There are a bunch of ridings that are still too close to call. The advanced and special ballots remaining have skewed heavily toward the liberals. They still may end up with a majority.

https://archive.is/fiwb7

Many actions are targeted at red states. But sometimes the weapons you have are the weapons you have.

And, really, whatever US internal politics are, this is an act of war by the US against Canada. I think few will lose sleep about making any American bleed right now. Hopefully it wakes those blue states up to start really taking action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUyiE0fzJ4

This is just initial reaction to an announcement. The tariffs aren’t even implemented yet.

I wonder how close we are to Trump declaring that “no one knew” how complicated the economy is…

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

The services are Firefox but also optional services you can opt-in to (like account sync). It’s about giving feedback to them under the subheading “Your Feedback and Suggestions.” Generalizing from that to “all your ideas anywhere on the internet” is bananas. They also explicitly say in the previous clause that they don’t own that content:

It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

Oh man, I can’t wait for these unhinged takes to run their course.

I’m not a lawyer, but my naive reading of the clause

Well there’s your problem.

Mozilla (in legalese): if you submit feedback, we don’t owe you money or authorship credit
This blog: MOZILLA CLAIMS TO OWN ALL YOUR IDEAS ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET IF YOU USE FIREFOX

Qu’est ce que fuck!

My original claim was that, in addition to gedaliyah’s points, the TOS gives them permission to perform basic browser tasks. My last comment was about the same thing. The TOS is relevant because 1) it’s the basis of this entire discussion and 2) the changes in the TOS conclusively prove my original claim.

As to “data collection” in this context, those words do not appear in the TOS and are not rights Mozilla is asserting for use of their software. It’s a fiction you invented. That was the point of me pointing out the use of the word “use” – describing that term and distinguishing its meaning from the thing you made up.

Maximum wrongness on your part.

This is the original text that everyone flipped out about (OP: “WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???”):

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

It has since been changed to:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

Use. When you input a url, that information is used to resolve an IP then fetch a webpage. You’re granting a right to complete tasks you assign using information you input. They have permission to send your post content to a server, but they don’t own that content. This should be very obvious in the revised text.

Paraphrasing:

Vance: Before now, no one’s tried to diplomacy to end this war and we’re going to do that.

Zelensky: We’ve tried diplomacy over and over and Putin has repeatedly broken those agreements. What diplomacy are you talking about?

Vance: I think it’s disrespectful for you to come here and try to litigate this in front of the American media. 🤡

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Vance is such a fucking clown.

Even writing a post, you’re entering data through Firefox into the post box. We just don’t consider that data. It would be pretty quiet around here if you couldn’t do that…

The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his “terms” to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn’t save him.

Is that true of these Mennonites in West Texas? Mennonites are a pretty diverse group. I had a friend who was Mennonite and his parents were biker metalheads. He was a straightedge, vegan hardcore guy. You’d never confuse them for Amish.

I’ve got a feeling that “personal liberties and free markets” means something different for billionaires than it does for normal people.

Yeah, they were really sleeping on that. Why didn’t they tell us about his “systematic dishonesty, corruption, cruelty and incompetence” months ago? ;)

https://archive.is/o9WWe

“Fucked your mom. Sorry you had to find out like this.”

I think it was just for like a week or two so it wouldn’t necessarily show up in the yearly averages in those charts.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2017/07/25/msnbc-beat-fox-because-it-covered-the-news/