impure9435
@impure9435@kbin.run
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 5 months ago:
Go eat a dick Elon
- Comment on The one your friend borrows 6 months ago:
I don't really use it that much either, I prefer Lemmy/Kbin
- Comment on The one your friend borrows 6 months ago:
It's not perfect, but much better than going to Shitter. Some people apparently find Mastodon obscure or confusing and switched to Bluesky instead. Supposedly it's more friendly towards new users. I just hope that bridgy-fed improves and becomes more common in the future, so we can follow Bluesky accounts from the Fediverse and vice-versa.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
They got rid of port forwarding to improve the reputation of their IP ranges. That makes it less likely for Mullvad users to get blocked by CDNs like Cloudflare and Akamai when visiting websites. If you want port forwarding, just use AirVPN or rent a VPS and use that. Not sure what you're talking about, but Mullvad is based in Sweden, which is not a part of the five eyes alliance. It's a part of 14 eyes, but Sweden has very strong privacy, Mullvad even has an entire page about privacy legislation in Sweden: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation
They also have a page that explains how Sweden being part of the 14 eyes alliance doesn't really affect Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/5-9-or-14-eyes-your-vpn-actually-safe
Their office was also raided by prosecutors last year, and they weren't able to seize any customer information, because Mullvad doesn't store anything about their customers:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request - Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
Yes, there's no reason this wouldn't apply to a VPN provider. It's also the reason NordVPN or Surfshark is so incredibly cheap.
They have lots of users -> They can pay lots of money for advertising -> They get more users -> Everything becomes cheaper -> They can pay more for advertising
You get the point
- Comment on The one your friend borrows 6 months ago:
Btw you don't have to go on Shitter, the account is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lucia.red
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
That's how a good portion of the Dark web works, and I find it amazing
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 6 months ago:
@remindme 1 week
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
It's actually the other way around, the more users you have the cheaper everything eventually becomes
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
I'm pretty sure they are profitable, considering they were founded in March of 2009. You can't really run a company without profits for 14 years, right? Just routing network traffic isn't that expensive after all. They are the only ones being honest about it, other VPNs charge way more because they only want to extract money from their customers.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
That's one of the reasons why I love Mullvad, they actually care about their customers, not just about their bottom line
- Comment on “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants 6 months ago:
Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz
It was so obvious that these mfs would be on the list
- Comment on Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air 6 months ago:
Well obviously Hamas was hiding there /s
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 6 months ago:
Yeah because we have an actual working legal system
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
Kinda meant it as a joke, could actually be true but I don't really believe in it
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
I didn't say it was ideal, but it's ok. And it's definitely better when compared to other companies. Sure, in an ideal world they would have published the source code for their server ensuring that anyone could run their own instance at home. But we don't live in an ideal world.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
That's ok if you ask me, considering that they will still continue to function as regular thermostats
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
The family was probably threatened by Boeing and forced to say that
- Comment on Building my Homelab! 6 months ago:
It's great for documents, etc., but I would use something different for photos. Check out Immich and PhotoPrism. I prefer Immich, because it has official mobile apps for Android and iOS. PhotoPrism has an unofficial gallery app for Android, but it doesn't have sync capabilities. For that, you would need to use a 3rd-party, closed source app called PhotoSync. I think Immich is just the better option.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
Uh, no? I don't know who told you this lie, but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Btw it wouldn't even matter, since the encryption happens in the client app. The server basically just passes around encrypted pieces of data between devices.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
There are more than enough sources, just google "TikTok Chinese government influence". Just a few examples:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/07/26/tiktok-chinese-propaganda-ads-europe/
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/tiktok-china-us-elections-influence
Also, just think about it: The CCP loves spreading propaganda. There's a massive social media platform controlled by China, which is used by young people in foreign adversary nations. Why wouldn't they leverage this platform to spread their lies and influence people? It's literally the perfect opportunity.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
*allegedly
No one knows for sure, since WhatsApp is proprietary
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
TikTok is literally controlled directly by the Chinese government, which is officially considered a foreign adversary (for a good reason)
- Comment on Concern about peertube and P2P 6 months ago:
Unfortunately it's not
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 6 months ago:
True, didn't say that it didn't take me an eternity to set it up
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 6 months ago:
Thanks, I'll try it out
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 6 months ago:
Is it worth checking out? Any advantages/disadvantages over Kubernetes?
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 6 months ago:
Interesting, never heard of it
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 6 months ago:
But Kubernetes has nothing to do with HasiCorp?
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 6 months ago:
Once setup correctly, almost none.