However, the hacker(s) indicated, that should Schneider publicly admit to this latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half. Thus, the ransom demanded would decrease to $62,500 worth of baguettes, we would presume. Even with a 50% deduction, that’s still a lot of dough.

firstly I was joking
secondly, cautious ≠ squeamish. we shouldn’t be setting masculinity as an example

energy is converted and never destroyed so it’s true

WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS TOM SCOTT SLANDER

dbzer0 is only as thematic as ml is imo

The very second website in the file they use to track recently-moved websites uses substack (now).

Meanwhile, Automattic’s response to WP Engine’s lawsuit claimed the company “failed to plausibly allege specific financial harm.”

The footer says the site is operated by Automattic.

You might wanna try out Pale Moon. It’s optimized for single-thread performance and takes up a bit less memory.

It sets an absolutely obscene precedent that a government can globally restrict information

Again, the information is still everywhere.

Even global terrible actors like Russia and China haven’t succeeded at that.

Actually, the Chinese Wikipedia used to have a systemic bias in favor of the CPC before China blocked it, after which the bias was changed.

because the entirety of Wikipedia is open source and would be mirrored in the country instantly

It’s a bit elitist to restrict information—weapons of revolution—to those who know how to find a mirror website. Why don’t you survey the Chinese nationals in-person to see if they know how to get on Wikipedia? Plus, to avoid block evasion, no mirrors would be able to edit Wikipedia.

Dude, what bad does this do? To the Indian people, to you? The information has already been plastered all over the internet, including archives of said article, which anyone may access at their will and command. You want billions of Indian peoples to suffer and be deprived of intellectual revolution for what, grinding a utopic axe? Ceasing operations in India would do way more damage to Wikipedia’s goal.

But the information is already available archived elsewhere? Don’t you think the people of India deserve to be educated?

Could you at least give me some keywords to search?

Firstly, Wikimedia does have many usergroup organizations (i.e. subchapters) in India. And even without that, my point is that Wikipedia can’t shut down in India.

could you link to examples of the past?

Information is the power behind revolutions and popular democracy. I’d be surprised if the WMF didn’t check a web archive before taking down the article. The court case was already all over worldwide news before that anyways. If they took the article down from archives, that’d be a different story.

India isn’t capable of enforcing fines against an organization that doesn’t operate in their country

You serve a website in that country, you operate in that country. What say you about the GDPR?

They already have the capability to block content locally.

If by “They” you mean Wikipedia, they don’t. Contempt of court risks excluding all Indian editors and readers from using Wikipedia along with hefty fines.

http://archive.today/2024.10.21-025435/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation

not sure it’d be better if they wrote censorship software to protect articles based on geolocated IP for this

there’s still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International#Litigation_against_other_organisations

Indians still deserve their information

It’s quite independent from Wikidata. It’s an alpha-stage programming functions repository.

i liek attachments moar

Somehow, it feels horrifying to use something that high-level for the backend, especially when MediaWiki has so much PHP and the WMF has so many PHP programmers. Maybe my adolescent arse is getting old…