and every single one of my friends created accounts and hopped on to chat rooms
FOMO and Privacy usually do not mix well. Unless you can come out of “All my friends are doing it, so it must be cool” mindset, you will find it difficult to appreciate privacy.
You yourself said
and that social life also includes the use of social media apps
Note the keyword “includes”. So Social Life is not JUST social media apps. As someone mentioned already, dating starts best with face to face interactions.
Have you tried the good old phone number exchange, may be to try out texting?
Lastly, if someone wants to understand the real me based on my Instagram profile and activities - I would stay away from that person. YMMV.
However, I would probably trust a provider more if there has been an actual case where police tried getting the logs and the VPN provider gave them nothing
Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments… but another bad guy worth hating is
Hewlett Packard.
Their
“Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won’t work when you are out of ink”
I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and “Elon Musk” becomes “Felon Musk”.
It depends on the booger itself. If it’s a dry one, I just pinch it into a ball and flick it across the room. If it’s one of those wet, sticky, semi-solid ones, I rub it between my thumb and index finger until most of the moisture is removed and the booger is determined to be flickable without being a little bastard and just sticking to one of my nails.
Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...
You sir, are one of those fucking amazing people who profusely apologize for not being a native English speaker and then blurt out 37 paragraphs of perfect English.
You have nothing to be ashamed of - your English is better than a lot of them native speakers ! And always remember this :
“You are speaking English because that is the only language you know; I am speaking English because that is the only language you know. We are not the same.”
And as to your original question - if I ever ask them “what evidence did you see which proves X happens?”, I have almost always been hit with the reply, “Oh yeah? What proof do you have that says X does not happen???”. And then I tell them the anecdote of the Invisible Dragon by Carl Sagan. Look it up if this is new to you, and for a more formal treatment, check out Karl Popper’s theory of Falsifiability.
I have personally converted at least one conspiracy theorist to being an Agnostic. So I know it works. Try them out, it’s fun.
And I also am not a native English speaker to be honest :-)
So I always try to go for Freeze-dried instant coffee ( especially Colombian, like Juan Valdez ), and not the Spray-dried shit.
Edit : I thank max and the OP for enlightening me about the instant coffee manufacture process. It surely appear that Instant coffee has a lot more environmental impact than simple ground coffee because of more processes involved. I have always consumed instant coffee, but were totally ignorant on this part. Dumb of me.
Thanks to the people directing me to the right way, and I will strike out my second point above.
Basically what the title says - Can my ISP see the exit node of my VPN ? I hope not, because that would be weird, and would defeat the whole purpose of a VPN....
I guess I should have mentioned in my original post that when I say “exit node”, I specifically mean multi-hop. My bad.
But even for Single hop as well, the world sees that VPN IP as my IP (although they probably don’t know it’s “me”), but
(a) Can my ISP map me with that VPN IP (“my” IP to the world’s eyes) and
(b) Can my ISP see the traffic that’s going out of that VPN IP ? My guess is no, unless that VPN server also uses the same ISP as me (but I’m dumb so feel free to correct me)
Hi there! I thought I should give you all an update on Voyager as a newsletter format. This may become a regular thing, maybe not, I’m still not sure. :)...
Thank you for creating this awesome Android client for an equally awesome FOSS place (Lemmy). I am a regular user of your Voyager app on my Android phone, and I use it together with Jerboa (which is still there in my phone as the OG app for Lemmy, no offences to Voyager, lol).
The only two features that I think are lacking in voyager and will make it the best are -
(1) Show the Avatars of profiles. Currently they are not displayed.
(2) More text editing options - not just limited to Bold and Italics - please add options to strikethrough texts and quote something to reply. I do know the keyboard shortcuts for these, but having dedicated editing buttons for them would be amazing !
Why call it a “gambit” anyway ? Are we expecting that the opponent will not give in to our passionate trap and will leave the table, leaving us kissing the air with our eyes closed and looking like Hans Niemann a stupid ?
Musk got sued? Yeah, probably one out of the hundreds of lawsuits that bozo sees every day, and he’s going to weasel his way out of this too, because he is stinking rich.
I do not support providing any more traffic to Reddit (which is why I blowed out my 7 years old account last week) - but there was a time during mid-July when I was still keen on giving Reddit a last chance, and I was exclusively using old reddit with “Old Lander” user script via Tampermonkey, which made it a terrific interface for mobiles.
By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...
I did go through a phase ( late August through early September) when I could not bear the sight of Reddit as a platform / corporation, but couldn’t deny the fact either that Reddit is a treasure trove of valuable content.
(Although in the end my hate for Reddit’s greed took over, and also the quality of the content there deteriorated slowly due to lack of good moderation - but I digress)
If you are going through such a phase - I might recommend giving Stealth app a try. It’s FOSS and available on F-Droid (I am obviously assuming you are an Android user, please ignore if not) , it is one of the most beautiful apps I have ever used, and if someone asks what that app is about, I say “Stealth is to Reddit as NewPipe is to YouTube”.
PS : I didn’t develop Stealth. I just liked using it when I was still giving Reddit a chance ( but fuck spez )
Thanks. But I don’t care anymore. I did all I could to get rid of my contents, but those will somewhere be on the internet (at least on wayback machine) - nothing on the internet is lost forever.
These “individuals” are exactly that, independent individuals who maintain their own instances, but being federated would mean that the content in each Lemmy instance is visible by other instances (unless they are defederated, which as I understand happens very rarely, and only for irreconciliable differences between instances, which is serious).
And these independent “individuals” spend effort and money to run their respective instances with a common goal, share the info. That’s what Fediverse is all about.
Unlike the “individual” at Reddit (singular - looking at you creepy Stevie or whatever Board of Directors Fuckers you report to) - where the decision making powers lie really truly at an individual level.
I have to agree with you on this. What the Fediverse is sorely lacking is a way to “port” our profile to another instance, or at least back our stuff up and restore our home in another instance in case the current instance blows up for whatever reason.
I guess this proposal has been floated already in GitHub but let’s see.
What I do know, is that - “The internet is as Transient or as Permanent as you want it to be”.
Public resources like Community funded open source projects - e.g. GNU Project and Linux have long been established names - while inspite of being backed by heavyweight Corporations, people hardly remember Entities like Orkut, Myspace, Digg nowadays.
Yes, indie servers may go down more frequently than their heavyweight corporate competitors, but there will always be new minds cropping up who believe in FOSS philosophy and sharing - because lack of Monopoly is what makes Fediverse a nice place.
Jerboa 0.0.52-alpha Release (github.com)
Reddit says a bug is letting slurs get added to its links - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
What fruit is better than mangoes?
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Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Don't forget to tip your gas station (startrek.website)
The pirates are back - Panda Security (www.pandasecurity.com)
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New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of Evolution (www.meidastouch.com)
What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord (www.theguardian.com)
Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money...
Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)
How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose?
I always get dry boogers and they’re impossible to remove when blowing into a tissue.
How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?
Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...
Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?
For some reason I think of it as an older concept. Now Starbucks and coffee chains are popular....
Can my ISP see the exit node of my VPN ?
Basically what the title says - Can my ISP see the exit node of my VPN ? I hope not, because that would be weird, and would defeat the whole purpose of a VPN....
🍂 Voyager Newsletter, Fall 2023
Hi there! I thought I should give you all an update on Voyager as a newsletter format. This may become a regular thing, maybe not, I’m still not sure. :)...
Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers (www.techspot.com)
I am going sailing…...
Tesla owners fuming as they get £17,000 bill to fix car after 'driving in rain' (www.mirror.co.uk)
Friendzone declined (dmv.social)
Astronomers Accidentally Capture Planet Collision for the First Time (www.extremetech.com)
Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed
Here’s something that appears slightly unsettling to me these days....
Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed
Here’s something that appears slightly unsettling to me these days....
Chicken Game (lemmy.world)
Elon Musk Hit With Lawsuit For Falsely Linking Man To Neo-Nazi Brawl (www.huffpost.com)
Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi.
Do you use an anonymous network for downloading?
I2P support anonymous torrents...
is using old.reddit.com okay to use (old.reddit.com)
Is it okay to use old.reddit.com or is using it still in support of spez?
Twitter is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. (mashable.com)
By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...
Deleted my 7 years old Reddit Account today
What the title says....