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TiredTiger

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  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • He's Canadian, so he seems to be under the impression that the Canadian equivalents aren't working with the CIA (though they absolutely are). No vassal state is going to make such a move when they all know what happens to those that step out of line; the empire will have to be way more collapsed before the EU and Canada start testing their leashes.

  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • That doesn't surprise me. I think he's probably a socdem at best these days, specifically the kind of lib that thinks that we are in Bad Capitalism and if we just trust bust enough, we can go back to Good Capitalism, and all the smaller companies definitely won't just devour each other and repeal regulations, putting us in this exact position or worse in another 20-30 years.

  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • It's so hard for me to read anything by Cory Doctorow or Ed Zitron these days because there's always this giant, gaping void where class analysis should be. Is this the time they finally connect the dots, I ask myself? No! It's never the time. It's always enshittification this and business idiots that and never, ever a single whisper about capital. Brian Merchant and Ed Ongweso Jr. are much better in this regard - if you haven't read anything by them I recommend you start.

    As to the actual content here, this is precisely what the internet was always created to be. Do you think the DoD sorry, DoW created this as a happy accident? Just to help people? It's always been intended as an anti-informational weapon and a surveillance network in-one. And all the attempts by vassal states to wriggle out of the trap will prove futile. China is the only country handling it the right way, and no capitalist nation will ever have the motivation to follow their example. There's too much money to be made in making their own little tech fiefdoms.

  • what are you reading nowadays that's not crap?

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  • Currently reading about all the horrors of the CIA - finished The Jakarta Method and Washington Bullets, currently reading through Killing Hope, and next on my list is Operation Gladio.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • I've had one of GL.inet's routers for over a year now and I'm really happy with it. I surprisingly did not have my ISP barking at me when I replaced my old one with it, which was a relief. I don't use a mobile carrier for my home internet though, so I don't know if they're more picky about what you use.

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    DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all

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  • I get it. I tend towards pessimism myself, but I'm trying to hold onto hope - if not for myself or even my generation, then for humanity generally.

    Sometimes I want to fancy myself very smart, but I have chosen to believe that I am not special in my ability to realize the truth. I know I wasn't born a communist, and I think that's the case for most of us here. It's true that the populace is heavily indoctrinated, and it's tempting to write them off after seeing the scope of the problem. We have our work cut out for us, but as material conditions shift, people's cognitive dissonance will become untenable. We just need to be able to point people in the right direction when the time comes.

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    DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all

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  • And so that if a reckoning comes within our lifetimes, if they ever try to claim they were "always against this," we will be able to confront them with the evidence to the contrary.

  • DuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI features

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  • Unfortunately, neither is anywhere close to how good Google used to be, unless they've improved in leaps and bounds since I last tried them. I just want to be able to use boolean search terms again, and the fact that most modern search engines don't utilize them has me tearing my hair out.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • Seconding this for anyone looking to buy one. Their pre-installed OpenWRT firmware is easy enough to use, and you can also set up AdGuard Home on some models (like a pi-hole but on your router).

    I would never, ever use the router or modem an ISP tries to stick you with. They charge you monthly for those, for one thing. I wouldn't be surprised if they had monitoring stuff on them, for another.

  • DuckDuckGo is growing thanks to Google users frustrated by AI features

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  • Part of the problem is that most of these privacy-protecting search engines are just the big search engines re-packaged; DuckDuckGo is Bing, and Startpage is Google. SearchXNG is just an aggregator, and so is Kagi. What we really need are some alternative engines that function as well as Google used to. I would be willing to pay for that, as relying on ads clearly doesn't work.

  • Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

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  • It seems to me that Apple products would be the most susceptible to this, as there are a limited number of hardware variations as well as a walled garden for software.

    The article mentions it technically being possible to do on a Linux machine, but I doubt it would be as easy to get conclusive data from it, when the SSD could be any size or brand and the software it could be running is nigh-limitless. I don't doubt it could extract some data, I just don't think it would have the level of granular detail they're saying they got on the M2.

    I'm wondering whether having separate partitions on a drive would be enough to defend against this, or whether you would need actually physically separate drives.

  • Why so many white Americans claim to be native?

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  • I wish they'd channel that energy into developing class consciousness instead, but then they've been heavily disincentivized to do so between propaganda and the desire for wealth of their own.

  • Google served me Malware

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  • Agreed, but until people start moving to PeerTube, we're stuck with half-measures.

  • Google served me Malware

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  • Invidious or another front-end of your choice, presumably.

  • Cowbee enters the chat

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  • And no I am not going to do the research for you.

    Cowbee brings the receipts, and you don't. You do understand this is an argument being made in a public forum, and not your DMs, right? I can only assume that your goal is to feel intellectually superior, and not to actually persuade anyone to adopt your point of view.

  • Israel applies Gaza model to Lebanon - Liberation News

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  • It does seem like it's either allow Isntreal to finish its genocide (unconscionable) or risk it retaliating with nuclear force. There are no good options here.

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • Opossums are essentially immune to rabies and eat ticks.

  • an appeal to abandon Spotify

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  • Spotify (and Pandora before that) served my purposes once upon a time to discover genres and artists I enjoy. But when I did the math, I realized I'd spent quite the pretty penny with nothing to show for it, and none of the artists I listened to were benefitting. And of course, Spotify has been happily selling my data during the interim.

    Since deleting my account, I've switched to buying albums on Bandcamp, particularly on Bandcamp Fridays. I prefer listening to albums straight through anyway. I like to buy CDs when they're available, but unfortunately a lot of artists stick to vinyl if they do physical media at all. CDs don't degrade with listening, I can play them in my car, and they are compact - I simply don't have the space for vinyl.

  • Designing Firefox for the future

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  • This is the philosophy of the Mullvad browser, which is basically as close as you can get to Tor for browsing the clear net. If anonymity is the goal, however, you don't want to use it to log into any accounts.

  • Designing Firefox for the future

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  • I had an add-on at one point (or possibly a uBlock origin setting?) to block all remote fonts and just use a local one. Might work fine if it's integrated with something like that.