Definitely! I recall seeing you at the Lodge meetings.

Maybe citizens should start buying location data on Kash Patel, Hegseth, Vance, Thiel, Ellison, etc. You know, so everyone knows where they are at all times in case they want to thank them forcall the good work they’re doing.

Sometimes it seems like it is less “protect the children” as it is “keep the children unsullied for the pedophile overlords” that is just being packaged as “protect the children.” It also seems like the aspiring overlord class wants to track all of the desired slave class to reduce the chances of guillotines. But a lot of how it’s allowed to take hold (in the west, at least) is because of the Abrahamic cult programming so many people still get while they’re too young to look at it critically.

I recognize I come across as a raving conspiracy nut. Perhaps more sedately, I would phrase it this way: the use of heavily hierarchical mythology in early childhood installs belief systems that make the population much more likely to be eager to live within hierarchical social environments that serve the agendas of those best positioned to run, control, and benefit from a hierarchical world. And the mythology positions an unsullied, pure child as highly valued, making both “protect the children” effective, and making “violate the unsullied to prove your power” desirable goals and easy manipulations.

Either way, any long-term solution is more likely to come from eliminating that hierarchical mythology before critical thinking is developed than any kind of universal ID, or the ridiculous OS level age API California is trying to force into play.

Sorry for the rant.

What made you not use the web for your banking? Is the app 100% required? I use the web interface (forcing desktop version) for mine on graphene with no issues.

When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.

offer a better, fully fleshed out alternative

is a bit of straw man. Offering a rough list of alternatives for discussion would be sufficient response to the question.

you are allowed to say X is shitty on its own

while true, this ignores that your original statement was challenging this choice over other possibilities. So yes, you can just say it’s a shitty choice, but you (colloquially, at least) implied there exist better choices in your opinion. So it is reasonable to ask what those might be.

Kinda depends on the role. I mean, I am a GRC, privacy, and security specialist who is usually brought in to teach existing employees how to improve their security awareness, and I have been a consultant in the IT industry for over 25 years. So I usually come in not trusting the employer.

If your corporation is running windows 11, you can’t be trusted to keep things malware free. If you’re a corporation, you should also respect true capitalist behaviour, and if they can make a profit offshoring, what difference does it make. If, however, you provide robust, *nix based equipment, follow a disciplined SDLC, and are not a corporation, then I might a couple of highly disciplined, experienced systems analysts with a GRC and privacy focus who would love to learn more about you.

Although you do open with the fact you don’t trust your people, so, probably not.

well, especially since se also works as a domain, so I originally was expecting, to use related syntax for fun se|li (or plain old se/li) and had to go back and reread. At first read it as se/org/li as in, “se OR org OR li” work and I thought, “no, they just said org doesn’t work.” Then I reread and recognized the sed pattern.

If it’s your personal retirement plan, does it matter? You’re out of the picture regardless, and it also has been known to succeed.

They didn’t work for me until I used Tor. Then they all worked.

If your pension plan is a rope, might I suggest a guillotine instead? or first? Get rid of as many top hoarders as you can.

I remember the looks I got at a goalsetting workshop when they asked, “What would you do if you had six months to live?” and I said, “Killing spree.”

qlango might meet your needs.

Journalists used to use the inverted pyramid for a reason. Direct marketers reversed that principle to create what evolved into clickbait. So clickbait, to me, automatically implies the opposite of journalism (advertising and/or propaganda) .

Think about what we did in Ireland in the 80s. It’s no different, and it only worked marginally. Although that cpuld be because opsec was pretty good among the provisional IRA active cells.

I am not dyslexic, but for some reason I keep reading SHIFTphone as SHTFphone (which for me stands for Shit Hits The Fan), and that works even better in my brain. Does anyone know this tech, this company, anything? They are unfamiliar to me.

My colleagues and I never stopped encoding everything important before committing it to a digital context. We have never trusted the powers that be not to grab for more power and control.

That’s one way to get rid of remote work.

Could you progressively poison your data?

To piggyback on this and apply chauvinistic reciprocity, why would you spit anything at some you find cute. They probably decided to leave with Cthulhu, who is confidently, unapologetically, Cthulhu.