All VPNs are blocked on my university’s network

I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.

It’s certainly the agenda being pushed.

Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.^[1]

But after investigations were carried out by Poland’s Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.^[1:1]

I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they’ve lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[2] I don’t discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.

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1. https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/31/is-russian-sabotage-behind-20-recent-train-accidents-in-poland ↩︎ ↩︎

2. Including the 2016 US election meddling and DNC email hack, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, MH17, the Mariupol theater bombing, the Bucha massacre, and the Nordstream pipeline. ↩︎

the Russian sabotage going on

What happened?

“To any Westerners losing sleep over the situation in Ukraine: Just pretend it’s happening in Africa.” —Sergei Lavrov (paraphrasing)

Would this only apply to servers hosted in Mississippi (or wherever)? Or any server with users registering from Mississippi IPs?

Edit: I’m guessing it’s the latter.

*The sound of children screaming has been removed*

I’m sure conservative were all over that “activist judge”, right?

Did Plex enshittify recently? I’ve seen a lot of people switching to jellyfin.

trash at loading html

It’s enough to keep its egg from rolling away.

Edit: I was making a joke. I was surprised to learn from @KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz’s comment that it’s actually scientific fact.

I didn’t consider mobile data. Thanks!

Are you disappointed when there aren’t 360p, 480p, and 720p options available?

I have broadband, so I get annoyed if my video is set to something lower than 1080p. For that reason (and storage space) I disabled those lower resolutions, but I want to know how other users feel.

What makes peertube unusable for you? I’d like to improve my instance.

What’s wrong with pirated content?

Occasionally there will be an id or something in the parameters that breaks the link if it’s absent. I dislike those URLs.

It’s not just safer, they’re nicer to look at too. I hate seeing a 20 character URL followed by a ? and 200 characters.

Could something like this be built into the lemmy frontend?