Keyboard has too many keys, bloat/10

probs don’t need that mouse either

I haven’t been around these communities in a while, so I can’t really speak for /c/privacy as much as /r/privacy and other communities, but I’ve noticed far far far far too many posts which are blindly perfectionist, with no consideration of threat capabilities or their motivations. Privacy is futile without a realistic threat model, that’s how you get burned out solving non-problems and neglecting actual problems.

My threat model is largely just minimizing surveillance capitalism and avoiding basement-dweller neo-nazi stalkers from connecting any dots between my online personas and real life identity. Even for that, my measures are a bit excessive, but not to the point where I’m wasting much time or effort.

Daily reminder: “more private” and “more secure” are red flags. If you see or say these, without a very specific context, it’s the wrong attitude towards privacy and security. They’re not linear scales, they’re complex concepts. That’s why Tor Browser is excellent for my anonymity situation but atrociously insecure to anyone who is being personally targeted by malware (tl;dr monoculture ESR Firefox^[1]). That’s why Graphene is not automatically anti-privacy simply because it runs on a Google Pixel and Android-based OS. (Google is one of my main adversaries.) And I think this simplistic ‘broscience’ style of “[x] is better than [y], [z] is bad” discourse is harmful and leads people into ineffective approaches.

I’ve never heard of a republican being called a liberal though.

US casual political rhetoric is all kinds of screwed. In political science terms, plenty of Republicans are conservative liberals, Libertarians are essentially classical liberals, and the people you’re used to calling liberals are social liberals, aka progressive liberals. The USA is [still…] a liberal democracy, one of the many types of democracy.

Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.

Wish my local train union were as militant.

We need more US-Russia/China ally propaganda, just to fuck with people

This is what democracy looks like, and it should be respected.

Why should it be respected? Should we respect it any more than the US democracy which elected a thug? A system isn’t automatically respectable just because it’s one type of democracy.

wut?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Corporate_structure

I can see some unofficial XFCE guides for getting .webp thumbnails working, but I haven’t seen a Mint one so use them at your own risk. (Works by default in Cinnamon)

While not always relevant, drag and drop sometimes works for certain apps. I find it useful sometimes.

and most of them are globalists and most of the globalists wear tiny hats

That’s not the situation, and using codewords doesn’t hide that you’re referring to jewish conspiracy theories. Western governments aren’t supporting the zionist regime because they’re occupied by ‘globalists’ or because they’re jewish. Jews frequently are anti-zionist and zionists frequently aren’t jewish. Governments support the regime because it’s tactically useful for their imperialism in the Middle East, which is rich in resources and an important land trade hub, among other things. The US especially benefits from having a strong military power in the region to threaten the surrounding countries.

As for globalism, that’s really just the inevitable end result of capitalism once it can no longer grow in its own country, it must seek other markets to expand into or exploit for labor, either through military force (e.g. Opium Wars for forced drug trade, war in Iraq for oil acquisition), economic pressure, cultural power or diplomatic power. Global imperialism is driven by economics, whether leaders feel like conspiring or not is largely irrelevant to it because at the end of the day they can’t survive by ignoring economics, by material factors, which demand them to either give up their position or expand into foreign markets globally.

You’re not just gonna leave us hanging without a link, right? …right?

I don’t know, but my guess is it might still be able to detect some cross-platform malware signs and detect malware intended for Windows on Linux machines (e.g. I can download a PDF or .docx that is harmless on my machine, but if I reupload and a Windows user downloads it, I’ve spread malware regardless). IIRC ClamAV is sometimes used to scan attachments on an email server, often looking for Windows exploits being sent through the server.

Spoiler in title.

I care more about where they are spent. My local government is spending it far better than my federal government. If it was half my income and was spent in ways that lower the cost of living and improve quality of life, then I’d have no problem with that.

If I get a tax cut, I think, cool, at least I choose where this money goes, because I actually do give some to non-profits that benefit society. Tax amounts are not something which determines how I vote, I gloss over it in the news, it’s just incidental that the anti-worker parties want to raise my taxes and spend them in worse ways.

What are the most important differences?

To be clear, this post is more a satirical jab at how Japan is often criticised for their national attitude towards their WWII war crimes (in contrast to postwar Germanys attitudes) while the victors similarly fail to educate their citizens on their own major war crimes and atrocities.

There are many, many systems of governance out there and plenty of democratic systems are wildly different from the ‘liberal democracy’ we’re familiar with. Cheran in Mexico is an interesting example, five minute documentary.

Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as ‘WE’RE winning!!’. Big companies exploit you more and profit? It’s spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesn’t it?

It’s a common practice, a problem with authentic child actors is they generally change once the original actor hits puberty, so higher pitched adult voices are common.

One of the behind-the-scenes videos on a Ed Edd n Eddy disc had some funny stories of the voice actors meeting fans (e.g. Ed’s VA spotting some kid watching the show on a TV while on vacation in Jamaica and throwing in a “huh huah, thut guy is funneh…”) and Kevin’s VA had to keep doing their voice since kids didn’t believe her whenever she mentioned it.