The trick that the Government has learned is that it’s easier and cheaper to buy your location data from a third party.

No warrant necessarily since the data is available to anyone who wants to buy it.

What we should do is put chainlink fence around the corner, but make the part that the users loved the most accessible with a monthly pass that they can only walk on with shoes purchased at the university store.

- spez

I remember when his tax “cut” first was experienced, there were a bunch of tiktoks on the fact that their taxes went up. A lot of “I didn’t vote for this!” Videos.

But they soon forgot.

His fans are like cats. Easily distracted, so long as someone else is getting hurt worse.

If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit

If you set up using compose and don’t have the version pinned:

dockee compose down && docker compose pull jellyfin && docker compose up -d

Yup. They went full OG AdBlock and got WaPo and other major publications to prevent them from working.

You can mimic what they did by adding the Google Crawler user agent to your browser but I just use archive.is

Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the “both sides are the same” argument.

I’m not saying Harris isn’t qualified; she clearly is.

What I’m saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren’t D.

These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can’t tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the “Republicans” were in a local election where the candidates can’t have party affiliations.

Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?

Oh this 100% is the government backdoor that they’ve been begging for. “If you can innovate your way into it, you can innovate a way out of it.”

That was in regards to Apple phones belonging to Boston bombers being encrypted and locked.

It’s no surprise that behind closed doors, the government asked these companies to create backdoors for them to spy on people.

I’m seeing more sites now not even providing the option to click “no”. I can’t remember the company that provided this library but I feel like any hackers (ahem you assholes who are hacking the IA) want to do some good, they need to be taken down a peg.

It seems to be the same company. If I find it I’ll update this comment.

This is honestly the only reason to buy a gift card especially at Costco. They often sell gift cards for 20% off their face value.

These are all good points but the biggest reason I HATE gift cards is because they offer ZERO protection.

Buy something with a credit card and you often get double warranty protection included. That something gets damaged or stolen? Also protected.

Gift cards offer none of that. Neither does cash but at least I can use cash to pay off the credit card.

I get that a gift card is more personable and it earmarks the funds for a particular store. If you like gift cards, then cheers and go about your merry way.

I’ve emphatically told my loved ones that I never want a gift card. You want me to use the money somewhere specific? Just say so and I’ll do it.

But don’t give me a script that I can only use in one place and might lose.

With my experience and technical background, I’ve learned I’m way underpaid, even among my peers in my company.

$215k annual would be what I consider fair.

Government workers deserve good wages as well.

I support a 75% salary increase in your current role.

You realize that if newspapers offered a federated service (pay once, you get them all), they’d make money hand over fist?

But noooo…each newspaper wants you to pay.

I’d pay upwards of $20 a month if that guaranteed me access to the major newspapers (NYT, WaPo, LA Times, etc.) and my local one with one subscription.

Part of the problem is that the government is all for this, especially law enforcement.

Iirc the bar is much lower to get a subpoena for data on someone versus getting a warrant for that same person.

This is why privacy is so important. It’s not just ads you need to worry about.

I thought audacity was purchased by some Venture Capital bros and was being enshittified.

Or am I remembering something else? Didn’t they put some sort of tracker or something in their code, causing a fork?

Pornhub.

They have the technology and many of the features in place.

I live in the US. If you live in a state or country that’s totalitarian, then yes a VPN is probably a good idea, tor if you can handle the latency.

It’s only a matter of time until both of those technologies are made illegal.

It depends on your threat profile. I don’t go so far as to use it at home unless I’m downloading torrents or watching porn, since my legislators don’t have a fucking clue how the Internet works and thinks they can PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn by blocking porn.

I’ve started to use VPN when I’m on guest wifis, even encrypted ones. I don’t want their owners to know what sites I visit.

Or it’s just late stage capitalism where the product has truly gone to shit.