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Opinion - Death clocks are ghoulish, whatever you think about billionaires in subs

  • people like that CEO with his libertarian view of safety regulations actively hurt all of society

    Sometimes, those views just sort of have a way of imploding.

    • Rant

    The people - or rather the attitude - of r/piracy

  • Anyways, in the last few days I’ve noticed that for some reason, especially on the r/piracy sub (although other subs are of course no exception), that there has been a more positive sentiment towards spez (the CEO of Reddit) and a very negative one against the mods and the protest.

    Do we even know if these are actual real humans (aka: not reddit bots, admins, or shills)?

    We know 100% that spez made hundreds of bots in 2012 to fake "busy-ness", and that was when reddit was started.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

    • The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

  • One group is full of hundred-millionaires. The other group is full of destitute people fleeing their home countries due to horrific conditions.

    Given that capitalism does put a price on people, that's obviously the metric used to determine who to help.

    • The truth about VPNs?

  • Using a VPN and HOW you use it all depends on your operational security (OPSEC).

    If you're a pirate consumer, then basically you need to keep your ISP from knowing what you're doing, to prevent copyright strikes or shit-letters from Disney etm. A good VPN is fine.

    If you're a torrent creator, you need to raise your security a bit, depending on the "hotness" of the content. Rare anime torrent? Eh who cares. But you're hosting HDCams from a movie released yesterday, or games that will be released officially in a week? You need to use a VPN in a country that does not have good relations to your country of origin. Yes, that means if you're in the USA, get a Russian or Chinese VPN.

    If you're leaking state secrets, Snowden talked about what he did. He cracked wifi within a 2h drive distance, used a 12dBi yagi antenna, with a burner laptop loaded with Tails (Tor linux distro), and only used 1 cracked wifi per use. Never went back to the same place. Then again, he didn't exactly fare well eventually.

    • How many miles do you have to travel to get abortion care? One professor maps it

  • Unfortunately, the only "hammering" most of the democrats are doing is fearmongering-to-donate to their campaign.

    The progressive democrats are a whole different story. They're the ones supporting subversive traveling doctors to facilitate bodily autonomy rights.