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TiredTiger

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  • Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party

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  • Emphasis on "over the internet". Mullvad and others also accept cash via mail, though obviously that can take weeks depending on where you're mailing it from.

  • Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party

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  • They look good from an ethics standpoint, but it looks like the only anonymous payment method they take is monero. I'm considering them, but I'm not super familiar with crypto and how to obtain monero. Looks like I'll need to do some research.

  • Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party

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  • Apparently they've now posted a response:

    We also live these values by being tolerant in our daily work. Everyone is welcome to collaborate with Mullvad if they share these narrow core values. As employees, contractors, customers, suppliers, lobbyists, campaign partners or whatever it might be. No matter what their other opinions are and no matter whether the founders or anyone else in Mullvad dislike them. The founders themselves fundamentally disagree on several important issues.

    In context, this seems...tone-deaf. "It's okay! Immigrants are welcome to work for Mullvad even if the founders 'dislike' them." Yikes.

    It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't.

    I would argue that those three things aren't even all on the same level, and that's without even addressing the fucking fascism of 're-migration' policies.

    That said, if you no longer want to be a Mullvad customer for philosophical reasons, we think it's important to honor that, and will gladly refund you.

    Unless you were smart enough to pay anonymously, in which case you're welcome to doxx yourself, I guess.

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  • Seems like they have far fewer servers than Mullvad does, but at least they state who they're hosted with and it looks like they do have a multi-hop setup like Mullvad does. They undergo annual audits so I'm not seeing any major security red flags. I frankly would have stuck with Mullvad had they not pulled this shit, but I won't be made a hypocrite over this.

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  • Anyone have experience with iVPN? I've generally heard it's good, but I'm not sure how it compares. Looks like it's the same price as Mullvad at least, and also accepts cash and monero as payment options. I'm just wondering about how many servers they have comparable and how often they got blocked by major websites. I'm thinking that'll probably be what I switch to, unless it has some major problems I'm not aware of.

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  • I remember all the FUD about their anti-virus back in the day, even though it consistently tested the best. I didn't know they had a VPN. I'll have to look into it.

    Edit: website says "purchase is unavailable for US customers". I'm sure that's the US government's doing and not their own choice, if I had to guess.

  • The less I enjoy thing, the more money I accumulate, and the less I am.

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  • Damn if that doesn't hit hard.

  • New political compass quiz dropped

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  • Given how awful the UK is on both of those, I guess I'll take it. I don't follow UK politics too closely aside from those issues, but most of what I've read has been focused on the Labour Party, chiefly how Corbyn was forced out and how Starmer is a piece of shit.

  • New political compass quiz dropped

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  • I don't know much about the UK Greens, so alright, but also ewww, socdem, lol

    Thanks for the context.

  • New political compass quiz dropped

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  • I know nothing about this guy, but okay.

    It was hard to answer the Davos/Dubai ones because they were so libbed up.

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  • Bazzite is pretty good for gaming. Most things I've thrown at it have "just worked". The games that tend not to run on Linux are live-service games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat. I don't play any of those, so it's not an issue to me, but I know it is a deal breaker for some. I had one game that required me to use a different version of Proton than the one that came pre-installed, and that was as simple as installing the flatpak for it, then selecting it in the game's configuration menu in Steam.

  • foss launcher for phones

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  • I tried the Fossify launcher today and gave up pretty quickly. Feels like it doesn't have anywhere near enough settings, has zero documentation, and aesthetically leaves something to be desired.

  • Zionists are Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

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  • I'm not surprised. USian evangelicals have been solidly zionist for at least a century, probably hitting a high around the mid-90s apocalypse fever, if I had to guess. Obviously any change in the demographics would scare Isntreal shitless. It's already hard to engage with evangelicals and this will only make it that much harder.

    If anyone has any good reading recommendations on arguing with Christian zionists, I'd appreciate it. Better yet, something challenging zionism from their own perspective that I could encourage them to read - bonus points if it doesn't rely on liberation theology, as the ones I've been unfortunate enough to come across find anything Catholic to be inherently suspect.

  • How would you describe this damage, what could have caused it, and can it be repaired?

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  • Last time I had the pads on mine disintegrate, I found some replacements that were made of real leather. I haven't had to replace them since. Some brands also make fabric pads; I'm sure they probably last longer than polyurethane, but I would expect them to wear out eventually.

  • When Amerikkkans are told to vote blue

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  • It's not just the current administration; it's every administration.

  • Vent about bank apps

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  • I swear this is purposeful for a lot of websites; they make the mobile site run terribly to push people onto the app instead, presumably because they can collect more data that way.

  • You're no JFK

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  • Mine too. Though I'm sure there's could've been other factors at play as well.

  • Firefox privacy project Arkenfox is EoL, potentially impacting Librewolf & Phoenix

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  • I really hope someone else decides to pick up the torch.

  • Why do Democrat supporters keep forgetting atrocities committed by their leaders?

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  • The most obnoxious Democrat supporters have their whole ego caught up in being a "good person" by having the correct ideological positions. Admitting that their "team" is full of war criminals would directly challenge their egos and is thus summarily dismissed. They are idealists, and thus disconnected from material reality. They tend to be quite caught up in the notion of "electability" - the idea that they shouldn't back candidates or platforms they actually want, but those calculated to appeal to the largest number, which is always smack dab in the center of the Overton window, in their estimation. (Of course, ironically, a true socialist platform would have the greatest appeal were not USians so propagandized against it.) I have literally had liberals tell me that though they are not themselves racist, they need a candidate that would be accepted by racists. I think more often than not, they cry "electability" so they have an excuse for supporting a conservative candidate while simultaneously calling themselves "progressive".

    This is to say nothing of the fact that liberalism is a conservative ideology, and that it is more than happy to back imperialism if it means the spoils can subsidize their lifestyle. Or in other words, Democrats will cheer for any war if it keeps their Starbucks cheap and their gas tank filled. They are not anti-war at all. They oppose the appearance of warmongering, but not the actions themselves; they want plausible deniability so they can go back to brunch.

    Tl;dr - Democrats are bad people who pretend to be good people and back war criminals because they like imperialism, no matter what excuses they make for it.