Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists.
Thanks for open sourcing it.
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drenvuk commented on Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/legrande
Do you have legitimate source for this claim?
France spended billions of euros to fight islamist groups in Mali at the demand of the government. No resources worth the billions France spended in Mali
I only spent about 20 minutes looking this up. Western nations overthrew Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Less than two years after they're mostly done in Libya, they roll those forces over to Mali and get Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in as acting president. NATO/UN forces had a hand in both situations. Western nations were just rolling our already funded and armed forces through the region to set things back up for proper resource and money extraction. This is all on wikipedia.
When I say "our" forces I mean any people who are holding weapons provided by us, eating food provided by us and working towards goals that are set by us. How all of that is funneled to them I have no idea.
Now that the west instated former leader of Mali was ousted France wanted to re-de-stabilize again it seems. It might or might not be worth it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/8/mali-accuses-france...
I should have stated it more as an opinion rather than fact but I stand by it. It's hard to believe that the US has so much intelligence yet we're unable to predict the guys we're training are going to attempt to take over the country. It's also not hard to understand that if we're committing billions of dollars to a war effort there isn't someone or a group of someone who have a hugely vested interest in either keeping the status quo for existing streams of income or removing some impediment in a potential stream of income. Those streams mostly don't go to the governments themselves, rather they go to companies headed by well connected individuals who somehow are able to drive policy and decisions either directly or indirectly.
On the flip side of this, you might have competing interests from other nations as well so it may not be as clear cut. It's no longer border expansion, annexation and "this country" vs "that country". Instead now we have nameless rebels or terrorists (depending on who's side their on) who then sign deals and feed money and resources to their "sponsor countries", or get loans for construction, or some other financial games that are far more opaque.
I have no more specific information, this is all broad strokes based on what I've seen and read. Maybe I'm wrong.
At this point it's safe to assume that this is always the unstated part of the plan. Keeping individual areas destabilized
1. decreases nations' ability to organize,
2. prevents them from properly utilizing their natural resources,
3. reduces possible competition at the global economic level,
4. increases the the possibility of extracting resources and labor from them due to an increase of various factors like economic desperation and political variability.
It serves fully developed countries' interests better to keep everyone else down so they can be exploited. Negotiating with blocs rather than newly instated and flexible rulers annoying and difficult.
drenvuk commented on Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app 9to5mac.com/2022/04/06/ap... · Posted by u/carlycue
I mean, idt that’s really fair. Apple purposefully makes the experience of communicating/texting with another Apple user more physically enjoyable than with a non-Apple user. I don’t think it’s a personal/shallow issue, when you’re behind a screen your brain isn’t making the same personal decisions as in person. I mean if the phone is making the experience poor compared to talking with other Apple users, it becomes unappealing to pursue more of that communication. Why power through that for a person you just met/are just dating?
Are you joking or is this serious? I wouldn't want to date someone who could be deterred from interacting with another person solely due to the color of a text bubble. The fact that their mind allows for that possibility is a huge signal that they most likely don't have anything interesting for me to discover about them or discuss with them. Colors are shallow. Actions are not.
If anything I'm being more fair than they would be.
drenvuk commented on Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app 9to5mac.com/2022/04/06/ap... · Posted by u/carlycue
Not really surprising. I've recently re-entered the dating pool and have learned that people really do ignore people "with green texts" (which means non-imessage). Apple has very successfully become the "if you don't have one you're poor and/or a loser" brand.
It works both ways. I wouldn't want to date someone who did that so it saves everyone time.
drenvuk commented on Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read bionic-reading.com/... · Posted by u/renato_casutt
I like this. I've always had to force jumping down line by line to pick up words if I was trying to speed read, but with the extra highlighting I'm picking them out and jumping almost effortlessly. It's pretty neat.
I'm honestly wondering if this would make me lazy for reading non explicitly partway bolded text.
drenvuk commented on MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm dkb.io/post/market-rank... · Posted by u/dbrereton
this falls apart the moment dang and the others decide to do something else is more important than quality community interactions.
Free Software is first and foremost a political movement. It would be better to have someone at the helm who isn't totally inept at navigating media and politics.