Well my favorite is when they accept a 35-character password when signing up but silently truncate your password to those 20 (or however many) characters and just don’t tell you so you have to guess what fraction of your entered password actually became your password.

They do care about this shit. It’s relentless, warrantless surveillance they have access to.

e621.net is full of furry porn.

Glad my work password is distinct from anything else I use. Wake me up when Evolution has a problem.

Never. I don’t even have an account to comment with.

I used to just bookmark the channels I watch and click through those links to catch up when I felt like it. Currently I’m using Freetube which lets me follow channels without actually subscribing or using a Google account.

I’m trying to make the best choices I can right now. In 20 years, assuming I’m still alive, I’ll try to make the best choices available to me then – which will probably be to still drive a car from circa Y2K. Cars don’t just turn to dust after 40 years. People today are absolutely horny for cars from the 50s and 60s.

WeChat is closely tied to the Chinese government, so that one makes sense. But is there evidence Kaspersky’s products are compromised? Because without knowing more about that situation I’m inclined to agree with them that this is “a response to the geopolitical climate rather than a comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of Kaspersky’s products and services”.

With a default installation of Mullvad Browser on Mullvad VPN:

Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 31172.33 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 14.93 bits of identifying information.

With LibreWolf I got a unique fingerprint, but I’m doing that on purpose. The fingerprint changes randomly to prevent tracking. It may be distinct, but it’ll be different with each visit.

I’m using “your” as a non-specific adjective. I could have written “fuck one’s roomba” I suppose but that doesn’t sound right at all.

Intentionally about 20 years old and no connectivity.

Neat, how does this interact with the other Five Eyes nations? For example, can US traffic be intentionally tunneled through the UK and then be legally decrypted with no additional permission or oversight required? Would the UK attempt to compulsorily force decryption of a US company’s routed traffic – like some kind of extradition treaty for data? Will other Five Eyes nations simply act on their behalf and exert the force needed?

My stance is to just not own one of the fucking things. There’s your harm elimination. There is no data collected for me to protect.

Then allow me to clarify:

jesus CHRIST just buy an upright you ASSHOLES

my upright vacuum has a motor that could vacuum up a whole roomba. it doesn’t need to charge. it has a hepa filter so good it outperforms my actual, dedicated air purifier. it doesn’t send my floor plan and activity schedule to amazon. it doesn’t take and send dick pics of me to the CIA. it can’t talk to other devices in my house and form some weird spy mesh network. it needs to be run rarely enough that i have never felt burdened by it.

in conclusion fuck your stupid, stupid IOT dustbuster on wheels

At certain points – and I think needing to flash a third-party firmware into your robot vacuum to safeguard your privacy is one of those moments – you really need to ask whether this shit is worth it.

My 20-year-old car has never once narced on me.

I never understood why anyone was on it in the first place, unless it was to read Dril’s tweets, and you can buy those in books now.