reddithalation @ reddithalation @sopuli.xyz

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online anonymity to governments is very very very hard if not impossible if they actually needed to find you

Private trackers are based on seeding back what you leech, and if you can't port forward it is far far harder to do that, and so you may get banned of your ratio of downloaded to uploaded gets too low.

or use any private trackers at all lol

i watch ltt for alex messing around, and every now and then a video of linus wasting money on cool testing equipment for some reason. I've always assumed GN is superior for actual testing.

yeah sure DNS based blocking, I host pihole to do that on my network, but if a device sets an alternate DNS server, I don't think there's anything I could do about it.

I don't really agree that the internet is too open, but I also just don't think that forced censoring on the ISPs side is possible, simply because of how networking works.

Believe me I wish I could block YouTube ads with a DNS server, but DNS only is for domains, and the ads are from the same domain as the video, and there is no way to decrypt and censor https traffic (without your certificate on the client, but if you can do that then just put censoring in the browser/computer anyway)

and like, if you don't want kids seeing nsfw stuff or etc, there are DNS servers for that, just set that on the device or in your router for the whole network

yeah, for nuclear explosions I don't think practical effects will ever look right. CGI can look incredibly realistic if they have the money for it.

at least you mostly know what data insurance companies get though, with tech its somewhere between all of your internet activity ever, and nothing because its too expensive.

personally it seems worth it to me to avoid large tech companies simply because I have the time to deal with some lost convenience, and if they are storing everything then they will have less on me, and if they aren't, well I've learned loads about IT, and its been kinda fun.

your opinion doesn't seem to be that unpopular here

I think it was fine, certainly a very unique and artsy style, but I can see why some people don't like it.

idk I mostly agree with you. Although, how do the insurance companies collect that information? I know there's car insurance apps that sense how good your driving is, but other than that is it mostly just datamining of publicly available documents etc like those background check or people finder sites do?

but everything is https so its not like they can really filter it much. idk just seems way easier to block what you want, on the device, as opposed to trying to dismantle the carefully built system of networking

It would probably help the majority of people, but would hurt some.

I use klogg for browsing massive text files, it works pretty good for me

this one wasn't really that bad, yes they shortened the life span of the bulbs, but incandescent bulbs were a solved problem at that time, and longer lasting bulbs meant that they must produce less light. that bulb that's lasted a 100 years or whatever, is very very dim, and that's why it's still going. also, dimmer (longer lasting) bulbs are less efficient for the amount of light you get, and some of the lightbulb manufacturers were also power companies, which were struggling with energy and so had reason to want more efficient lightbulbs. here's a great video on the topic https://youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

I think the majority of ppl want that stuff better for everyone, toxic masculinity hurts women and men. there's definitely some very vocal sexists on both sides though

Protonmail then went to court, and got the law changed so it doesn't happen again https://www.reuters.com/technology/proton-wins-swiss-court-appeal-over-surveillance-rules-2021-10-22/

I gave up on it relatively quick, and only recently finished it after 1500 deaths lol

very very good game, it does get pretty challenging at some points though, idk if a 5 yr old would like it

Hyperspace pirate is currently working on making a cryocooler to make liquid nitrogen, out of cheap and readily accessible components. He's not done yet, but the progress videos are very interesting to watch. https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate

That is a very old thread, I bet things are different than they were 8 years ago