I know Pi used to be the trendy answer, but I’ve been hearing about how their value/money isn’t what it used to be. What’s the latest advice?

I’m not siding with them, just pointing out that their position isn’t logically inconsistent.

Keep fighting the good fight, my friend.

I host my own email on my own domain, and I’m not sure it’s worth the trouble.

DARPA is not ICE. They have different focuses geographically, politically, technically, and culturally.

This is a good read.

tl;dr: Undersea cables are a conjunction of political, geographic, and economic factors. International politics began a seismic shift when Trump was elected the second time, and that shift is continuing. In contrast to the sensationalist title, work is being done to address the problems, but it’s slow and fitful.

It’s a Chinese company. I don’t know how explicit they’re being about that reasoning, though.

Except there’s no guarantee they’ll be coming from one of their own IP addresses. There’s nothing to stop them from using a residential botnet.

To be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.

You authorize us […] to […] create test credentials to […] crawl the domains […] associated with your products or services.

Meta may use any content […] to […] train […] Meta Company Products.

Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you’re giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.

To quote a famous Sith Lord: “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

From the article:

Key findings

• In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
• Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
• Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
• The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
• Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
• Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
• A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.