@Harry_h0udini @linux please try to explain better. How did you try to access your hard drive? What happened when you tried it?
@YaaAsantewaa @shreddy_scientist one reason is diversity, but yes, checking that with DNA is stupid because it matters much more where you grew up
@pjhenry1216 @MagneticFusion @eskimofry Nonetheless, the air you breathe WILL be sold by a corporation, and your comment will appear silly in that context. Corporations don't go away just because you stop interacting with them - blanket refusal to interact mostly just handicaps yourself.
@Doug do you think that Nintendo has a right to lock down its consoles so you can only play licensed Nintendo games? This is basically the same thing.
In the usual situation, Nintendo has a right to try to lock down my console and I also have a right to try to unlock it. This is also the situation we have today with adblockers.
@Doug @LinkOpensChest_wav I used to think this way but so much advertising today is malware. I'm happy for sites to write simple text or image ads that won't even be detected by adblockers, much less actually blocked. It's the pile of JavaScript that's the problem, and it's the pile of JavaScript that adblockers block.
@Helldiver_M @Dubious_Fart @leraje actually the port forwarding thing is about accepting inbound connections. Without port forwarding, NAT routers (including VPNs) randomly allocate ports for outbound connections but still won't accept inbound connections on those same ports.
There's a trick where you discover the randomly allocated port numbers and then both connect to each other at the same time so both routers think it's outbound. It works unreliably and BitTorrent doesn't use it.
@randomguy2323 @privacy It's only a gimmick, for now. Notice they had to use multiple access points and receivers and calibrate the system based on the room it was in.
@Dark_Arc this is generally referred to as accelerationism and I think it's a cromulent ideology.
If you think the only way to get to a sane world is to achieve and pass through the insane one first, then doing it as quickly as possible makes sense.
@igalmarino @privacy it won't erode encryption worldwide - any more than China did. They'll just pull out of the UK
@KarunaX @mozz and it will. The UN seems to be a venue for white supremacists to always get what they want, these days.