Oh Canada, you were supposed to be the chosen one

Maybe but I always have to enter /24 after setting a VM’s manual IP for it to be valid

The theory is that it will scan on device before it’s encrypted. Would XMPP clients (as long as their developers don’t comply) be safe?

The only privacy-focused service is self-hostable, libre, open source and, often, free. Investing in a local server and running something like a SMB or CIFS sync to a hard drive you own is the best next step. Servers aren’t expensive, either. You can use a £100 potato or reclaim an unwanted PC. The only factors you should spare no expense in are the drives and their storage. Next important is power supply. Well-known Asia-based brands only.

Once you’ve got hardware, the software is fairly simple. I use Linux running Samba on my local network with Foldersync on Android devices occasionally uploading, but there’s also Syncthing (which I haven’t tried), Nextcloud (which has a database system that can be a pain, but is one of the nicest and complete cloud programs and has apps for everything*) and more.

The images of the kid from E.T.?

Well yes, and Steam is continuing to censor and damage its reputation as the best gamer’s market, as a conduit of free expression. It’s possible they are continuously pressured and were told to remove this, but they can also say no. Valve can have moral standards, and they can prove they’re not part of the problem by being transparent and ensuring that they do not help usher in a terrible, oppressive future.

Steam’s moderation just hit oppressive levels, and its staff banning/removing submissions that don’t break guidelines while lying about the reason is Reddit-level. Please Steam, you can stop being cunts. You can return from this.

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Israel should never have been allowed to exist. Their presence only ever causes pain.

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Which is wild because they shut down Google Glass in the UK because of the ability to photograph and record people without their knowledge. Preemptive bans by establishments, government and the public were followed by Google giving up on the consumer base after a couple months. Privacy and decency is no longer part of this world, it seems.

They’re taking it too seriously lol

On Voyager, popular mobile client, there’s this setting page (linking image because apparently there’s no space left on my instance’s storage):

Welcome to modern telemetry. All this proves is MacOS is no different. Linux is the only safe haven, and even then - only if the user is careful about the programs they install.

A decade of voluntary, part-time, crowdfunded development maybe

Unfortunately, that’s the cost of products made by and for the people - rough but private and mostly noninvasive.

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Mine was fine until I upgraded my broadband. Under my new service the ISP doesn’t allow their IPs to be taken off of the Zen spamlist, so I’m pretty much fucked over and at the behest of the ISP

Edit: How do you have a limit? You outsource? I self host so my limit is my hardware.

Edit 2: Ah I see, there are services that charge for their hardware.

Exposing truth can often get people killed, especially if the liars are in the government, want to kill witnesses or rats, or at least make their lives hell for betraying the state. Depending on the severity, livelihoods are often at stake. That’s why very few people engage in whistleblowing. They’re aware that it will not get better for them.

The new moon, haha, it’s not black it’s just shaded

Great news! I tested with a VM and no GPU except iGPU, apparently my issue may have been no Vulkan support. I’ll need a new machine to fully explore it