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IBM has annual revenue of $79 billion. link

For context, that's equivalent to the value of Etherium, XRP, and Bitcoin Cash. Combined. Every year.
While it's possible that IBM may do something with crypto, the idea that IBM is turning to crypto to 'survive' is laughable.

Did the calculation on omni calculator just to double check. The size of 1200 pb comes only from the data that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook collectively stored 2 years ago. How is the entire internet only 47.85 pb in size (according to your calculations)?

i still think killing it is their stupidest decision. Apple has a desktop program and a web service. Expanding Picasa would have given users on any platform the same experience, a local catalog of photos as well as the web based platform. I still use an old version of Picasa, and also am using digiKam for organizing.

From a privacy standpoint, people sometimes avoid private internet access because it is US based.

Also, I just looked up this company that’s buying ExpressVPN, and they also own Private Internet Access. Idk if it matters, just saying.

(and CyberGhost VPN, the other names I didn’t recognize though)

I switched to Brave a few months ago when Google started getting openly hostile toward adblock extensions and havent looked back since. I can have all my chrome extensions and integrations AND a browser that does not keep attempting to backdoor auto-play videos, ads, snooping without my permission.

Brave Browser just released their new privacy-heavy search engine, built with its own web index (ie not using Google on the backend) https://search.brave.com

idk how good it is though, only found out about it last night.

Extract from the website, emphasis mine.

>We’re discontinuing the Opera VPN app for iOS and Android on April 30, 2018. But don’t worry. We’re helping to make sure your privacy is still looked after.

>All Opera Gold users have the option to redeem a free 1-year subscription to SurfEasy Ultra VPN.

>Opera users not currently on the Opera Gold plan will be able to redeem an 80% discount on SurfEasy Total VPN through the latest version of the Opera VPN iOS and Android apps.

AT&T, their net income (i hope i'm using the right term here) for 2013 alone was something like $18 billion. They'll settle for another $100 million fine if they can. It's a mere .5% of their net income, hardly even a slap on the wrist.

What’s a good VPN then? > I use NordVPN

So that makes it good? > Yeah cuz I’m super special

Anyone else? > I use ProtonVPN

So that makes it good? > My mommy said I was the most speshulest

Business and government have a revolving door between each other. Some companies compensate high level employees who leave the company for public appointments. It's always been that way to a degree but hasn't been this bad in a hundred years. Obama's cabinet had plenty and Trump's appointments cranked it up a whole other notch. I'm not crazy about the second source there in general but it's as concise a list as I could come up with on the quick.

That's all great and I hope it makes it easier for the disabled on the internet. There's another problem and it's that despite being over 27 years since it's been enacted, there are still a vast majority of businesses that ignore the ADA. The only way to address this is to hire a lawyer and go to court. This takes up to a year and if you do it too much, you're labeled as someone who wastes the time of the court.

This is a major problem!

Imagine seeing someone parked in a hadicapped spot that wasn't handicapped. Instead of using an app on your phone to report them like: Parking Mobility (android or iphone) or calling the police to ask them to fine the person - Imagine having to hire a lawyer and wait a year to see any kind of justice. It's crazy!

Look, I'm 100% for true, real justice for LGBT, people of color, and everything else. Maybe some of you could help the disabled cause a little? Seriously. I mean, with disabled people making up about 20-25% of the population, there's a good chance that you'll be LGBT and disabled, or a person of color and disabled, etc... C'mon! This affects you even if you're not a minority.

Check out the app Be My EyesIt allows low vision and blind phone users to get help from volunteers. I have only helped on a few video calls in the last year and a half because there are so many volunteers worldwide, but it is truly worth checking out.

YouTube’s algorithm and monetisation specifically puts some medium sized creators at a financial disadvantage, it means that if their content isn’t low effort (I.e. playing games) and actually involves a decent chunk of time and money to do, then they’ll often make little money from their channel.

That being said, this forces some creators to find 3rd party sponsors to sponsor a video. I’ll save the boring parts but basically for a YouTube sponsorship to benefit both the youtuber and the sponsor, the product has to be one of 3 things.

1: a total scam: crypto, mental health ‘support’, or investment advice, Elgato, G2A, etc

2: an incredibly cheap and inefficient product: Raycon, TunnelBear etc

3: a “good” or legitimate product with many downsides or loopholes: Raid: Shadow Legends, Honey, Wix, etc

There are obviously outliers that can be a good value deal if you’re interested, but 95% of what’s being advertised will always have a downside. It’s not like TV advertising where a product like food for example can be ‘just as advertised’.

There’s a reason you don’t see CocaCola sponsoring individual youtubers

>ProtonMail also operates a VPN service called ProtonVPN and points out that Swiss law prohibits the country's courts from compelling a VPN service to log IP addresses. In theory, if Youth for Climate had used ProtonVPN to access ProtonMail, the Swiss court could not have forced the service to expose its "real" IP address. However, the company seems to be leaning more heavily toward recommending Tor for this particular purpose.

Realistically the biggest hurdle there is actually getting the source code to an app. I've built and run a couple apps from source (one was to get around AT&Ts ridiculous hot-spot restriction a decade ago). These days most of that process could automated in AWS or MacStadium for just a few bucks.

It's highly unlikely Epic or any other money-hungry developer would release their source to get around Apple's restrictions, and there's no way I would trust sideloading any of their apps unless they did. The loot boxes have already proven to me they will treat their customers like crap for a dollar.

Apple's walled garden isn't perfect, but for the most they have earned my trust, and I really like that I don't have to worry about my kids messing up their phones with malware, spyware or adware.

If you're in a larger organization, we've created an audit for this Firefox version (also for the ESR version) so you can quickly identify outdated installations across your network and update them.

Posts may contain sensitive business information so it is important they are kept separate from standard Facebook posts.

Microsoft sells a similar product, Yammer, and it is extensively used by the company I work at.

You do get they can fingerprint your device even through a VPN right? Everything from charge level, screen resolution, RAM and CPU, brightness level, time of access, third party cookies, etc- the APIs are really easy to cross-correlate to remove obfuscation, no matter what NordVPN & co tell you. Even Tor can be undermined with the same techniques- you really have to be incredibly careful to leave 0 fingerprints, and that’s before they even use Style Analysis on your posts to correlate you to a real world meat bag if someone should be so inclined.

You are weighed, measured and quantified. There really isn’t a way to be off the grid unless you actually get off it and stay off it. Anything else is just false reassurance.

Also, Steve Jobs didn't even believe in DRM on music, something he was very vocal about., but they were basically forced by the Big four to implement it.

Hadn't Apple done everything in their power to protect Fairplay, the labels could literally have withdrawn pretty much every single song on iTMS. Sadly, many people today seems to have forgotten about how amazingly stubborn the music industry was in the early days of digital distribution.

>Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

>The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.

I’ve used one but not used Hulu. Essentially it’s a box that you set as your dns. It blacklists based on rules / filters, essentially dumping anything blocked into a black hole. Works very well, and can be run on a vps (hosted vm for those who don’t know) or locally. The benefit of local is you can set it as the router’s dns, then the benefits fall though to anything using the router net. One of the major concerns for PiHole and things like ublock going forward is Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), which a companies like Hulu / Google can use. PiHole

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

that can help but sometimes it'll try to update again after six months and actually reset those settings(like malware) as it updates.

It has detailed descriptions for all the extra settings so make sure to read anything you turn off and should be easy to avoid breaking anything. You may need to re-enable some of it if for some reason you are trying to run a game from the Windows store.

this podcast talks about it in depth

I switched from them to ExpressVPN because it got to a point where PIA was dropping my connections and reconnecting … for months this went on. I finally had enough, express has been stable for me. Just one story take it with a grain of salt

I personally use NordVPN and haven't had an issue with service or connections. Been using them for about 4 years now. Very user friendly for setup and connecting to whichever VPN service you're looking for!

True, $24 per year! Kinda ridiculous, nobody will pay for solitaire that money.

If you used to be a solitaire user, try Solitaire: Decked Out :) This one is really FREE, not like microsoft one. Me and my colleagues released this game for a month ago.

Also it's totally Ads free, and have some IAPs for cosmetic feature like skin. I hope you will like it ☺

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devsisters.SolitaireDeckedOut

iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/app/solitaire-decked-out-ad-free/id1153389718

No you don't. On Android you can modify the mac of your wifi interface in software, it does however require root to do that, but no flashing required.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.pryfi

On iOS, while scanning the MAC is randomzied so the tool would only be useful if the device was actually connected to a network, not just passing by and scanning.

A Signal blog post discussing Cellebrite did find Apple DLLs on the device, and point out that it’s probably unlikely that Apple granted them a license to use that software. Hopefully Apple is aware of it

Pi-Hole (https://pi-hole.net/) is amazing. I set it up on a little Raspeberry Pi and it runs like a champ for every single device and app on my network. It's really weird being on ad enabled networks and seeing the clutter in my apps now (still have to use ublock for youtube though).

For those of you saying what about false positives. Pi-Hole handles it with a white list and you can turn it on and off as needed through the browser page. Worth the small cost of a Raspberry Pi to not have to be bothered by ads.

nah, i really can deny that. granted, a lot of us can "finesse" things, but i would never say we lure in wretches. a lot of us want to do something that nobody will pay us enough for; then you discover brands will pay you to do it. people from all walks of life land up in this field. honestly, most of us are creatives looking for an outlet that puts a roof over our heads.

regardless of what you might think, though, i do agree this particular bunch of people are just out of fucking control. you read the y-comb thread yet? here, link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600716

just, i dunno, bad people exist everywhere. every industry lures them. where there is money, shitty people will show up to the party. sadly, those shitty people make the 95% look bad.

sorry if i honed in on your comment. i just really resent hearing that from people, because I don't suck and a lot of people in this industry don't. everybody wants to make shit, including us, that shit needs to be sold, and sometimes that's where you land. that's the vast majority of us in this industry. go where you can afford rent.

Have you ever heard of a game called geoguesser? It uses street view and drops you somewhere on earth, all you can do is use the arrows to travel in street view, and then you have to guess where on earth you are by dropping a pin. It's pretty fun, though I think it's got more ads on it now.

https://www.geoguessr.com/

WOT (Web of Trust) is signaling a "caution" orange on the link above.

https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/equities.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup-donuts

Solar roadways would work provided the item collecting the energy could be mixed in asphalt. If it directed the energy to buried cables running alongside the roads which then could be tied to the local grids.

MIT developed a solar collector type paint that does something like that.

If you use Android you can help protect yourself by using the Firefox for Android browser with the HTTPS Everywhere add-on which forces the use of HTTPS if the site supports it. Verizon can't tamper with HTTPS connections to insert this tracking data (...or if it can we've got bigger problems). Alternatively you can use a VPN which hides all of your traffic but that's a much more cumbersome solution.

I personally use IVPN, which does not require identification when making payments. All apps (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux) are all free/open source. They also have yearly audits to maintain transparency of operational policy. I really like them.

I use CyberGhost as they are based in Romania which is outside the jurisdiction of the “7 eyes”. I’ve also verified that there is no dns or info leak and they have a special set of servers physically based in Romania called “nospy servers” for when you want extra peace of mind about whatever it is that you’re doing

NordVPN isn’t secure. They aren’t 100% transparent on the data they acquire from you.

ExpressVPN, however is deleting every single bit and byte of your data traffic - instantly.

Don’t pay for trash VPN or you’ll end up like all of South Korea.

Perhaps a "clean sheet" fighter to fit the "low" side of the "high-low mix" is code for UAV fighters. Having read Christian Brose's "The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare", I think that sounds like a great idea.

Thanks for laying this out. I'll need time to digest some of what you wrote but I get a rough idea. Does this setup affect speed?

All I have is just a VPN (Mullvad). Will check out AdGuard.

Thanks again.

There’s an AI that scrounges foreign news reports to predict future pandemics before they occur. Yes, it predicted the ongoing SARS2.

I don't even use avatars. I don't even know what my avatar looks like. Reddit doesn't have avatars for me, and it never will.

old.reddit.com supremacy (and Relay for reddit on Android).

Google is right about some of this traffic. Your network interface must be able to resolve the VPN peer hostname with DNS requests outside of any tunnel, if a hostname is used. DHCP also must obviously be done outside of the tunnel. These things are not debatable.

Things like NTP are kind of iffy but Google isn't being completely unreasonable here.

I think Mullvad is mostly using this as a free PR advert stunt.

Yes the documentation should be more clear, but anyone who really cares is going to do a tcpdump to verify that their tunnel isn't leaking.

This is also why I have not moved to an Android v12 or later ROM yet. The move away from iptables prevents from scripts and tools from working with the new packet filter system.

BrightVPN is the best actually, betternet is free thats true but their quality isnt great, speed are limited also the number of devices on same ip they have only 5 like expressVPN and NordVPN.

Top of the Article:

Edit: A spokesperson of Aura, Betternet's parent company, contacted the editor after this story's release saying: "Contrary to recent media reports, there is not currently, nor has there ever been, an employee by the name of Hamid Rezazadeh at BetterNet or The Pango Group."

I have the default google fiber modem it has 1 2gbs port that I have hard wired into my main computer with a cat7 cable, then I have a 1gbs port going to an Asus router.

I tried plugging the router into into the 2 gbs port but it didn’t make a difference still capped out at the same speeds.

Google did provide a router to use for free, but I found that one had average speeds of 400-570mbs, so I opted to buy my own for the 40% uptick in speed.

:shrug: it's $12 for a charger that'll charge an iphone at it's highest amperage. You can probably find them cheaper. Waste of packaging for Apple to be shipping these in every box. Give customers a $20 coupon for a charger if they must.

So if someone in Pakistan buys a video card with 24GB for $98.50, the tax would be more than 5 times as much as the cost of the product? How unfortunate.

From the article:

> A detailed new report says that a long-time bug in iOS prevents any VPN from fully encrypting all traffic — and also claims that Apple has known about it and chosen to do nothing since discovery in 2020

> The vulnerability was first discovered by VPN firm ProtonVPN in March 2020. At the time, the company said that when a VPN is switched on, the OS should terminate all internet connections and automatically re-establish them via the VPN to prevent unencrypted data leakage.

> In iOS 13.3.1 and later versions, devices connecting with a VPN didn't close and re-open connections. Consequently, it was possible that a user would unknowingly in part continue to use the insecure connection they had before turning on the VPN.

I've had moderately severe hearing loss from birth and must wear hearing aids my every waking moment to hear speech at all, so the hearing aids being talked about in the article aren't strong enough for me.

The noise cancellation technology in hearing aids has evolved in an interesting way. I get new hearing aids about once per decade. My previous pair, which were my first digital hearing aids, went all out on erasing background noise to assist in the isolation of human conversation. My current pair of hearing aids backs off on the background noise cancellation, because it was found that there is a lot of background noise that you actually want or need to hear, like bird song or engine and motor noises. You'd think you want to get rid of all engine or motor noise, but when something bad is happening with said engine or motor, or it has failed entirely and isn't making noise at all, you may need to know about that.

I tried the Bluetooth for listening to music in my previous pair, and the sound quality was very rinky-dink and vastly inferior compared to a $30 pair of IEMs. That was about 15 years ago so maybe it's better now but I don't feel the need to try it because, as far as I can tell from paying close attention to how they advertise even the latest advances in Bluetooth audio, what they still haven't figured out how to do is keep the audio synced with video, so they are very careful to avoid talking about watching TV with it. It is maddening to have a variable delay of the lips not matching up with the words, particularly for those of us who use lip-reading to assist with speech comprehension.

I think we're going to see a lot of very bad marketing behavior from OTC hearing aid sellers. There's a huge generation of clueless baby boomers with fading hearing that are ripe for exploitation.

I have basically debilitating ADHD and I brush my teeth while I drive and since I live in a state without fluoride I swallow my toothpaste. I recently purchased these pre pasted toothbrushes to keep stashed around my house, car, and backpack.

Weeks after popular VPN services, including ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark VPN, announced their plans to exit India operations due to the Indian government’s new VPN policy, new reports suggest that India has banned third-party VPN and cloud services for government employees

Munching on my Blue Chew while connected to my NordVPN playing RaidShadowLegends while shaving with my ManScaped Lawnmower 3.0 while watching my Brilliant course. Afterward, I wind down by buying some tickets on SeatGeek with my Current card with the Honey browser extension while eating my HelloFresh meal.

>For everything else there are other solutions.

The issue is that, while there are always alternatives, they aren't realistic alternatives.

Not every website can run it's own copy of plausible.io instead of just slapping a cookie accept button and using google analytics.

So we still end up with the issue at hand. These privacy concerns simply cannot be done on the website level, but should instead be done on the browser level or higher. All the cookie law did was put a bunch of banners nobody checks everywhere.

Which technically exist. You can always just fire up Incognito, or launch a new Chrome Profile. And Chrome is planning to block third party cookies by 2023 (should have been this year but.. eh, google and their ads), and Safari has done so since 2020, you might have seen those messages in Safari about keeping you safe.

Based. Will vouch for Mullvad. They don't even keep payment receipts after 40 days, you don't even have a real account with them. If you want to be super anonymous, you can pay with Bitcoin and get 10% off.

Only thing is I wished they did some sort of multi month deal, but I'll settle for 10% off with Bitcoin.

A few things.

Logs vs no logs. Those that keep logs are to be immediately dismissed from your choices. Even if logs are deleted after a set amount of time.

Independent agency verification. Some vpn providers actively choose to verify their claims via independent audits. To date I believe only Mullvad and proton have done this. Mullvad releases their annual audit on their page.

Anonymous sign up. Very few offer this. Basically it’s very hard to link anything back to you.

All that being said, if you truly want anonymous you are better off with TOR.

NordVPN, like many other non-US based VPNs are not under FBI jurisdiction. If the FBI is stupid enough to demand they hand over any data, they will tell them to go eat shit, assuming that they even stored those data.

If the FBI contacted NordVPN, do you really think they’re not going to cough up your search records? Do you really think NordVPN wants to risk standing in the way of, say, a murder investigation? It’s just like Snapchat. Bullshit they delete the photos after 24 hours. They’re saving everything in case of emergencies and I’ll bet $100 all of the large, Panama based VPNs are doing it too.

As opposed to what? Lmao. Do you even know how VPN’s work?

You’ve got NordVPN which has more backdoors than a 1920’s speakeasy

ExpressVPN which has in the terms and conditions that they collect your data and another T&C that they can do whatever they want with your data.

Or do you simply not understand that VPN’s are completely useless in the modern day unless you want to get around blocks. Your ISP can’t see what you’re doing on websites.

Using a VPN to do anything but avoid region/IP blocks is stupid because it does next to nothing.

Problem is, how do you know they’re telling the truth about not storing it? IPVanish and PureVPN, for example, both claimed to not log and then ended up identifying criminals when the government came calling.

If you're on android check out my open source app Maneki. It's built on top of Jackett and searches a bunch of indexers at once. I have been lagging pulling in latest from Jackett but it still works: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.masterwok.shrimplesearch

Without cookies google would not be able to keep you signed in. If you are concerned about privacy (like actually) get a VPN (Mullvad is the most private and is best for torrenting) get a browser extension like Ublock origin, privacy badger. And try to use Brave Browser. Maybe even set up a pi hole on your network which is a firewall which prevents ads from being downloading along with trackers on black lists.

Get VyprVPN, they have Chameleon which is a proprietary software & it will mask the metadata and bypass DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) so nothing can ever detect you’re using the VPN. It works, Netflix can’t block it.

just get a cheap paid one for better service like CyberGhost, IPVanish, Surfshark, Atlas, Nord VPN or ExpressVPN and use one of the millions of youtuber code promos to get more free service.

Or use a free one like ProtonVPN. Free ones will have slower internet connection and less options to choose for countries to change your IP address too. Some of the paid ones have way faster speed for streaming and you can choose the country.

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I’m sure you know that says it’s plastered all over YouTube, but a VPN can work pretty well for that.

Private Internet Access (PIA) is by a land side the best possible VPN for the average person if you’re looking.

I use Spark, it's way better for having multiple emails in one place. Also, the calendar is easily accessible. Also, Notion is good for staying organized. Think Gmail is so outdated. ✌️

Heh, those charities--and other billionare "giving"--cause more harm than good. There's a mountain of evidence to back that claim up (surprisingly, many of these uber-rich people are aware of these criticisms and even admit that they're not doing much good):

https://www.amazon.com/Givers-Wealth-Power-Philanthropy-Gilded-ebook/dp/B01ILZT6V4

In Russia, DPI equipment is installed in communication centers, which is actively used in VPN blocking. For example, NordVPN connects to servers but cannot get an IP address. Proton VPN sometimes fails to log in and you have to use manually created OpenVPN profiles. There is no guarantee that these services will not stop working tomorrow when our Ministry of Truth extracts the next signature from the network packets. Renting virtual servers has become impossible due to the blocking of payment methods, and this is almost the only reliable way to organize VPN. In addition, many cloud hostings delete Russian user accounts without regard to these difficulties. As we joke, it is not easy to pick up broken teeth with broken hands :)

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download ProtonVPN app, the free version gives you 13 VPNs in three different countries. the paid version gives you thousands but i think you probably want to save all the money you can right now. stay safe out there.

Mullvad, as mentioned in my first comment.

They can track the IP all they want, it doesn't link the person who did the transaction to anything other than their location at the time the funds were transferred and even if they were to contact the police and tell them "Go to this university (or library or fucking McDonald's) and find the person with that IP address!" by the time they show up the person is long gone or is just lost in the crowd.

They don't need anything more than the public key of origin to know all transactions being made on Bitcoin's network going to or sent from that wallet, but as soon as the funds get swapped to Monero then it's done, no one can do anything anymore (if you know how to bypass Monero's privacy feel free to collect 1.25m$ from the US government).

Thank you for putting me onto Mullvad, been looking for a decent VPN service, Proton is too expensive, I like what I am reading about Mullvad, although Sweden is part of the “14 eyes” so not sure you could launder stolen BTC safely through it lol.

Buy a random Android phone from Amazon and do the transaction through Mullvad.

First things first, split the funds in a hundred wallets.

Use DEX to swap to Monero just what you need for that month and...

Yep, that's it, you're done.

I am getting spyed upon sure, but vanilla Apple is much more private than vanilla Google, if you state otherwise then you have no idea what you are talking about.

Obviously if you unlock your Android bootloader and slap a privacy/security focused ROM on there (GrapheneOS, CalyxOS) then it will absolutely destroy Apple.

However I don’t think the above commenter is well-versed enough in tech to do that, especially if he thinks that a Password Manager and selling his data to NordVPN will protect him.

haveibeenpwned.com

You can run your email through that and see which breaches you’ve been subjected to.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

If you’re the type of person to use the same password across all accounts, you can run those through and see if they’re fucked or not.

Well, Have I Been Pwned is a great starter. If your have indeed been pwned then it shows in what leak and when. For instance Tumblr - early 2013, LinkedIn - 2016 May, etc. Some of these are not from one service, but collections obtained from various sources (like the latest-and-greatest making its course in the news right now, named "Collection #1"). You can find torrent/mega/pastebin links to these packs with a bit of digging. But they tend to be huge in size - "BreachCompilation" a little bit over a year ago was 41GB for example. Now Collection #1 is 87GB.

I would recommend firefox because it is fast, private and has useful features like Containers. The reason why using it is better than Brave is that Brave is built on Chromium, that is a project maintained by google. Using that is essentially contributing to Google's domination on the internet, which they can use to do things like block adblockers etc. Hop over to privacytools.io to get more tips on what add ons work best with Firefox.

If Signal does respond, I hope they make fun of this joke of an article. The writers don't even know how they acquired the messages yet feel the need to bring up encryption nonetheless. Don't let facts get in the way of a good story, right?

See also: a similar incident a few years ago

https://www.amazon.com/Island-Scarlett-Johansson/dp/B015S625X0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TL37DUW6YJFW&keywords=The+Island&qid=1642884424&s=instant-video&sprefix=the+island%2Cinstant-video%2C130&sr=1-1

I only used Internet Explorer or Edge to download Chrome, until I found out about Facebook and google tracking. Now I use all of them to download Brave browser. On top of that I use ProtonVPN because I’m sick of being the “product” and being tracked and sold to the highest bidder.

So I actually have a paid VPN (ProtonVPN, bundled with my ProtonMail account) as well as a personal OpenVPN server, I like to think I’m reasonably tech proficient, but neither of them are nearly as easy to use as Private Relay. You literally turn it on once, forget about it until you factory reset or replace the device, and it just works.

Now of course I trust ProtonMail enough to have my email hosted there, but from what I recall from the whitepaper for it, Private Relay uses a type of onion routing where you don’t necessarily have to trust Apple not to log your data; they can’t see it even if they wanted to. You’re also blending in among all Private Relay users, a much bigger group than simply all NordVPN/ProtonVPN/etc users. So the privacy benefits are superior to that of a regular VPN, while being cheaper.

No but there are precautions one can take. Like using a VPN using privacy friendly browsers like Firefox.

Also if you haven’t already check out https://haveibeenpwned.com to see if any of your information has been leaked.

Also for more information on reducing your information footprint check https://www.privacytools.io

That's totally fine, you'd be in the majority anyway. Firefox as a default isn't an instant solution to privacy, but hardening the browser, and adding a few add-ons can help a lot. Here's a link for more information: https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/. If you take one thing away from all this, get uBlock Origin if you haven't already. Life. Changer.

This happened to me too, they make rubber/silicone ones that slide over the whole unit. I was about to drive to the dealer too to get a replacement and was googling other options, came across these.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Silicone-protector-1999-2009-2001-2008-HYQ12BBX/dp/B07G88HJMB/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=car+key+remote+cover&qid=1640353348&sr=8-4

Top review “Author not open to criticism” haha.

Amazon restricted reviews to verified purchases only. I may spend the $10 knowing my review will piss this guy off.

Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three (English Version) https://www.amazon.com/dp/7119124110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_P0B1G3KMP0XN417JR9BT

Sounds like a good book to check. Is it this one?: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OKZCTS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

>Windows had a huge campaign to force the adoption of 10 less than a decade ago, with the idea that it would be the last os they ever released, everything would just be updates and free upgrades for the devices from then on out.

Why do you keep saying this? It's not true.

>They now release 11, which has different capabilities, and those devices they tricked people into upgrading won’t/don’t run it. Even worse, brand new devices sitting in major retailers won’t run it at purchase. Someone could buy a brand new computer today that will not run the latest version of windows.

So? Windows 10 is still supported and updated.

>That is not true of apple. Every single device available for purchase today, brand new from a major retailer can run iOS 15 or macOS 12.

Not every device running the same version of iOS or macOS has the same features. Would you feel better if windows just changed the name of windows 10 to windows 11, gave you the new skin, and just security updates?

Let's focus on iOS

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15-preview/features/

Here's iOS 15 features list. What do you see? Look at all those little numbers directing you to the fine print?. What does it mean?

>1. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>3. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>6. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>10. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>11. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>15. Available on all AR-enabled iPhone models

>16. Available on iPhone Xs, iPhone Xr, and later.

>17. Available on iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max.

>19. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later.

>20. Available on iPhone with A12 Bionic and later

>22. Available on iPhone 7 and later.

Do you understand now? You fell for the marketing. The version number doesn't actually mean anything.

I've been using #chocolatey for years. I don't know why Microsoft just didn't buy them out or worked more closely with them to integrate the Windows App Store with the choco repos...?

https://chocolatey.org/

It’s only a requirement for Hallo.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

“Windows Hello requires a camera configured for near infrared (IR) imaging or fingerprint reader for biometric authentication. Devices without biometric sensors can use Windows Hello with a PIN or portable Microsoft compatible security key.”

The power adapter is 180W/240W if it's plugged directly into your laptop. If the laptop is connected using the Thunderbolt 3 port, it'll top out at 100W.

Thunderbolt 3 can't do more than 100W. It's a limitation of the hardware interface.

I'm not talking about these two in particular. I'm talking about AI generated images of people, and the website this article is about. You can go cycle through images and see for yourself. Some will look great, some will look a little off, and some will be obviously generated. Also if you look around the person in those images you'll notice strange backgrounds and distorted people (if the picture is them next to someone). Go look for yourself

It’s a server you can run from your pc that allows you to stream movies tv or music that is on that pc or on a network drive https://plex.tv it’s free but they offer a premium service for like $5 a month which has extra features

>Elasticstack

That's cool. I hadn't heard of Elastic Stack before, but it looks like you might need a minimum of 16 GB per node.

Hi Everyone! RedMorph a startup (Pure Play Privacy company) has been doing this for more than 5 years. Check out their recent Android app on the PlayStore (link at the bottom). Their name was inspired from the Red Pill + Morpheus scene in the movie MATRIX and has cool Pills UI.

In full transparency, I'm engaged with Redmorph and 2 years ago DDG actually spoke to Redmorph. Got all of our tracker libraries and methodology - with an enticement of partnership and then, abruptly they left to do this on their own. DDG is very good at Search, but as End Point Privacy Protection - they are not a pure play privacy company with conflict of interest from Adv Dollars. Appreciate your support for Redmorph, a small start up. Thanks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultimate.intelligent.privacy.firewall

If you genuinely want to know I'd recommend this book that was recently released that can walk you through a lot better than I can.

https://www.amazon.ca/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/1635576059

But overall, yes they will, they can sell directly to the NSA or to middle-men or directly to foreign governments. It chronicles accounts of exploit devs who get approached immediately after giving talks at def-con being approached by a slew of state sponsored buyers of zero days. Damn near every country in the world is looking for a way to purchase zero-days. The reality is while the NSA did have the best exploit devs in the world they had them on salary while simultaneously paying top dollar for exploits. Much more lucrative for those devs to go free lance. It's happening across the industry doesn't matter if you're a FAANG or not, you can't really come close to what nation states are willing to pay.

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Buy the trend buddy. Also

finbox.

options profit calculator

Thank me later when you made the first mil

Save me a lot of headache from bad moves

Wtf is with the comments in this thread..

It's not surprising to see Huawei expand.. as of June 2019 they're up 23.3% YOY despite the threats from US regarding trade war. With 5G rolling out it's hard to put a stop on this train.. it's also encouraging to see the nation rally behind the company and stand up against this US trade war bullshit.

13,809,020 ft^3 of Hydrogen to lift an empty space shuttle.

So I found a balloon calculator. This does not account for air pressure or atmosphere so someone that knows that math will probably point out the the above figure probably isn’t enough.

anyway I’ll be wasting some time today...

We're already seeing this come in other forms such as Microsoft's Game Pass which essentially lets you rent a catalogue of games. Also, there is the Shadow Cloud PC which looks really interesting - you pay via monthly subscription to rent a "high-end PC" (or in reality - a tiny portion of components on a huge rack of GPU's and other hardware) but this service requires you to already own games.

>The browsers essentially found a way to own and direct all of that traffic.

Soooo... telecom company talking points? You are implying that Mozilla is doing this because the data has value and they want to own it?

You are saying that profit driven ISPs that already sell data in the US are more trustworthy than the Mozilla Foundation who has a long track record of prioritizing user privacy and self-ownership of data? Also we don't know that Mozilla will be running their own DNS servers, they aren't a DNS provider, and atm they allow the DOH (https-dns) server to be set in the browser configuration. The final decision hasn't yet been made but there is a good chance that Mozilla will make the decision to set a DOH supporting DNS provider like Quad9 as the default DNS for FireFox because they are are open, don't kept logs of user IP's, don't enforce government/corporate censorship, most importantly are a user privacy and security focused non-profit like much the Mozilla Foundation.

>The browsers essentially found a way to own and direct all of that traffic.

You are saying that profit driven ISPs that already sell data in the US are more trustworthy than the Mozilla Foundation? Also we don't know that Mozilla will be running their own DNS, they aren't a DNS provider, and atm they allow the DOH (https-dns) server to be set in the browser configuration. The final decision hasn't yet been made by there is a good chance that Mozilla will make the decision to get a DOH supporting DNS provider like Quad9 as the default DNS for FireFox because they are are open and most importantly are a user privacy and security focused non-profit like much the Mozilla Foundation.