sovietknuckles [they/them]

Is WiFi calling a decent alternative to VoIP?

I’ve placed calls using WiFi calling where the person said they could barely understand the words I was saying due to sound distortion. When I called back over VoIP, they said it was crystal-clear.

US arms for a country that won’t help the US get oil only extends so far

If your school blocks VPN connections, that usually means that they’re specifically blocking OpenVPN traffic and/or WireGuard traffic. So if you use a VPN provider that supports OpenConnect (which looks like regular HTTPS traffic over port 443 to your school, there’s a good chance that it will not be blocked.

That’s what I do when I’m on open Wi-Fi networks that block everything but HTTP or HTTPS traffic. It’s not as fast as UDP OpenVPN, let alone WireGuard, but it frees me from the restrictions of whatever Wi-Fi network I’m on.

They expected to get a marginal number of additional users from vendor lock-in of existing Signal users

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can’t pay them to default to their search engine.

Yahoo was Firefox’s default search engine between 2014 and 2017. It would have lasted longer, but Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo prompted Mozilla to terminate it. They can sign a deal with another search engine if the deal with Google falls through. In China, Baidu is the default search engine, and in Russia, Yandex is.

Certainly Google will be more careful after this ruling, but nothing will actually go into effect at least for several years, if it ever does, because Google is appealing.

That’s a large chunk of their funding.

That’s true. When Mozilla resumed their search deal with Google in 2017, Google provided 91% of their revenue. But the percent of Mozilla’s revenue derived from Google has decreased every year since then, most recently at 81% as of 2022.

That sounds right

This might hurt future publishers of whistleblowers. Does this set the precedent that publishing info from whistleblowers can be prosecuted as espionage?

It’s explained in the next sentence:

Apple has argued that it should be judged based on its global market share, which is at 20 percent.

So they’re arguing that they’re not a monopoly outside of the US

TrueAnon rules for life

Never ride in a helicopter. (Unless you’re a door gunner, or getting MEDEVACed.)

The US sunk 20 years, $10 trillion USD, and oceans of blood into Afghanistan and achieved nothing.

Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and their investors would beg to differ

Maybe it’s because I’m on a VPN, but I never get ads