Midnight

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[–] Midnight 1 points 10 months ago

If everyone you know uses secure messaging apps, youre in a bubble; their adoption rate is very small.

Of the people I know, even those who use Signal/Matrix still use Chrome and GMail/Docs/Drive. They have a long way to go before they don prosthetic noses.

[–] Midnight 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What's far more likely than 3d printed prosthetics becoming fashonable is people just rolling over and accepting the distopian surveilance state.

I can't even get most of my family to use Signal to prevent Facebook from reading their private messages, what could happen to convince them to go full cyberpunk?

[–] Midnight 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where are you getting free VM hosting?

The comment was in reference to VPN services. Sadly, given theres no right to privacy, you must pay to not be tracked.

i feel like most of your argument is rendered moot with encrypted dns solutions like DoH.

You misunderstand. Large ISPs run their own DNS servers which are preconfigured into the devices they sell. They are the intended recipient and you'd just be encrypting it in transit to their servers.

[–] Midnight 47 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Another reason to use a VPN is that ISPs have every motive to sell your browsing data and they do. Unlike many other groups tracking you, your ISP inherently has your meatspace name, address, and payment information making their data easily collatable and very valuable.

If you use the default DNS on their provided router they can even tell if someone purchased an XBox, Playstation, or any other smart device just from update and telemetry lookups.

As the article says, by using a VPN youre using someone else's ISP making that info worthless.

If your threat model includes preventing ad networks from gathering data, a VPN absolutely is a tool to prevent that. Do you have to pay for a service? Probably not if you're technical enough; a VM in a data center is probably sufficient.

[–] Midnight 83 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Snyder needs someone to tell him a movie should have both character development and a cohesive plot in at most 2 hrs.

I'm done with him deferring blame for not being able to put together a clean narrative.

[–] Midnight 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. This is basically why you use native apps. What you could do is set up another profile on Android and you should be able to sign in on a different account for that profile and get notifications.

[–] Midnight 3 points 11 months ago

You don't seem to understand terminal velocity.

[–] Midnight 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Its actually a juvenile bald eagle. As they age, their beak and feathers change color. The easy way to distinguish the two is that juveline bald eagles have bare legs without feathers.

For the secret way to distingush them I'd have to say that some dickweed dumped some trash out in the open and look what birds showed up; its all bald eagles.

[–] Midnight 2 points 11 months ago

As awful and regressive as the Taliban is, they dont want a global caliphate. That whole schtick is ISIS's calling card and it means that since the US pulled out they're fighting each other.

[–] Midnight 2 points 11 months ago

They're very pretty birds, but I've had difficulty getting close up shots. They're very vigilant and will move or fly away as you approach them.

[–] Midnight 35 points 1 year ago

They're campists; they can't understand any level of moral complexity.

Anyone who opposes the US is inherently good, because surely the west is the only one that can be imperialistic.

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