Leraje
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18·5 days agoOn the face of it, that is a massive own goal. TOR project surely has a fediverse account or a blog or something to announce these things. This should be common knowledge.
9·5 days agoThere’s a difference between being a populist and actually representing your constituents, which is after all the job they’re paid to do.
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Stop giving a shit about fake internet points, they literally mean nothing.
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“Its dead in here” says person who never contributes anything except to complain how dead it is.
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I might actually loathe him more than Musk.
At the moment, apart from Russia, you might’ve noticed the US is going through a bit of a sticky phase with its once-friends.
Which will only matter if those instances are hosted in the US, which a lot aren’t.
3·7 days ago<link rel="me" href="https://instance.tld/@username" />in the<head>is probably a bit tidier :)
I love the aesthetics of hardback books, a beautiful Victorian-era library looks (and smells!) great but my own library is all ebooks. I don’t have the space for over 2k physical books and as I get older and my eyesight worsens, the ability to adjust font size, line-height, borders, contrast etc becomes invaluable.
I won’t buy from Amazon at all, ever. I prefer to buy DRM free but if its not possible to buy DRM free then I buy a paperback copy from a local indie bookstore if possible which I immediately donate to a library or hospital or prison or whatever and, ahem, ‘source’ a DRM-free version from elsewhere. I do it this way because DRM is cancer but I also want to support small and/or new authors so buying and passing on a print copy is good for everyone and having a DRM free copy is good for me.
As for subject matter, both fiction and non-fiction but more fiction than non. I like historical novels like the Aubrey/Maturin series, or the Shardlake series, Madeline Miller’s greek retellings, Hilary Mantel’s stuff, fantasy/sci-f- like Ursula K Leguinn, NK Jemisin, Margaret Attwood, Robin Hobb, Lois McMaster Bujold, Susannah Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Horror/Thrillers by writers like Peter Straub, Catriona Ward, Shirley Jackson. Non-fiction books tend to be popular science that are ‘popular’ enough I can grasp what they’re on about but ‘science’ enough they’re not just dumbed down crap.
Its a mystery - why would a hypercapitalist society increasingly dependent on manual labour destroy education, destroy workers rights, remove the ability to abort unwanted pregnancies and make prisoners legal slaves?
Built in, pre-launch enshittification. Novel.
10·15 days agoIn terms of data, put TailsOS on a USB drive, configure persistent storage, download VeraCrypt over TOR, install that, encrypt everything tutorial
What you do with the drive (or drives if you make copies) really depends. If the climate is very wet and warm where you live then storing them outside is going to need very good protection to keep them relatively cool and dry. You’d also have to find somewhere that you can absolutely guarantee isn’t going to get redeveloped or otherwise built on, or conversely, knocked down/demolished for as long as you’re away.
A long term self-storage company might be an idea, or a bank vault, where you’ve paid for (for example) 10 years in advance. Of course that means you have to be absolutely sure the company won’t go bankrupt or be seized by the corrupt regime you’re hiding the data from. You’d also have to have someone else set these up in their name or it could be seized along with you. You then have to hope they don’t get seized, or get dementia or die.
If you have comrades abroad in a safer country, maybe physically mail them the drives before the corrupt regime starts noticing you? Then of course you also have to hope they can return them and haven;t forgotten, died etc.
1·15 days ago‘Better’ is relative :) is it better than using something like SearXNG? No. But for those people who insist on using Google, its better to do a proxied search than a first-hand one. Mullvad are European, are one of the very few orgs I personally think are trustable and have shown no signs of enshittification, Leta has been audited by a 3rd party - for those looking for a private Google experience this is about the best there is.
The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal. There were two separate claims by antivaxxers. The first was Wakefield’s money making scheme to invent an alternative MMR vaccine by claiming the existing MMR vaccine caused autism.
The second, entirely separate, claim was that thimerosal in other vaccines was also causing autism.
The two claims then got conflated into a general ‘vaccines == bad’ by idiots like Kennedy, Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and a whole quack industry of autism ‘cures’ such as chelation, HBOT etc.
Leaving notes…committing genocide, yeah they’re interchangeable really.
1·17 days agoNot to recommend as I don’t use them (I use LW and Mullvad - and Ironfox on mobile - all of which might give you the same issues you have with LW) but I’ve heard people mention Mercury, Floorp and Waterfox as being good privacy focused alternatives.
I’m more and more convinced the Trump administration is not negotiating in good faith. I don’t believe the minerals thing was anything other than something Trump thought Zelenskyy would never be able to say ‘yes’ to. Trump doesn’t want to support Ukraine, but he also needs to find enough of an excuse to save some semblance of face. So when Zelenskyy indicated the minerals deal could be done, with modifications, Trump/Vance cooked up that cowardly shitshow to try and paint Zelenskyy as unreasonable in order to give them enough of an excuse to walk away.
I understand why Zelenskyy is desperate for US support but I’m pretty much certain at this point it won;t be forthcoming. Even if Starmer/Macron et al persuade the two of them to re-meet it’ll just be something else next time.
The US, as a political force supporting stability and peace is no more. Its time the rest of the world accepted that and moved on because its not outside the realm of possibility that a US/Russian political/military alliance might exist relatively soon and we might need to be ready for that.
It’s specifically forked to be the most privacy respecting non-Tor browser out there. The extreme privacy is the point of it. I’m not sure what it is you want but its not LW - and thats fine, use another fork instead.
FairEmail has a good reputation.
No, no, I’m saying it should have been reported there and I don’t get why they didn’t share it.