Thank you. Still the best app out right now

About a week. I’ve been using it for maybe 30 minutes a day.

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edit: holy shit I can’t believe my most updooted post is about my wife!

Edit 2: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Final edit: net neutrality is under attack so I’m using my platform to change the world. Tell congress to vote no to sopa and pipa! Kony 2012

Workers say the lead and creators were dicks, tough to work with. Investor and largest shareholder bought out a majority share, is now currently fighting to keep the IP and excise the lead/creators under the guise that they weren’t good for company culture.

My personal view, disregard it if you want to make your own judgements, it doesn’t matter if the guy is a dick, this is what they created. Saying it’s what was best for the company seemingly only seems to be best for one guy. You don’t get to use being a piece of shit to work with, even if 100% true, as a reason to conspire against and force everyone out of the company. You open clear cut dialogue and boundaries, then make compromises. This youtuber’s video that goes into much more depth and eloquently explains my position.

Here’s the link for anyone interested. I have watched that video and still firmly believe it was a hostile take over.

Don’t pay for disco elysium. The creators were ousted in a hostile takeover, ironically. Pirate it if you can. Otherwise great list 🙂

I’ve never used obsidian but the people who make thousands of anki cards, release them for free, and allow the community to add important ones of their own has saved me many times.

same with proton

There is NSFW stuff I’d like to see that isn’t porn.

I would say her track record as a district attorney while making a complete public 180 during her presidential campaign is reason enough.

Why would it be /s? I’m not from China and the only news I hear is from countries that are actively trying to manufacture consent for a war with China. I’m not for or against China but I’m not going to blindly swallow the state department pill.

Could it be that Chinese people just trust their government

This is my personal takeaway as well. The article seems to insinuate that because VPNs by themselves don’t do anything meaningful for privacy, they’re useless. It seems defeatist, since one could take measures to mitigate fingerprinting. But like you said they’re only one of the important parts of maintaining privacy.

I am not more technically proficient than the average user. I have little experience in hosting anything, let alone hosting something that will tunnel all of my internet usage. I’d rather put my faith in my current provider to take the proper precautions and put more effort into things I feel comfortable with. It seems better to me than trusting an unknown VPS provider, my own skill and/or my awful ISP.

I just don’t want to be tracked and profiled, especially for ads. I only sign into accounts with personal information for absolute necessities and browse websites without accounts. Plus my ISP openly tracks and sells history to third parties. It’s not viable for me to use tor for daily usage.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you are allowed to say anything you want, everywhere you want without consequences. It just means you won’t be jailed for your opinions. Even if you get banned you can join an instance that allows it. Probably would be one that is de-federated by virtually everyone though.

The problem with the statement is the energy sector is the releasing the most greenhouse gasses by far. A small group of transnational corporations lobby for dependence on coal and oil, where individuals don’t really get a say.

+1 v0

Downgraded my entire flac library and went from 300 GB to 120 GB while sounding the same to my ears. Fre ac is awesome

Undiscord is wonderful. I used it for the servers I had access to. I will say that their delete profile has gotten ever so slightly better. It now doesn’t tie a unique username or ID to the deleted user. It’s obvious in small servers or DMs but it’s much harder to figure out who sent what if a server has more than one deleted member.

Now I only use a fresh discord to voice chat under an alias email and fake phone number. Matrix for friends that agree to join.

No sorry, I’m on Comcast VPN

ProtonVPN received a request for a vpn user’s IP. They did not have the logs, they aren’t obligated to store them. They were forced to share mail IP, but are obligated to do so under swiss law, this isn’t the case for VPNs.

Perfect-privacy was raided in 2016 and existed long before HMA, PIA, etc. They did not compromise user information .

Like you said mullvad was just raided, they did not have logs. The raid was useless.

Sure, a lot of VPN services are fluff and untrustworthy. Many VPN ranking websites are just ads. A blanket statement that all VPN providers are honeypots isn’t helpful nor practical for the average person. A VPN shouldn’t be used for anonymity, but a good provider has its use case.