At least the addons part has been mostly resolved - although not all addons are supported, Firefox mobile now has significantly more official addons than before:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/05/02/1000-firefox-for-android-extensions-now-available/

For mobile, I’d recommend Mull instead of Iceraven

Pros:

• Just like Iceraven, a fork of Fenix
• incorporates the arkenfox user.js
• Doesn’t have “No warranties or guarantees of security or updates or even stability!” in its project description

Cons:

• APKs are only on FDroid
• awful name, no animal reference
• awful logo color scheme imo - magenta on turquoise is… an interesting choice

Here’s a probably somewhat biased but from quickly skimming over it not inaccurate browser comparison by the developer(s) of Mull:

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

Also based GrapheneOS user

One day I will create a post here with the title ‘𝗁mmm’ instead of ‘hmmm’ and you won’t notice

That’s a Mathematical Sans-Serif Small H (U+1D5C1) btw

Depending on who compromised you, paying the ransom is the smart move.

As long as the hacker group has a somewhat established name and reputation, they have more to lose from keeping a copy afterwards than to gain. Trust is like half of the business model for these groups - throwing it all away for a one-time gain isn’t the smartest move.

And while you should obviously keep a backup, in the end it might be cheaper to just pay up, especially because of potential future lawsuits should customer data be leaked.

Also, you should absolutely make sure the hackers actually have stolen data instead of merely encrypting it all with a secret key. There’s no point in paying in that case.

I guess Cyprus will never be able to join the EU either then

The amount isn’t necessarily an indicator of intelligence, the nunber of connections is very important too

Check out drunkenslug[dot]com/register

It says: “Sorry! The bar is closed.”

Afaik it has open registrations every couple of months, but I’d prefer not waiting an indeterminate amount of time - and potentially miss signing up.

I might be very stupid though so there could be some way to register I’ve missed.