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New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:49:03 +0000

What if the focus of their pro-remigration stance is families deemed impossible to integrate due to their persisting criminal activities and rejection of functional societal norms? Because that's the exact demographic this one policy of that party is concerned with.

New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:27:22 +0000

The "really bad one" is a policy calling for what in the Swedish debate is now termed "re-migration" of families who sustain themselves and their children, in their entirety, solely on crime and fraudulent extractions from the welfare system, while actively rejecting integration, education and employment. The misrepresentation is that the policy is strictly about non-white residents, all of them, on the sole merit of race and ethnicity.

New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:04:20 +0000

And you know very well that he said all of this in the context of families who for years have refused to integrate in favor of sustaining themselves and their children exclusively on crime and systemic welfare fraud. Their party manifesto clearly elaborates on this topic. You are just highlighting an isolated part of his spoken paragraph while sweeping all the rest in under the carpet hoping that unfamiliar readers will take your word for it. Frantically spamming the thread with "It's ethnic cleansing!!" and "They want to deport every non-white person from Sweden!!" doesn't change the facts.

I'm a non-white non-native who came to Sweden with my family just over 35 years ago. Go ahead and ask me if I or my family fear their policies, and I'll tell you why we don't. Or, just relativize and say something like "well that's not the same thing" and I'll tell you the real reason why my family and I aren't the same thing as the demographic your comments relate to.

New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:37:56 +0000

You're right, it doesn't take long. That's the sad part. The evidence is in them echoing just one single cherry-picked policy, in a misrepresented way, while conveniently ignoring all their other far more numerous left-leaning policies.

New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:59:54 +0000

How do you know the political party of the story is "the worst of the worst"? You don't.

New comment by daneel_w in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

daneel_w — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:37:11 +0000

To the people using Mullvad I have two sincere and unpopular questions: do you actively scrutinize and examine the key people of every service and product you use, or is it just a reflexive change of footing whenever you happen upon news like this? Also, do you really switch, or is it just a heat of moment kind of thing and an opportunity to profess yourself?

New comment by daneel_w in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

daneel_w — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:53:23 +0000

Quad9.

New comment by daneel_w in "The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone"

daneel_w — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:02:11 +0000

It runs Sailfish. That's something, I guess.

New comment by daneel_w in "The European Social Stack"

daneel_w — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:28:53 +0000

Yes. Same for FCM/Android. It's not ideal, and it's not XMPP's shortcoming, but it's livable since we don't need to reveal the who or the what. And thankfully it's up to the individual user to balance their desire for automated notifications on mobile devices against their need to keep Google and Apple out of band.

New comment by daneel_w in "The European Social Stack"

daneel_w — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:14:07 +0000

I think they focus mainly on the fact that these are federated and mature solutions. I don't know anything about Matrix but as far as XMPP/Jabber and "push notifications" go, you don't need to reveal the message, nor the sender, in the alert. Right, it's not perfect, but in my book that goes a long way for privacy.

New comment by daneel_w in "The Raku Foundation is born"

daneel_w — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:24:46 +0000

> You can either be honest about things that don't/didn't work, so mistakes won't be repeated.

What things don't work, then? There's a difference between disliking something to the point of personally being incapable of working with it, and something that in itself truly does not work. My impression is that the saying "Perl makes easy things easy and hard things possible" really does hold up.

New comment by daneel_w in "The Raku Foundation is born"

daneel_w — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:48:39 +0000

Are you saying this as a Perl programmer or as an observer who never wrote any Perl?

New comment by daneel_w in "The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion"

daneel_w — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:30:25 +0000

It's not. Together with ongoing global tightening of regulations for permissible caller IDs on phone calls, it's all about fighting fraud. (I work in the telecom industry and am in the middle of all the waves this is causing for legitimate business cases.)

New comment by daneel_w in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

daneel_w — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:57:35 +0000

Worth noting that Actalis requires you to register an account with them in order to acquire the necessary authorization token for their ACME API. This poses a privacy/anonymity issue for some users. Last I checked, Actalis' free tier didn't support SAN either.

Add.: I created an account just now to see "what's what" and also found the notice, "Activate your free 90 days certificates. At the end of the free year, the services associated with the certificates will expire." which sort of sounds like it's just a 1-year free trial.

New comment by daneel_w in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

daneel_w — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:53:20 +0000

After four months of use I've had not a single hiccup or misbehavior with it, none of the sudden stalls or "beachballing" I had every so often with TB when fetching/sending despite running my own mail server inside my home network, nor any crashes (which to be fair weren't common with TB). I get the impression that the developers tread more carefully with feature updates. I perceive it as starting up and getting to fetch/process faster. I also appreciate that it's about half the size, as they provide a dedicated Arm64 bundle instead of a "universal" Arm+x86 flavor.

New comment by daneel_w in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

daneel_w — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:21:34 +0000

Try Betterbird. On the whole I find that fork a better experience than Thunderbird.

New comment by daneel_w in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

daneel_w — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:42:00 +0000

Ignore the marketing language. It's after all just the packaging, not the product.

New comment by daneel_w in "There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes"

daneel_w — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:06:54 +0000

I am not sure if it's part of the ANSI standard, but the AmigaDOS shell supported a set of ANSI codes that provided single line stepping - not a whole text line/row, but a single raster line - allowing for pretty advanced graphics rendering by overlaying rows of text shifted by just one or two pixels vertically. It was a tad fancier than the very common ASCII art, being used in the same venues and always a "treat" to come across, though not as common due to the size and additional time needed to render.

New comment by daneel_w in "Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland"

daneel_w — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:08:30 +0000

I gave your service a test, seeing all buttons in gray, and could not figure out if the service was broken, if my browser was broken, or if my e-mail client (Betterbird) was doing something good. Then I remembered that I use LuLu[1] to deny it all network access besides reaching my private e-mail server. Not ideal, I've learned to live with the caveats, but I do suppose it really does get the job done of stopping in-mail tracking.

[1] https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

New comment by daneel_w in "Chuwi Minibook X"

daneel_w — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:10:17 +0000

The article immediately makes me think of my PineBook Pro. Blinded by its $300 price tag and "Arm Inside(tm)", I jumped the gun at the second batch in early 2021. The display panel is shit. The keyboard is shit. The trackpad is shit. The webcam is shit. The speaker output is shit. The various hardware bugs are shit. The overall performance is shit. But, finally, after many years of changes and back-and-forth with the Linux kernel, the SoC and platform is finally-well supported, and it gets the simple jobs done.