Your bank now knows your ID. Now they know the IP address of your VPN exit node and your browser fingerprint. Theoretically if they give that information to Google (or more likely, both Google and your bank give your information to Peter Thiel) then Palantir can track you despite using a VPN.

Who knows how realistic this scenario is, but why chance it when your bank is also going to suspect you of fraud every time you log in via VPN.

Tangentially related, but I tried to update Linux once but the downloads were super slow. I switched on my VPN and suddenly it updated super fast.

Note that the jump isn’t quite as big as this would suggest. There were a large number of Chinese users for Chinese New Year. It is no longer Chinese New Year. In the previous month Chinese users were overrepresented, and in the current month Chinese users are … I don’t know.

Also, link for the hardware survey. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

It’s the opposite. So much sensory overload means we’ll be much more appreciative of the quiet moments in media.

• Warm white christmas lights. Diffuse lighting is so much better.
• Induction cooktops. Because gas cooktops are toxic both inside and outside the home.

We’re building GrapheneOS to protect everyone’s privacy and security. It’s aimed at widespread adoption and is highly usable.

Would be a shame if, purely hypothetically, GrapheneOS explicitly ruled out implementing any form of age verification or even indication and basically all the world governments suddenly started implementing laws around that preventing GrapheneOS devices from being sold.

This site made me enable javascript. Ew.

Furthermore, social media promotes addiction through endless scrolling, which can impair brain development.

I think this is the big one that’s driving this push for age verification. The issue of YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Lemmy rotting kids brains has gotten measurable and significant. I think Gen Alpha is the first generation to end up less academically capable than their parents. The status quo is considered untenable by voters, politicians, and the Epstein class alike. Not to mention the impacts on mental health. If anything the issue is that the legislation is too centered on kids. That’s problematic firstly because it requires proof of age, and secondly because adults aren’t immune to brain rot and addiction.

First things first they need to just hire my autistic ass for something.

That’s not the computer doing it, that’s the services you use going out of their way to gather one by combining data which has other legitimate purposes. Not so much being “sent” as it is being “abused”.

Unless we want to count Microsoft’s “advertiser ID”.

Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs.

Source?

https://www.integrazionemigranti.gov.it/en-gb/

What is the inflation rate for beef prices?

EDIT: Beef has basically doubled in price. So around $1.80.

500

That’s $1,000 per employee laid off. They might have been making $60,000 a year each.

$30 million is way too much to pay anyone (especially shareholders) but firing the CFO is not a silver bullet.

Why not. Not like that money would be put to better use elsewhere.

In the case of email, security is more important than privacy. The country your provider is based in doesn’t matter.

Hypothetically if we were talking about something like a VPN, it would need to be a country which values privacy and which has a vaguely hostile attitude to America. I have no idea what country that would be.

Steak

I’d have paid the fee for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t also come with an (expensive) subscription to YouTube music.

Nowadays though I don’t want to give Google money for anything, even incidentally. I just use Ublock Origin.

Annexation by Canada.