

Fragging is back on the menu, boys! /s

It depends. I got perma-banned from one particular sub for scrubbing all my old posts with an info blurb about the fediverse back when reddit nuked all 3rd-party APIs. Mods accused me to trying to “steal users” – as if people can’t have logins to reddit and other websites… sheesh.

None of the other subs I cleaned my post/comment history in this way banned me however. But I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.

Home Assistant? Replace google / nest / alexa.

Me too!

…or to Vivaldi, or vanilla Chrome, or any other browser that has search engine options in its Settings.

And soon you’ll have to agree to not criticize members of the Saudi Royal Family or disparage their name…

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.