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akwd169,

Send an email encrypted with PGP to your intended recipient (using their public key of course)

Anonymous email is possible and most places accepting anonymous tips/whistleblowing have an email address for that specifically

Alternatively I’m sure these same places can make an anonymous IM account like simpleX chat for example

There’s plenty of ways really…

akwd169,

Win XP > vista > win7 > win 10 then

Linux Mint xfce > KDE neon > aurora

Tried many distros in between like ubuntu, mint cinnamon, mint mate, debian, and a few others I only vaguely recall

akwd169,

I don’t fully agree with you. It’s certainly no major coverup but it’s a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public

Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale

When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently ‘keeping private info safe’ (or should I say ‘not being evil’) is at the bottom of their priority list

akwd169,

Sweet! I had no idea they were making a second one, I really enjoy the first game (just wish it had a better system for single player mode outside of just playing ai)

Looks great, nice orbit mechanics

I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.

Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...

akwd169,

I wouldn’t say I hate them as much as mosquitoes because at least it in the wilderness the ratio of leaf blower dicks goes down (but never zero)

That said, yeah I fucking hate leaf blowers with a furious passion, and they’re everywhere in my city! Regardless of the time, or day, or location in the city, there is at least one leaf blower dick audible!

akwd169,

I definitely advocate for now cancelling headphones, especially as someone with really bad misophonia.

Sadly, leaf blowers are one of the most penetrative sounds for active noise cancelling, but it’s still way better than nothing

akwd169,

Deep. Dark. Profound.

Hot meme

akwd169,

On your phone? Or desktop?

akwd169,

Then check out the reply by Zak in this thread

There are many many ways your being tracked by the apps and service you use

Unfortunately, a vpn is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a great first step but if you wanted to prevent your exact situation, I think only a phone running graphene OS would protect you in this instance since it isolates play services, among other privacy protecting features

akwd169,

Exactly

akwd169,

I would love to hear about an alternative for Canada as well. By my own research, there are none, but I would like to be wrong

akwd169,

KDE neon is not exactly stable for daily driving, I’d suggest switching to another distro that’s not meant for testing recent KDE stuff

Can you explain those a bit more to me? I really like KDE neon so I’ve been using it as my main Linux distro…

I have never heard that it’s for the use case you mentioned

Anti-web discrimination by banks and online services - is this even legal?

Banks, email providers, booking sites, e-commerce, basically anything where money is involved, it’s always the same experience. If you use the Android or iOS app, you stayed signed in indefinitely. If you use a web browser, you get signed out and asked to re-authenticate constantly - and often you have to do it painfully using...

akwd169,

My experience with my two banks has been, with their respective apps, I can sign in with just a password but I get logged out of the app after 10 minutes of inactivity. I never stay signed in. This is two different apps for 2 different banks.

On the web, they almost always request their crappy 2FA which is via text or email, and I do not stay signed in ever either, as well as being logged out after 10 minutes of activity.

What irks me is their 2FA, they have no other options besides email or text, the least secure options of all 2FA methods…

But being signed out everytime, I’m not sure I see it as that much of a hassle, and I kind of appreciate that if someone can unlock my computer or phone, they cannot open my bank account just because I was logged in 30 minutes ago…

akwd169,

Thank you, someone who actually read the study not just the title!

Median data transfer to third parties is 9 per website. Those third parties? Mostly advertisers and marketers, most commonly google.

The disclosed purpose of collecting that data and transmitting to other companies? They literally tell you it’s for marketing and advertising in their privacy policy.

akwd169,

I’ll have the gabagool

The gabagool

akwd169,

I tried to get into satisfactory bit I couldn’t really get past the initial base building, the crafting was too basic for me when the workshop itself looks so intricate and detailed (graphically speaking) but it’s crafted from steel plates and steel rods and click-holding a button 45 times…

Does the crafting get a lot more complicated?

I’m coming from games like EVE online, the crafting system for which I really enjoyed

akwd169,

Thanks I appreciate your insight and experiences, I’m going to give satisfactory a shot when I’m in the mood for factory games since factorios graphics were a slight turn off (especially after EVE and Dyson sphere program)

If you haven’t heard of it, I’ve sunk 200 hours into Dyson sphere program because it scratches the factory itch while also hitting me in the space exploration sweet spot

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