When enough individuals ignore a law, it becomes soft nullified. For example, everyone doing ~30 over the speed limit. Even the cops where I’m from will tailgate you if you’re not going fast enough.

I salute non-VPN’d torrenters. Thank you for your service.

One-time purchases.

Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.

Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.

Here’s an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:

I sounds like you suffer from internalized proprietary.

or even seem safe to me.

TIL: Trump voters are violent wife beaters

Lemmy, always there to educate me

The rise of surveillance society cannot be so narrowly attributed to a nation state. There are many stakeholders with much to gain from the mass collection of data, the advertising industry chief among them.

If cash stops being an option, it won’t be because anyone had been forced to stop using cash, but because the unthinking masses uncritically accepted the convenience of centralized digital currencies and digital payment methods.

I think there is a threshold number, say somewhere between 55-65%, wherein once that percentage of the overall population has accepted some fraud, it then becomes ‘reality’ because it has achieved enough inertia to become unquestionable doctrine. It then becomes propelled under its own weight without social engineers needing to run their narrative networks. For example, the surgeons masks and pharmaceutical products of the last four years.

Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.

Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.

To clarify, the term news to me translates to an organization whose purpose is to interpret events that could otherwise be better observed by going to primary sources oneself.

That’s good. It should serve as a reminder that you need to abandon a dinosaur push media. It’s a subtle way to punish normies who haven’t caught on yet.

I don’t pay attention to news sources.

I would consider major centralized social networking platforms to be equivalent to television today as it holds captive the masses in much the same way, but with even finer grained control.

People apparently use installment plans for phone purchases these days, along with a downstream used market, so it’s actually a really apt analogy.

of my brother before he lived alone in a cabin

Adult children

Ask her what her favorite steam locomotive engine is.

Get upset when she gives the wrong answer.

Erupt into a heated diatribe about the necessity of good boiler design and make sure she knows why she isn’t allowed to be friends with you.

Yell something unintelligible at her son on the way out.

If she still comes back to you later, then you know you’ve found a keeper.

Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.

Minimum requirements to run hello world in Java

I nnn every day!

I meant to, but was rudely interrupted by a skeleton swordsman this morning.

My client is configured to reject all non-encrypted peer connections. It sacrifices some potential seeds but is worth the added defense in depth if ever my VPN fails catastrophically. Openvpn client to an obscure VPN service. All media gets passed through clamAV before being accessed.

While on the hunt for treasure, my browser is configured to send DNS traffic over Tor. All web pages only get to load HTML and images, and they (torrent sites) remain perfectly functional without anything else. DDG search with the old tricks ‘1080p’, ‘full’, ‘HEVC’, ‘x264/x265’, ‘ep0_/se0_’, ‘.mkv’ and so on.

I rotate my treasure chests between ships.

I’d make a really awesome candy store clerk too, btw, because I love eating sugary snacks.