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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • route my traffic to a different country where I don’t live in and them viewing my activity is potentially less of a problem

    Depending on where you live, and where your service resides, this could be tricky.

    In the US, for instance, if you've chosen a provider in Australia, then a FVEY agreement could be in place to share that data. This gets around the technicality that intel gathering is not occurring on US soil and is not being done by the gov.

    And again with the US, if you've chosen a country that's not amiable to sharing user data, the US could very well be justifying that country as a target for pilfering data anyway.

    So, that would leave choosing a service provider within the US, which should need to go through the FISA courts for any access to citizen data, but who knows after the Snowden revelations.

    I guess that's the state of privacy if you've got a nation state that's targeted you for surveillance. Only way around it I can think of is data to be encrypted in transit and at rest, and only you control the keys. But that's not something that's going to happen with something like mainstream email anyway, too inconvenient for most folks (and you also don't know if your recipients are security conscious either).







  • “If we’re going to continue to have clowns like Matt Gaetz as part of the Republican conference, as part of this Congress, then you’re going to have to have rules in place that prevent him from doing his charade. Every single week, every single month, where he goes out and he does his thing where he creates some manufactured crisis” that he then uses to raise money, Graves said.

    Can't see the forest for the trees! Where do you think Matt learned it from?!






  • I used to use reddit with Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a browser add-on/extension that has tons of customizations. This was even before there was an old/new reddit, it was just reddit.

    So it's not that we chose to use "old" reddit, it was that we chose not to use "new" reddit. Going to the new design breaks RES and we would've missed out on all of those customizations and quality-of-life features that were missing without it.

    Plus, "new" reddit is designed for doom-scrolling and serving adds, and not about promoting users to engage in dialog. Most of my reddit interaction was around niche content, where I actually dived deep into threads. New reddit got in the way of that.



  • if you’re using the same password for everything since 91 there’s around a 0% chance that password hasn’t been leaked

    Plot twist, they've never had their password leaked due to never having a password.

    They spend every last waking moment trolling through public or university libraries to find computers that people haven't logged out of, and are still logged into social media, dialup modems, irc, bbs, mainframes, etc. It's these accounts they make posts from.

    Pretty lonely world when you only ever get to make one comment on one account at max like once a week. And then you never get to check the replies. You never get to check your email either, you don't know if anyone has sent you and e-card for your birthday.

    Oh and not to speak of constantly getting kicked out of those libraries once the librarians recognize you. To the point where you have to move to yet another city to have any online time again.

    But hey, they've never had their password leak at least!



  • They (his supporters, some at all ranks) knew he was a lying, cheating, fraudulent, uncouth, and dishonorable piece of shit.

    They also knew he would continue being the same piece of shit if/when he got into office, unapologetically cheating any way he could to get his way.

    In fact, I think that's exactly why his supporters supported him. To hell with the law and democracy, gotta stick it to the dems.

    With ever looming shutdowns now being threatened by an extremist right faction of idiots, I wonder if the gop masters are finally now realizing the chickens have come home to roost. The hate and idiocy stoked to get support for extremism is now going to affect the bottom line of billionaires (the US's credit rating is about to get cut, and being unstable is not good for business).