People hate being told to use magnetic tape

Because there are still horror stories of them falling apart and not lasting even in proper controlled conditions

Yes I mean google wallet. I’ve never heard of a banking app supporting NFC payments by itself, I was not aware that was even a thing… googling suggests that might be an EU-only thing.

Every time I think about running custom roms or degoogled stuff, I remember that NFC payments will no longer work and then I get sad.

just be aware that there’s only one user and it’s root

curious what people are asking and where you are when this happens? I would be shocked if I was just walking around my local grocery store and someone has any clue what Haiku is.

network namespaces can do it, firejail makes it easy but there’s several other methods as well.

if you already know the IP address(es) you will be communicating with, it’s even easier just by adding a static route with a gateway of the VPN interface.

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this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

pretty sure it’s been a thing since even before free compilers

well yea, if it’s free you’re the product

oracle has perpetual free tier VMs, just selfhost it

You don’t control any VPN services hosted on someone else’s (e.g. a cloud provider’s) infrastructure

We must have very different definitions of “control”.

They have full access and can technically do anything.

You could say the same for anyone with physical access to a machine. But the people who have to worry about that likely aren’t reading this.

And they see your incoming and outgoing connections.

So does any bandwidth provider you pay money to.

This is stupid, and doesn’t give you any privacy benefit.

Highly debatable and subjective IMO

There are good and trustworthy VPN providers

Depends on your definition of trustworthy… some say it’s impossible to trust any company.

I think there’s mainly two usecases:

• the “weird” people who don’t visit any mainstream sites and live under a rock

• people who disable JS by default but are always adding exceptions for sites that need it

not sure but I heard they recently caught the FGC-9 designer

EDIT found the story: https://news.sky.com/story/jacob-duygu-incel-who-mysteriously-died-unmasked-as-creator-of-worlds-most-popular-3d-printed-gun-12997178

yes

I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be… every time something new comes out it’s always dismissed because “it’s basically just a X that does Y”. I think that will continue to be the case until there is some literal connection to actual brains, in which case the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.

Randomly stumbling upon a font nerd was not on my bingo card today. I didn’t know about Revue, thanks.

Not using javascript is like a huge beacon of light screaming just how unique you really are. There are several methods for fingerprinting you without JS, or even without CSS/HTML.

And the number of people not using JS being very small, it doesn’t take as many bits of information to uniquely identify you.

I don’t trust any VPN service I don’t personally control myself.

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/