thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.

Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.

qBittorrent is the most recommended I've seen, although I use transmission.

Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a "tails like live os without tor" looks like.

The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).

Without a use case description that sounds like what you're asking for.

I'm sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.

When you search google it fingerprints your browser then attachs that to the other information it amasses from tracking your other activities from other websites.

By not giving them the search content you reduce what they know.

Scenario a) you search up particular health issues on google, for the US say "how do I know I'm pregnant" then you go to an online pharmacy (Walgreen is the big US one I think) and order "plan b" (anti pregnancy drug). Google doesnt even need to know from walgreens what you ordered it will infer a pregnancy test and/or plan b then from later activity

Scenario b) you use proxy and thus google knows nothing of your search, then you go to walgreens, for all google knows you ordered makeup or hayfever tablets.

Scenario a is or will be illegal in some US states - best not to leak it.

Not a perfect example, i can poke holes in it. The point is searches are usually sensitive info, keeping them out of the hands of the most egregious activity collator keeps more privacy then if you don't. The proxy buries your senstive search in with thousands of others that can't be attached to you

It's not, but it is better than using google

I can't trust anything made by google. It's a company that literally makes its money capturing everything everyone does on the internet...and yet the phone they make is the ONLY phone immune to having everything captured...

Sorry. Not buying it. There will be a chip in there phoning home we'll find out about in a decade.

Fairphone

Theoretically the major cloud providers like MS have redundant geographically dispersed servers that mean there should only be an outage if the individual user can't reach the internet.

In practise however those promises are hollow for a number of reasons, cost usually. Legal issues like GDPR also impinge (EU data being allowed to be in the US has been blocked by the courts the other day for example). In addition there's a long list of other configuration reasons which almost always come back to cost indirectly.

Theoretically an ideally configured cloud solution is far superior to on-prem.

In the real world, not so much: corners cut, pennies saved by non technical managers not understanding the ramifications of their choices & etc

On prem is certainly better in the real world if you're big enough to afford proper redundancy and to hire and keep good techs.

Many many firms can't tick those boxes though and so you get to imperfect world optimisation where what is good for coy. A is bad for coy. B

A billion has to be enough for them to notice it you'd hope ! They also got a €251m and a €91m fine (in 2018 & 2021 iirc on the dates)

Appeal never lodged as far as I can find searching tje Irish high court lists. They lodged appeals against a €90m fine though which started hearing last week, and withdrew an appeal against a 2018 €251m fine

Yeah sorry, €1.2bn was USD $1.3billion at the time and about 1.25bn now, so hardly misleading though.

How about a $1.2 Billion fine ? Would that perhaps be consequential ?

They got hit with that 2 years ago

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

I just checked, it's 4% of revenue and apparently Meta has already had a €1.2 Billion fine yes that B is not a typo.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

Actually GDPR fines can reach 3% of revenue if i recall my compulsory training correctly. That's a lot more than $20m for farcebook I would expect

Ok. So I found on announcements at https://community.signalusers.org/ that Signal added obtainium to the download options (due to google delays on releasing through play store). I also got another update notification from Signal app this morning, which went away once I upgraded to the latest version. Could be related ?

I had the same "that's weird" reaction too. So not just you, would be good to know if it was kosher or a malware. I might have a dig now

I had the same at the same time. I ignored the app request and updated from app store

Download fennec it's the fork of ff mobile with less of the cruft.

I don't know if it has fixed that specific problem, but I can't recall seeing it

Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign prover provider as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don't know much about your pension system).

Note you may get poorer performance - it's really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it's mostly speculation right now)

Edit for typo

He may have been a russian asset since 2004 (I don't know either way) but it certainly was nothing to do with that SpaceX meeting. He went there to try and buy Russian rocket engines, they told him to pound sand. He was forced to do it the hard way and hire a team and they designed what are now the Falcon 9 engines.

I don't understand why people keep making stuff up (not just this post, it's one of many), he's evil enough on the actual facts

Mate, I'd love to be wrong and lose the money. Maybe the Yanks will actually front up on all their "second amendment protects us from tyranny" but I doubt it.