Rule #1: don’t read an article entitled “How Do I Protect My Privacy If I’m Seeking an Abortion?” on the internet with your own computer or cellphone. Borrow someone else’s - preferably a man’s so you don’t end up potentially compromising another woman later - or go to the public library.

China did

Oh yeah, China… There’s an economic and societal model I really dig right there.

That’s the catch: you can’t not use Google at all if you’re online at all, because Google has managed to insert itself into every little corner of the internet.

And that’s how the surveillance trap has quietly snapped shut on all of us without most of us noticing anything.

George Orwell had it wrong: the surveillance isn’t conducted directly by a tyrannical dictatorship but subtly, indirectly by the private sector in cahoots with the government. And the date he predicted was 40 years off. Other than that, he was right: we live in a full-blown dystopia now.

People coming here to rant about Reddit isn’t activity.

It seems to be lagging behind by hours.

For instance, this thread on lemmy.world shows 5 comments and 56 upvotes, while the same thread on lemmy.sdf.org has 3 comments and 24 upvotes only. And the weird thing is, I posted this thread from lemmy.sdf.org, as well as one of the comments, and outgoing is instantaneous. It’s just incoming comments and votes that don’t seem to come through.

baseless lawsuits erode public trust

Haha that was a good one. As if lawyers had any reputation to lose…

Here’s an old joke:

You’re in a cage with a wild angry gorilla and a lawyer and you have a revolver with 6 bullets: what do you do?
Shoot the lawyer 6 times and try to reason with the gorilla.

I suppose the server has to catch up now, right? There seems to be plenty of stale discussions.

Yeah I watched some Gutfeld. He does go through the motions but his jokes never really land. It’s kind of like having a conversation with an AI chatbot: it’s convincing to a degree but something is off and it’s nowhere near as enjoyable as talking to a real person.

Yeah he wears heavy biohazard protection, complete with the hood and the respirator and everything. He’s better isolated than a cosmonaut on the job.

This argument hinges on the premise that churches aren’t evil to begin with.

Here’s an interesting video about Zuckerberg’s rebranding:

Why Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Shouldn’t Distract Us

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Not me, but one of my best friends founded a company to clean up murder scenes, houses in which someone has died and their corpse rotted away for weeks, accident scenes… that sort of thing. His stomach seems perfectly unaffected by gruesomeness of all kinds, so he figured he’d market that particular ability of his.

His lowest rate is $300 / hr for “simple” cleanups and he’s doing very, very well.

Finally a real list that doesn’t include Dave Chapelle - whom I already knew and whom find extremely unfunny.

I do enjoy Bill Maher very much. I don’t always agree with him but at least he makes good points and he’s funny. If nothing else, I respect his ability to address points regardless of which side of the political divide they traditionally fall on.

I’ve watched Joe Rogan too - not for comedic value but to listen to some of his guests - and he sucks ass. I didn’t think he was trying to be funny, because he really isn’t. Buf if he is, it’s not working at all. He’s just a terrible Youtuber the same way countless other Youtubers are, just with a bigger audience, as far as I can tell.

I don’t know any of the others you mention. So I will gladly check them out now. Thanks!

I use a calyxos device to share VPN, as of a few months ago.

Hotspot & Tethering

• Allow clients to use VPNs

Oh wow I totally missed that. It works great! Genius!

Thank you for that. Suddenly it makes repurposing one of my old cellphones a very simple and viable proposition.

(and I’m posting this from my laptop connected to the hotspot connected to the Calyx VPN 🙂)

get a older cell phone. Put lineage OS on it, or calyxos… share your VPN over hotspot, these are the only two ROMs that I’m aware of that allow you to do that

That’s what I thought too. So I tried it on my CalyxOS phone and… it doesn’t work: the hotspot doesn’t route through the VPN. And from what I read, it’s by design.

I have an old Nokia 4.2 running LineageOS. I might try that one.

end-to-end VPN

Incidentally, do you know if the GL.iNet devices can act as a VPN server too?

before the edit the link only led to the photo for some reason, but now it leads to the actual article! (which also makes it more obvious that you didn’t choose the title)

Yeah I messed up the original post. I corrected it when I realized I didn’t put the link right while editing the title. Silver lining 🙂
Sorry I’m not good at that social media stuff.

This product is made for everybody. It just happens to be helpful to those who might have trouble tying laces. That’s why I mention it here.

So if you like it, go for it 🙂

What if you prefer laces?

I wear orthopedic shoes with velcro straps because that model only comes with velcro straps, but they don’t last very long and they don’t look very good. I’d rather they came with laces because I don’t have issues tying laces myself.

Hmm… Touché.