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  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • Can I ask what has you subscribing toVPN's year round? I have three use cases for my subscription

    1. Torrenting
    2. Bypassing weird region locks like South Korea's age verification requirements for Google searches and naughty things.
    3. Throwing all of my internet traffic back to the same country as my employer with a reliable kill switch for any VPN drops and DNS leaking.

    I end up subscribed to Mullvad for maybe 5 months a year. I still end up paying less than a NordVPN subscription, I feel good about supporting Mullvad's mission (like the ongoing development of their own browser).

    I also love that I can share my subscription with other users if I needed to, just by giving them current account ID number. In this way, it would be practical to give up to five people access while still protecting all of my devices since I throw the VPN on my travel router.

    I will schill for a very short list of companies, all day long, and Mullvad would be on that list twice simply because they don't trick me into an endless subscription of any sort while all the others get committed income out of me annually.

  • Mullvad or Proton VPN?

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  • Exception when gargling orange.

  • Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range

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  • Important thing is Musk can't sing Billy Joel's 'We didn't start the fire'

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • I didn't even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

    My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

    I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine's memory.

  • Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range

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  • Is St Elmo's Fire made of Li-Ion or Life-Po?

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • It's like $6.50USD /month, 2x the cost of mainstream vpn's.

    It's valuable for me so I'm happy to pay and support them, but I'm mostly only need them while traveling.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • For want of $100 /year Apple developer subscription , the libewolf team can't sign binaries for Silicon M series Macs.

    I spent an hour and a half trying to get librewolf to work, and just gave up for Waterfox instead.

    On my laptop I run Firefox for some things, Watefox for others, and fall back to Chrome only as absolutely necessary when Gecko can't get me there.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • I'm sorry, first of all, for the egregious typos in my last remark. I won't be fixing them or future typos, lol.

    Second, vaccines work by every person in a network being a less-weak node with less attack surface than if the whole network is without. Every person that armors up is protecting the whole system, just a little bit, until the network is complete with less attack surface.

    Privacy restrictions, antivirus, healthy infosec, follow similar principals as masks and shots in arms, and you have to start studying how the threats respond to shifting attack surface.

    At the point the effort to execute on the securing behavior is lowered, adoption improves, but at the point it conflicts with competing values you have to start marketing to people to do the right thing. Selling them on collective interest and on self interest. It's ironic.

    How you do ANY of this, well, I can only speculate. I come from a backwards country where 1/3 of our population successfully installed a national health director that admits to not believing in germ theory, and I half expect civilian encryption to be outlawed in the next 18 months.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • You'd better believe marketing execs and specialists in branding will divide and conquer market segments of apathetic typical people.

    Addicts in recover programs can call the general population of non-addicts 'normies'; people that have been marginalized for neurodivergent thinking often call the mainstream population of neurotypicals 'normies' etc.

    Gatekeeping by commonly accepted language across diverse circles only serves for your own purity testing instead of focusing on the core issue of how to sell people on exercising their own basic self-interest.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • Sounds like something normies would say. 🤣

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • Hard disagree.

  • Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play?

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  • You're basically studying viral pathology and immunology at that point. Remember how restaurant little can be for making and for vaccinations in American culture?

    On top of it taking the slightest effort ... We basically have to settle the solutions and then invite or incentivize them into it, which is hard when you're against disinformation networks with better fundling.

    Not to say it's hopeless. Just that the incentives in a highly individualized society captured under surveillance capitalism are misaligned.

  • Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android

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  • They got you searching for the thin line between entertainment and war.

  • Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN

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  • Succinct, says the quiet part out loud, and it has me exploring my own assumptions.

    Thanks for being a part of this community.

  • OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

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  • Philosophically agree with you, and would love to see it okay out exactly as you say.

    The problem with incorporating a business is that all humans therein pretty much escape liability.

    The only value is the assets and intellectual property that can be sold off to another organization. Releasing all the proprietary data brings that value down to zero.

    As usual, our addiction to market capitalism means the world is pay-to-play, and the risks will always remain higher than you or I would like or need.

  • OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

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  • Maybe because it's got a CPU and memory, and because ewaste harms us all?

    I'm all in favor of upcycling.

  • Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

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  • That sounds really rough, buddy, I know how you feel, and that project you're working is really complicated.

    Would you like to order a delicious, refreshing Coke Zero™️?

  • Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default

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  • I really, really want to use Librewolf. I'm on WaterFox until they have a binary build available that doesn't fail MacOS security checks on launch.

  • Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

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  • I'm not actually blaming the platform. It's up to the participants, us, to make it substantial, true, and valuable.