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A paperweight that decapitates US military pilots is objectively the coolest paperweight money can buy.

you give me oil, I give you DeMoCrACy. even-steven.

canada sure has an interesting history of purposefully importing ss galicia members and banderites post ww2 to “deal with” canada’s growing “labor organization and communist problem”. I’m sure that was just regular, apolitical violence though…

It’s hard to imagine having a worse opinion of Amerikkkans, but maybe

reddit is 90% glowies, change my mind

Florida is actually doing the most to combat climate change. Science has proven that simply rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots lowers the global average temperature by 0.0001°C. Putting a “FUCK WOKE” sticker on your truck doubles that effect. There are big carbon offsets from denying construction workers water and shade. I hear there’s new research going into the the climate effects of thoughts and prayers too. It’s an all-fronts climate action powerhouse!

On all operating systems, use Firefox + uBlock Origin as your browser.

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Additionally I’d recommend Arkenfox, which is a portable user.js for FF which is a configurable set of browser variables (many of which are hidden in about:config) that helps block browser fingerprinting, tracking and can disable some of the awful “conveniences” that FF ships with. There’s a FF fork called LibreWolf which implements most of the Arkenfox recommended policies if you’re not comfortable meddling with files.

I also like to use NoScript with uBlockOrigin to have more granular control.

Didn’t MoviePass already try that?

I agree with you on her being shafted. And yeah, it’s sad since she’s not a terrible person or a grifter.

I just feel like there are a lot of lessons, particularly those of the black civil rights movement, that she doesn’t want to learn from. I guess she thinks she’s too smart or professional for radicalism or a material analysis of the fake-left “progressive” movement she want to rise within.

Virgil had no credibility or political purchase, so it was pretty odd to me that they started that podcast. Seems like everyone else had enough sense to ignore him. Tried listening to a little and it was just a whoosh of co2. I half expect she’ll join TYT at some point.

In her interview with that zionist, she had a lot of opportunity to absolutely shred that bullshit; Finklestein would have and they’ve spent enough time together that she should know better. Although I’ve seen her scowl at Finklestein enough times, too.

There are plenty of people with lame politics so I have trouble deciding why I expect more. Maybe I keep wanting to see a new generation of black panthers, instead of someone who doesn’t want to cross the invisible line. Going against the imperial narrative in US media is hazardous to your career, for sure. There’s room for her if she wants to move left, but the forces of capital won’t let her use their media monopoly to undermine their interests.

+1 yt-dlp is workhorse

The threat of server-side ads, as you mentioned, is concerning. I haven’t looked into the proposed implementations, but it seems like the nature of HLS still leaves the door open for workarounds. It seems like yt encoding chunks on the fly with both content and ads so you wouldn’t be able to filter chunks would be too much of a burden, and doing so statically would be too restrictive.

… Or maybe they’ll just abandon open standards and they’ll just do widevine 2.0 🤮

She’s not even particularly impressive or interesting as a supposed “left-ish” media figure. She’s an ivy league lawyer, has plenty of bad lib takes, and adjunct to the controlled opposition like sanders and aoc. You’d think the dems would maybe see her as useful, but the left edge of the US overton window is a chainsaw.

I agree with you on Patreon not being worth much of anything beyond the actual user content. But Patreon is not ideologically guided; it’s just a lib tech company looking for a way to skim a little money. Whatever notions of Freeze Peach they claim to care about will wither the moment the ADL threatens to call them anti-semetic or funding khkhkhamas. The Patreon C-suite knows that banning a few publicly smeared lefties will cost them less than ending up on an ADL boycott list or getting tiktok’d.

That’s not even coherent. You know a lot less than you think you do.

Well that’s your choice, but it’s a lot more rational to limit filesystem access by the browser, but allow a user unlimited access to the files downloaded by the browser (very easy to set that up asymmetrically with a symlink). Or at least restrict which directories a browser can or cannot access.

At the cost of security, speed and efficiency?

And it specifically undercuts existing taxi unions, hollowing out those jobs and the decades of negotiatons that they won, while also increasing cost to users. Meanwhile, I know people who’ve lost money while working for uber and doordash.

1. Systemd is the most egregious pile of shit poetteringware in linux, hands down. It’s a gigantic, slow, bloated mess that runs as pid0 and keeps getting bigger as it consumes all other unix services. It violates every single unix and kiss principal. The attack surface is massive and, becuase it’s pid0, has the highest level of privilege escalation attacks. The recent xz backdoor (absolutely state-sponsored btw) was made possible because of the integration of sshd (and xz) into systemd. It’s been a cve nightmare forced onto us by redhat/ibm despite our protests. It may as well have been written by the cia. Systemd alternatives like runit are superior in every respect, particularly speed and security, while adhering to unix and kiss philosophy.

2. Not all js is malicious, but it’s objectively the most vulnerable and commonly expolited component by malicious actors in browsers (webassembly will be worse). It’s also an objectively terrible and idiosyncratic language on its own. Good css can eliminate a lot of the most worthless uses of js, but in many cases it’s still a necessary evil in frontend and web design. The best compromise we have is to only use trustworthy, foss 1st-party code and restrict 2nd/3rd party code. It’s also always a good idea to run your browser in a sandbox (bsdjail, bwrap, firejail) with no access to user files or dbus.

Is it a public instance or just for you and your fam/comrades? But yeah, mandating a login requirement is what I’ve been afraid of. I would just stop using yt altogether if it came down to that.

Security and privacy are things accomplished in layers. You can implement any or all of these as you’re able to learn what they are and how they work.

At the very least a few browser tweaks and addons can prevent a lot malicious scripts and fingerprinting and are the absolute most simple, surface level things you can do. Just FF + ublockorigin will block most ads and surveillance capitalism tracking networks. noscript gives you granular control over what you do and do not want to run, and it’s a good learning experience for most users. Want ads gone, poof, there ya go.

Arkenfox is just a policy confg file (user.js) for firefox, which further helps block tracking, fingerprinting and the most awful annoyances and grievances sold as “convenience” in modern browsers. It’s well documented, easy to read and lets you configure things to your preference. The LibreWolf browser is firefox with a preconfigured arkenfox user.js for users who aren’t tech savvy or don’t like configuring things in text files. Highly recommended over FF + arkenfox if you’re getting started.

invidious is a privacy frontend for youtube that runs on instances (servers) that anonymizes users and cleans up youtube’s awful ui. Lemmygrad provides automatic invidious links when a user links to a yt video.

Running your own router firmware means owning your secure device and having meaningful control over it. Otherwise someone else has more access to your network than you do.

Finally, none of the security or privacy stuff means anything if you’re running an nsa compromised operating system, which is exactly that way by design. Opting out is free and returns speed, freedom and ownership to property held hostage by the worst excesses of capitalism and techno-fascism. This may tilt some “GaMeRs” … but people who won’t even liberate a personal computer from fascism at absolutely no risk, won’t liberate much else, either.

How easy has it been to find (presumably?) vps hosting able or willing to accommodate the IP bans from google? I feel like at some point google is going to go hard against the hosting on these ip-rotated instances.