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If you can’t do everything on the web, change bank.

And to be clear, make sure you can do everything on a web site. Not a Chrome site.

"my concern about leaving my abusive partner is what if after all the hassle the next one pulls the same act ? and the next one !"

There are many banks and (better yet) credit unions. Not all of them are awful. Be brave. Take action.

To be clear, PuTTY is a common tool for accessing networked computers. There's nothing wrong with the tool itself. The problem here is the access being granted (via the tool) to sensitive data that should not be accessible by these people.

[Mirroring that post from January 2021; Magnet link truncated due to lemmy comment size limit. :( ]

FINAL UPDATE as of January 31st 5:35PM EST:

Thank you to everyone who shared content. The content being submitted now from what I'm seeing is duplicates of older content. I will thus no longer be updating this archive. The MEGA will remain untouched, so use that as you please, but that will likely die one day as there is a bandwidth/transfer limit. I will be uploading the content to Internet Archive, as well as other sources, but until then the torrent magnet that I will be seeding for a little while is listed below - my bandwidth isn't the best so please do seed if you can:

Magnet Link

Hash (for verification of authenticity etc):

        c8fc9979cc35f7062cd8715aaaff4da475d2fadc


  

Size:

        1,013.12GiB


  

Original post below

Archiving videos before potential removal from various websites...

Send or comment links of videos you need downloaded. Currently going through POV livestreams/replays.

NOTE: livestreams/POV are of the utmost importance. AKA Twitch/dlive/Facebook Live, etc. If you find any of these POV angles, please tag me directly in your comment, or PM me. These generally get taken down VERY fast by the livestream website.

UPDATE:

Thank you to everyone who shared links (and continue to do so). I am noticing that a lot of the content is now duplicates, or variations (crops, lower quality, etc) of the same content. So I have put all the content I have on MEGA. If I have replied to your comment then the content for sure is in this torrent.

MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/30MlkQib#RDOaGzmtFEHkxSYBaJSzVA (this is the prefered way of downloading)

(This is sitting in at ~350GB as of Jan 10 3:00 PM EST. Still adding content)

UPDATE 2: Link should be working - MEGA contacted me and reinstated the account (and gave premium so I could upload more). I will be uploading more content that I find to the mega account. Still going through the comments, and the 900+ messages I have. Keep posting comments and I will upload them to the MEGA folder.

UPDATE 3: "Bellingcat" has created a really efficient way to submit media via a Google Spreadsheet. It's not connected to my archive, but I hope to have a merged final copy in the end.

UPDATE 4:

IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD A FILE DIRECTLY TO ME: https://mega.nz/megadrop/fgve0WRa880 (no account registration needed)

BACKUPS:

Recommended backup:

/u/tweedge : tweedge commits to making sure this mirror does not fall behind 12h behind, though he'll do his best to keep it within 6h

Other backups based on the original MEGA from Jan 06 6:30PM - some might've updated, but no idea if/when; check each link, it should say. Or you can message the user:

MAGNET from /u/SneakyPieBrown as of Jan 08 2021 : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fc33c9146c81660ee087dbda756746a978c7c104&dn=Trump%20protest%20Jan-08-2021&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80

/u/firstgrow : hosting direct downloads as well

/u/nuzzles_u_uwu : Is hosting as well

/u/tweedge : made a direct download link on s3

/u/kenkoda : posted a torrent.

/u/Deifer : Link

/u/benediktkr : https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021 and https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021.zip

See a familiar face in the archive? https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02

+1

In case you don't have an optical drive, new ones cost only slightly more than a CD these days.

Here's some guidance on which models are especially good at audio ripping:

https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/

(Note that the best ones cost a bit more and don't come with a USB enclosure, but could be mounted in one.)

Before persuading your listeners to contribute to other people's projects, please teach them how to offer their contributions constructively, respectfully, and with humility. One should find out what the project maintainers want help with (if anything), and self-assess whether one is qualified to do that work.

When someone goes in feeling entitled to have their ideas/work accepted, it can easily end in frustration on both sides, and be counterproductive to the project rather than helping it.

Also, please remind them to bring a healthy dose of patience. Even small contributions to open-source projects can sometimes take far longer to be accepted than many people expect. It might take months or years rather than days or weeks.

Dear House Democrats,

Fascism is currently destroying the US system of government that you like to call democracy.
Given the influence on the world held by the US, this is a major threat not only to the people you were trusted to represent, but to practically everyone.
If it succeeds in taking over the United States, it will be in no small part your fault.

Kindly do you fucking jobs.
Now.
Before it's too late.

Matrix literally syncs the entire data/metadata history to all other servers where someone pops in

How else would you expect a decentralized and persistent chat room to work? If that stuff wasn't synced among the servers that were invited to participate in a room, then it wouldn't be decentralized; one server going down would kill the room (or at least lose data).

The only way I can think of is not to use servers at all, but go fully peer-to-peer. Matrix has done some proof-of-concept work toward this, but I'm not aware of any service that does it successfully while being practical for most people, yet.

chat is meant to have an ephemeral aspect to it.

There are use cases where that makes sense, but for general use? No thanks. When I lose my account password or my phone breaks, I want to be able to sign in on another device and still have my message history.

It sucks so much RAM, so much storage,

Synapse is indeed a heavy server implementation. Several lighter ones are in development, some of which people are using already.

encryption regularly breaks in weird ways, usually you see a message that you can’t read

This was once common, but it's somewhat rare now in my experience, and the upcoming Matrix 2.0 apparently addresses most (all?) of the remaining causes.

if you enable encryption in a chat room you cannot disable it

I consider this a good thing, for the sake of the people who joined or wrote in the chat with the understanding that what they write is and will remain encrypted. If you want to abandon encryption, you can always create a new room.

we now have two official clients for Android (Element and Element X) in the first one encryption breaks in weird ways, in the later there is no way to use Spaces properly

No, there is one officially released client for android: Element. Element X is in beta. When it leaves beta, it will take over as the one officially released client.

direct messages between people don’t work well - it is like they are a room with the two people

It works well for me. How is it a problem for you? It looks just like the person-to-person chats on other platforms I use, including SMS.

privacy wise matrix is weak,

Privacy of message content is not weak at all.

leaks metadata,

It's true that some metadata can be read by admins of the servers that have been invited into a chat. Given all the features that Matrix uniquely offers, that's an acceptable tradeoff for many of us. Also, the developers have stated that moving most of that metadata to the encrypted channel is planned.

attachments are not encrypted, etc.

This is just plain false.

https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#sending-encrypted-attachments

Matrix is good for private general messaging. The fact that it's decentralised means it can also withstand things like government-ordered shutdowns or back doors, since there is no central point that controls the whole network.

Two things to be aware of:

• Some non-message bits (e.g. room topic text and membership) have not yet been moved to the encrypted channel, so those could be read by the administrator of a homeserver that participates in your chat room. Since most people care primarily about keeping the message content private, this is an acceptable trade-off to get all the things that Matrix offers.
• The upcoming Matrix 2.0 features and design choices simplify the UI and fix some occasional errors. It might be worth waiting until this stuff officially lands in the client apps before bringing your contacts to Matrix, for a better experience all around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard#Opposition

I bet someone can cook up some edge cases where the newer kernel might matter.

What desktop distro doesn't have a new enough kernel available? Even the current Debian Stable, which is nearing the end of its run, has a recent backport (currently at 6.12.9).

Good luck. You'll find that your farmed accounts can't do much of anything, and will be quickly and automatically deleted.

What will be effective depends on the nature of the site and that of the bots causing trouble. For example, a forum can limit posting privileges until an account builds a reputation, a paid goods/services site can restrict access until a purchase is made, a web service can use revocable credentials, and a data download site can use rate limits. (That last one is actually useful in a variety of situations, and can be done at the network level instead of or in addition to the application level.)

There is no silver bullet, but there are lots of small measures that can be very effective when applied thoughtfully, without turning a site into a frustrating-to-use surveillance tool for Google at the expense of the humans who want to or have to use it.

Even a small, locally hosted, activate-only-once, simple image or text-based CAPTCHA would be preferable to the ones operated by third parties.

There's no point in arguing what once was. Things have changed. CAPTCHAs are now less effective, far more invasive, and for many people, far more troublesome.

Cling to them if you like. I no longer use them on any of my sites, because I care about my users.

CAPTCHAs make web sites awful to use, and waste the limited lifespans of billions of people.

There are other ways to manage bots.

I must say I e never played Skyrim, and I didn’t know how beautiful it could be.

Modern texture packs, replacement models, and lighting mods make it even more so.

On top of that, Skyrim's soundtrack is outstanding, and conspires with the scenery to make it a game world not easily forgotten. I'm sure I'll be going back.

Farm income has dropped 23% from 2022 in one of the biggest declines in history, according to the USDA, and the American Farm Bureau says the agricultural economy is in a recession.

Even while grocery prices have risen to painful heights. It's almost as though there's something between the people who supply the food and those who pay for it, taking more than their fair share.

Indeed. Tucked away in a corner of their web site, where it isn't easy to find unless someone else guides you to it, below a large bold warning that discourages people from actually using it:

Danger zone

Advanced users with special needs can download the Signal APK directly. Most users should not do this under normal circumstances.

This ensures that nearly nobody uses that build. Consequently, almost all chats on Signal will have an app store build running on at least one endpoint.

It's not false.

Signal's default, well-supported installations use Google services, so unless you're an extremely atypical user, those services are present on most of your contacts' devices. You might have the knowledge, skill, and motivation to remove those services from your own device, but since they're still present at the other end of most chats, you haven't escaped them.

Let's also remember that E2EE doesn't protect the endpionts, and that Google Play Services run with system-level privileges.