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gosh, thanks for sharing your US national security concerns. as a former Googler. straight out of San Francisco. the world's epicentre of "win-win" tech innovations

But a company can't block US residential IPs if it would also cut off many of their real customers.

since when do companies care whether they cut off real customers? i've been paying for residential proxies for everyday internet browsing for nearly 6 months. because it's the only way to pass the captcha service of another famous company headquartered in San Francisco

wow what a nonsensical argument. "not all criminals wear ski masks. so let's let let anyone walk on school premises wearing a sky mask"

those deanonymization vectors (stylometry and input device biometrics) have been known for a while in the privacy community. re: stylometry, AI rewriting will be useful once it becomes fast & cheap. but research shows that trying to emulate another writing style is already effective. for input device biometrics, there is the kloak algorithm. and which ships with qubesos https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-gui-daemon/pull/149

This decision seems to based more in politics than engineering.

I'm glad some engineers realize that technology is inseparable from politics. It always has been. All evil came from engineers who beleived they were above politics. Selecting the tool which got the job done/made the number go up/paid a paycheck is how we got Facebook, Google, Palantir, crypto, AI, techno-fascism and neo-feudalism. None of it would've have happened without engineers blindly applying their knowledge to achieve "purely" technical results, while ignoring the social consequences. With the hindsight of the last 20 years, anyone who still advocates for an irresponsible adoption of technology should be considered automatically suspect

https://nitter.net/nebusecurity/status/2057071579876753643

https://xcancel.com/nebusecurity/status/2057071579876753643

i don't think the information that unprivilleged VMs can obtain from that is necessarily reliable. for example with Xen as hypervisor only dom0 is privilleged (as management console for the system) and still it needs to call dedicated tooling in order to read or manage CPU features like clock speed or frequency scaling

but is it possible to verify that the cloud provider has applied the update?

shame that this requires WebGL to work. my machine doesn't support it. so the rest of the interface loads, but not the actual tiles. i was only able to find out what it is by opening it on my mobile phone

this genre of content seems to trend often. i guess it's satisfying to list and neatly organize all the details of a problem. but it doesn't try to explain what lead to this. in the case of pointless jobs they need to be financed in the first place. so the monetary policy of central banks has obviously played a big role

your claim wasn't that Gmail != anonymizers. your claim was that Gmail != email

most major platforms reject email addresses that are not from major providers. for example creating a deepseek account asks to use a "global provider" and gives GMail as an example. github recently rejected @proton.me. discord does this as well etc

they essentially shut down the old (useful) google search when they prioritized ad-heavy websites in the ranking

it's insane to frame anything a company like Google does as some kind of goodwill. rather than an amoral profit optimization. contrary to OP, what people often overlook about GMail is not their "plight". but the powerful brand awareness it creates

having an account elsewhere won't help with the use case i mentioned

currently gmail requires that you send (yes, send) a text to them with a code in order to sign up

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registrat...

One shift in perspective I had was realizing that github is not just a code forge, but a social network.

have you read the submission? have of it is a list of alternatives

sadly even that isn't an option for me. i spent half an hour yesterday trying to create a github account. i couldn't. my @proton.me got rejected. captchas take several painful minutes to complete. and even when I did manage to create an account (at least the page displayed a success mesage), it got disabled the instant I logged in for "TOS violation". i wish i was joking, but i literally cannot create a github account. a few years ago this would have seemed crazy. but here we are.

i'm stuck having to use google (another pain in the ass) for discovering codebases that contain specific snippets. but some repo contents (such as wikis) are not exposed at all to search engines

reminder that any company which has a legal obligation towards you (GDPR requests, refunds, filling a complaint etc) can be contacted directly and forced to do it manually if you cannot use their web interface due to being blocked by Cloudflare & other captchas

they originally announced their intention to open the firmware 4 years ago

https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...

i would highlight two non-tech strengths of starlabs as well: they're based in Europe and from personal experience they have really good customer service

100% agreed. it upsets me when i see companies like framework advertising themselves front and centre as Linux-first, yet won't sponsor a coreboot port. starlabs, system76 and novacustom actually walk the walk

there's a famous quote- two things you must not look for: love and death; they will find you when the time comes. so basically just do genuine stuff and it will happen. OP also hints at it when they say it's about doing your hobbies with other people. it's the same with the quest stuff imo. OTOH the PUA-types have the wrong approach because it's the opposite to this. they turn relationships into a goal and look for artificial tricks to make it happen

codeberg serves a poisoned AI page when the detection is triggered

it can also mean governments. their loans also benefit from inflation that is higher than interest rates. this is how us & uk got rid of their debt after WW2. it's a way to steal money slowly from bond investors

But there are two solutions: reduce spending and/or raise taxes.

there are other solutions, that are more convenient politically than austerity:

- productivity boost

- higher nominal growth through inflation

- financial repression

and in theory there is also the option of defaulting

but no parent actually keeps the government out of it. don't you go to the police when your child is harmed?

agreement on fundamental principles at a global level was the american (liberal) context. stepping outside of it leads to discovering a diverse world that you didn't account for before. as an example, even among iranians there doesn't seem to be enough support for the attack on their regime

as i mentioned elsewhere. i don't disagree that america is in a strong position, relatively to everyone else. and has the means to achieve its interests. even without the superficial image of acting in good faith. but the old messaging ("america's tide is lifting all boats" etc) comes across uncalibrated

i've wondered the same recently and came across this resource:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Surfing_Posting_Blogging#Stylome...

tl;dr intentionally writing in a different style is very effective and overall the best option

btw one upside to public content being ingested in LLM training data. is that certain writing styles (like using the emdash) become much more common, due to reappearing in generated content. this means that if you continue to write in that style, you will blend in more easily. which makes your own content resist stylometric analysis