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abralelie wrote
Reply to GitLab, Valued At $6B+, Eyes Public Listing by Rambler
This is great news! It shows that even with open source you can make a vibrant and valuable business. Just like Redhat and Canonical and probably a few other companies.
Wahaha wrote (edited )
DDG is pretty much only lying about being privacy focused.
https://www.stoutner.com/new-default-homepage-and-search-engine/
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, used to run the Names Database.[1] This was a website that aimed to connect people who had lost contact by gathering lots and lots of e-mail addresses. Getting access could be done by either paying money, or submitting lots of e-mail addresses of other people. Since the service revolved around gathering personal information, it is very suspicious for Gabriel Weinberg to start a business that is privacy-oriented. [2]
DuckDuckGo used to set a tracking cookie, even though they claimed they didn't. This was done by a third party they cooperate with, which means that it wasn't necessarily intentional, but if it's unintentional, it shows a worrying lack of care.[3]
DuckDuckGo is based in the US. This makes it really easy for the NSA to compromise it. If it were based in the EU, for example, the NSA wouldn't have the legal power to force them to log everything without telling anyone. This wouldn't guarantee privacy, but it would make it a lot more plausible. Instead, they're based in the US, which means that the NSA can do whatever they want with them. There are secure search engines that are not based in the US.[3]
[1] https://archive.is/9wR4O
[2] https://archive.is/N2qe8
[3] https://archive.is/qntuk
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler
And that kind of introspection and honesty puts you light years ahead of the authoritarian Leftist horde. :)
Wingless wrote
Does a pair of similarly-sized tin cans offer any protection, or do the spies subsidize sufficient accelerometers to be able to defeat your puny human tactics over the length of any reasonable car trip? (I assume they do with an Apple phone, but who would spends so much anyway? The spies should be paying YOU.)
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler
After review, you're right. I was definitely annoyed.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote (edited )
Reply to software that sucks less | suckless.org by Wahaha
I'm very happy with Suckless Image Viewer (sxiv) and a fork of the Suckless Terminal that does the solarized color scheme (st-solarized-scrollback in the Arch User Repository). Minimalist, keyboard-friendly, and capable. Good software!
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Oh, the authoritarianism is coming, don't you worry.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to GitLab, Valued At $6B+, Eyes Public Listing by Rambler
Wow.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Remember when the police found OJ Simpson in the mid '90s during his infamous police chase by tracking which cell towers his phone was connected to? The tech has gotten much better since then.
Wahaha wrote
I can switch my phone out. Or leave it at home.
Rambler wrote
No. Because as you said, most carry one around willingly.
Toxicant OP wrote
Reply to comment by hideyourlies in Fixed the tire on my kids tractor. by Toxicant
Ive been trying to tech myself CAD so I can fix my son's stuff as he get older.
mr4channer wrote
you live under a damn rock
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler
cordial enough
Eh, I didn't read it that way at all. Tone is very easy to misinterpret over written communicaiton. So you may have typed what you typed with a friendly and warm state of mind, but your words could easily me interpreted (in my opinion) as someone who is annoyed. Nothing you said was really unhinged or awful, but I don't think the majority of users would read your posts as cordial.
I still stand by what I said though.
That's why I'm here. If you don't like something online, go somewhere else. Free speech, contrary to the back assword understanding of the concept as described in their /w/freespeech page, is an essential tool for the underdogs to ensure the establishment doesn't become corrupt, out of touch, and predatory.
Stegacite OP wrote
Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in I came up with a way to hide URLs in text. What should I do with it? by Stegacite
This program isn't doing steganography or encryption of any kind. Encryption means you want to send something to someone you don't know who has a special key to understand it. The goal here is to send something to someone you don't know who doesn't have any advantages at all over the people you don't want to receive the text. So it's like a CAPTCHA for censors to fill out - a way to make it harder for a machine to tell tens of thousands of people what information they're allowed to pass on.
Stegacite OP wrote
Sorry - the link in the text is an HTML file ... it turns out that Github's idea of an HTML file is their page showing you the HTML source. So you actually have to copy and paste it into a text file and save to desktop to use it. Unless there's some feature/setting I missed, which is more likely than not.
Meanwhile, I think you should be able to run the demonstrator for real at https://jsfiddle.net/Lke6p3dq/ - which, with some hint to apply the suffix to JSFiddle, can be described as myrtle fame jail totally
Rambler wrote
Sounds interesting, and I'm just getting up and moving around so I need to rub the sleep out my eyes and look at it closer.
To demonstrate what I mean: Pony Tough Feature Post is a URL for the Ramble Privacy forum,
I searched, but couldn't find this site. Care to send me the link?
Any project that teaches you something new is a project worth doing.
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by 1122332211 in Boom: 21M guns sold in 2020, up 60%, women, blacks top buyers by Rambler
reloading is a great idea, however, really hard to find primers right now.
Seems like a lot of other gear is out too. One of the shops near me seems to be more geared towards hunting and sport and they always have a large reloading section. Looked pretty bare last time I went in a month or so back to just window shop and shoot the shit since I was in the neighborhood.
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler
Yeah, I was a bit taken back by it. I thought I was being cordial enough with emma, especially since her and I had communicated offsite before and she was polite and helpful.
I still stand by what I said though. I don't have to agree with someone to understand that they have rights that are important.
1122332211 wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Boom: 21M guns sold in 2020, up 60%, women, blacks top buyers by Rambler
reloading is a great idea, however, really hard to find primers right now.
hideyourlies wrote
Reply to Fixed the tire on my kids tractor. by Toxicant
It's funny because my Grandfather was a 3D printer before he passed he had a couple printers that I know of one being a Anycubic Predator and a Ender 3, he printed so much stuff and uploaded his work onto Thingiverse and made YouTube videos of his prints.
He passed some months back and seeing this just made me smile as it's cool to see.
AWiggerInTime wrote
Reply to Digital COVID Vaccination Passport Under Development by Bill Gates and Big Tech by RoboGoat2000
tfw the schizos were right
the only difference is that the chip wasn't in the vaccine itself
MasterDestroyer wrote
Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in Best Email Services For Privacy by Rambler
yea, it's super awesome. the mail in a box seems really legit, as far as i've been able to tell. for a personal server it is super adequate.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Tricky! I think I'd do my steganography in images like everyone else. ("Steghide", etc.)
MasterDestroyer wrote
Reply to software that sucks less | suckless.org by Wahaha
i love suckless. i'm devoted to dwm and ive been using the same compile of it since like 2012