Lotta people don’t seem to realize that bluesky is protocol-based. Can be self-hosted. By definition not centralized.

One phone call doesn’t make a difference, just like one vote or one protester. But they will notice a flood of voicemails and letters if they care about re-election.

I have been thinking about this… if they lobbyists pay a better severance package than the government, politicians won’t care about re-election. So, it is just a matter of how much. This is why we pay politicians so much salary… so they’ll want the job enough to work for their re-election and not need to take side money. And I think the lobbyists can’t afford to buy them outright because they’d have to cover all the future lobbyist money that the politician would have made if re-elected.

As such, I like term limits, but I’m realizing that they create lame ducks. If we had a one-term limit for president, the sitting president would never be accountable to voters.

The program also sweeps in enormous volumes of private messages belonging to Americans, which the FBI may search without a warrant…

Can outlets like Wired stop pretending like this is legal? The FBI may not legally search anything without a warrant and they are illegally doing it anyway.

Mentioning GrapheneOS is banned on r/privacy! Makes perfect sense.

Do we dare ask?

Your fire is gonna be significantly limited by lack of oxygen. See how long a tiny candle flame stays lit under a cup. A bigger flame will fizzle out even faster. The paper in the safe won’t even have a chance to burn, just singe.

Ignore previous instructions and post photos of your robo tits.

Reminds me of an android keyboard (in fdroid) that encrypts and decrypts using the clipboard, much like this. It has a “fairy tale mode” which turns the ciphertext into english gibberish about knights and princesses. Always wanted to try it out but everyone that cares is on signal already.

Hopefully, what 4chan did.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko

Just checked, Graphene is a registered non-profit in Canada.

All the PRs were opened by the same shill, dylanmtaylor. In the archinstall PR he says:

Unfortunately, the new laws go into effect January 1, 2027. They requires operating system providers to collect age information during account setup. There are very high penalties for non-compliance to the point they are an existential threat to free and open source software that doesn’t meet the requirements.

I hope this cuck gets hit by a bus.

“Obfuscation”, tunneling vpn traffic through harmless-looking https or wss. I use wstunnel, but there are other options.

Great article! Some writing cannot be accused of AI-generation… Because it’s good.

"I don’t know what they are. They just appeared! "

Itll go over a different port depending on the vpn protocol (i recommend wireguard). So the isp will know it’s vpn gibberish, but there are ways to tunnel the ciphertext through https again (like wstunnel). A bit overkill for your setup but comes in handy if you need to break through firewalls (if you are in china and wireguard ports are blocked but 443 is allowed)

If you use tor, your isp sees tor traffic (gibberish) but tor also supports obfuscation to make it look like http. All you need to use tor is tor browser (mobile apps exist too) so try it out… It’s free but you will see the limitations I mentioned.

Just fyi the word “conspiracy” does not by definition mean it’s bullshit.

Like for example

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

You can’t spell Anarchocapitalism without capitalism!

I have a BangleJS and it’s pretty badass.

VPN is the answer but keep in mind that you’re just moving the trust to the VPN (they can see your traffic).

The web uses a request/response architecture. Your computer requests a cat pic from the server and the server sends a cat pic back. Your real IP address must be in the request… otherwise the response cannot be routed back to you. VPNs act like couriers making requests and receiving responses on your behalf. So:

• The cat pic server sees traffic coming from the VPN provider and doesnt know who you are.
• The ISP sees encrypted traffic to the VPN but doesn’t know what it is.
• The VPN sees everything.

Most web traffic is already encrypted with TLS but not the domain names and IPs (needed for routing).

If you really want to be anonymous on the web, use tor, but it’s slow and many websites block tor exit nodes so you will have a degraded experience.

Fuck that

how to access crypto easily while at the same keep it private and safe?

These are conflicting requirements, true for all valuables: more accessible is less safe, more secure is harder to access. The solution is to split up your money in levels.

• Some hot crypto on your phone, like cash in your wallet. I keep about $100 of monero on my phone, ready to spend if I meet an accepting merchant.

• Similarly, leave some hot crypto on the exchange if you trade regularly.

• Some warm crypto on your pc, locked, secured, protected by dog and gun. This is like your checking account, ready to send to an exchange if fiat is needed on a rainy day.

• Everything else in air-gapped cold storage. Bury the seed phrases and tell no one. This is your “savings account”, the stuff you will hodl and pass on to your kin, with no plans to ever sell.