shiiiit I wouldn’t count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.

I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.

If I were an American I’d be insulted by the constant dog and pony show. Just let her out. you know that’s what’s happening, why go through the show for the peasants?

a lot of people. The other day I saw a post on mastodon by some politician or someone in the UK stating that if people find any site that is geoblocking the UK because of the age verification to report it to some link he provided. it was boosted A LOT with a lot of replies in support.

bootlickers.

you’re right as far it’s intentions go. I honestly couldn’t give a rats ass about what it intended to do what I have a MASSIVE issue with is that it did the EXACT opposite of what it “intended to do.”

It didn’t provide Women with a “safe space” because women’s government issued IDs and their personal selfies were, quite literally, OUT IN THE OPEN. It opened Women who used the app to way more harm.

Their database, and i’m being extremely generous when I call it that, wasn’t even password protected. not even a simple plain text password like “password123” there was NO password. at all. period. All I would have had to do was simply see where the app sent the scanned ID’s, open a terminal, SSH into it WITHOUT A PASSWORD OR KEY, and then I now have access to the IDs of over 13,000 Women. Hell I probably wouldn’t have even had to SSH into it, probably could have opened the damn thing from a web browser.

So when the media is saying 4chan “leaked” this stuff again they’re being generous. It’s like if you were walking down the street that Tea lived on and you noticed they left their door wide open so you decided to peak your head inside and while peaking your head in you noticed a box right by the door that had thousands of IDs in it so you picked up the box and walked out. Chances are other people got to this box before 4chan did, many people probably did, it’s just that 4chan were the only ones to say “Hey I found this house with a wide open door and decided to pick up this box with all these IDs in it, neat huh?”

Then I’d really like to meet this Nostradamus signature forger.

then why let her leave with it? hell why let her leave at all? I mean don’t they have windows that are fairly high up at the DOJ?

surprise, surprise

at this point I’m just waiting for that Australian org that’s currently making a stink about porn games to be revealed to be run by a bunch of pedos.

I self host mine. Honestly I just self host as much as I can to avoid stuff like this because while many European companies are great you just never know. I was with Tuta but decided to self host, same for when I was using Filen for backups. Hell I’m even self hosting my git repos and search engine now.

if there were countries in Europe that were as politically idiotic as the US has been for literal decades I’m sure you’d read about that place more than the US.

I live in Canada and as far as political news goes here…it’s dreadfully boring and I imagine it’s the same for most of Europe. It’s always been like that. even regular news here it’s boring. nothing dramatic happens because unlike the US most of the world has their shit together when compared to the US.

In the Matrix the last human city was called Zion. they lived under the ground where it was still warm. Essentially Cave Dwellers. So just call them dwellers. “No Dwellers”

oh good lord no. years, decades, centuries even couples have trusted each other WITHOUT the need to tracking their where abouts. suddenly this is something we need? no it isn’t. but sure, you go ahead and slap a tag on your “loved one” so you know where they are at all times and so will whatever company is selling your data from said tag.

just use one of the libreddits like safereddit.com or something, never go to actual reddit.

sure there are choices. I don’t use either. if you believe there are only 2 choices out there…man you have no idea.

yeah, no, i’m not using your shitty browser.

I live in Toronto, I just do all my grocery shopping in Chinatown on Spadina and the surrounding area. so much cheaper, like insanely cheaper and better stuff too.

I really hope it was from someone shitting in his cornflakes.

sorry bud, I live in Beaconsfild village. I ride the vomit commit almost daily. We don’t need an extensive subway network.

all this stuff just made me go back to IRC and realize how much I missed it.

yup I went back to IRC. got tired of discord and matrix just wasn’t for me. IRC is where it’s add. still remember all the stuff from the 90s so it was just like riding a bike. plus I can have it in my Terminal which is a plus.

as someone who lives in Toronto I mean…you really don’t need an extensive subway network here. We have a lot of buses and several lines of street cars (trollys, trains on the road, whatever you call them where you live).

So what’s being shown here is ONLY the subway network. it doesn’t show the vast street car lines would would make it look A LOT like the China photo.