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steponlego

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I simply don't trust NSA people and those who take their money. Why would you? We've seen nothing but shady moves from them in this space.

They weakened it recently in Linux again. For over a decade there was a badly bugged PRNG in the Linux kernel, it was discovered and replaced with a more costly one which worked great. Then, only a short time ago, they replaced that with one of... shady provenance. You're better off writing your own PRNG on that platform IMHO.

Most modern CD players have cheap mechanisms. The oldest, heavy duty CD players can often read right through damage that would result in skips on a modern player.

Do people still really use the Youtube web site or official clients? They have done everything in their power to ruin the user experience in favor of guiding you to promoted content. Endless vlogs of people reviewing products. "Content" that's just somebody walking around and eating. And it's been a while since they changed the search function, now you get a few results, then an infinite scroll of promoted videos most of which aren't even vaguely close to what you searched for.

These days I can still find videos quickly and easily with DDG, which is vastly superior to Youtube itself for searching Youtube. But I worry, this will be taken away some day by Google just like everything else.

At this point one wonders if there isn't some secret regulation that classifies computers as some kind of weapon and maybe these surveillance technologies aren't appearing in consumer devices, even being pushed on consumers by the media, as a random happenstance?

It’s quite legal to do almost everything listed in that manual, actually. It’s the basis of modern leftism in fact. Right wingers read Rules For Radicals years ago. I am very careful not to break any laws.

10 hours a week tops. The trick is passive income. Set it and forget it. But I have always lived debt free. Bought my home with cash.

I spend time online torturing my political enemies, I make electronic music (which contributes to my passive income, but only a bit) and gardening, hunting, fishing, and practicing marksmanship.