I think that’s Futurism.com’s text, not OP

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.

I see, I’ll edit my other comment. So what even changes then, were they even making exclusive deals in the past? The discussion I remember was about how being the default made it difficult for others to compete since most people don’t change the defaults.

We’ve discussed this on our instance a few times, the downside to setting local as default is that the instance looks small and hyper-specific to new users. They might not realize that there is a wider network of posts available. Someone who is familiar with how the fediverse works is more likely to know about the different feeds.

A good compromise would be a configurable banner for logged out users, so then an instance can pick either option and leave a note about alternatives

Some of the Safeway’s near me now have a large “Global Market” aisle, which I think describes that section better

“International” also works

I think they’re referring to Firefox’s funding, a lot of which was through search deals

An article from 5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox

edit: seems like that hasn’t changed by this ruling either

United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-overdose-misinformation

Last December, Officer Courtney Bannick was on the job for the Tavares, Fla., police department when she came into contact with a powder she believed was street fentanyl.

The footage from another officer’s body camera shows Bannick appearing to lose consciousness before being lowered to the ground by other cops.

“I was light-headed a little bit,” Bannick later told WKMG, a local television station. “I was choking, I couldn’t breathe.”

Other officers can be heard on the tape describing Bannick’s medical condition as an overdose. They administered Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid poisoning.

“She’s breathing,” a cop says. “Stay with me!”

🤨

It might, but I think it might be a federation bug between our instances. I haven’t seen one like this before, but I’ll keep an eye out to see if it happens again / there’s a pattern.

You could also try setting yourself as a bot, saving, and then reversing it again. That might prompt your instance to send out the information again.

Oh sorry about that, it’s still showing up as a bot for me but it’s fine on your instance. I think the information just hasn’t federated over to lemmy.ca yet

An excerpt

Jen asked:

There’s a lot of secure software, that probably people in this room work on, that is developed in the open, and that is used primarily by at-risk users, including things like Tor, Signal, SecureDrop. That’s great, because it makes it easy for folks to contribute. Maybe you don’t want that, I understand that can be hard. But it also makes it easier for people to audit and gain assurance that the app is doing what you claim without having to have, you know, EFF reverse engineer it. Would you be open to making the app open source?

His answer: “Absolutely not.”

Why? “I don’t want anybody from the government to have their hooks in how I’m doing what I’m doing. Once you go open source, everybody has access to it. So I’m just going to keep the codebase private at this time.”

He also claimed that the government can’t learn everything about how an app works by reverse engineering it, which isn’t true.

I agree with Jen. His answers are very concerning.

Your account is marked as a bot by the way, you can fix that in your user settings

Hi Slyke,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! The team has been extra busy these past few days. We did receive the message and we should have acknowledged it sooner.

Someone should hopefully review is soon and get back to you!

Fair enough, I do investigate more for the communities I’m actively moderating, but a lot of the reports are intended for the community moderators, and it’s not really my place to follow up on it.

Another common one is “spam”. We get a lot of legitimate reports for spam which I take action on. Sometimes a regular comment is reported for “spam”, and if it doesn’t look like spam to me then I will end up dismissing it.

My only suggestion is to change the link to a different frontend. The old. one is somewhat unmaintained and at this point a lot of Reddit users might be used to the new Reddit layout and find old. to look dated. I don’t use it myself, but some users have brought up issues with it on our instance

You could also instead mention the different UIs and/or link to https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

Maybe even a note saying that vague reports may be ignored.

I do my best to investigate what the problem might be, but at some point I need to dismiss the report without actioning anything

Cool, a new channel :)

Well not new, new to me

That’s what I was surprised by. Maybe barrels were very common and the round shape was more resistant to stress/impacts than crates at the time? Although someone said the crackers at the bottom didn’t hold up that well so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I appreciate you stepping up, and also for your contributions across Lemmy. I’ve added you as a mod on this community. Congratulations on becoming a Registered Nurse!

Some more context

The history of the Finnish air force’s use of the swastika, which since the 20th century has largely been associated with Nazi tyranny and hate groups, is more complex than at first appearance. It is an ancient symbol and Finland’s air force began using it many years before the birth of Nazi Germany.

Change has been underway for years. A swastika logo was quietly pulled off the Air Force Command’s unit emblem a few years ago. But swastikas have remained on some Finnish air force flags, raising eyebrows among NATO allies, tourists and other foreigners who spot them at military events.

“We could have continued with this flag, but sometimes awkward situations can arise with foreign visitors. It may be wise to live with the times, Col. Tomi Böhm, the new head of Karelia Air Wing air defense force, was quoted as saying in a report Thursday by the public broadcaster YLE.

Also brick walls don’t really go through iterative changes, which is an important issue with tech debt.

If the wall works, then it works

A software project will work now, but may not hold up when you need to change something

Same creator as Faster than Light, which is also on sale