There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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Realistically, I’d contact police and hope they’ll be nice enough to eventually contact my country’s embassy. There, I’d be able to identify myself via biometrics. When I get access to a phone, I could call my mom whose number I have memorized.
She has plenty of accessible funds to get me home.

There I can open the door with a hidden key, get new ID using my birth certificate, and with that, I can get back into my bank account, have new house keys made, order a new SIM card for my phone number, and that gets me back into half my accounts.


Electronically, I’d be fucked.

My password manager sends a code to my email address as 2FA, the password to the email account is only in the password manager, all other accounts are tied to that email address, and the email hoster asks for info you put in during account creation for recovery, but I put in random bullshit.


took me a moment to understand what you mean but that’s a neat idea for the time while you’re migrating away from WhatsApp.


It can’t be false, since it is not a statement of an objective fact.
It is my opinion, based on my personal view of what “freedom” means to me.


Unpopular opinion: Your kids do not actually have freedom if you’re tracking them.
Even if it is “just for emergencies” and “we don’t actually look at it”.
I enjoyed a completely untracked childhood, and I will make damn sure my kids can have that too.
Just knowing that your parents trust you is a priceless feeling.


Depends on your definition of free speech.

If that’s “you can post literally anything and there is no moderation”, then likely none.

Cause it would attract pedophiles sharing child sexual abuse material, drug traders and Nazis making lists of targets.
Why should anyone pay upkeep to host that? No advertiser will go near it, and it’s only a matter of time before the cops take it down and arrest people.

If it’s “post anything that isn’t blatantly illegal everywhere”, then try 8kun. But unmoderated platforms do not attract rational discourse:
Warning: Screenshot includes hate speech



Startpage=proxy Google
DuckDuckGo=proxy Bing


Beware! Anything you type into a Google search is sent to Google’s servers!


The way this is worded, technically you’re not allowed to use a Mac for designing a 3D printed nerf dart.


The same thing happened in ChatGPT when I asked something borderline NSFW.



There is no way to anonymously access a website that requires Javascript.
Javascript is code that runs on your computer.
How is it going to get there without your IP address?


They’ll tell you to make an account, what’s the big deal, everyone uses Google?
And when you tell them how insane it is to lock access to course material behind a Google account, they’ll stare at you blankly.


Pioneer Space Sim is my favorite. Fly around the galaxy, trade and do combat, with realistic Newtonian physics.



At this point, I just wish there was a search engine with decent results …


They want you to pay for the cost of the website you’re accessing.
Which is reasonable.

And you can choose whether you want to pay with money or with your data.


If you’re running Linux, another solution would be simply blacklisting the WiFi driver from the kernel.
It’s a software solution, but I fail to see any downside to it.


In a few years, they’ll adjust the laws, so that would count as assault on a police officer.


I tried GTA Online once, thinking I could just cruise around and have some fun.
Within 2 minutes I was killed by some dude in a flying motorcycle rocket launcher thingy.
He then proceeded to spawn-camp me and kill me every time I came back.
Haven’t logged on since.



Does there need to be a solution?
Do E-Sports competitions on identical certified hardware and otherwise ban people caught cheating.
Root kits aren’t necessary for having fun in a game.


Apart from everything else, this is horrible UI.
A pop-up with an X to close button that’s supposed to be shown on a TV, which will have no mouse attached.
The text doesn’t even read like something that should be customer-facing.


He’s doing something right.
You can’t hack a paper note over the internet.


No company can afford to host video for people who aren’t willing to see ads, give up personal info or pay for the service. Where would they get their hosting costs from?