The fact that the United States intentionally makes these zones really subverts the conspiracy theory that the government is using 5G to control our minds (or whatever the theorists say these days).

I got a similar ban from that community after the moderator started spouting conspiracy theories at me and I didn’t agree with them. I noticed they removed most of my comments in that thread, but not all of them… Not sure if it was accidental, but the ones with non-negative karma were the ones that got removed.

This is also how I discovered a moderator that bans you from their community effectively prevents you from deleting any of your posts in it, which makes me feel… Uncertain about the ML mods having such control over the stuff its users post.

I thought some worked by flashing infrared LEDs to overwhelm the cameras’ sensors. AFAIK there are multiple varieties of camera repellant.

Ever seen this movie scene about a guy who got his name in the phone book?

disingeneous to call it adding ads

Who called it adding

Maybe, but Idaho has a IQ level >100 and I have no mental stereotypes about that state besides their recent book bannings.

Next, you’re going to tell me that if we plot IQ score changes over time, they won’t rise over 100 on average! /s

Even if we leave aside every problem with IQ measurements to begin with, what does a state average tell us?

There’s probably lots of situations in anything but rural environments where open Wi-Fi networks are either already available, or highly likely to be. Dorms, apartments, anything like that becomes a mess.

What happens when there’s an open Wi-Fi connection close enough for the smart TV to connect to?

Unfortunately I’m starting to expect the Spanish Inquisition

Are people allowed to communicate with you on your Matrix server from other Matrix servers?

Not in a technical sense, but in a legal sense.

It is very frustrating that the article references, but does not explain any of its discrepancies with, the Tor Project response post.

If the author trusts the response post enough to reference it and link to it uncritically, they need to trash and rewrite the article from scratch. If the author does not trust them, they need to say so.

I use the website you linked occasionally, but recommending something from 2022 is hazardous when it’s a browser. Over 1 year of security issues, unpatched?

AlternativeTo needs to obliterate recommendations for insecure products if they go inactive. Some things can be fine if discontinued, but others cannot.

404 media deserves your money IMO. They’re former Vice Motherboard writers, so more of your money is going to journalism and not marketers

FWIW Floorp already has vertical tabs and is a more mature project, if that’s worth considering.

Optionally enabling Sidebery has been enough for me), but I appreciate the competition.

Brave can keep the old APIs but they’ll still be affected, because developers for Chromium-compatible browsers still have to decide whether they want to create or support apps that will only work in a subset of browsers, and figure out how to distribute them outside the Chromium store.

Corrupt politicians can simply ignore the law. If they didn’t ignore it, they wouldn’t be very corrupt.

Telegram hasn’t been secure since basically day 1. IIRC it went something like

Security experts: Never roll your own cryptography.
Telegram: We rolled our own cryptography!
Security experts: Don’t. And it’s broken.
Telegram: uhhhh… We fixed it.
Security experts: It still looks really bad. Stop it.
Telegram: says nothing

I want Mozilla to make a browser that preserves privacy. They keep making it worse. And I don’t see how giving them money is helping them improve.

And my comment won’t cost them any money either, as @Matt@lemdro.id pointed out:

Plus donations to Mozilla cannot even be used for Firefox development due to the structure of the foundation and corporation.