The EoL doesn’t affect me. I use Linux and Mac. My work pc is windows 10 but that’s their problem.

My roommate refuses to move on. I flat out gave him an old surface pro X with win11 and a spacious new SSD. I offered to migrate him to fedora and teach him how to use it. I offered to help him pick out a new pc if he wants. No, he’ll just keep waiting 20 minutes for his old crusty Dell to boot up, then another 10 to load chrome. For updates, he said he’ll just download hacks as people post them online.

All his shit is on its own VLAN now.

Yes it did. Data brokers are a thing. They sell your information to anyone they want and aren’t responsible for anything that happens.

Why do we still still use phone numbers for communication? It’s a terrible idea. One unifying piece of information that if anyone gets they can use. Bah.

We should have a communication method that both sides consent to before allowing the connection. Either side can kill that connection at any time by revoking permission on either side. The contact info shouldn’t be the same for everyone either, but something ephemeral instead. Unique. A burner phone number that’s different to each person and only useful if the connection originates from the one meant to have that number.

It’s 2025. We still have “you have been hacked, give me gift cards to save your Google Chrome” style shit going on.

More likely than dining then for calls I don’t want to get they they facilitate by selling my data. Linda of like the scale car warrantee mail you get because the DMV sold your data.

That just means the FCC will stop requiring it though. A class action can still beat them into submission. The lawyers benefit most from this but it still gets the job done.

I was once told I’m a very genuine person by a friend I’ve known for years, but in that weird strained way that says it’s an excuse or cover for what they actually wanted to say. I still don’t know what they meant.

That’s always how this rug pull works. Build a dependency than when it’s. It making you rich, kill everything that has that dependency.

I wonder if these could just be flashed with something that uses MQTT.

It doesn’t have the ability, not completely anyway. But it can actually do the thing and by putting the pressure on myself that way I can ensure I do my part to improve the situation. At its start all I need it to be able to do is notifications and text messages. If I can’t get it to do that much it’s already successful for me me.

It doesn’t matter. Once the legal circus ends, he’ll be executed anyway. The rich want him gone and they don’t have to follow the same rules the rest of us do.

As we’ve seems with steam, you can’t rely on credit cards for paying for things. A credit processor simply has to saw “well he could be using that to access porn” and block processing payments for it entirely.

Tor is not a VPN and the use case is not interchangeable

And for some reason OUR utility bills are going up to pay for it.

No

Yes, corporate is pleased that they will save so much money by eliminating human employees from the process. Of course, this means they are eliminating customers as well but that’s tomorrow’s problem it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that today the line goes up.

This seems irresponsible.

There was an old game from the PlayStation days called Xenogears. There was a population of mutants and monsters in it than came about from fucking with DNA irresponsibly. I’m reminded of that obnoxious rat-man from the Kislev prison.

Reticulum is gaining momentum. I’m planning on investigating how viable a shift off cellular would actually be for my uses and it actually looks pretty doable.

You know the saddest part of this? ICE paid for that. If I made something that blocked that tool from working or even just made a knockoff that does the same thing, they would just seize it.

So that company has more rights and protections than actual humans do.

And that’s considered okay.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other exclusively. They could be accessible on both sides, giving an easy mode with clearnet and VPN for those who are comfortable with the gas chambers and mass graves, and the I2P mode accessing the same content but passing the traffic around differently for literally everyone else.

A VPN doesn’t solve the problem. I would be paying for a stall at best, and one that has no way of knowing for sure they don’t keep logs or aren’t compromised. Look at what happened with Ovano back when Facebook bought them then lied about it.

Exactly. While I appreciate that a stock corporate “we’re looking into it and will complete our investigation right after you forget about it” would likely not go over well here, the response they issued basically made the concerns seem like a low priority.

Giving money to right wingers is no longer an issue of differing opinions. It’s literally arming the people that want people like me dead. I can’t dismiss that to keep the peace. I can’t just sit here and say “fine, I will allow myself and my entire community to be snuffed out quietly because it’s more convenient for you.”

The poster’s concerns were clear and vivid. Easily understood. And immediately dismissed.

It’s unbearably frustrating that so many in the world are think the complaints of those being oppressed aren’t important. I keep getting the response of “who cares, you’ll be dead soon anyway and then this argument won’t matter”