I’m not going back to typing my grocery list manually. So I’m fucked in that part of my life.

Edit: thank you to everybody suggesting privacy preserving methods of grocery list maintenance. I’ve already considered them.

Ah shit, is this the time line where privacy isn’t needed cause people want better AI?

Team fortress 2 is completely unrecognizable to me

• they sue you for a portion of your future savings, because you single-handedly responsible for their imaginary loss of profits, judge agrees.
• free tier vpns are good enough. But the competition amongst “no log” vpns is pretty fierce. People say you can only trust 3 specific vpns who would rather shut down than spy for a government, but if you’re just downloading movies then you can expand your choices.
• the point of the vpn is to hide your ip address. Self hosting in your home defeats purpose. The best free option is using I2P for torrenting.
• Wait till December for all the Christmas discounts. An annual bundle works out to $2-4 a month.

When was the last time VLC paid $50K USD for a proper security audit?

It’s possible to get a virus from any data that enters your computer full stop.

Likelyhood wise: that virus on the MKV will have to attack the operating system preview system (which means you fucked all the way up to personal nation state attention), or attack the video player (which is a lot more likelier, they discover theoretical exploits all the time).

You’re talking about streaming with VLC? Was it a trusted source? Cause otherwise the FBI or script kiddie has probably fucked you up.

As a side note, I’ve completed writing this guide and have found that HexChat is no longer supported.

Now that a sign of a true IRC user

It’s protocols over platforms. I’m not too worried about the protocol.

My opinion is that concealed filming be inadmissible in court without a “warrant” to allow its entry as evidence. Prosecutors have to state what they hope the concealed video will contain, and only that portion can be used.

Too many missing people for me to agree entirely that concealed filming is completely bad.

I don’t believe that the NSA has a portal giving them direct access (probably naive).

They definitely have a secret agent 🕵️‍♀️ nerd on the inside providing intel on the structure. Maybe inject exploits or guide them when needed.

They definitely have a direct e-mail address to cloudflare legal to serve national security letters that cloud flare is obligated to comply with. Which is a portal with extra steps, but which cloud flare can raise a fuss if they notice the requests are turning into vacuum cleaners, and not union membership research.

Most important part of the blog post:

We are planning a 3rd party security audit for the protocols and cryptography design in July 2024, and also the security audit for an implementation in December 2024/January 2025, and it would hugely help us if some part of this $50,000+ expense is covered with donations.

Signal is a close second.

And theoretical reliability. Stuff breaks down quicker at smaller sizes says my lizard brain

lol, you’re not uploading the torrent faithfully. A recheck of the torrent by any client would show that they’re not getting what the torrent says they should get.

You need to make a new torrent.

Gronk found fire. Gronk thought good idea. Gronk shared idea. Fire never belonged to Gronk. Idea never belonged to Gronk.

The pikachu face is capitalism working as intended, instead of the corrupt capitalism they’re used to with regions of the world carved up/tariffs/government buying the product if you’re having a bad year.

Is there any reason not to use the latest version of libtorrent?

BitTorrent has a re-check upon torrent completion option in settings. I reason not to validate that everything is correct and matches what the torrent says you should have.

If your gaming setup isn’t ready for the climate crisis, then you’re not going to have a good time.

People need the RTX 5000 for fps.

I need it for super low wattage at 480p, 30fps.

Gonna be really useful for solar power builds.