I was judt thinking about this, especially considering that it’s very probable that most of the money I spend are eventually financing lobyiing and who-knows what else, if you were to track them down simillarly.

But, if it’s true that 75% of the donations the party has received is from the Mullvad co-owner, there is a chance that it would allow them to keep on surviving even when they shouldn’t, and if they manage to get elected (which unfortunately seems to be more and more of a trend), it can cause a lot more harm than a little bit of lost privacy.

I don’t know. I don’t want to stop supporting Mullvad, but if that means also giving a far right party a better chance at surviving, then it sucks.

There’s still the second owner who can maybe convince him, or strike a deal.

A lot of people boycoting Mullvad over it might be the motivation he needs, but it’s not an easy position to be in, and I’m not getting my hopes up.

He can also maybe just take/sell his half and fork out? But even to me, who knows nothing about running this scale of business, that sounds like something unreasonable.

You are right, that’s what I was trying to say that there’s not much they can do about it. I haven’t mentioned it directly, but by “Mullvad”, I mostly meant the second owner. It’s now mostly up to him to either somehow deal with his co-owner, or just loose hopefully a lot of customers.

Lot of people boycotting Mullvad because of this is the only thing that may help in this regard, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

That is a really difficult situation to be in, and I don’t envy them. I’m struggling with coming up with a solution to this, when one of your co-founders, that you basically can’t force out if I understand it correctly, is using his own money, he made from the company, but it’s still his own, to go against your mission.

If they can’t convince him to not do that, there’s not much they can do.

I really like Mullvad, it’s the only VPN that I feel kind of safe abiut and trust them, but if a part of my money goes directly to fund extremistic parties, then I simply won’t do that and will be asking for a refund. I really hope they figure something out.

But Mullvad could also react a little better, by emphasizing that they would remove him if they could, and that they are working on a solution. Because it kind of isn’t their fault, and it sucks to be in a position like this. Currently it’s like Tesla or SpaceX saying that they don’t agree with Musk’s values, and that he’s spending his own money they have no control over, as if that was an argument why it’s fiine to buy Tesla or invest into SpaceX.

But unsubscribing from Mullvad is the best thing we can do now, hopefully the co-founder loosing his income will make him reconsider the PR of his personal spendings, and the dropping number will force him to reconsider.

I think I might have it, and it’s interresting. I’m generally a nice, flegmatic and extremely non-confrontional person, but when someone tells me what I can’t or have to do, that I don’t agree with, it awakens something in me. An intense drive to just be extremely petty and get my revenge, either through malicious compliance or some other petty revenge. It can drive me for quite some time, and it’s an intense impulse that is hard to ignore.

It’s not anger, and it’s never violent. I kind of assume this is how people with OCD feel, but instead of being unreasonably triggered by OCD stuff, you hate being told what to do.

It’s usually enough for me to plan the malicious compliance, or the petty revenge, I usually don’t go through with it and let go eventually, but it is intense nonetheless.

My partner works in HR, and from what I’ve heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.

There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.

But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn’t do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.

It sounds like hell of a job, that would’ve been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can’t follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won’t do it if some AI is telling them to.

From what I’ve heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don’t care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.

I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.

If you want the cheapest, go with Cloudfare. They guarantee to ask for the wholesale price, which is the price the registrar pays to the top level domain owner, so they can’t go lower without footing the bill.

What most of registrars do is foot the difference for the first year, so you get a domain for super cheap, then add 50%+ cut on top, so you pay i.e 5$ for the first year for a TLD that has wholesale cost of 10$, while they loose 5$ on that sale, and then you pay 25$ for the second, so they now gain 15$ on holding your domain hostage.

Cloudfare guarantees that they will sell you that domain for 10$, and only raise it when the TLD owner raises the price.

I’m not aware of any other registrar that guarantees wholesale prices, but LMK if anyone knows any.

If you want to get the best deal, buy your first year (or maybe 10 years, if they let you buy 10 for the sale price) with the scammy registrar, i.e get the 5$ sale on Namecheap, and before it expires transfer it to Cloudfare so you don’t pay extra for the second year and can continue with the (much lower now) wholesale price.

Each TLD has a different wholesale price, but every registrar pays the same to them for selling the domain to you. The differences you see is exactly in how much are they willing to foot the bill at first (most have a massive sale on first year, then huge markup on renewals), some just add a flat fee and have markup from the start.

Cloudfare just states “you will pay wholesale”, and don’t do any sheninegans. At least that’s how it was last time I checked.

Awesome, thanks! Managed to get it working, and even found a version with the Czech dub, so all is good! Thanks for reminding me the game exists :D

Minimum system requirement fow Windows PC (with Copilot+, not sure if this has the chip, but if yes it’s funny) is 16gb, per their official page.

Edit: Hah, the article mentions it - it loses the Copilot+ status. Lol

But, if I’m looking at it right, ithas the + CPU. So they just don’t have the ram.

Thats hillarious. Their AI bubble push has… Priced them out of selling AI.

Are you playing on Linux by chance? I did finfld a few Windows guides, which I assume would ve easier due to Windows Play whatever, but it also sounds like it would make it hell to set up on Linux.

Oh, that was my favorite game. If I recall correctly, it also was dubbed in my (Czech) language, which made it awesome.

I have to check if you can reasonably play it on PC.

I vaguely remember seeing a really good interactive tutorial that dealt with most of the music theory. It must’ve come heavilly recommended, because that’s what I usually search for when learning stuff.

It was years, though, I’ll see if I can find it.

But I’d go with scales or chords, depending on what you’re playing.

Oooh, so that’s why some clothes could shrink?

I remember hearing that shrinking clothes could be a problem, but I never actually encountered it in my adult life.

We’ve just had a campaign on our city’s public transport trams that said “I’m identifying as a trolleybus”.

During pride month, nonetheless.

I don’t believe they will. The can say and do whatever and nothing will probably happen. .

One of the things that surprised me the most when I started working on vishings for a Cybersecurity Red Team was how extremely easy it is to spoof any phone number.

It’s the nunber one tip I give to anyone who asks about security, a lot of people don’t know that, and spear-vishings are extremely effective.

People have learned to mostly not trust Microsoft Support numbers asking for your CC, but when an internal company number that your phone matches to your bosses boss calls you, a lot of people fall for that.

All of us will be, eventually.

If I’m counting right, should be around a 1 000 per year.

I went with 168 million males in the US, so divide by 175 000 is a thousand, which is ~2.5 per day. But I might be wrong what a yearly incidence meabs.

So every morning you can ask yourself, are you going the be one of the today’s three lucky US men?

I highly recommend reading and at least once trying to implement the Newport’s Digital Minimalism. Even if you don’t go all in, it has a lot of food for thought in regards to technolpoy usage.

I’ve spent almost a year with a dumb Nokia (the LTE version of bananaphone) that did still have a (barely usable) Maps app and also could make a hotspot, so I could use my powered off smartphone I always carried with me for emergencies.

I have since returned back to using smartphone, mostly because of work requirements, and have fallen out of a lot of Minimalism habits, but things like turned off notifications and learning not to care about missing stuff/replying later has stayed with me. Once you get rid of notification FOMO, it’s pretty liberating.

I should get a dumb phone again.