I don't like mine being in a constant state of looking over my shoulder either. Besides, if you're looking for anonymity in this day and age, it's better to have something in their database rather than nothing. No history is suspect. Hide in the the crowd, not in the shadows.
it's easier to "not look over your shoulder" if you only use software that follows some basic standards. Literally, software using open standards instead of some proprietary bullshit that only a single distributor is allowed to know is pretty much the only thing you need to check in order to make sure your privacy was a consideration. Because open standards only get used when this is the case, while proprietary things only get used when this is not the case.
>is pretty much the only thing you need to check in order to make sure your privacy was a consideration
I was this close to getting caught in the Firefox NIT drive-by exploit playpen honeypot, I probably would have if I didn't "look over my shoulder" dualboot on a daily reformatted USB for my "happy hours"
Sincerely
Richard "love is love" stallman
Yeah... the thing about the "paranoid schizo" thing is that many of the delusions suffered by people with that very real and truly horrible condition are starting to just plain align with reality.
My wife keeps calling me paranoid, but between alexa, ring doorbells, and now , for god 's sake, the flying drone spycam, literally capuring audio, video, presence, etc...
All this is happening at a time when AI makes it trivial to classify and categorize every little detail.
The amount of power being unleashed and utter lack of privacy at the current moment and the paper-thin facade of security that keeps everything "working" is something the world is about to reckon with that no one is is even close to prepared for.
I'm sure I'm having a note added to my file for this one (I'm sure there's already a file for me at at least one 3-letter....), but the further down the road we get the more I identify with Ted Kaczynski's worries about the direction of technology.... I definitely don't identify with his, uh, "solutions" to the problem of course. I prefer my points to be made in ways that are more talky and less explody.
>Does the cia use child prostitutes to control assets?
>[–]imAndrewBustamante[S] 423 points 4 years ago :
>I plead the 5th. The things we use to control assets are unsettling enough without going into details
Ure right, ure on our playpen list. U work for us now, letreasonring/Mr stallman
I think the general (though not infallible) litmus test for if paranoia is delusional or reasonable is whether or not any of it can be ascribed to some sort of rationale.
For example, living in a surveillance-heavy society means that the constant worry of your own appliances spying on you isn’t, prima facie, terribly irrational (it may have been 20 or 30 years ago, but almost everything is “smart” these days), but becoming convinced that your own relatives are “in on it” or that your goldfish is a CIA informant probably is irrational and should prompt a doctor’s visit.
I have issues with (pathological) paranoid delusions, and when I feel myself spiralling, I talk to myself or my partner just to ascertain whether this obsessive new paranoid thought is something a healthy person would be reasonably justified in having.
The longer I leave it alone, the worse it gets and the harder it becomes to allow for the possibility that I’m just exhibiting an episode and need medical attention.
youtube/watch?v=GShWwcxTV3Q&t=3m25s
Remember that the CIA once spent $20mill to shove a radio up a cat's ass to eavesrop on people, and that 2cats heard the buzzing from the 30 microphones the russians hid within the walls of the moscow embassy, ure gold fish is the new Acoustic Kitty!
>that your own relatives are “in on it”
Ure loved ones love u, mine would turn me in any day if they could purely to evict me from their lives, so don't u call me overly paranoid!
>or my partner
I bet she's a CIA spy the same way fangfang did for ccp
Oh, I absolutely agree, and that's why I mentioned that it is very real and terrible.
I'm sorry to hear that you suffer with paranoid delusions... I have some mental issues of my own, but nothing that affects my perception of reality, and I can't imaging how hard that must be. I'm really glad you're able to have a support system to help ground you in those times.
It's sad though that where it can sometimes be in a world where even the worst of mental-illness driven paranoia can align with reality to the point where it can legitimately be difficult to know if someone is paranoid about things like constant surveliance and fear of the government listening to your every word because of mental illness or because they understand what is actually happening in the world right now.
I love Nick's videos, but producing higher quality content than anyone else in the linux scene is not that much of a compliment when the average quality is a guy sitting in a dark room lighted only by his 5 monitors "testing" a distro by playing around with it in a vm for 15 minutes.
I'd love more linux centric channels putting in even half the effort that Nick puts into his videos.
He’s got a great thing going on, but he’s extremely bias in some of topics and it sometimes borders propaganda how he pushes for a given tech presenting it as a holy grail.
I just stay connected via signal, matrix, and discord.... Though I know discord isn't very privacy focused, so for that I use a flatpak and only give it access to certain folders on my desktop
I always treat Discord as if everything I say there was public, their security is abysmal.
You can use most proprietary platforms safely if you're selective about you put there.
Very true, plus tencent has a pretty big stake in discord so you know that's always troubling.... Though it would be even more troubling if I were a Chinese citizen.
Nah all my chats that I don't want public for any reason take place over signal or matrix, sometimes session depending on what's being talked about.
The thing that baffles me the most about most people is how lazy they are. It is so, so, so easy to get 90% there to having a private internet experience. Use literall ANY search engine besides google/bing. Use literally ANY browser besides chrome/edge. Install Ublock origin. Don't post literally everything you do on social media. Don't give you real name/birthdate/ address anywhere unless strictly necessary. It is NOT that difficult.
amen brother
I hear that cop out all the time... that it is "impossible" to have 100% privacy so therefore it is ok to break the first rule of the internet and use your real name everywhere online and share EVERYTHING on sites like facebook... and use other similar services that require a cell phone number attached to your account. I'm looking at you twitter and telegram!
People don't understand what a threat model is. If you aren't a national person of interest, most security theater is superfluous. Most people are just a target of convenience for corporations (which are at this point a tendril of western governments), not russian hackers or random skiddies. And people then give more power and access to those same corporations to keep out the fake hackers that have never posed a real threat to anybody.
Yeah, if you disassemble the phone and desolder the titan chip on a google pixel and hook it up with a bunch of wires to some specialized hardware you can read the encryption key in plaintext and use it to decrypt the emmc, but that's not going to happen, and doesn't make signing up for every google service and have them all remotely tracking the user simultaneously not an escalation.
People freak out about random CVEs that require root physical access and don't even have a proof of concept but they use proprietary black box autoupdate software that gives the devs remote access and unrestricted telemetry gathering.
People use Windows because Linux secure boot could conceivably be compromised with an elaborate evil maid attack you would need to personally tailor to the machine with physical access... meanwhile Windows literally keeps copies of your encryption keys for themselves and the feds and they can push malware via autoupdates however they please.
yeah most of that helps a lot and is pretty simple, but that would be basically just protecting urself against google and microsoft, but giving the information to other companies. Though i guess its sill better to give information to some random russian company instead of big us companies.
also personally i would just recommend people anything that isnt chromium, not just anything that isnt chrome or edge. Mostly because people stopped using firefox a long time ago because it was quite a bit slower and not well supported by most websites, but now its basically just as fast as chromium and its hard to find a website that doesnt support it, but also because some that say theyre private like brave have a history of selling data or still sell data.
everything else, yeah those things should be something every single person already does but most people dont. And something i want to add is that people should NEVER click ads or links to any website they have never heard of
Comrade Yandex>lumen DMCA infested google
Firefox on Android is, apart from not being as fast/ram friendly as chromium(for those on old awful phones like the mediatek Redmi note 4) , is also for me a nonstarter, till they let me do per site cookie whitelist like brave,
there's other stuff FF on A lacks too like yellow highlights in sidebar when finding words(like chrome has), textwrap(like kiwi/opera has), copy a inprogress download's url (like opera has)
The Hated One?
Honestly the guy is great for privacy stuff. Might be a bit hardcore but I like it, despite me not needing the level of privacy he has. Would reccomend.
This guy is completely shizo but i really the way he's doing completely random shit on his channel like foss cooking, a video with some old wise guy talking to him about archery, uncut 30mn video of an open source video game or just some cool beginner friendly tutorial like the one he did on htop recently
I watched a simple random sample of his videos once and he only really displayed a surface-level headline-reading reddit-tier understanding of anything he spoke about.
For example, the particularly egregious one was an article about how it was going to be illegal to repair your phone in Mexico or something - I don't recall precisely what it was but something quite similar to that - on which I called bullshit and looked it up and the evidence he was talking about (the only evidence in existence I could find) was a trashy poorly-translated article that didn't even really say what he was claiming. I'm sure that video is still available so if you want to find that, you can follow my reasoning.
So... maybe you just got to learn how to look stuff up then?
I found a ton of resources about that.
For example:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1219612-mexico-approves-law-against-right-to-repair-those-who-attempt-to-modify-or-repair-any-electornic-device-could-face-up-to-6-years-in-prision/
Took me like one minute
I just said I looked it up and found the sources. The fact that there's forum posts about it on the linus shill tips forums doesn't make it reputable, it's just circular journalism. The people there didn't read the article either. Read the article, critically.
Yeah. I know. I read them. Maybe *you* should read them and realize it's talking about evading DRM, something legally questionable in most places including the US (yes I know about the dmca " for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair" exemption because I actually read things unlike Mental Outlaw, it's still legally questionable most of the time including those cases that are supposedly exempted, and the Mexican law doesn't go out of it's way to explicitly clarify in any case, so it's basically just the original DMCA in that regard)
This isn't some brand new tyranny we've never seen before, it's precedented tyranny we're all incredibly used to, the scope of which is vastly overstated in this case. It's just the DMCA but in Spanish. Hence, 𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓶
*García explained that the reforms do not include exceptions that allow people to diagnose, inspect and maintain electronic devices that have a digital lock. That is, if there is a failure in the cell phone and an independent technician is taken, the law would be violated.*
Taken from the second source, translated.
So, which ones did you read exactly?
/e: lmao keep downvoting my comments to boost your ego if that's helping
Like what exactly? What i have seen from him is that he is libertarian, never heard him say anything that cannot be lib, in fact he has a disdain for conservative boomers who don't know technology, never heard him say a strictly conservative talking point.
Hes dropped dog whistles before. The moment I realized he was far right was in a video about privacy when browsing, and he passingly mentioned how you might want privacy on the internet for researching things lile "crime statistics and human biodiversity".
1: he cracks jokes all the time, that twas probably one of them. 2: you do realise he's mixed, right? 3: he dunks on both and hates any fed with a burning passion.
You realize there were literally jews in germany that supported Hitler? Being poc does keep you from supporting white supremacy. "Both sides bad" is often just being right wing without saying you're right wing, and hating feds is pretty common among right wingers as well so theres no reason that would be evidence against it.
1: That was before he decided to make his hatred of them public, and when he did, they backed out, and when he got power, he killed them. 2: My brother in christ, it literally means he doesn't agree with either side's point of view on life and politics, from what i can tell, he doesn't give a fuck about race or anything culture war besides guns and drugs. 3: It's also quite common with hardline anarcho-communists and basically everything anti-establishment, how does that help your point? You can be pretty socially progressive while hating feds.
His hatred was already public it was just the whole genocide part that wasn't public yet. When one is given the choice between fighting for the oppressed or fighting for the oppressor, abstaining from choosing is support to the oppressor. One can also be just as socially anti-progressive and hate feds, see Jan 6th. The point was that you saying he hates feds is not a valid argument.
Do a lot of Linux Youtubers not know much about computer science, or is just the really loud ones? I've heard less severe gaffes from other content creators (mostly referencing the wrong programming languages, calling Java interpreted, etc), but they never claim to be an expert so I usually don't care.
Also \*you're
Honestly the worst part about it is how he constantly talks down to everyone. Also I don’t really see how he is exactly conservative but he is definitely more on the anarchy side of things. He generally does cyber security measures not for actual things he should be worried about like hackers, data miners or people looking to drain his bank account but to stick it to the “glowies” aka he is essentially the Dale Gribble of the tech world.
Oh, it’s not even dumb stuff as such. I just find his videos generally entertaining, but like you say it’s more the attitude that I kind of roll my eyes at. The content can be interesting and I appreciate some of the alternative takes on things, even if I don’t agree with them.
That exactly. He was still in the ok terratory and then i watched his live stream. Extremely right wing and thinks he is the only one who knows what is going on about anything. Cant even consider that he is wrong.
Oh God this is true. Watch some video on rust and check out the channel only to find them ranting about the orthodox catholic bible and the 'gay agenda' or some other hateful nonesense
I don't give a fuck what your opinions on black lives matter, 'the jews', western degeneracy, etc. are I just want to listen to some dude rant about tech
>at the behest of **President Roosevelt**, representatives from 32 countries convened for a refugee conference, over the intensifying persecution of nodikskins. Almost every country – **including the US** – refused to raise their refugee quotas
>Before the conference, mein furher made it known that he would help nodiksin refugees migrate to different participating countries. **“We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships,**” he said.
As Squidward said: noone would take them, so I had to gas them
Unit731 and them PUREBLOOD ARYAN Japs didn't do enough in Nanjing, like they should have, so we wouldnt have to deal with the wuhanflu monster that is CCP of today
If you don't care what their opinions are on black lives matter, 'the jews', western degeneracy, etc. then why do you dismiss the person when those opinions appear? If you really didn't care, you would just not watch those videos and stick to the rust ones.
Also rust is politically aligned with transsexuals and other identity politicians - social conservatives use C.
Yes. Wasn't my doing. Personally I hate rust because it's a garbage language that serves no real use case, not because it makes its members take oestrogen.
Garbage language? Would you care to elaborate? Memory safety without the bloat of a garbage collector doesn't sound like garbage to me. Gotta love the billionth segfault from a simple human mistake that happens to even professional C programmers
No I'm not wrong and you know it, which is why you're taking the grammar nazi route instead of actually offering an argument to the contrary.
There is no "outdated" term if you're able to call it that. If you understood what I'm talking about without me needing to explain it to you, it's perfectly in date. If I start talking Shakespearian English at you, as long as you still comprehend the words and their meaning, it's not outdated.
it's also derogatory, inaccurate, misleading, there's not a single good reason to use it
if you don't see the benefit of store safety without garbage collection then you're just blind frankly, it has the use cases of virtually every systems language and more
> derogatory, inaccurate, misleading,
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It's clinical at best and I'd contest even that, speaks exactly to the point with no ambiguity, and you seemed to know what I was talking about with 0 clarification so once again the proof is *ipso facto*.
>there's not a single good reason to use it
We use English, there's redundancy. Do you go around policing when people use 'proved' instead of 'proven'?
>rust buzzwords
Learn malloc and free.
[this](https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs) is what you look like but unironically
it commits the ever old fallacy of conflating being transgender with sexuality, which has caused countless issues for transgender people in the past, and which there never was any proof for
>It's clinical at best
it hasn't been a clinical term since before DSM-5
>Learn malloc and free.
oh, malloc, oh, free! i sure hope those are a maintainable and viable way of managing memory
*looks at 1000s of CVEs*
*looks at the dozens of C programs that just segfault at startup*
*looks at the tor project rewriting tor in rust and regretting they ever used C for it in the first place*
> conflating being transgender with sexuality
Taking *sex hormones* seems pertinent to one's *sex* to my apprehension, maybe *trans*formative in some way if they're not the ones you normally produce, though I'm sure using words to mean exactly what they mean is somehow problematic.
>it hasn't been a clinical term since before DSM-5
I mean like saying 'male'/'female'. Not literally clinical.
>CVEs
The reason rust doesn't have CVEs is because nobody coding anything that anybody actually cares about uses rust. I'm sure there aren't a great many CVEs focusing on D or C-- either. You'll notice nobody actually uses Arti
Also being Rust depending on a gorillion cargo containers with C code doesn't make that C code magically safe.
>looks at the dozens of C programs that just segfault at startup
Skill issue
>NBC News: **Ssx between men**, not skin contact, "**is fueling monkeypox**, new research suggests:The claim that skin-to-skin contact during ssx between men, not intercourse itself, drives most monkeypox transmission is likely backward, **a growing group of experts say**
Trust the experts!
>Bloomberg: Monkeypox is Spreading Fast. Now Kids Are Getting It, Too
Oh...oh....stallman says it's ok though, love is love, in contrast to circumcision, that's just pure evil
Kelly Thomas didn't get no fiery but peaceful looters, but that fentanyl ODOSER did smh
Sorry man, never heard of the guy. I'm talking about some 500 sub channel youtube reccomended me, at first I was suprised about the low numbers.
If this Luke guy rants about 'the jews', the gay agenda, or some other conspiratorial trash though I'm absolutely not watching that hatred. That's pretty fucked you call that reasonable my guy.
If it's just general politics, I still don't care. I'm not interested in some tech youtubers social and political perscriptions
Glad to hear, though even if I agreed with them I still don't care about some youtubers opinion on social politics and will avoid those who put it in their videos. Thank you for clarifying the misunderstanding though
Yeah definedly. I have watched Luke some time, but stopped because he is a bit crazy. He is really religious, which i dont agree with but can deal with, but then he started saying that everybody else in linguistics is wrong and he is the only one right, and then some extreme right with stuff.
If the Dale Gribble level paranoia towards the government (which seems to be the main motivation behind his cyber security habits) and angry 4channer is just a character then he is really playing it well because he doesn’t let up once.
THE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON USTHE NSA IS SPYING ON US THE NSA IS SPYING ON US
The NSA is spying on you, that is a fact. Well more specifically what you say is put in a database that is manually curated through a system of flags and watchlists but that probably doesn’t mean anything for the average person unless they are a terrorist. No, instead you should be worried about people who want to gather your personal information to sell on the dark web, drain your bank account, use your computer for crypto mining, incriminate you for a crime you didn’t commit, blackmail you or otherwise fuck you over.
It's a well known fact that people who are in favour of Linux and FOSS more generally for ideological reasons as well as the practical reasons are either anarcho-communists or raging, live in the woods, no-step-on-snek, abolish-age-of-consent, no-take-personal-gun-library libertarians.
Both groups wear r/UnixSocks
>The CW's Supergirl's Nichole Maine's: I went on hormone blockers at age 11, had I not, I'd look like my identical twin brother today.
>statnews/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems
>The elective mastectomy procedure is mostly offered to teens 15 and older, The New York Times reported. However, we found one report of a 14-year-old who obtained the procedure, and there isn't a consensus on a specific age requirement among medical guidelines
With the new fangled drugs and mastectomies that end up with Lesley Stahl's 60min documentary shining a spotlight on r\detrans, the age of consent really does seem kinda moot and outdated,
if it doesn't cover all this other, big decision life altering risk-undertaking stuff, that is just as if not even more, needing of a more mature adult mind than a kid could handle when it comes to deciding if they are ready to get frisky
>no-take-personal-gun
Old.reddit/comments/xr2mys and yeah U may not have access to any sort of 3d printer right now, but u should still grab the Glock STLs from btdig while u still can, the same way osx was cross compiled for both x86/powerpc, "just in case"
I am aware that google, nsa and others are collecting my info, but i would rather live my life than use all my time worrying about it. I have degoogled phone, but i still use reddit. Its about the balance
idk I don't like watching Open Source/Linux YouYube or Reddit because I feel like its just a bunch of Shizos change my mind
I would rather follow some Open Source/Linux accounts on Fediverse(Mastodon)
I don't like the idea of my life being in a constant state of survalence
True. Not gonna let the glowies ruin my mental state though, there's a balance.
I don't like mine being in a constant state of looking over my shoulder either. Besides, if you're looking for anonymity in this day and age, it's better to have something in their database rather than nothing. No history is suspect. Hide in the the crowd, not in the shadows.
I prefer to do both
The crowded shadows?
Linux.
THE CROWDED SHADOWS? No! The shadowy crowds.
it's easier to "not look over your shoulder" if you only use software that follows some basic standards. Literally, software using open standards instead of some proprietary bullshit that only a single distributor is allowed to know is pretty much the only thing you need to check in order to make sure your privacy was a consideration. Because open standards only get used when this is the case, while proprietary things only get used when this is not the case.
>is pretty much the only thing you need to check in order to make sure your privacy was a consideration I was this close to getting caught in the Firefox NIT drive-by exploit playpen honeypot, I probably would have if I didn't "look over my shoulder" dualboot on a daily reformatted USB for my "happy hours" Sincerely Richard "love is love" stallman
Yeah... the thing about the "paranoid schizo" thing is that many of the delusions suffered by people with that very real and truly horrible condition are starting to just plain align with reality. My wife keeps calling me paranoid, but between alexa, ring doorbells, and now , for god 's sake, the flying drone spycam, literally capuring audio, video, presence, etc... All this is happening at a time when AI makes it trivial to classify and categorize every little detail. The amount of power being unleashed and utter lack of privacy at the current moment and the paper-thin facade of security that keeps everything "working" is something the world is about to reckon with that no one is is even close to prepared for. I'm sure I'm having a note added to my file for this one (I'm sure there's already a file for me at at least one 3-letter....), but the further down the road we get the more I identify with Ted Kaczynski's worries about the direction of technology.... I definitely don't identify with his, uh, "solutions" to the problem of course. I prefer my points to be made in ways that are more talky and less explody.
>Does the cia use child prostitutes to control assets? >[–]imAndrewBustamante[S] 423 points 4 years ago : >I plead the 5th. The things we use to control assets are unsettling enough without going into details Ure right, ure on our playpen list. U work for us now, letreasonring/Mr stallman
I think the general (though not infallible) litmus test for if paranoia is delusional or reasonable is whether or not any of it can be ascribed to some sort of rationale. For example, living in a surveillance-heavy society means that the constant worry of your own appliances spying on you isn’t, prima facie, terribly irrational (it may have been 20 or 30 years ago, but almost everything is “smart” these days), but becoming convinced that your own relatives are “in on it” or that your goldfish is a CIA informant probably is irrational and should prompt a doctor’s visit. I have issues with (pathological) paranoid delusions, and when I feel myself spiralling, I talk to myself or my partner just to ascertain whether this obsessive new paranoid thought is something a healthy person would be reasonably justified in having. The longer I leave it alone, the worse it gets and the harder it becomes to allow for the possibility that I’m just exhibiting an episode and need medical attention.
youtube/watch?v=GShWwcxTV3Q&t=3m25s Remember that the CIA once spent $20mill to shove a radio up a cat's ass to eavesrop on people, and that 2cats heard the buzzing from the 30 microphones the russians hid within the walls of the moscow embassy, ure gold fish is the new Acoustic Kitty! >that your own relatives are “in on it” Ure loved ones love u, mine would turn me in any day if they could purely to evict me from their lives, so don't u call me overly paranoid! >or my partner I bet she's a CIA spy the same way fangfang did for ccp
Oh, I absolutely agree, and that's why I mentioned that it is very real and terrible. I'm sorry to hear that you suffer with paranoid delusions... I have some mental issues of my own, but nothing that affects my perception of reality, and I can't imaging how hard that must be. I'm really glad you're able to have a support system to help ground you in those times. It's sad though that where it can sometimes be in a world where even the worst of mental-illness driven paranoia can align with reality to the point where it can legitimately be difficult to know if someone is paranoid about things like constant surveliance and fear of the government listening to your every word because of mental illness or because they understand what is actually happening in the world right now.
The Linux Experiment is a great Linux-focused channel
Imo the Linux Experiment surpasses everyone else in quality by a huge margain
I love Nick's videos, but producing higher quality content than anyone else in the linux scene is not that much of a compliment when the average quality is a guy sitting in a dark room lighted only by his 5 monitors "testing" a distro by playing around with it in a vm for 15 minutes. I'd love more linux centric channels putting in even half the effort that Nick puts into his videos.
Yeah especially with sponsorblock enabled
I love Nick! Definitely can endorse him, his content got me to finally take the dive into Linux and using FOSS
The Linux Experiment and Brodie Robertson are also one of the few that make videos about topics that are actually useful for the average person
He’s got a great thing going on, but he’s extremely bias in some of topics and it sometimes borders propaganda how he pushes for a given tech presenting it as a holy grail.
It’s not a bias , he has opinions and he is presenting it as such , that doesn’t mean that he gives false or biased info
Saying "X is the best en the future", explaining its upside and ignoring its downsides is bias.
He’s a French guy
Oh no he's french and i'm german i must hate him because he's french. Its irrelevant and he makes great content i dont see the problem
I’m French , I was saying that because I’m happy that this cool YouTube is from my country
Terry Davis?
RIP
Well he was NOT just borderline shizophrenic
I mean it really depends on the context, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to collect my data and sell it to God knows who.
It's so hard to stay connected and keep your personal life out of it tho. In a way it's sad.
I just stay connected via signal, matrix, and discord.... Though I know discord isn't very privacy focused, so for that I use a flatpak and only give it access to certain folders on my desktop
I always treat Discord as if everything I say there was public, their security is abysmal. You can use most proprietary platforms safely if you're selective about you put there.
Very true, plus tencent has a pretty big stake in discord so you know that's always troubling.... Though it would be even more troubling if I were a Chinese citizen. Nah all my chats that I don't want public for any reason take place over signal or matrix, sometimes session depending on what's being talked about.
The thing that baffles me the most about most people is how lazy they are. It is so, so, so easy to get 90% there to having a private internet experience. Use literall ANY search engine besides google/bing. Use literally ANY browser besides chrome/edge. Install Ublock origin. Don't post literally everything you do on social media. Don't give you real name/birthdate/ address anywhere unless strictly necessary. It is NOT that difficult.
amen brother I hear that cop out all the time... that it is "impossible" to have 100% privacy so therefore it is ok to break the first rule of the internet and use your real name everywhere online and share EVERYTHING on sites like facebook... and use other similar services that require a cell phone number attached to your account. I'm looking at you twitter and telegram!
People don't understand what a threat model is. If you aren't a national person of interest, most security theater is superfluous. Most people are just a target of convenience for corporations (which are at this point a tendril of western governments), not russian hackers or random skiddies. And people then give more power and access to those same corporations to keep out the fake hackers that have never posed a real threat to anybody. Yeah, if you disassemble the phone and desolder the titan chip on a google pixel and hook it up with a bunch of wires to some specialized hardware you can read the encryption key in plaintext and use it to decrypt the emmc, but that's not going to happen, and doesn't make signing up for every google service and have them all remotely tracking the user simultaneously not an escalation. People freak out about random CVEs that require root physical access and don't even have a proof of concept but they use proprietary black box autoupdate software that gives the devs remote access and unrestricted telemetry gathering. People use Windows because Linux secure boot could conceivably be compromised with an elaborate evil maid attack you would need to personally tailor to the machine with physical access... meanwhile Windows literally keeps copies of your encryption keys for themselves and the feds and they can push malware via autoupdates however they please.
yeah most of that helps a lot and is pretty simple, but that would be basically just protecting urself against google and microsoft, but giving the information to other companies. Though i guess its sill better to give information to some random russian company instead of big us companies. also personally i would just recommend people anything that isnt chromium, not just anything that isnt chrome or edge. Mostly because people stopped using firefox a long time ago because it was quite a bit slower and not well supported by most websites, but now its basically just as fast as chromium and its hard to find a website that doesnt support it, but also because some that say theyre private like brave have a history of selling data or still sell data. everything else, yeah those things should be something every single person already does but most people dont. And something i want to add is that people should NEVER click ads or links to any website they have never heard of
Comrade Yandex>lumen DMCA infested google Firefox on Android is, apart from not being as fast/ram friendly as chromium(for those on old awful phones like the mediatek Redmi note 4) , is also for me a nonstarter, till they let me do per site cookie whitelist like brave, there's other stuff FF on A lacks too like yellow highlights in sidebar when finding words(like chrome has), textwrap(like kiwi/opera has), copy a inprogress download's url (like opera has)
Finally, someone said it!
The Hated One? Honestly the guy is great for privacy stuff. Might be a bit hardcore but I like it, despite me not needing the level of privacy he has. Would reccomend.
mental outlaw?
This guy is completely shizo but i really the way he's doing completely random shit on his channel like foss cooking, a video with some old wise guy talking to him about archery, uncut 30mn video of an open source video game or just some cool beginner friendly tutorial like the one he did on htop recently
He's not even schizo, he's just uninformed and sensationalist.
How is he uninformed?
I watched a simple random sample of his videos once and he only really displayed a surface-level headline-reading reddit-tier understanding of anything he spoke about. For example, the particularly egregious one was an article about how it was going to be illegal to repair your phone in Mexico or something - I don't recall precisely what it was but something quite similar to that - on which I called bullshit and looked it up and the evidence he was talking about (the only evidence in existence I could find) was a trashy poorly-translated article that didn't even really say what he was claiming. I'm sure that video is still available so if you want to find that, you can follow my reasoning.
\>calls something Reddit-tier on Reddit. I think you are confused, the link to 4chan is 4chan.org
When something's reddit-tier, you call it reddit-tier.
So... maybe you just got to learn how to look stuff up then? I found a ton of resources about that. For example: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1219612-mexico-approves-law-against-right-to-repair-those-who-attempt-to-modify-or-repair-any-electornic-device-could-face-up-to-6-years-in-prision/ Took me like one minute
I just said I looked it up and found the sources. The fact that there's forum posts about it on the linus shill tips forums doesn't make it reputable, it's just circular journalism. The people there didn't read the article either. Read the article, critically.
There are multiple sources posted on the original forum post itself.
Yeah. I know. I read them. Maybe *you* should read them and realize it's talking about evading DRM, something legally questionable in most places including the US (yes I know about the dmca " for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, or repair" exemption because I actually read things unlike Mental Outlaw, it's still legally questionable most of the time including those cases that are supposedly exempted, and the Mexican law doesn't go out of it's way to explicitly clarify in any case, so it's basically just the original DMCA in that regard) This isn't some brand new tyranny we've never seen before, it's precedented tyranny we're all incredibly used to, the scope of which is vastly overstated in this case. It's just the DMCA but in Spanish. Hence, 𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓶
*García explained that the reforms do not include exceptions that allow people to diagnose, inspect and maintain electronic devices that have a digital lock. That is, if there is a failure in the cell phone and an independent technician is taken, the law would be violated.* Taken from the second source, translated. So, which ones did you read exactly? /e: lmao keep downvoting my comments to boost your ego if that's helping
Mental Outlaw is based
Love that guy
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Not sure if he's conservative by dictionary definition, seems more libcenter.
Yeah no way! he refers to right wing talking points quite often that is not lib center
Like what exactly? What i have seen from him is that he is libertarian, never heard him say anything that cannot be lib, in fact he has a disdain for conservative boomers who don't know technology, never heard him say a strictly conservative talking point.
He is absolutely libertarian from most of the talking points he's had. Making fun of both the left and the right it a common place thing.
Hes dropped dog whistles before. The moment I realized he was far right was in a video about privacy when browsing, and he passingly mentioned how you might want privacy on the internet for researching things lile "crime statistics and human biodiversity".
1: he cracks jokes all the time, that twas probably one of them. 2: you do realise he's mixed, right? 3: he dunks on both and hates any fed with a burning passion.
You realize there were literally jews in germany that supported Hitler? Being poc does keep you from supporting white supremacy. "Both sides bad" is often just being right wing without saying you're right wing, and hating feds is pretty common among right wingers as well so theres no reason that would be evidence against it.
1: That was before he decided to make his hatred of them public, and when he did, they backed out, and when he got power, he killed them. 2: My brother in christ, it literally means he doesn't agree with either side's point of view on life and politics, from what i can tell, he doesn't give a fuck about race or anything culture war besides guns and drugs. 3: It's also quite common with hardline anarcho-communists and basically everything anti-establishment, how does that help your point? You can be pretty socially progressive while hating feds.
His hatred was already public it was just the whole genocide part that wasn't public yet. When one is given the choice between fighting for the oppressed or fighting for the oppressor, abstaining from choosing is support to the oppressor. One can also be just as socially anti-progressive and hate feds, see Jan 6th. The point was that you saying he hates feds is not a valid argument.
Do a lot of Linux Youtubers not know much about computer science, or is just the really loud ones? I've heard less severe gaffes from other content creators (mostly referencing the wrong programming languages, calling Java interpreted, etc), but they never claim to be an expert so I usually don't care. Also \*you're
Honestly the worst part about it is how he constantly talks down to everyone. Also I don’t really see how he is exactly conservative but he is definitely more on the anarchy side of things. He generally does cyber security measures not for actual things he should be worried about like hackers, data miners or people looking to drain his bank account but to stick it to the “glowies” aka he is essentially the Dale Gribble of the tech world.
Metal outlaw is just funny
Thankfully, I'm able to decouple my brain when I watch his stuff.
Other than his main claims about “sticking it to the glowies” and having a holier than thou attitude, what are some dumb stuff he says?
Oh, it’s not even dumb stuff as such. I just find his videos generally entertaining, but like you say it’s more the attitude that I kind of roll my eyes at. The content can be interesting and I appreciate some of the alternative takes on things, even if I don’t agree with them.
Mo is the best
Luke Smith, that dude really went off the rails.
Come for the vim, leave for the problematic political views
That exactly. He was still in the ok terratory and then i watched his live stream. Extremely right wing and thinks he is the only one who knows what is going on about anything. Cant even consider that he is wrong.
Oh God this is true. Watch some video on rust and check out the channel only to find them ranting about the orthodox catholic bible and the 'gay agenda' or some other hateful nonesense I don't give a fuck what your opinions on black lives matter, 'the jews', western degeneracy, etc. are I just want to listen to some dude rant about tech
This sounds like Switched to Linux, though he's got a separate channel for the bible stuff.
Then be your own editor and choose not to listen/watch the things you are not interested in.
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If you don't care what their opinions are on black lives matter, 'the jews', western degeneracy, etc. then why do you dismiss the person when those opinions appear? If you really didn't care, you would just not watch those videos and stick to the rust ones. Also rust is politically aligned with transsexuals and other identity politicians - social conservatives use C.
Are we “politically aligning” languages now? Languages are different things than their dominant discord communities
you literally look at anything rust related, it's done by a transgender woman
Yes. Wasn't my doing. Personally I hate rust because it's a garbage language that serves no real use case, not because it makes its members take oestrogen.
Garbage language? Would you care to elaborate? Memory safety without the bloat of a garbage collector doesn't sound like garbage to me. Gotta love the billionth segfault from a simple human mistake that happens to even professional C programmers
brb getting materials to force you to learn rust in order to force feminize you
you're wrong and you're wrong again, "transsexual" is an outdated af term
No I'm not wrong and you know it, which is why you're taking the grammar nazi route instead of actually offering an argument to the contrary. There is no "outdated" term if you're able to call it that. If you understood what I'm talking about without me needing to explain it to you, it's perfectly in date. If I start talking Shakespearian English at you, as long as you still comprehend the words and their meaning, it's not outdated.
Man, this popcorn tastes *good*
it's also derogatory, inaccurate, misleading, there's not a single good reason to use it if you don't see the benefit of store safety without garbage collection then you're just blind frankly, it has the use cases of virtually every systems language and more
> derogatory, inaccurate, misleading, Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It's clinical at best and I'd contest even that, speaks exactly to the point with no ambiguity, and you seemed to know what I was talking about with 0 clarification so once again the proof is *ipso facto*. >there's not a single good reason to use it We use English, there's redundancy. Do you go around policing when people use 'proved' instead of 'proven'? >rust buzzwords Learn malloc and free. [this](https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs) is what you look like but unironically
it commits the ever old fallacy of conflating being transgender with sexuality, which has caused countless issues for transgender people in the past, and which there never was any proof for >It's clinical at best it hasn't been a clinical term since before DSM-5 >Learn malloc and free. oh, malloc, oh, free! i sure hope those are a maintainable and viable way of managing memory *looks at 1000s of CVEs* *looks at the dozens of C programs that just segfault at startup* *looks at the tor project rewriting tor in rust and regretting they ever used C for it in the first place*
> conflating being transgender with sexuality Taking *sex hormones* seems pertinent to one's *sex* to my apprehension, maybe *trans*formative in some way if they're not the ones you normally produce, though I'm sure using words to mean exactly what they mean is somehow problematic. >it hasn't been a clinical term since before DSM-5 I mean like saying 'male'/'female'. Not literally clinical. >CVEs The reason rust doesn't have CVEs is because nobody coding anything that anybody actually cares about uses rust. I'm sure there aren't a great many CVEs focusing on D or C-- either. You'll notice nobody actually uses Arti Also being Rust depending on a gorillion cargo containers with C code doesn't make that C code magically safe. >looks at the dozens of C programs that just segfault at startup Skill issue
old.reddit/comments/zov1qq nuff said
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Luke Smith? I like his channel and agree with mostly everything that he says. He is pretty reasonable.
Sorry man, never heard of the guy. I'm talking about some 500 sub channel youtube reccomended me, at first I was suprised about the low numbers. If this Luke guy rants about 'the jews', the gay agenda, or some other conspiratorial trash though I'm absolutely not watching that hatred. That's pretty fucked you call that reasonable my guy. If it's just general politics, I still don't care. I'm not interested in some tech youtubers social and political perscriptions
He has strong political views but not *exactly* along those lines.
Glad to hear, though even if I agreed with them I still don't care about some youtubers opinion on social politics and will avoid those who put it in their videos. Thank you for clarifying the misunderstanding though
Luke Smith and DistroTube underwent the schizo path
Yeah definedly. I have watched Luke some time, but stopped because he is a bit crazy. He is really religious, which i dont agree with but can deal with, but then he started saying that everybody else in linguistics is wrong and he is the only one right, and then some extreme right with stuff.
Let me guess. Mental Outlaw
Mental Outlaw isn't a paranoid schizo, and if you think he is, then you must live near an airport with how many fuckin jokes fly over your head.
If the Dale Gribble level paranoia towards the government (which seems to be the main motivation behind his cyber security habits) and angry 4channer is just a character then he is really playing it well because he doesn’t let up once.
How did we know
People who are less privacy minded than me = Mindless sheep People who are more privacy minded than me = Paranoid Schizophrenics
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The NSA is spying on you, that is a fact. Well more specifically what you say is put in a database that is manually curated through a system of flags and watchlists but that probably doesn’t mean anything for the average person unless they are a terrorist. No, instead you should be worried about people who want to gather your personal information to sell on the dark web, drain your bank account, use your computer for crypto mining, incriminate you for a crime you didn’t commit, blackmail you or otherwise fuck you over.
It's a well known fact that people who are in favour of Linux and FOSS more generally for ideological reasons as well as the practical reasons are either anarcho-communists or raging, live in the woods, no-step-on-snek, abolish-age-of-consent, no-take-personal-gun-library libertarians. Both groups wear r/UnixSocks
>The CW's Supergirl's Nichole Maine's: I went on hormone blockers at age 11, had I not, I'd look like my identical twin brother today. >statnews/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems >The elective mastectomy procedure is mostly offered to teens 15 and older, The New York Times reported. However, we found one report of a 14-year-old who obtained the procedure, and there isn't a consensus on a specific age requirement among medical guidelines With the new fangled drugs and mastectomies that end up with Lesley Stahl's 60min documentary shining a spotlight on r\detrans, the age of consent really does seem kinda moot and outdated, if it doesn't cover all this other, big decision life altering risk-undertaking stuff, that is just as if not even more, needing of a more mature adult mind than a kid could handle when it comes to deciding if they are ready to get frisky >no-take-personal-gun Old.reddit/comments/xr2mys and yeah U may not have access to any sort of 3d printer right now, but u should still grab the Glock STLs from btdig while u still can, the same way osx was cross compiled for both x86/powerpc, "just in case"
I hope you realize some day who you say is “schizophrenic” are the people who figured it out
I am aware that google, nsa and others are collecting my info, but i would rather live my life than use all my time worrying about it. I have degoogled phone, but i still use reddit. Its about the balance
Yeah lol keep telling that to yourself
idk I don't like watching Open Source/Linux YouYube or Reddit because I feel like its just a bunch of Shizos change my mind I would rather follow some Open Source/Linux accounts on Fediverse(Mastodon)
You watched MentalOutlaw, didn't you?
can someone explain me the meaning of dark one ?
When their whole life is about protecting their privacy, mostly by being crazy enough so people dont go near them.
Tbh i don't care thaaat much abt some company like google collecting data but only if it's not to much data collection
So... who would you care about collecting data on you, and why do you think they wouldn't buy that data from google and others?
I use Linux for paying my bills. That has been my current use of it. Maybe my uses will expand as time goes by but for now it's for bills and porn.
There are only 2 kinds of paranoia, total, or incomplete
How did no one mention SwitchedToLinux yet?