cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day

• Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
• Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
• Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
• Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
• Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.

Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

Mozilla, the non-profit tech giant behind the Firefox browser and has warned regulators that age-restricting VPNs "would undermine the privacy and security of all users".

In a formal submission to the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Mozilla pushed back against a recent consultation that considers age-gating the best VPN services to stop minors from bypassing age checks mandated by the Online Safety Act.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47062523

Amazing for motivation: “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” an Instagram employee told WIRED”

That is just where we want Meta ;)

The Software Freedom Conservancy taking some bold steps to push back against Bambu's blatant anti-consumerism via (amongst other tactics) violation of AGPLv3.