How can you live anonymous? Off the grid maybe in a log hut in the woods. If you’re in a vehicle, you’ll need license plates. If you buy land there needs to be a name on the deed. You can obscure those maybe behind company names if you make the effort. But there will be a paper trail.

If you buy land, you might as well invest into a more comfy tiny house with solars on the roof and dig a nice pit for the toilet. Keep chicken and grow veggies or something.

Ah.

Nein!

Isn’t it telling that this rage bait is posted by a bot?

I would sooner invest into a really long, reasonably well insulated hose to hang out the nearest window. If you can manage that sub 3 yards and the hose doesn’t dip too much below it’s exhaust vent height, I think this solution might beat DIY ice pack dehumidifiers.

Define “worth it.” I think Mullvad is a tad expensive but for protection while surfing the web it’s a good service. And the fact that they take mail-in cash is unique.

You can just look for a pre-paid credit card wherever you are. You may have to sacrifice your name and number but you don’t have to wrestle with the post office.

This is most Americans, no matter what camp they root for, for most of their leaders. And you have plenty to choose from although recently I imagine the Republicans have edged ahead in this depressing horse race. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.

Es war mal ein Haumann in Limerick, der war in so manche Sauerei verstrickt. Wir hörten von seinem Tod, hier völlig ohne Not. Sprich Deutsch Du Hurensohn.

The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure.

Nothing has gone through parliament yet. That’s not to say that a majority of twats couldn’t be found there. But crucially I think this is not something a floundering PM can decree on his own authority. So far this threat is about as believable as any statement by the incumbent American president on Iran.

Even for a non-bank website, I imagine there is an octogenarian federal judge somewhere in the States who is still puzzled by fax machines who made a ruling holding website owners liable if they didn’t do this when they know of any vulnerability that could affect the user. So there is a possible legal angle as well.

The people who use browsers other than the ones listed will either never see this message or know how to upgrade on their own.

I think this is not a clean cut case of evil planned obsolescence. There are valid security concerns, as browsers are a common attack vector. You should get that updated, also to protect your privacy while surfing online. So for a banking site or similar, I kind of get it. (I recognize there is a possible conundrum when people can’t go bank in person because the bank no longer has branches and/or get excluded by their old hardware/economic reasons from doing it online. Should they be able to choose risking it if the bank knows about a flaw they then leave exposed? Shit’s complicated.)

That being said I’m sure this banner of corporate concern was not primarily motivated by the security and privacy of their users.

Any post formatted like this one looks like it was spat out by a model…

Just don’t block the ads or pay for premium. That makes YT so thoroughly unenjoyable you’ll be on TikTok in no time.

Can you check the manufacturer of the frame? Maybe their website offers a clue. If not, where did they buy them. If it’s a brick and mortar optometrist, go there. Or convince your partner to get new frames with more standardized lenses.

Unless you’re running a model on an air gapped machine that will never connect to the internet again, there is no privacy preserving way to use so-called AI today. All the providers will tell you it’s no problem. But then you read the news about which model fucked up what today. And it’s a lot. Anybody using so-called AI today is voluntarily participating in a massive, not well organized beta test. At their own jeopardy.

So don’t give it your medical history and don’t talk to it about your innermost thoughts. Try to keep it out of your internet browser and history if you can.

New account, Vader?

Only the shittest superpowers imaginable.

You might want to read through this (or a similar explainer on why YouTube and uBO aren’t pals): https://www.hollyland.com/blog/tips/make-ublock-origin-work-on-youtube

If you install free Chromium as an alternative browser, because it uses the same engine under the hood, you can see better if you are having a Vivaldi problem or a Chromium problem, in which case V and C will show the same symptoms. Firefox uses its own web engine so you can only see if the extension is the problem.

I read a toot that V did have problems recently but I think they have pushed out an update for that. So hopefully your settings crash might be fixed already.

I think this is far more normalized in the US to bring god into everything. After all, it’s one nation, under god. And in god they trust! It’s on the money after all, thoughts and prayers. And lordy, the language is full of religious references, from oh my god gosh golly to dang darn dammit. There is also the performative “I was praying for” whatever, jeez, Jesus help me. I’m already irritated by all these religious vestiges in the language.

Piety is also this sort of monstrance required for political office in the US. Even when it’s quite unbelievable, like in the case of 47 who would only own a bible if he could sell it. And if you’re not a Catholic or some Protestant, you have you be Mormon or Islamic just enough to tick the religious box. But we might draw the line at Scientology because that’s all just made up nonsense, isn’t it.

I find it offensive when people just assume I believe in any god. The older I get the more I think Christopher Hitchens had a point when he said that ardent believers in monotheist religions are predisposed to vote for and follow authoritarian leaders. One god, one fuehrer.

What operating system are you on? What hardware? Do you struggle the same when you install the dreaded Edge or Chronium/Chrome as well?

I’ve been using Vivaldi for more than a year and it never crashed on me. And I’ve watched YouTube on it and changed the settings.

No, it doesn’t. Because I was not talking about physical sexual assault.