My commute to work would be A LOT longer if I wasn’t able to work from home.

Traffic is a fucking nightmare between where I live and my workplace, parking is even worse. I have to have a truck with all wheel drive and 4x4. (It’s pretty neat, I can lock and unlock the differential whenever I want.) to be able to get around during the wetter and colder seasons. that’s not compatible with the parking spaces at my work

I’m a green lantern. That’s not a new species, it’s only the first time a human discovered one

A library is a tax-funded service and you’re expected to return anything you check out from them.

Anything controlled by a centralized bank is evil.

I’ve had a weekly pill box thing since I was in elementary school

The side effects alone make you “punk” and a “rebel” as it were

the ministry of truth in china would be monitoring where those emails are caming and going at minimum.

In developed countries where people don’t get arrested for wrongthink mullvad is great, I’m just saying, be prepared if you plan on going to a place with a censorship firewall

Good to know, but how can you safely request them without giving away that you’re using them?

What method does the request go through? What happens when those proxies get blocked by the censorship firewalls too?

Unless you are willing to do the math, “no entropy really” deserves a [citation needed]

what kind of password has more entropy? one with capital and lowercase letters, numbers, math symbols and puncuation marks?

or the one with only numbers?

Is there really a citation needed for that?

It’s just numbers, no punctuation marks, no letters, no math symbols. No entropy really.

For most people that’s not an issue, but some people out there can guess them.

one way to mitigate that problem is simply to not load your mullvad account with more than 1 year of time at any given time. If your mullvad account has like…10 years of time then yeah, lots of people are going to mootch if they figure out which number has that

Or even if they don’t mootch, they could just remove the devices on your account and fuck with you

it’s just a string of numbers with no password

Mullvad is much friendlier to privacy, but their proxies get blocked by A LOT of stuff, they also have a very small number of proxies. Mullvad collects literally nothing about you, but that’s a double edged sword. not having any way to verify exactly who paid money into which account number means they can’t help you if someone steals your account. I also have it on good authority that mullvad isn’t very reliable at getting past more aggressive censorship firewalls. the one in china for example won’t allow you to use mullvad unless the sim you’re connecting from is a US one.

Proton doesn’t record anything you’re doing with their VPN and they’ve had to prove that many times and their “sentinel” program and the 2FA and double password you can enable make it very hard if not impossible for someone to mootch off your account. I very rarely get blocked by anything when I use proton VPN, if I ever do get blocked I just have to change the proxy I’m on. I don’t even have to change the location most of the time because proton VPN has a huge number of proxies at each location.

Proton also gives you the ability to save recovery phrases and recovery files if you lose your password(s) or your 2FA

ente auth and ageis auth are great for storing your 2FAs and they allow you to back them up to a file if your account with ente fails in some way or if you forget the password to get into your ageis

as for those recovery files and phrases I talked about. save them in text files on a small capacity flash drive that you don’t use for anything else

not sure about a laser disk scan. It’s just a DVD box set that came included with the un-remastered editions in the bonus disk

I don’t support any kind of centralized control over anything. So I don’t support the EU

I like systems where you have inalienable rights from something like the US constitution, but then each town being a self-governing local community.

It’s much harder to bribe policitians when there’s significantly more of them you’d need to bribe. And it’s harder to get away with taking a bribe when everyone you’re serving knows who you are

I have copies of the second remastering box set that came included with the original un-remastered editions. What do I use to copy off those?

Livvy Dun?

It’s me, I’m the Rizzler

NextDNS and ReThinkDNS might be helpful, mullvad DNS, adguard DNS, also helpful

maybe physically absent. but they heard and saw everything that happened there

the post is too much for me to read right now. Every youtuber I like is constantly getting demonetized and/or having their revenue stolen. So I watch with some heavy duty adblocking filters on multiple levels.

And then for let’s plays where each video in a playlist is 40 minutes or more I use alternative front-ends exclusively

Try to replace Swiss with British and see the reactions. They left the EU.

Did Switzerland crack down on encryption? No? Then what the hell does the UK have to do with what I said?