Other Brazilian here: Although they don’t care much about piracy at individual level, there were local servers seized and from time to time they take down some locally hosted sites, so although it’s safe for you to download and even p2p share stuff, you can get unlucky hosting - if it’s near elections and some politician needs to pretend he is having the police working.

R.I.P. Manicômio Share

Flock Safety operates in only one country.

I felt like there was something missing so I picked some chives from my garden.

The pasta I’m making is an Italian Paganini “trafilata al bronzo”, might not be a big deal for Europeans, but is way better than anything local I have in my third world country.

Well, I’m making a mushroom pasta right now… chopped some garlic, leek, shiitake, white button, portobello. Gonna sauté the mushrooms a bit with butter, sauté the garlic and leek with olive oil separately because the mushroom releases too much water, then make a béchamel (butter, flour, milk, and I also use heavy cream), mix them when they are ready, add salt, black pepper and perhaps paprika and voilà.

lol the downvotes

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

You can buy a game license on Steam. Your only access to it is through them, you can only install and play it through their store. You need to have their program running to check your license and also probing your system to see what you are running and logging your activity. If the company so decides, they can remove your access to the game because you never bought it, they only gave you a license. This market model removes player’s autonomy and keep everything locked out of players control.

Or you can buy a game on GOG. After you buy the game you don’t need GOG for anything, you have full control of the installation file and can back it up however you want and install wherever you want. You can use their launcher if you want to log your activity for social features but that’s optional. You bought the game and have your copy, publisher and distributor can fuck off forever.

Yet, people believe not owning and controlling the games you paid for is “better”…
(not knowing how games used to be, and what online stores have taken from you, is a tragedy)

Oh, the game is not available on GOG? That’s because the publisher doesn’t want consumers to have any control over the game, they want to control how, when and where you can play it, including revoking licenses if your own self-hosted private servers don’t follow the moderation rules the company wants, and if you still buy it you are just keeping this anti-consumer market model viable - just like consumers made lootboxes, pay-to-win, battle passes, single player games requiring online verification, and everything that enshitified gaming viable. Market share is no metric for service quality.

There are better things, just like modular phones are better than iPhones, but consumers are driven by propaganda and herd mentality and they don’t care the least if the product they are buying denies them autonomy. If consumers were smart, pay-to-win features and battle passes would have never become a thing.

For torrented games, just don’t delete the installation files?

For GOG, burning your games on DVD is not even piracy. According to the EULA, you are legally allowed to keep one backup copy.

It’s crazy, but people nowadays install games through online stores, and they pay to not own games :S

Stored emails are encrypted in any service, the difference from Tuta, Proton, Atomic, etc, to Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and others, is that they don’t have the decryption key. But yeah, technically any of them could make a copy of unencrypted emails you receive and send (the later don’t even need to since they have the key), but they can’t do it retroactively. Proton had a few third party audits checking their services, but afaik Tuta hasn’t.

You are talking about End-to-End Encryption. Zero-Knowledge Encryption means they don’t have access to your mailbox because they don’t know the password, it’s not stored on their server, they only know the hash it generates (which is used to verify you know the password, but the password itself is never exposed).

Even though they can’t get inside your mailbox they know all the incoming and outgoing metadata (addresses of emails sent/received) so they know your traffic (there is no way to encrypt metadata anyway, it would be like giving a letter to a mailman but not telling him who to deliver it to), but, say, court orders them to give access to your mailbox, they have no way of doing it, only someone with your password can read your emails.

They can’t read your emails though, Tuta uses zero-knowledge encryption, it was something else that got you flagged. Did you send a lot of consecutive emails?

Have you read the comics?

:D

The comics are nowhere as thrilling, but I quite liked it.

ps: I haven’t played Double Exposure. Up until now I didn’t even know it was about Max lol

The tragedy of making one good story is that you have to milk it until nobody cares about it anymore

I haven’t played, but this one looks cool https://kociantech.com/y2031/

The only YouTuber I know is Benn Jordan because of his videos about Flock cams. Damn great.

There wouldn’t be meaningful changes yet there would be substantial changes?

Samsung J2 Core, the cheapest new one at the time. It has 4G.

Got my first smartphone when I was 30 already (it was a gift), I’m closing to 40 now and I’m still using the same phone.

Yes to four out of the five serious questions.

Do you know the Barnum Effect? In my country they did a funny test on TV once, they’d do people’s astrological charts and then read one chart to them, and every single person was like “Woah, this is so about me! That’s totally me!” and then they would be like “Oops, I picked the wrong chart, this one is actually Hitler’s”

Hmm, I have a blink and a gecko browser on desktop and mobile, and open the site on both to check how it’s being displayed :S

I hear a lot of people complaining about sites breaking on Firefox, but I never experienced that, only on secure forks that removed canvas, webgl and webgpu.

I have a few static sites as well and I use JS. The only thing I noticed changing, that can push elements weirdly, is scroll bars, buttons, the default audio player… but you can edit those with css to look similar on both browsers.