I don’t see a question in there. What are you asking?

And they were a lobbyist. They weren’t just a pretty functionary writing emails and getting coffee for the people in charge. They were actively and knowingly advocating for the abuses Meta is infamous for.

I mean, they used to work for a company that quite literally is built upon the practice of stealing people’s data and selling it to the highest bidder. Surely, that means they are the best person to know how to counter that, right? Right?!

/S

It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.

It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.

That won’t matter. VPNs typically use a known set of IPs, and services like Reddit that are run by surveillance capitalism companies simply block those known ranges (see also YouTube, for example).

I don’t use it, but I knew someone who did, and for them, it was about min/maxing their software. Because everything is built from source, everything is optimized for their specific system in theory.

I’m not aware of any comparisons on speed, but I would suspect that it’s negligible in real world use cases, but it’s still important for some.

It’s one of their best pieces of software, hands down

PIA does not have WireGuard configs available. To get those, you have to use third-party tools to capture and generate the necessary info. Otherwise, you have to use their client, or else no WireGuard.

Users have been asking for years (since 2018, I think), and they’ve never provided them.

It’s why I will never understand the “just burn it down” crowd. That burn is going to take decades, lifetimes to happen. It’s going to be slow and agonizing for millions as civil rights dwindle and fascism keeps creeping further into every corner of the country, until that becomes the next generations’ new normal.

The FBI caught him, because his family turned him in. Almost identical to how Luigi got caught—ratted out by a coworker.

The FBI probably wouldn’t have figured either case out if somebody hadn’t narc’d.

Are you using a VPN? Does your country have geoblocking?

It’s not about having a device that’s secure, it’s about having a device that you use less, to the point that it’s not much of an attack surface for surveillance capitalism or (possibly) hostile governments.

It’s much harder to profile someone if they aren’t fed a steady stream of what you say and what you click upon.

He watched Starship Troopers like five times, okay‽ Now, he didn’t understand the underlying commentary, but he liked the shooty bang bang!

That one failed, too. Live on stage, no less!

Nice, I hadn’t heard of this book. I will be reading it later!

Tldr: weirdos are saying she was making “devil horns.”

Not so fun playing with hyper-religious theofascists, after all…?

Ah, okay. That’s why it feels familiar. Thanks!

So I would assume you’re up on what’s what with unbox. I noticed on the homepage that there’s a link to addy.io at the bottom. Is there some kind of affiliation?

Addy has way more than 10 free ones. I currently have 43 active aliases, and I’m on the free tier. You may be getting confused in that you can only forward 10MB of emails a month for free, and only to a single address. I’ve never run up against that cap in the six months I’ve been using it, but everybody’s situation is different. Obviously, it wouldn’t work if you need to forward big attachments or something.

Good to know there’s alternatives, though!

Yeah, it’s only worth it if you want to buy their other services, like email masks, etc. (which you can also get for free with a service like addy.io).