Mail it to your destination.

Sam Altman is a lying hype-man. He deserves to see his company fail.

I always assumed it got sucked into a wormhole.

I use public@mydomain. Hasn’t negatively affected me. I created a burner Gmail account for a Google Meet interview and then tossed it aside after. I’ve been hired for two jobs in eight years using the public@ address.

Yes, and that ultimately may happen, but Tim Cook is a capitalist and wants to keep selling devices there if he can. We’ll see how the UK gov responds before we find out the end outcome.

That’s not caving. That’s standing up and saying fuck you, your people don’t matter as much as the rest of the world because you’re lunatics.

Glad I saw this. I downloaded the tool on recommendation from a forum post when I was reviving my homelab. I’ll nuke it for sure.

Change banks.

Yes, warn us who to avoid.

Smart TVs are subsidized by selling your data.

If you are detained and questioned by police, you have a right to remain silent, and to speak with an attorney before and during any questioning. It is best to say “I want my attorney and I choose to remain silent” and then refuse to answer questions until you have a chance to talk to a lawyer.

It should be noted that failure to identify does not fall within your right to remain silent. You will be arrested if you don’t ID yourself with name and DOB. They have to be able to figure out if you’re wanted to conduct their investigation. But that’s the most that is required and you should probably shut up after that.

People who don’t have the tech chops for self-hosting can also check the market for shop displays (like you’d see above the counter in a fast food joint). Those are “dumb” displays, no ads bs built-in because they aren’t expected to be used outside of a commercial environment.

They cost more than smart tvs because the ads subsidize consumer models. Rather, they cost as much as tvs this size really cost (after markup). $1700 is not realistic for a huge screen if it didn’t have ads. Also, fuck ads.

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Google 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

There’s something they say in recovery (sobriety) programs about alcohol and coffee: the only result is a wide-awake drunk.

Black coffee at dinner. I see you’ve determined that I don’t need sleep.

Not me, but my mother sent her dna to 23andMe. I was not happy to hear that.

Thanks for making an effort to support your fellow Lemmings.

Mullvad is supposed to be a safe and secure VPN.

I know there’s Fastmail, but I don’t know if they have privacy on the level of Proton. I just know that one of the hosts on a tech podcast that I listen to moved there from Google and was impressed at how smooth the process was.

I can confirm that Apple silicon works for running the largest Llama models. 64GB of RAM. Dunno if it would work with less as I haven’t tried. It’s the M1 Max chip, too. Dunno how it’d do on the vanilla chips.

Downie.app (MacOS) and yt-dlp (multiplatform).

I am not watching YouTube content while these are blocked. I will not watch stupid ads. I will not submit to shitty platforms that suck. Until these work again, there is no YouTube.

I’m finding other ways to fill my free time during the holiday break. I’ll have a bevy of new content to watch when they’re updated.

EFF is an org that I’d run to join if they had a position I could fill. I’ve been on their side since the 90s, when I was too young to tell if I was choosing the right side because I didn’t understand everything they advocated because I was a kid. They are the ACLU of the internet.

Keep in mind that when you use an offshoot browser that doesn’t have a lot of users, this also makes you easier to identify. How many people use Waterfox? Sure, I have it installed and sometimes use it. You use it. But the small number of users makes us more unique, not less. The plugins that you use further enable fingerprinting, as do hardware specs such as screen size / resolution.

I am not an expert in this area. I think there’s a lot going on that hasn’t been considered.

It’s not an uncommon question.

I’m in IT. The frequency of my asking if someone held the power button to kill a frozen device and them saying it didn’t work says that buttons have been made to require too long of a press. People remember that working in about three seconds. I tell them to hold it for ten seconds while looking at a clock or watch. Works every time.

My buildings look like ascii art in plain text. They’re beautiful.

It’s been more than 20y since the first time I remember sternly declining to give either a phone number or postal code to a cashier in a retail shop. It pissed me off then and still pissed me off now.

Even if you pay, you’ll still be tracked.

Buy a store display meant to show logos and menus. Something like these:

https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A18746933011&language=en_US&brr=1&ie=UTF8&rd=1

I haven’t evaluated any of them; I just know people talk about them being the only tv screens without smarts.

There is a correct answer to the question. It’s a math problem.

I just tried it out using the same search string that I’d, just prior, run on the goog:

how many permutations of 9 digit number

Results were not encouraging.

I meant general computer backups, I just had trouble phrasing it correctly. As in, you and I probably didn’t backup our computers properly until we lost something. That’s how most of us get into backups. Similar here.

Agreed. You fucked up and now hopefully you learned from it. The reason any of us have (typical local) backups is because we lost data, whether a little or a lot. This is no different.

Get a barebones mini-PC (no OS so you aren’t paying for a wasted license) to install Linux. Bring questions to the community (after doing your due diligence to show that you put in some effort on your own by asking questions that show that you’re trying). People are generally pretty willing to help out. Start with figuring out which distro is the right fit for you. Check out r/homelab and other homelab resources.

If all this is too overwhelming, take other advice from someone who makes a better pitch than I did. Good luck and welcome to the hobby that is known to take over your free time and money in a deeply enjoyable way. Cheers!

Buy a retail display screen. Totally dumb.

I think he’s trying to reassure his secret gf that he’s truly single now.

Yeah, but SMS and MMS and RCS aren’t protected. This was about a secure messaging platform, not the most available platform.

I have no need. iMessage is good enough, I don’t talk about anything illicit, I am not planning crimes.

Signal appears to be one of the best. Not a user. Simply a person paying attention to tech, privacy, etc. podcasts and the like.

Baphomet says “hi.”