I’m a computer and open source enthusiast from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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  • Well, they forked wireguard go… I say their seriousness will depend on:

    • how well they maintain their fork
    • whether or not they continue to offer their self-hosted tier

    I’ve been burned too many times by startups who gathered up some initial money from investors and then went all corpo once the money dried up.







  • My guess is that some businesses get tax breaks from municipalities in exchange for filling office spaces with warm bodies. The idea is that people in office buildings support local businesses by buying lunch, and sometimes grabbing a pint after work.

    I’m not trying to excuse this trend, in fact as an IT person myself I 100% agree with the sentiment, I’m just trying to share what I’ve been told.









  • I like choice. I use Librewolf with Adnauseam for sites that are in the super sketchy category, and Brave for everything else.

    Using Noscript is safe, sure, but I’m not into 1992 web browsing, except at nerdout parties where we try using an old 486 laptop running Windows 95 and Netscape 4.01 to browse today’s web.

    My point is that there are reasonable steps and compromises one can take to protect their privacy somewhat. Achieving Snowden level protection is cool, but not my cup of tea; too much of a compromise and loss of functionality, sorry. Sure, you can drop a nuke (like NoScript) in retaliation, but that’s overkill and will break most modern sites out there.

    Brave, on the other hand, is based on uBlock Origin with actively maintained filters. It’s also 100% compatible with custom filters too. It’s also nicely deGoogled out of the box, so that’s definitely a bonus.