nymnympseudonym

Anonymity is all about entropy.

Be indistinguishable from others. Be lost in the crowd.

It is my Calling to spread the Good Word

Honestly it’s nice to see the government doing things like prosecute corporations for violating people’s rights.

Are these companies run by Democrats or something?

Always upvote Professor Spaniel, Lines on Maps and Lines on Maps Extra are top quality info these days

stochastic parrot

A phrase that throws more heat than light.

What they are predicting is not the next word they are predicting the next idea

“Centaurs”

They think they are getting mythical abilities

They’re right but not in the way they think

if that’s working, it means your browser search bar is configured to route thru DDG

Only if you are a good netizen and using DDG ;)

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

Also, it works at the start too: “!w buffalo buffalo”

Use the DDG bang :

1. Go to https://duchduckgo.com/
2. Enter !w <your-search-here>
3. It searches Wikipedia specifically for <your-search>

There are bangs for “image search” (!im), “github search” (!gh), “search PubMed” (!pm)

You cannot live without this

They don’t know the URL but they know the IP address so … yes, they also can get the URL

in support of childlike sex dolls in opposition to making feel-good legislation without evidence-based policies

It’ll never be normalized

Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973, dinner party scene

Note: Woody Allen is Jewish. The film was released 25 years after the Holocaust.

Society would probably actually benefit from a non political purely objective science-based commission to review published data, make recommendations for new studies, and come up with an evidence-based recommendation to governments about whether virtual CSAM (no actual children harmed or in AI training data) and lifelike child sex dolls result in statistically more child predation.

I haven’t deep dived on this so maybe it’s already well known among sociologists/psych pathologists. But the key is a trusted science-based policy. We did it for violent video games and found no correlation. Not at all obvious to me if that also holds for pederasty.

Yeah I know, the trusted scientific commission is not going to happen

Then why are then not offering at least a low cost subscription? Why are they spending money on infrastructure and support but getting no revenue in return?

Either they are okay with losing even more money, OR they plan to enshittify.

For this and many many other reasons, it’s time to switch to a privacy fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox

assume the VPN provider is adversarial

now re-run your analysis

If you have to install any closed-source software to use the VPN, the answer is oh hell yes, they can install a root cert. If they are clever they can remove it when you disconnect, so it will not be noticed by most people.

Even if they require no proprietary install, by definition the VPN knows every IP address you connect to. Even if you use DoH. Even if you use Quad9 DNS. The VPN knows you visited midwestsluts.com

If you want privacy, either spin up your own selfhost OpenVPN, or use the Tor nodes myself and other volunteers pay for, to make free for you to use.

Tor node operators can’t tell what site you are visiting (if they run an exit node they can see the site – but don’t know your IP; if they run a Guard/proxy node they can see your IP, but can’t tell anything about what sites you visit or what data you get)

and the certs lapsed again after volunteers built tooling to Prevent That

but somebody never set up the cron job to run it

A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever

A music collection on a VPS hosting a Jellyfin with accounts for your family and friends is a joy forever for all your family and friends (as long as you pay the hosting fees)

Or self hosting their own Jellyfin

In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

With the current set of apparatchiks, this is terrifying.