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Gross narrative. How did it work to help students?

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You're still right in 99% of all use cases.

Nobody operates VPNs for privacy in split tunnel. So everyone running Linux that would be concerned about this is unaffected.

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Like AI doesn't know how to use the way back machine?

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You van delete your data but I don't think it magically makes derivative works disappear. Its licenses SA. This is good.

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This isn't really comparable to reddit, since users can just send a request to SO for all the content. Reddit locking down the API meant we lost access to our content.

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Except we all need DNS, and I have no need to use wayland

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! ( i.imgur.com )

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

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Is telegram not providing reproduce builds?

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If encryption happens client side then it doesn't matter.

Its where the server is open but the client is closed that we need to worry, as is the case with Beeper

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It breaks both

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It is

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If the client is open, then you can check to make sure that all metadata is encrypted.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

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The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

Here's a funny-because-it's-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter's Politics:

https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8

@fuck_cars

delirious_owl ,
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You can ride them for free with those plate covers that are dark when viewed from above

That's just what I've read, tho. Personally I just go through tolls for free because I'm not an asshole and I ride a bicycle instead of a car.

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Yes, of course.

What email provider do you use for sign ups?

I used to use Protonmail, however the verification steps become tedious when creating unique emails for sign ups. I've switched to Tutanota despite it contravening their one account policy. What do you all use for one off emails (for sign ups etc )? Or do you prefer one of those 10 minute email sites?

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I've been dumping btc for xmr

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Dont spread misinformation. Its the opposite.

Bitcoin energy usage is negligible next to financial sector. And it doesnt increase as the transaction count increases, unlike tradfi

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Its not like its people who dislike btc that make these misleading graphs. Its the financial industry.

This misinformation is paid for and spread by huge companies, just like tobacco companies did and oil companies did.

Unfortunately there's a lot of stupid people who look at anti-crypto pictures in their feed and believe the misinformation without actually looking at the data.

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That's the fuckey. We should not consider the energy per transaction because the energy usage does not increase as transactions increases. This is how the banks fuck with the charts to make it look lime bitcoin uses a lot of energy. It doesn't.

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Oh, I know AI can't identify me because I constantly get banned from my accounts by machine learning algos

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )

Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...

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Its only half of the systems that are affected lol

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Linux and android unaffected, go figure. Anyway..

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Your vpn should be running on a middlebox and have firewall rules to prevent leaks.

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It only works if you have split tunnel setup, which I don't think anybody does for commercial privacy VPNs

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Yes

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This isn't an evacuation from a natural disaster like a hurricane. They could , you know, just stop the disaster from happening by not bombing civilian infrastructure (which is a war crime)

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You realize that they can't defeat Hamas, right? By killing all these kids families, the are making the situation worse for future generations.

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I mean Statehood for Palestine. There will never be peace until Israel stops occupying and invading their neighbors

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Is this to better detect and ban all AI from SO?

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Fortunately all the content is CC, so you can just fork the while site

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Doesn't load without JS

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Nah, most sites at least load content without is. Maybe the formattimg is off. But no content is inexcusable

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But once NM is gone, I don't even know how to update the thing that updates the thing that updates the thing.

My point is that NM is pretty baked-in, and I don't know how to remove it without breaking things

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