ramjambamalam @ ramjambamalam @lemmy.ca

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Use Firefox + uBlock origin for your own sanity. Don’t let big tech make you feel guilty for not going along with their game.

100% this and also, consider allow-listing specific sites which deserve your support, or better yet, contribute directly if you can – e.g. your local bike club forum, your local newspaper, a blogger whose work you enjoy, etc., assuming of course, the ads are reasonable.

Amazon did the same thing with Prime, changed everyone to an ad-infested plan for the same price and created a new, ad-free tier for a higher price, and claims this change isn't a price increase.

Spotify did the same thing when they raised everyone's prices but started bundling audiobooks with music, but left behind the old, audio-book free plan for the old price without telling anyone.

I don't feel bad for pirating as long as the middlemen of media continue to pull underhanded tactics like this.

You haven't changed your password for 30 days. Reset it now.

Crabs in a bucket

Next week on Mythbusters, we crush Jamie with tons of various materials. You won't want to miss it!

I've heard ICF (insulated concrete foam) construction is pretty durable.

Temple OS?

I identify as Linux and my pronouns are root/0.

Would a UV filtering lens help? Do solar cells generate more power from certain parts of the light spectrum?

A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, "Say what you mean; mean what you say."

I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn't know to search them.

It appears on my instance, FWIW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDcFIP7ImVU

Serious question: what is a US multinational?

Have you considered joining the reserves? I've been a pacifist my entire life but am wondering about it now.

Devil's advocate: the better question is what percentage of Canadians will eventually max out their TFSA?

I don't think it's a good policy anyway, as the administrative overhead of managing yet another registered investing account (or making TFSA reporting more complicated) is more hassle than it's worth.

Gibby's Electronics Supermarket in St Catharines has more home theater equipment than computer parts, but they have a great selection and you generally won't beat their prices anywhere else, and they ship.

I can think of easier ways of compromising the data besides brute forcing the keys, off the top of my head, and I'm just some schmuck. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

1. Compromise their endpoint with a malicious app on the app store.
2. Gain physical access to the device and compromise it. Use your imagination – pickpocket, traffic stop or customs inspection by a compromised agent, seduce them with a honeypot, etc.
3. Socially engineer them to mistakingly add you to their group chats.
4. SIM swap

Signal might be fine for journalists, criminals, cheating spouses, and general privacy when used properly with good OpSec but nation state adversaries have significantly greater resources than your average attacker, and thus require more significant security.

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