They DID put that roadblock in place. That's kinda my point. You have to loosen a VPN's security to post here (as I've had to do to reply). It says "no posting from VPN" in the lower left if one uses more advanced/secure encryption. They also don't allow account creation from masked email platforms like fastmail.
Sounds like the indian guy driving it with a joystick was a bit hungover. You'd think they'd screen that thing at the entrance of the cubicle farm where all these AI folk drive these from. AI is just "anonymous indians" for elmo's grifting kind.
Deanonymized isn't a risk with end-to-end FOSS-governed encryption (as compared to Meta's mysterious backend that manages keypairs for whatsapp and messenger). Sealed Sender can even obfuscate the metadata of the recipient for further snooping hurdles. Nothing is perfect, and any participant can silently ex-filtrate conversation data with another camera.
Thanks, appreciated. I installed Nord on my linux box as well, then set that to openvpn technology and obfuscated servers which worked. I'd prefer to use their quantum-proof encryption but there's no way to bypass VPN checks if one sets that. I think it's a mistake on lemmy's part to even put that hurdle up, but it is what it is. Having one's real world identity tied to social media is a risk going forward. Data is the enemy.
Fellow muricans; stay out of metropolitan areas on July 4th. My guess is that we're going to see the inevitable marriage of military and local law enforcement using the "iranian sleeper sell agents biden let loose in our country" angle instead. Faux news frontpage is laying the groundwork as of yesterday.
The irony of you posting this on lemmy, which won't allow posting from a VPN or masked email addresses is not lost on me.
The amount of hoops I had to jump through to make this comment and maintain some semblance of privacy is infuriating but at least it's not reddit I guess?
But do go on about your security standards...
Edit: BTW, you can set signal to hide your number completely. Combined with FOSS-based encryption keys on-device makes signal the only choice for trying to maintain freedom of expression globally.
Nothing will protect anyone from messaging with a snitch who knows how to screenshot though. Food for thought.. get to know your neighbors now.
and #4: we dont believe if we take a bold step forward that our neighbors will show solidarity and endurance, which then puts us at risk of prosecution. A lot of us have kids to protect.
They believe they are visionaries put on earth to make seismic waves in human history. Probably a mixture of some narcissim and psychopathy if I had to guess.. dark triad types with enough money to censor the word "no" in their vicinity.
Agreed. One could argue when we stopped being a republic it was only a matter of time until the majority was dumbed down enough for xenophobia to be the primary issue for the common person.
Personally, I started running for the hills in early 2020 when I witnessed former friends drop their proverbial and physical masks overnight. That's all the confirmation I needed that community didn't and doesn't exist.
I recently bought a trump bible and put it at my front door for gestapo repellant because my last hope is that those of us who survive long enough can reestablish our local communities and their priorities piece by piece. This will be as violent in it's death as it was in it's life and endurance via social camoflague is key at this stage. I'm writing this from my quantum-proof encryption VPN.
Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin are using trump and vance to install their vision of techno-authoritarianism and it's darker than you could ever imagine.
Always use a VPN. Swallow your pride and buy a trump bible off amazon for your front entry area. It's gestapo repellant. Yes, I'm serious.
After the immigrants, they're going to round up people on SSRIs and have them work the fields as part of their "reparenting" sentence. RFK just put it on the table officially.
Keep your head down, blend in, and live to fight another day. This won't be sustainable, but it's going to be painful and ugly before the year's out.
Project 2025 aims to suspend habeus corpus and deploy the military domestically by June 30th. Yes, I'm serious.
I hate to break it to you, but this is Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin's party now. America died in November and gave way to some bastardized techno-autocracy-kleptocracy mutant.
Ding ding ding! Make no mistake about it.. the penultimate goal of the first six months of project 2025 is the suspension of habeus corpus and the deployment of US Military as civilian police. They need a riot to justify that last power grab. When you understand that fact, you can see the common thread in all of the random cruelty out of the gate. It's not called project 2026.
Welcome to "being poor is a crime", rural white folk. wait till you lose your "medicaid that is totally not welfare" soon.