drnick1

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by drnick1 6mo ago
Not only. Someone could break into your house and steal a PC, or you might lose your laptop while traveling. You don't want someone reading your files, passwords, or crypto wallets. You absolutely want some form of disk encryption unle
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> Don't try to regulate, just learn carpentry, plumbing, and HVAC plus codes! This is exactly what I do, whenever possible. I do my own car maintenance, HVAC, and similar things.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> In order for what you asked to be possible, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Figma all still need to exist and you need licenses for them. Or not. Besides, the better AI models can effortlessly generate Latex/Beamer, a far superior so
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> how are you gonna trust something that can casually make such obvious mistakes? In many cases, a human can review the content generated, and still save a huge amount of time. LLMs are incredibly good at generating contracts, random bus
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> If they are really so motivated, they can get a warrant to raid your home and confiscate your hard drives. This is where encryption comes in.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> because Iran is a a democracy, unlike "other Arab nations" Iran isn't a democracy, it's an authoritarian theocracy that spreads terrorism throughout the Middle East, and that brutally oppresses it's own people[
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by drnick1 6mo ago
This. The real solution here is to keep your data, encrypted, on your own devices. The idea that everything needs to be in the cloud is absurd and naturally leads to concentration of power.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> Try to install a Lineage phone app on GrapheneOS to understand what I mean I am not sure what you mean here. Any Android app should work on both Lineage and Graphene, it's the same base system. Graphene's debloating also goes
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> The difference is that you don't own your EV You could unplug or shield the cellular modem to take the car "offline."
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by drnick1 6mo ago
It depends on what you mean by "Android." FOSS distributions such as Lineage or Graphene are unaffected by developer verification or other restrictions, and are truly open in the sense that they are controlled by the user.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
There will be no restriction on Graphene.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Unfortunately, this won't protect you from Apple itself.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> If anyone has a working way to let Android web-browsers access the full geolocation EXIF metadata of photos uploaded on the web, please drop a comment in the box. No. I don't want people like you unknowingly spying on me when I up
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Use IronFox or Fennec, preferably on GrapheneOS. You won't have freedom on Google or Apple controlled devices. I have not seen an ad in years.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> And people wonder why I make unique email addresses for every site and even multiple for some sites. This, right here, is the solution.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
It's probably just DNS (port 53). It's the way Europeans tend to implement their censorship, with the ISPs as executors. It's trivial to bypass, but most non-technical users don't know how, so it's good enough to co
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by drnick1 6mo ago
If this is done at the DNS level, run your own DNS. If not, use a VPN. Taking this to the courts is a long term solution, but in the short term you want to act on your own to evade censorship and oppression.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Regime change isn't the goal per se, but disarmament is. Angry mullahs without missiles and nukes are harmless.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> It seems pretty clear that Trump doesn't want to spend the resources (and lives) required to do so. Events so far suggest the opposite. This is the first president in decades that took decisive action against Iran. Iran is weaker
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> Given that the US failed to seize Iran's uranium stockpile and failed to open the Strait of Hormuz militarily The U.S. hasn't even come close to trying to seize the uranium and open the Straight militarily. When a country had
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Trump's comments are quite obviously saber-rattling. Until now at least, the U.S. hasn't executed 30,000+ Iranians in a short period of time, and countless more over the past five decades.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
While civilian casualties are unavoidable in any conflict, the idea here is that if the regime falls, the face of the Middle East will completely change. Just look at Iran pre-1979 and imagine what it would be today had the theocracy not me
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> Funny, I was just thinking that about the US. I don't know how anyone in good faith can compare Iran's economy to the U.S.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
It's quite clear in view of recent events that the mullahs aren't interested in negotiating for the good of their people. It is obvious to anyone that if Iran put all the resources they poured into secret nuclear facilities and mi
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> It's a deep disconnect in values So, it's performative. While they complain about American hegemony, Europeans buy iPhones (or Android), drink Coke, scroll Instagram, and listen to Taylor Swift. And while they might object to
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> recentering the global economy around itself. Wishful thinking.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Don't forget that ad blockers do more than filtering visible ad banners and other visual annoyances. They also block tracking scripts, fonts, and other cross-site elements that infringe on your privacy.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The author just discovered the meaning of inflation? What matters (for living standards) is that real wages and GDP grew over the same period.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Aren't most people using ad blockers these days, making the revenue that one can generate with ads trivial unless traffic is enormous?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> 80/8 Mbit/s for CHF 65/month This is a terrible value, and good luck uploading anything at 8Mbps...

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