I fucking LOVE Vagrant Holiday. I binge his videos at least a couple times a year.

Was recently pumped when I was getting YouTube notifications of new videos of his but it was simply him re-uploading old videos in higher quality.

As a dude who loves sleeping in a mesh bivy or under a tarp in the woods, I have mad respect for him doing it in cities. Though I'm not sure I could resist the appeal of some local restaurant food if traveling in other countries.

EDIT: I realize this video isn't anything like what I described above, but if you only know him from his CHAZ/CHOP/Portland or train hopping stuff, watch some of his other videos. Well worth it.

I too am wary of DDG. runnaroo seems like a good option if searx is not working for you.

Most (not all) of my stuff is through internet.bs, though I'm not sure how much they inject politics into their operations. Good company though in my experience, as far as just providing service goes... Nice office next to Cable Beach in Nassau, Bahamas as well.

It's nice to see the ACLU doing something sane again like suing companies for invading privacy. An example of the madness they're taking a break from (from Wikipedia):

On June 21, 2018, a leaked memo showed that the ACLU has explicitly endorsed the view that free speech can harm marginalized groups by undermining their civil rights. "Speech that denigrates such groups can inflict serious harms and is intended to and often will impede progress toward equality," the ACLU declared in guidelines governing case selection and "Conflicts Between Competing Values or Priorities."

Uh oh. I have a domain registered under Epik. I don't care for Epik deciding to have opinions about what their customers are up to. What are some domain registrars who honor free speech?

No, no we don't. We need a secure browser that works. We don't need more politics in big tech.

r/politics is almost a hivemind.

Most of them didn't do it simply because their guy didn't win. It's because they believe the election was illegitimate. If Trump won this election and you sincerely believed that it was due to fraud, would you consider it unjustified for people to storm the capitol?

More reason to utilize alternative networks.

Fake and gay.

Ricochet is an interesting project too. It also doesn't have centralized servers. It routes messages through the tor network.

https://ricochet.im/

The developers aren't giving guarantees about it though. From the website:

Ricochet is an experiment. Security and anonymity are difficult topics, and you >should carefully evaluate your risks and exposure with any software.

We’re working on auditing, reviewing, and always improving Ricochet (and we’d >love more help). There will be problems. We hope to do better than most, but >please, don’t risk your safety any more than necessary.

This reminds me of this satirical article I saw.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-be-digitally-edited-out-of-the-apprentice-reruns/

i love suckless. i'm devoted to dwm and ive been using the same compile of it since like 2012

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.

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

And that kind of introspection and honesty puts you light years ahead of the authoritarian Leftist horde. :)

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.)

After review, you're right. I was definitely annoyed.

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!

Oh, the authoritarianism is coming, don't you worry.

Wow.

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.

I can switch my phone out. Or leave it at home.

No. Because as you said, most carry one around willingly.

Ive been trying to tech myself CAD so I can fix my son's stuff as he get older.