Aren’t those just like, twunks?

Tl;Dr: I used Proton and Tuta, both work well and respect privacy. I will encourage E2EE though.

My suggestion is largely dependent on your use case. I’m switching from Proton to Tuta actively, but not necessarily due to a slight to Proton. I simply used to use their VPN + Email combo, but recently wanted to switch to Mullvad VPN, so Tuta then became cheaper.

As far as E2EE discussions go, I dont feel E2EE/PGP is ever a bad thing to have. Namely, encrypted communications have a smaller threat surface. I’d advocate in the modern day, all respectable services should offer it anyways. With how easy PGP is to setup, any company that doesnt do E2EE by default is likely motivated against it, which speaks ill of their privacy practices.

For services in general, most privacy respecting services are hosted in Europe. Switzerland and Germany for Proton and Tuta respectively, which what might ease your stress a bit is that they do still need to follow the GDPR, but all good providers I’m familiar with are European based.

If you have a balcony, could try out what I’m giving a whirl and do a lil’ container garden! It’s nothing massive, and squirrels sure need to be planned around, but herbs seem to be working out beautifully so far.

I have often wondered how effective it’d be to just use a spraypaint canister on a pole.

Also, dont bring a phone with, at all. Or anyone else. Or any Bluetooth devices. Bad opsec can lead to bad outcomes.

Also worth noting: Flock cameras and most other ALPRs operate at 840nm, which is perfect for purchasing IR LEDs at their operating wavelength, so you can hide them behind a license plate border to toggle on whenever you drive past one to wash out any details they could pickup.

But a police officer would definitely be pulling you over and citing you if they catch that, so like, be sneaky or vigilant with its use.

Quick disclaimer, some of this sounds more snarky than I wanted, so apologies in advance. Also Tl;Dr: this isn’t another pandemic, just a new disease.

Real talk, I only heard of it yesterday. Thing is, and the internet reeeeaally doesnt like this sorta thing… it isn’t a big deal. It only takes a few searches through studies to see, and even then there’s articles that do a deep dive that explain how this virus works that are just openly found on google without much digging at all.

So, what it has going for it is that the virus started off as a plague. That meaning that it transmitted itself from animal to human. Exceptionally rare chance, yet our immune system is not setup to deal with it as we’ve historically never been exposed to it. Looking into this specific virus, there are several strands we’ve identified. The vast majority of which have an insane death rate, save for a single normal-rate strain for a typical cold.

Here’s the kicker. The type that’s spread without incredible difficulty is the type that’s akin to a normal, run of the mill cold. The high death rate strains are simply not easy to get. Yet when people share info about it, what’s mentioned is how contagious the low-death rate strain is, and the death rate of the more dangerous ones that don’t spread easily. Looks like a nightmare so it grabs headlines, but really it’s not all too horrible.

What I’ve interpreted from it is that people seem to say this with an extra layer unspoken. For most of recent history, as you got older, you tended to be more prosperous. Assets you could buy into accumulated substantial value, retirement came easy, and a family was relatively easier to support. Thing is, when they look to younger ages from this point, they’ve got more than the youth does, and without explaining what you’ve probably heard a hundred times, it makes 'em wanna hold onto what they’ve got.

In recent years though, that feeling seems to be largely subsiding. People feel they cannot obtain this relative prosperity at all, some feel the world’s been sold, and the infinite growth model of capitalism has fallen off, save for the very richest of the rich. I think this explains more or less why the approach of ‘getting more conservative as you age’ seems to be dying off, and it’s more of a product of a moment that’s in the past.

I don’t believe that makes it any less valid, even if it is the case. Those are systemic things, which if one could be morphed by them, it’s fair to say others are too.

Yes! It’s a fairly new, but nonetheless impressive system called Reticulum. If you’re familiar with mesh networks, it is essentially an entire networking stack you can flash to many devices, even an ESP-32. It has the ability to use existing infrastructure as well, so it can bridge the gap between mesh nodes and the greater internet on its own.

Personally, I have one ESP32 node for Meshtastic, and another for Reticulum. They run on the exact same hardware, like a prebuilt Meshtastic node you can buy online is one firmware flash away from (hypothetically) cutting out the ISP. As per usual for these systems, they’re completely decentralized and under the control of the community. Truly a piece of software I would love for every modern router to ship with.

As far as TOR relevance goes, it doesnt use TOR itself, but the infrastructure behind it has anonymity built in through a similar node system. I dont understand the full scope of how deep it runs, but these links below should be able to shed light.

Link to project: https://reticulum.network/ Github page: https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum

I think that’s a weird quirk of Lemmy in general, is that the lot of us tend to be much more accepting of differences. I haven’t exactly spent too much time around, but nobody’s mentioned my instance or ‘queerness’ in ill intent, even when disagreements happen.

But also if there are instances or groups created where a very large portion of said instance is bigoted, it’s very easy to just defederate and move on.

A metric a lot of things experts tend to rely on is the debt-to-GDP ratio. The idea being that you can have an insane debt, but if your economic output is also insane, you’ll be able to pay it off easier than a lesser economy. The US’ is currently at 120%-ish as of earlier this year. Notable examples to pull from seem to be Greece, and how they defaulted from their debt spiral after failing a repayment (ratio: 180%), and Japan, which I believe currently holds the largest Debt-to-GDP ratio (238%-ish).

Edit: interjecting my thoughts that nobody asked for, is that debt seems like a weird unknown in the economic media I see. Like, growing a significant debt is bad, but it oftentimes is used on infrastructure that you can’t just un-build, like what you can with a debt. When a country that did so defaults, I know there’s studies into it, but it almost seems terribly underreported on. So much so that I can’t say I’d know how things will unfold, especially with an economy of the US’ importance.

Edit: also yeah, I’m saying the included image/article/whatever in the post is wrong. We surpassed that in 2013.

Worth noting: Thunderbird also has this vulnerability. TailsOS users who care heavily about opsec are probably seething rn.

Psyllum Husk works well, Meta-Mucil if you just wanna hit up a generic store for it.

I mix a 50/50 of husk and offbrand Mucil, because it is rather sugary.

So, I’m just throwin’ it out because I dont feel it’s shown in the post a whole lot. Most furries are not like that. I’m pretty deep in the fandom, the ‘head’ of several communities, and hangout in it all the time. Throughout all that, I can count on one hand, the number of individuals I directly interacted with who associated with those thoughts.

I ain’t gonna go in depth on the whole therian part, moreso just that furries as a whole aren’t individuals who see themselves as animals.

I’ll fucken take it. A start is better than nothing.

This has me curious because this just seems like something someone would make. Anyone got or know of a list of companies that engage in sketchy or immoral behavior, so I can avoid them?

Edit immediately after posting: Okay, so I think I see why such a list might not exist.

That’s always tickled my curiosity, why do so many billboards, commercials, and just general adverts always seem to be focused on conservative views or right-leaning politics? I can’t recount the last time I’ve seen a leftist, or heck, even left-inclined message.

Tl;Dr: is that age verification laws are being pushed heavily, and Linux users are strongly against that sorta stuff. Most developers openly say they won’t comply, thus their software is in violation.

I call dibs on this guy’s rat!

It ain’t your job to educate me, but if I can ask anyways, why would one opt to not vote out of principle? I went n’ looked it up, yet the only mention of it being a conscious decision are spotty, single sentences. Everything else seems to focus on the socioeconomic difficulties people can experience.

To me, it would seem that voting for a non-mainstream party would be optimal if you don’t trust the two-party system, wouldn’t it?