I have no issue with that, but let’s not act like there was anything else other than a trend.

If people said ‘I got caught up in the moment, everyone was doing it’ then fine, you got duped, it happens.

But don’t give me lame excuses. Most people didn’t approach it critically, which is not unusual, but own up to it.

I’m tired of the same excuse over and over.

And those tests weren’t even that cheap.

So what are they going to do after?

You won’t get tested twice, they still need to pay for existing. After they test everyone, how are they going to keep it up?

Unless they take more money from you, they will sell your data to someone else.

Insurance companies? Advertisers? Those things provide value for bad actors more than for you.

Don’t give me that ‘hindsight is 20/20’, it was the first thought I had when I heard about this.

‘How are they going to monetize this?’

Either they sell your data, or they go under and… sell your data.

There was no other option from the inception.

None of this is new, and private companies gobbling up any data they can hasn’t been new since at least 2005.

Hey! I’m speaking!

If it happens to only specific companies, but others will do anything without issues, it will be a huge problem.

And it will.

If that motivation still leads to work against tech monopolies

It doesn’t, never did, never will.

I can’t believe we have to argue in 2025 about this.

The whole project 2025 is about breaking bad regulations, antitrust won’t survive. You just have to kiss the ring, and do whatever.

I love user notes; this one has ‘fascist centrist’ attached, and lo and behold.

There’s no fucking way they let her go on.

I’m ready to eat my words, but I expect her to disappear, or be limited to companies which did not fall in line to Musk/Trump.

The entire shtick of the next admin is deregulation, antitrust will not be welcome.

I’m sorry, but what the fuck? Why touch the child inappropriately? Can’t you just hug them?

Criminals like Edward Snowden I guess

And I don’t mean this in any mean way, but how much propaganda did you learn to detect? Like understanding that the american dream is a propaganda?

Everybody is offended by an idea of a sex with them

You sir are technically correct.

The best kind of correct.

What passwords where?

I use Matrix for my personal 1 on 1 chats with family and friends, so dunno

Fuck matrix.org, just selfhost.

Use Firefox, don’t use Chrome or any of its forks.

My brother in Christ you know not of what you speak

The topic is privacy, torrents are not very private to begin with, and Mullvad uses disk-less servers and you can pay with cash.

The topic is privacy, torrents are not very private to begin with, and Mullvad uses disk-less servers and you can pay with cash.

You need VPN to hide your traffic from your internet provider, your OS will not help with that. Use Mullvad, nothing else.

If you want more secure OS, that will respect your privacy, your only options are Linux or BSD. If you only have experience with Windows, go with Linux Mint. Keep in mind that it is a fork of Ubuntu, so guides and packages for Ubuntu will work for Mint almost always.

Mint is more suited for newcomers.

Mullvad

I turned everyone around me to Matrix on my own instance. There are other options as well

Great, it was working without issues on Gentoo and Steam Deck respectively before, too.

My family uses Matrix, and if some don’t, I don’t talk to them online.

There is only one question: does it use blink?

How is NoScript obsoleted by uBlock?

How about USB? I haven’t used PS/2 for a long while.