I mean we can generally agree that China is worse.

We cannot agree, “comrade.”

They’re not only identifying immigrants, though. And they may be using biometrics from Real ID, which everyone needs to drive or enter many government buildings or receive many government services.

My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.

Some eat up pro-AI drivel, some others anti-AI drivel. Tech bubbles are a wild ride. At least it’s not a bullshit bubble like crypto or web3/nft/metaverse.

It’s as if some people will believe any grammatically & semantically intelligible text put in front of their faces.

🙄, but I’ll only address:

the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion.

That was the US’s public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.

But for you to say Iran isn’t authoritarian is ignorant of the facts.

We are not ignorant of the facts, but you are ignorant of your carrying water for Western imperialism. Which is understandable thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, but it’s never too late to stop.

It’s amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater “max evil potential” in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.

For keeping cookies in bento boxes:

• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Temporary Containers

No way that’s happening short of an imminent, credible threat of socialist revolution.

Logseq can be run locally (without any “cloud”) and is free & open source.

Virtually all of crypto is a scam as far as I’m concerned, but Privacy Guides seems to endorse RetoSwap: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/#buying-monero

The location of our nuclear wessels.

OP, you’ve made this into your personality? 🙄

There are a few others, like 12ft.io, but archive.today is the best.

Bypass Paywalls Clean is the best browser extension. The repo is hosted in Russia now, because the copyright cops keep hounding them.

The extension was originally released on GitLab before it was removed in April 2024, when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice was filed against its source code repository. Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024.

It has not changed. The only reason I use Archive.today is to share soft paywall bypass links.

Their identity is hidden for good reason: If they were to reveal it, we would lose the best paywall bypass site that currently exists.

🍌

Obviously. But it wouldn’t have happened at all without him.

He’s old and cranky like me 🤷

Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History

I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?

The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

The CCP is known to have agents in western countries that manipulate and pressure ex-pats to return to China.

The seeseepee is “known” to do that if you believe Cold War II bullshit propaganda about “secret police stations.”

So, you get to call me a bigot with no information?

I didn’t call you one.

I’ll take your opinion for what it’s worth.

I didn’t give you an opinion.

That research abstract doesn’t contain any evolutionary psychological theory. You added that yourself, and we don’t owe you an alternative theory.

If you’re going to use the term “globalism” you should at least define it, because some use it as an antisemitic dog whistle.

Chilling. The difference was like night and day.

That doesn’t de jure apply to non-citizens at the border, never mind de facto.

Fuck Pi Day. All my Tau Day homies hate Pi Day.

CinemaSins wants to know.

ActivityPub DMs are not encrypted between servers

It is insofar as TLS/SSL/HTTPS encryption is used in transit. That’s what I mean by encrypted in transit.

i could read anyone’s DMs to users on other servers

If you’re an administrator for (WordPress) ActivityPub server A, you can see all the DMs coming to and leaving from your server, yes. And they’re not encrypted at rest, so you can read them any time. But how would you see DMs going between server B and server C, when your server isn’t involved in the transaction?

Surprisingly, Reddit is NOT on the list.

If they’re slurping all these other sites, I highly doubt they’re not slurping Reddit, too, even if it’s not on the list.

Fediverse (likely ActivityPub - possibly DMs between servers)

They would have to hack the individual servers to get at the DMs, because they’re encrypted in transit. All the public stuff is trivial to scrape.

Paywall bypass: http://archive.today/2025.03.12-170136/https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/

The list: https://archive.ph/o/Lldzh/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH4D_HHefoYxnbGL9l02kyCus/edit?usp=sharing&ref=404media.co

It doesn’t appear to have any fediverse instances, unless you want to count Threads. It does have ProtonMail & Signal; I wonder what that actually means.

I don’t see as any worse, necessarily. For all I know, Saudi Arabia was previously buying the data from Niantic piecemeal.

Forbes, 2016: How Niantic Is Profiting Off Tracking Where You Go While Playing ‘Pokémon GO’

You’d have to fill out the paperwork coming and going. If You Deposit a Lot of Cash, Does Your Bank Report It to the Government?

Depositing $10,000 or more in cash means your bank or credit union will report it to the federal government. The $10,000 threshold was created as part of the Bank Secrecy Act, passed by Congress in 1970, and adjusted with the Patriot Act in 2002.

The law is an effort to curb money laundering and other illegal activities. The threshold also includes withdrawals of more than $10,000.

Who’s enforcing whom to comply with what now?

Not a likely scenario but still possible. If one is serious about not getting “doxxed at any cost,” consider Mullvad browser.