stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

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  • You’re right about the vpn-as-browser extension (kinda, a lot of those packages act as proxies and override the hosts dns settings, so they do accomplish a lot), but as someone who has used proton and windscribe free and paid you can’t really rely on or trust them. Between drops, rotating endpoints and —I’ll admit that I’m guessing at this last one but my experience and many people I’ve talked to seem to corroborate it— generally being lowest quality of service and first to go when there’s a problem it’s clear that even the “top tier” of free VPNs aren’t to be relied on.

    VPN access is literally cheaper than it’s ever been, there’s more transparency and clear information available than ever before and the most basic bar to pass for privacy is being able to figure out a way to conduct business privately (it’s cash).

    That’s not to say there shouldn’t be free VPNs, that there isn’t a purpose or use for them, but that people shouldn’t trust or rely on them in any way.



  • Because this is posted in the privacy com:

    It does not meaningfully change any aspect of intelligence apparatus influence on microchip design and production.

    It does however make now a great time to buy into intel for two reasons: number one there’s always gonna be a second player in the chip market and there’s no cyrix to step up so intel, from the perspective of the market, can’t actually fail. Number two it represents adoption of the “opponents” winning strategy on the part of the us and that’s ultimately a good thing.

    There hasn’t been space for a scrappy underdog in the microchip design industry for at least three decades now and that’s not gonna change even with distributed fabrication and the arm/riscv ecosystem of licensed chunks of silicon. Intel is not too big to fail, it’s too extant to fail and the question now is just how far it needs to fall/how much of our tax dollars have to be pumped into it before the market realizes that.





  • The people telling you to use apt are pointing you in the wrong direction. Usually it’s better to use apt but sometimes with software that updates very often for a good reason like yt-dlp you can end up with old nonfunctional versions. Apt versions of yt-dlp are often several steps behind the arms race and just fail to work in weird ways.

    The person telling you to add .local/bin to your $PATH is the one you should be listening to. The program isn’t launching because when you type it in, the terminal only looks in the places defined in the environment variable $PATH to see if the thing you typed corresponds to a program.

    Once you have added the install location to path, be sure to add -U to your invocations of yt-dlp especially if they’re running automatically. The -U flag causes yt-dlp to try to update itself before attempting to do whatever you asked so things will almost never fail because of an old version.


  • Just look and figure it out. It’s really straightforward name matching. You don’t need someone to spell everything out to you, if you make a mistake just try something different. You can do it!

    OPs_cops_post.html ass post. “Please explicitly tell me what illegal websites these initials refer to!” Guaranteed you are British 100% because only British cops would be stupid enough to do this.

    Ddl is gonna be mainly stuff for poor Europeans who are scared of getting caught sharing files and are relying on the “loophole” of “I never actually shared the file, the file was shared with me and that’s substantively different” (it’s not, they’re just using it as an excuse to haul you in for some other reason or frame you for something).




  • Not in the slightest. Web accessibility using mullvad before and since has tracked the ongoing trend of websites blocking vpn services and almost all their endpoint ips have rolled over since then.

    In my own experience, sites that weren’t blocking mullvad before and were blocking during the csam investigation aren’t blocking now. That’s because the blocking was mostly happening at the cdn level.

    They didn’t remain on the blocklist but the web is becoming hostile to vpn ips. One way around this is by using a web proxy defined in your browsers settings.