Prove_your_argument

Not sure if… Blood for the Blood god… or all hail the god-emperor… would be better.

Hello Faith Based Code.

We’re going to be going with Faith Based Security next.

Do you manually download them yourself or do you pull them at runtime?

“Why doesn’t my cell phone work at your house?”

Sure, but trying and failing is the only way we’ve ever accomplished anything.

With the rate of CVEs scored at 9+ that come across all the stuff I manage at work I would not agree.

It would be foolish to simply stop patching this giant pile of obsolete insecure dependencies they are calling windows.

The fact that in lieu of paying them they simply want you to log in with an account they control should speak volumes to the privacy implications.

Must be a reason why they don’t want us to see the code. Maybe it’s whatever they’re changing to attempt to build a walled garden to keep the app protection money rolling in.

Jellyfin’s subtitle support is atrocious. If you are from a multilingual household it is simply not suitable.

It sucks and can’t handle subtitles well.

I too want a good plex alternative that:

• Doesn’t require substantial client configuration or fuckery
• Has robust subtitle support

What purpose do electric door locks serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?

An oligarch’s fancy?

I’m sure in product meetings it’s been brought up that it’s a dumb thing and they could save money and make the cars safer by not having them, then the oligarch speaks up.

I was more thinking about modern internet solutions that enable things like viewing a camera remotely that produce alerts for things like movement, and can even show a little clip of what was seen.

Having a camera on site in a rural area is only relevant if you’re aware of the happenings, no? because if you’re away for a long time, say an 8 hour shift at work… absolutely anybody can come in and tear down your cameras, ransack your house, and light the remainder on fire destroying all video evidence.

A friend I know had her rural home robbed of all christmas gifts under a tree in the 90s. She lived in the US in a fairly rural area (pop ~100.) Houses are all set back from the road. They even tried pulling an extremely large TV out through the front door, but it wouldn’t fit.

Cameras wouldn’t help… because they stole their computers, all the gifts obviously, and even a small gun safe. This was a former veteran and IT worker’s family home and they had for the time fairly bleeding edge hardware. Sure, if the family returned home and caught them red handed perhaps it would have went differently, but disabling camera infrastructure back then in a rural residential setting is trivial if no one is home.

Have you ever considered how you would survive prior to ~1999?

TorGuard is a vpn provider but instead you have that onion network. Why?

Been using it for years.

Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Proton mail didn’t ask me for a phone or email. But I’ve had it for years so maybe that changed.

It changed. I made one in the past week. You can create an account, you cannot get any account verification emails from ANY other provider, they block them and then restrict your account until you verify with someone else.

I don’t know why you think I don’t get it though. The amount of metadata accessible when visiting a website is crazy nowadays. They can track things people never even imagined, like the arc of how your hand moves across the screen with a mouse, the cadence of how you type, and then tie those to profiles with any other details they have managed to scrape. Combine that with hours of activity, browser versioning addons etc, resolution and any number of other bits of metadata and suddenly someone has a shadow profile linking you to your proxy IPs or whatever else.

Sure, i’m more paranoid but I don’t believe anyone with a head on their shoulders would say privacy on the internet has ever gotten better.

Protonmail is highly accepted

Sure, requires 3rd party email or cell phone to work though.

tutamail didn’t ask for my number or another email

The last one, run by little over a dozen people as FOSS, and easily quashed by the long arm of the law or a pricey lawsuit. What happens then?

I just stop using those accounts that force me to give up my number. It’s called standards

You still need an email that is completely associated to you for official things like medical interactions, government interactions, and stuff like sports tickets if you care about going to a sports game in a town like Boston. Hell, when you send resumes I assume you have a professional inbox for that too.

So how do you do it? Do you live in two worlds with a burner phone / never checking your ‘private’ stuff outside of some kind of proxy/vpn scenario where you remote into whatever box is handling your actual private online presence?

lol try signing up for an email account today without tying a phone number to it or another established email account. It’s incredibly difficult.

You might be able to create an account, but then all “3rd party services” (e.g. creating accounts on absolutely fucking anything) will be blocked and your account will be either restricted or forced to submit a kind of verification that doxes you to lift said block, probably.

I found a single sketchy provider that would take verifications from proton mail that allowed me to then create more accounts, but I had to try over a dozen mail providers before I found the obscure one that did not require any pre-existing accounts, phone numbers or identification documents to just create an email to simply sign up for any web forum, service or basically do anything most people do with email. Everything ends up linked to each other at some point.

There’s just no privacy anymore. The ones who think there is are probably not as private as they really think they are today.

What’s the damage though?

Don’t judge a man for his shower bacon.