Spooky Mulder

I have been using this as my daily driver on my Android phone for the past year or so because there is no LibreWolf for Android. No complaints.

What is the goal, exactly, and what is your threat/trust model?

“I’m not a [king]. I earned everything I got.”

Clickbait title, but decent journalism.

That flouride quote is from one of the 5,000 rando attendees in one meeting. It was not uttered by who you’re supposed to think said it.

Not that it matters, because it might as well have been said by Oz or RFK Jr or Orange Julius.

“13 interviews with 11 different people for one job at one company and ultimately they went with another candidate”

That about sums up the best case scenario in this market. This report is grim, and doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all the other red flags and warning signs.

I have 20+ years experience in one of the most in demand jobs and in one of the hottest markets, who ticks all the boxes in all the qualifications for each of the hundreds of jobs I have applied for, who lives in one of the top regions for the industry, and (I have to at least acknowledge) whose demographic traits are the very stereotype of privilege… yet even I haven’t gotten so much as a callback in six months.

Economic uncertainty is one reason the job market is dead. The surge of both automated candidate screening bots and in automated job application spam bots creates artificial competition for jobs, compounding the real competition from sustained and accelerating unemployment rates. The widespread availability and use of LLMs has been devastating for resumes, cover letters and portfolios in particular, which are intrinsically conventional and derivative of the job posting to which they are attached, and thus optimal for LLMs to produce.

So on top of the general economic reasons and the supply/demand issues resulting from rapidly accelerating unemployment, LLMs have irrevocably and single-handedly destroyed what was left of traditional job seeking procedure, wisdom, and etiquette.

FYI: CUPS was recently outed as extremely insecure and irrevocably broken by design. So if you’re not actively printing, it’s probably best to uninstall it.

I have found that it often takes a very long time for Tor to build a circuit (bootstrap) using obfs4, because of what seems to be difficulty finding bridges.

Tor comes packaged with torify which you can prefix any CLI command with to have it route through Tor and resolve onion sites properly.

Can’t close your account or request deletion of your data, either. Same thing happened to me.

Ohh, they must be using “trans” as shorthand for transPHOBIC.

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

General advice from EFF. A bit dated, but much of what I would have advised is here.

“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blamed “hateful rhetoric from the left” for the killing.”

Every accusation is a confession. I never cease to be amazed how universally this applies to conservative-led discourse.

Not to be That Guy, but with kindness I offer a small correction: “out away” -> “outweigh”.

Not sure if you realize how derogatory this comes across.

I’ve installed Debian Linux on over 50 devices by now. A vanilla configuration with GNOME works pretty much out of the box for me on a high-end desktop with a modern NVIDIA graphics card.

I’d say the biggest part of the learning curve is figuring out which apps are good and suitable for what you’re trying to do. Just like with Windows and macOS and Android and iOS, there’s only a handful of viable options among an overwhelming sea of poor ones.

There are many wrong ways to install NVIDIA on any given Linux distro and architecture, and only one functional way. As others here are saying, that’s on NVIDIA, not you or Linux.

General advice: whenever possible, strongly prefer your distro’s standard package manager to install things over any other method. With Ubuntu, I believe that’s either apt or snap.

Also: if you find yourself poking around in some obscure system internals while troubleshooting an issue, you probably took a wrong turn somewhere.

If you’re using Gmail, and you’re considering alternatives for privacy reasons, then 100% without a doubt, objectively and unequivocably, Proton is the better choice of the two.

There are other email providers with privacy assurances, and yes, you can self-host, but don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.

To address the trustworthiness of Proton directly: I’ve been a Proton user for about 10 years. It gets the job done. I have complaints, but privacy is not among them.