sovietknuckles [they/them]

I run my VPN and Firefox in a network namespace.

Docker introduces latency, but network namespaces do not.

That’s true, presenting your phone to them would make it easier for them to invent a reason to take your phone

That means if I used the digital version, they would had unlimited access to all my digital life. Photos, emails, chats, from decades ago.

Do they actually take your phone when you present it to them for digital ID? They don’t scan it and bring up the same information on their scanner?

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.

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.