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I mean, even a US-based VPN company could look foreign if they have servers outside the US, or even if they just allow multi-hop to third-party servers to/from outside the US.

Except then they’re even more vulnerable not only to subpoenas but also extrajudicial and unconstitutional raids, as some journalists have discovered, especially in deeply red states but not always…

Please let this be the beginning of the bubble burst 🤞

Also, what do you mean data centers aren’t all dark rooms lit exclusively by RGB lighting?!? I feel lied to…

Privacy companies based outside the US can still have VPN servers within the US. That traffic would still look domestic. The company being owned and headquartered outside the US just gives them a bit more protection against the rogue US government.

Some VPNs also allow multi-hop, so that you can connect to one VPN server via another. That could make it harder for the spooks to see that your traffic is leaving the US. Of course it also means that they might suspect any traffic coming out of a VPN server even based in the US, which is basically the point of this article.

And some VPNs allow you to enable a feature that protects against AI-driven data traffic analysis. So that someone who’s really committed can’t just monitor the size and frequency of your outgoing encrypted packets, then find matching patterns in packets leaving the server you’re connected to, tracing it to the destination. Instead, the VPN adds noise and sends uniform packets so that AI can’t trace it from source to destination.

I don’t know if Nord offers these features, cause I don’t use Nord. But I’ve heard some issues about them, which other user’s have already mentioned and offered alternatives for, so I’ll leave it at that

Nelson Muntz intensifies

Your american flag tramp stamp is showing

Sometimes I criticize the reading comprehension of tankies/trolls when they ignore the entirety of my nuanced argument and revert to an onslaught of strawmen, red herrings, ad hominems, and sealioning, because there’s no way to engage in good faith with someone deadset on engaging in bad faith.

That’s clearly not the case here, but it does happen…

I use waterfox with all of the privacy and security settings enabled to the max, plus a few extensions like ublock origin, decentraleyes, consent-o-matic, and clearurls.

Not that many sites break. And the ones that do, I don’t visit. If you don’t need to offer an https option, or you don’t work without trackers, I don’t need to go to your site. Simple as that.

Meshtastic needs to hurry up and develop a way to connect to remote servers/send data over encrypted radio frequencies…

No, a shill for glazing the kremlin every chance you get

Sometimes when I talk about them, people think I’m being racist. Usually privileged white people who get by on virtue signaling and condemning others, but who never had to learn about things like food deserts and redlining.

Like, if it’s supposedly racist to talk about the systemic issues that people of color disproportionally face, then what the fuck are we supposed to be doing? Pretending “no, it’s fine, the non-racist thing to do is more performative messaging that relieves us of feeling any moral responsibility”?

I’m not even surprised that it’s him. I’ve had weevil tagged as a shill for a while now…

“What do you mean plagiarism?!? Why did you give me 0% on my essay, professor”

“You didn’t cite a single source! You didn’t even include a references page.”

“I just didn’t want to give those authors free advertising.”

Maybe 20+ years ago, fast food was pretty cheap, but not anymore. You probably can’t get a fast food meal now for less than $10 or $15…

There are places called food deserts though, usually inner city neighborhoods with disproportionally non-white populations that have been systemically redlined into disenfranchisement. They typically don’t have grocery stores or much in the way of fresh produce. The only options tend to be convenience stores, corner stores, and fast food chains.

People in those areas also tend to not drive, and most places in the US have really bad public transit infrastructure. And increasingly, sidewalks get torn up and replaced with an extra lane of traffic. So you see, it’s not easy for people in food deserts to get out to further spots to buy healthier food.

The education system also tends to neglect these areas, so people are less informed about the importance of good nutrition, and how to plan a well-balanced meal.

So even though it is cheaper to buy ingredients and cook healthier meals, that presupposes a lot of things like a more affluent zip code, a personal vehicle, and an education system that hasn’t completely failed you. As a result, people living in poverty tend to eat more fast food and also suffer related health consequences (while also having less access to healthcare)

Self-awareness: 0

If you can spare the disk space, save a local copy of Wikipedia, save pdfs of your favorite books, textbooks, etc., project gutenberg, kiwix library, git mirrors, archive.org, jstor, etc.

The more people who have their own copies, the better this stuff has a chance of surviving the dark ages.

Also, if people can figure a way to send/receive data and remotely access servers over mesh networks, it will help populate the new web with useful information. Keep the light alive, even if it doesn’t reach everybody. Even through the dark ages in history, knowledge was preserved in monasteries.

Lastly, although you probably can’t grab every news article ever written, be sure to save the ones that are especially salient from a few reliable sources. Future historians and digital archaeologists will thank you.

It’s clearly AI slop anyway

Oh, but there are so many other cool gadgets you can hook to it! A capsule full of sewing needles, a seam ripper, a small pair of scissors, maybe even a soft measuring tape. You could be a portable tailor!

What a dishonest headline…

It wasn’t technically wrong, but it was deliberately misleading…

Also, I’m so glad I bought my hardware when I did…