perishthethought

Anyone else remember a few years ago when the government was caught performing warrantless searches on America’s phone data and metadata, using direct wiretaps at the phone companies, and it was a huge deal and the whistleblower had to flea the country or face imprisonment? And we all said at that time that the government’s actions were shocking and they had to stop right away, and at first they said they would, but then they never really did?

Yeah, me neither.

RIP, the Constitution. We’ll miss you.

mainstream

I’ll believe that when my sisters start saying this. Till then, it’s just us privacy fans screaming in a dark cave, enjoying the echo.

Happens to me with eBay too. Sucks.

Uhhh, you’re right of course, but dont think for a second your comments here are not seen by the fascists too.

… which came right after they begged us for $2.50 to support their cause for more than a month in December. I’m not sure my little donation was a good idea now.

MS is bad at naming their products and versions? Since when?

/s of course

Often the case, yep.

Or like someone in Hacker News comm suggested, use this to track a US Senator for 24 hours, make it all public, then see if they’re still OK with this…

access the net through the terminal.

Interesting - with a text mode browser, or curl or …?

Coolio thanks. I am a happy Mullvad VPN user so I will check this out next. It’s good to see it uses the Gecko engine, not chromium under the hood.

thank gosh uBlock lets me block images, since lemmy/piefed don’t.

I was bored so…

https://isdowndetectordown.lol/

We need isdowndetectordown.com.

Not sure about goog results but I love my SearxNG service. Works well, fast enough for me.

I’m no expert, but the issue here seems to be replacing many smaller contracts with one big one for Palantir. I. E., one agenda headed in one dark direction.

But what do I know?

Could someone have possibly sent them a little message, asking nicely for this change?

Yeah, for the part I could watch, it sounded interesting.

Yah, same here – thanks!

Ok, lol, thanks for confirming