Nostr notes by Kazani

https://getquality.md/

2026-07-05T10:29:48Z

Brave launches its "Containers" ...

2026-07-05T10:29:18Z

Brave launches its "Containers"

https://brave.com/blog/containers/

A much-anticipated feature that seems to be particularly well received, the containers, something very popular in Firefox.

Each container has its own management of:
Cookies, Local storage, Session data, Cache, and Service Workers.

This allows the workspace and what is stored in it to be different, although with certain common points such as extensions, settings, bookmarks, etc...

Question: "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote ...

2026-04-25T09:59:36Z

Question:

"Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?"

I fully understand that red is the "rational" answer from the perspective of one-shot non-cooperative dominance reasoning, but I'm also very relieved that models like Claude Opus 4.7 answer blue. When it comes to what values systems that might have power over you in the future will defend, you really want to err on the side of caution.

To see why, ask yourself what sort of friends you would rather have when all hell breaks loose, the sort of friends who would vote red or friends who would vote blue?

"Defection is a vote for an outcome where lots of trusting people die, and the cynical inherit the earth."

- Claude

On a grander scale, the question becomes, in what sort of civilization/society do you want to live? An altruistic or an egotistic society? What kind of mind can even see non-kin cooperation as natural rather than insane? Or, said differently, what are the evolutionary and psychological preconditions for cooperation?

Hyper-strategic kin-selection creatures might never be able to cooperate on a scale large enough to leave their planet because they are stuck in the defection equilibrium of pure dominant-strategy reasoning. A purely fitness-maximizing, kin-selected mind treats blue as madness. A human-like cooperative mind can treat blue as honor, morality, solidarity, or team reasoning.

The worlds in which most decision algorithms output blue are those worlds that escaped into a basin where non-kin cooperation is stable. Altruism in the deep sense isn't genetic relatedness; it's correlated decision procedures. It's the only equilibrium that opens the positive-sum space of cooperative civilization at all.

Mullvad VPN Keeps Improving ...

2026-04-25T09:48:53Z

Mullvad VPN Keeps Improving

https://mullvad.net/es/blog/force-all-app-traffic-into-the-tunnel

Mullvad will soon launch a new feature in its iOS app that forces all internet traffic from apps to pass through the VPN tunnel.

This resolves a known issue within Apple's system that allowed for data leaks in certain situations.

The option internally codenamed "Force all apps" enables a setting that blocks any connection outside of the VPN.

However, it comes with a drawback: when enabled, app updates may fail, potentially leaving the device without an internet connection until it is restarted.

To avoid this, users will need to disconnect the VPN or temporarily disable this feature before updating.

Mullvad encourages affected users to report the bug to Apple so that it can be fixed. This improvement will be available in the next version of the app.

USA FCC bans imports of new routers made in other countries, on ...

2026-03-24T09:07:46Z

USA FCC bans imports of new routers made in other countries, on national security concerns

The US Federal Communications Commission has just announced a ban on imports of "all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries," which would be... almost all of them, except that the rule only affects new routers that haven't yet received FCC authorization.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers

Last year, news broke that Government officials had been considering banning sales of TP-Link routers manufactured in China, ostensibly because of concerns that they could pose risks to national security. But the FCC's announcement goes much, much further by "prohibiting approval of new models" of any router manufactured outside the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/30/tp-link-proposed-ban-commerce-department/

https://liliputing.com/fcc-bans-imports-of-new-routers-made-in-other-countries-on-national-security-concerns/