RodgeGrabTheCat
@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
I2p is mostly a seperate network where everyone acts as a node. Its fast enough to torrent. The clearweb is accessible but it was added on as an after-thought. Personal sites are easy to set up. You can search for things in I2P. Nothing is really indexed in Tor afaik.
Tor is slow and is designed to access the clearweb with the darkweb as an after-thought. According to Mental Outlaw. Again, I have no experience, just going by what I’ve heard.
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
I heard about i2p yesterday. I have no experience with it but it does sound promising.
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 2 weeks ago:
Thinks keep going on their current path, I’ll be using i2p fairly soon.
I wonder how the goberment feels about that?
- Comment on People from or student of 3rd world nations. Is America going that way? Or do we long way to get there? 2 weeks ago:
Get a second hold of cornflakes, and don’t let anybody piss in this one.
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 3 weeks ago:
My take is take what you want. I’ll be dead and will have no need for the organs.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 3 weeks ago:
I keep everything in the KeePass DB. I wouldn’t do this with a password manager that stores info in the cloud.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 3 weeks ago:
Currently, I’m using Mullvad and used Proton a few months ago. Surfshark did the job many years ago.
Just make sure you pair your torrent client and vpn so if the vpn goes offline, the torrent stops down/up loading.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 3 weeks ago:
On Android I use KeePassDx Syncthing-Fork. The handover was rough but the maintainer of the Play version joined researchxxl’s team. Many on the Syncthing forum seem to have accepted research which is good enough for me. Also, KeePass’s database in encrypted so no danger there.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No idea but I do know it will be something I have no interest in using.
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 4 weeks ago:
Louis Rossmann says his business works on Seagate more than any other brand.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 5 weeks ago:
Get people used to a mild form of age verification. Next step, full ID upload.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 5 weeks ago:
So what if it is? Replace the stock OS with GrapheneOS and it doesn’t matter who manufactures the phone.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 month ago:
Sounds good. Might even encourage more people to move to a privacy respecting OSs.
- Comment on ‘It was ready to kill and blackmail’: Anthropic’s Claude AI sparks alarm, says company policy chief 1 month ago:
This guy talked about this 4 months ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HwA5IR-sg scary stuff.
- Comment on What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days? 1 month ago:
I’ve downloaded many videos with PipePipe on my Android.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 1 month ago:
I’ve got 14 articles in my RSS reader. Check Global News.
- Comment on This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going 2 months ago:
My driveway isn’t nearly long enough to justify the cost but its very cool.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 2 months ago:
Encrypt your hard drive.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 2 months ago:
If you have an android, “Thunder for Lemmy” can filter based on keywords. I very much prefer the app over using my laptop and a browser.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 2 months ago:
My first thought would be “How the hell did I get into the usa?”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I hate Windows, always did, always will. My final trial with that garbage system was last April when I installed Fedora on a bootable thumb drive. I might be one of the few people left who couldn’t care less what microsoft does. Here’s hoping they only make decisions that make people trust them less.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 2 months ago:
Were streetcars and buses around before the telephone? I’m honesty not sure.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 2 months ago:
A telephone attached to the wall with a wire.
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 2 months ago:
As a Canadian, I’d be pissed at the bomb dropper. I have enough problems in my life without dealing with radioactive fallout.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 2 months ago:
Just because junior is saying stuff doesn’t mean Americans are listening or obeying.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 2 months ago:
You wanted the opposite of Kiwi Farms so I typed it backwards.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 2 months ago:
smrafiwik
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 2 months ago:
Do you expect serious answers when you haven’t said who’s running in the 2028 election? At minimum, you need to make up a couple of candidates that are running against each other.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 months ago:
I.C.E.land.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 months ago:
I find that finding solutions to the problems that generate the feelings of doom is a good way to fight those feelings. Have a plan or several plans. You don’t have to solve the issue just find ways to get through it easier with less stress.
Example: Where I live, the power grid is garbage. Too much money has been diverted to the stockholders instead of grid maintenance. We’ve lost power three times since Christmas. There is a storm coming on Monday and the odds favor the power is going off. I have a checklist of what to do before and during the outage which makes it easier to get through.