When enough individuals ignore a law, it becomes soft nullified. For example, everyone doing ~30 over the speed limit. Even the cops where I’m from will tailgate you if you’re not going fast enough.

I salute non-VPN’d torrenters. Thank you for your service.

One-time purchases.

or even seem safe to me.

TIL: Trump voters are violent wife beaters

Lemmy, always there to educate me

Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.

Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.

People apparently use installment plans for phone purchases these days, along with a downstream used market, so it’s actually a really apt analogy.

Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.

Minimum requirements to run hello world in Java

I’d make a really awesome candy store clerk too, btw, because I love eating sugary snacks.

I never believed in power outages until I came face to face with one

I2P eepsite

Same for cars.

Why do we need a new model every year?

Automotive design has been functionally complete since decades ago.

Based Germans know the inherent dangers posed by Intel Management Engine.

Apparently I would make a really awesome moderator because seeing gore and shit doesn’t “scar me for life”. In fact, I seek it out out of morbid curiosity. Too bad I don’t have the requisite lust for power needed to be a moderator.

Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [*angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn’t have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

Wake me up when they start producing chips without Management Engine

The schoolyard bullies are fighting each other again.

FWIW you’re talking to someone who doesn’t even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I’m very proud of.

Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you’ve already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it’s now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

They’ve since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging “please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!”.

This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.

Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.