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Supposedly Amnezia is an anti censorship tool, however Facebook has a terrible track record with recommending VPNs. The previous one turned out to be spyware

Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company that was purchased by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms), who changed the company's name to Facebook Israel.[1] The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.

Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founded Onavo in 2010. In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo's analytics platform to monitor competitors. This influenced Facebook to make various business decisions, including its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.

Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook was forced to pull Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnezia_VPN

Schools can choose to start later in the day if they find it helpful, without needing everyone else to change their clocks and schedules too

Interestingly

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657

We just got rid of it

Looks cool! I'd love to see local buynothing groups have a Fediverse alternative.

Out of curiosity, is there any standard or common format around location data for Fediverse platforms?

Thanks for sharing! I cross posted it to !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_expansionism_under_Donald_Trump#Canada

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Wow that is nice, is it released anywhere for others to modify/extend?

Fox, who also oversees Apache Maven, a popular Java build tool, explained that its repository site is at risk of being overwhelmed by constant Git pulls. The team has dug into this and found that 82 percent of the demand comes from less than 1 percent of IPs. Digging deeper, they discovered that many companies are using open source repositories as if they were content delivery networks (CDNs). So, for example, a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next. This is unsustainable.

GitHub added rate limits for unauthenticated users last year

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/

Karrot is nice

Too many people use the LLM generated caption feature, but that's a fault of the users than the platform itself.

At the same time, they became a lot more palatable to the rest of the world and companies that want to avoid bad press / boycotts

Piefed does have a migration tool from what I remember of lemm.ee's shutdown