The terms and conditions: no stations within 500 miles of you participate, so pay up on top of the no revocable subscription.

Sure, let’s make them pay a paltry sum that mostly enriches the lawyers, and everyone else gets a check for a nickel.

Eh I don’t see that happening, the sheer amount of data Google has on the US population is probably quite useful to the admin, for, uh, reasons.

You’re probably just better going with a fork of FF that has all that nonsense stripped out.

Has no log VPN

“We have no record of anything, oh well.”

Or the delusional. Anyone with a serious security concern has mitigation plans in place. This is for people who think they need security because reasons, mainly to satiate their ego.

I remember right after the UHC assassination I was in getting a haircut, and there was another guy getting cut that was loudly spouting off about how he was afraid for his life because he’s a CEO. Like dude, you’re a CEO of a small local financial services firm, not the CEO of a massive conglomerate. I’m technically the CEO of my small contracting company that’s incorporated. We are not targets (unless you’re a massive prick, which by the way he was talking was quite possible), but if one of us got popped it wouldn’t make the news, nor are we likely to be targeted, calm down lol.

So, some as graphene.

These people aren’t thinking that far ahead, they just view it as a way to increase their own revenue without a thought or care as to wider consequence. I can’t say I exactly blame them, we’re a small town that practically lives on Facebook and these people are running respectable small businesses to support their families, but I also refuse to play the Zuck game.

I’m currently working getting advertising going for my contracting business, and the number of people straight getting mad at me because I refuse to use Meta and Google is too damn high. I refuse to give Meta any business whatsoever, though I might do an SEO campaign with Google/bing.

Magic

Bingo.

Contributing and/or maintaining a FOSS project < not getting murdered by my wife for “playing on my computer instead of spending time with my family.”

It could be some of the most mission-critical work imaginable, but she’d still see it as goofing around because I’m not getting paid, and she requires attention. And I love the hell out of my wife, so happy wife indeed equals happy life.

Aye, but I’m talking about those working at said landfill, and I do believe there’s a huge predication within this conversation that all participants are fully law abiding folks, even marginally. Not saying you’re wrong in any sense, but I’m just on about the gray area of individuals employed by said landfill just keeping a keen eye open for a potentially valuable little box and then running off into the sunset should they happen on it. Pure speculation, of course.

That’s assuming they’re following the letter of the law. If I worked there and happened upon that drive, and it turned out to be viable, I’d disappear very quickly.

If there was a chance of recovering a hard drive worth around $750mil, you bet your ass I’d exhaust every option possible.

That said, there’s a pretty good chance the landfill owner and all their employees have been ransacking that place to beat him to it.

I mean, that’s the kind of money you and your entire family for generations don’t have to do shit.

Probably make sure you have your own firewall on your private network, and if anything is exposed to the internet, make sure it’s locked down as tight as you can. For the record, very few people outside of professionals and enthusiasts are running Cisco equipment in their homes.

Ah gotcha. Yeah my entire purpose for such means of communication is directly for the purpose of supporting a physical community via ease of digital communication, as well as maintaining communication with the wider world to stay on top of what’s happening outside of our local community.

I wonder if it’s a 15 thing. I updated to 15 last week, and sure enough, it was in my system apps. Easy enough to install, but what the fuck. I really need to get myself a pixel and install GOS.

these places are the last bastion.

That’s what I mean? We need to cultivate and solidify our online sanctuaries, or at least methods of secure and private communication now, before everything goes full tits up, because, as you said, they will be all up in our business before we know it.

Like, I’m working on a solution to have someone “steal” my guns so I can file the police report relatively soon, as well as shoring up my servers/archives in the event that the internet becomes intermittent, including hosting a full copy of Wikipedia. I’m also looking into buying some ham radio equipment and speed running that learning curve. I hate to have a tinfoil hat on, but I’m fairly certain something between widespread civil disturbance, civil war, and the collapse of our country are right around the corner, and shit is about to get nasty real quick. The absolute most effective tools we’ll have are communications and information.

It may be a good time to note that the constitution page on whitehouse.gov is still 404ing.

It’s available on congress.gov and archived under bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov, but the current admin has yet to put it back.

constitutional rights

Hate to say it, but there’s the very real possibility those days are numbered.

As it sits, those of us that are savvy need to be actively using and promoting privacy-centric communications methodology to ensure we have a means to communicate safely and effectively as time goes on and those tights are further eroded. I don’t see the internet completely dying, given the technical nature of it, but peering and connectivity will likely be hampered in the coming months and years, so it is in our best interest to find and employ feasible solutions now to attempt getting out ahead of anything those muppets come up with.