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@2ck there, this confirms the Rust team being axed completely, and that MDN was gutted:
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/

@2ck some info here: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/mozilla_staff_layoffs_products_revenue/

Seems to somewhat confirm developer tools team, MDN, and Rust team are affected:

"we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development"

Today, I was trying to find (using commercial search engines) information about a topic. Maybe 9 out of 10 or more "relevant" results was about purchasing items related to the topic. Not ads placed in the result page, no, the actual results.

I remember how, when I was younger, I used to marvel at all the information out there on the web. How it was like a giant library.

I scarcely recognize the place now. If you want to search information about a topic you don't go into a mall. But that's what it feels like I'm forced to do.

I remember going to the library and pulling out drawers of index cards to locate the relevant non-fiction shelves with good content on topics I wanted to learn about. Imagine if those index cards had been mixed with cards with advertisements on them. Increasingly diluting the content with junk. That is the web of today.

Plan your flag (register an online account), before a bad person does on your behalf:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you-plant-your-flag/

For US citizens:

-SSA.org
-IRS
-Credit bureaus
-UPS

And a few more good recommendations on the article.

China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/

Not unexpected, and might be the the first one many countries/companies blocking it.

it's nice that more and more artists are writing image descriptions, but often they are very vague and aren't actually _alt_ text. like, they aren't viable alternatives to viewing the image.
eg.: "fanart of <character>" is not really telling anything. what style are they drawn in? what is the picture trying to communicate? how are they dressed? facial expression? etc.

#art #accessibility

mashup vs. now (seed 2231443675)

"The truly precious resource is not your time, but attention. Spending attention wisely improves the quality of your time. Conversely, time is worthless when you attention is scattered."

Spot on. Not security related, but had to share. By Runarrorama.