So if we 25th amendment Biden, then what?

Harris is president, but we need a replacement VP, she’d almost for sure pick Walz, but… The House would have to vote him in. Would they be willing to do that?

If we don’t have a VP by January, what would happen? How would the election get certified?

Purchase a tool and self host. You can’t un-leak data no matter how much money you get.

You are in charge of internal policies and can enforce them.

If you are a corporation of that size, you shouldn’t be putting all of your critical communication on someone else’s servers.

I like to pick 1901, so it looks like a 123 year old is playing The Witcher 3.

Whoa, really??? I guess I just assumed nothing changed in the last 5 years. I need to look into that.

Not the only use cases, but you’d need a different service if you need/want wildcard certs, certs that are manually installed and managed, or certs with a longer expiration.

AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w

You are not immune.

You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

Well you certainly accomplished a lot. I’m proud of you.

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

https://freedom.press/newsletter/crossfire-over-messaging-security/

https://freedom.press/training/locking-down-signal/

You don’t have to take Signal’s word for it, because it’s been audited. The EFF, who are VERY privacy minded, and do extensive research into this type of thing, recommends Signal because it’s known to be secure.

Signal

Not that the action against Telegram is right, but there’s a big difference between what Signal and Telegram is doing.

Outdated advice (unless buying older stuff) Brother has enshittified like the rest.

I don’t mind them making money, but if they’re only pushing products that can make them money, then you can’t trust them.

What if the best product is only sold at Target? Forget it cause they’ll claim a worse product that’s sold on Amazon is #1 cause they get a kickback.

Find an article with a review, and there’s a 90% chance it links to an Amazon ref link, or similar.

Which means they completely ignore products that are only sold on other stores.

And they probably don’t even look at the product, half the “top 10 lists” obviously just base the list off of Amazon reviews and SOMETIMES reddit posts.

You really have to search to find decent reviews sites like rtngs or similar.

I always assume that anyway

I fight for privacy to protect myself.

Now, what am I protecting myself from? I don’t think anyone is going to come arrest me for what I do. I don’t think any big companies are going to leak my data and embarrass me. I don’t think anyone is going to compromise my bank and drain my funds.

I am protecting myself from being influenced by advertising and targeted news.

I am protecting my thoughts and feelings, because in the end, that’s all that really matters. I don’t want to need the next toy, or jump on a bandwagon. I don’t want to see advertising and I don’t want a carefully crafted worldview pushed on me.