resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
Dear #EFF, I have to say I'm not bothered by patent trolling users of #Google's #reCAPTCHA. It's bad on bad as far as I'm concerned. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/captcha-patent-all-american-nightmare
resist1984
boosted
I don't know who the fuck you are, #cloudflare, but anytime your name comes up, it's never good. Whatever it is you do, you certainly do a pretty damn shitty job of it!
resist1984
boosted
Afghanistan, uspol
My take:
This wasn't a fuckup on the part of the U.S.
It was a successful, 20-year money laundering scheme.
Trillions of dollars' worth of Gen X's adulthood and Millennials' childhood were funneled out of American society, through Afghanistan
And into the pockets of defense contractors -- who are largely Republicans.
All those cushy, well-paying DC jobs in the past two decades -- these reports and videos are the price.
The Taliban aren't mystical superheroes who defeated the best armed forces on earth. They were the premise and the excuse for this multi-decade scam.
This wasn't a failure of the US military, either. Common soldiers were fooled and used.
And it's not Biden's fault -- or even Trump's really (though Trump made it worse because that's his shtick).
It's Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rove, and earlier Republicans who made this happen.
"Never forget."
resist1984
boosted
#Debian #Bullseye is set to release in the next day or two. You will be impacted if you run any of these apps/pkgs: #VBox, #gksudo, #openssl, #fetchmail, #ocrodjvu, #evince, #okular, #xpdf, #neomutt, #electronmail, #wire, #bitlbeeMastodon, #Kitty. More details: https://raddle.me/f/freesoftware/132542/what-you-will-lose-when-upgrading-to-debian-bullseye
resist1984
boosted
there is a whois service for onion sites. Not sure it's of great use, but FWIW here's a sample => torsocks whois -h torwhois.com underwood2hj3pwd.onion
resist1984
boosted
@Doemela Does anyone know the v3 onion hosts for the #OnionMail.info servers? They're still listing the v2 onions which are apparently broken. https://onionmail.info/directory.html
resist1984
boosted
@kubikpixel indeed. #Ecosia.org is a privacy abusing #greenwash. And they recently got worse. Ecosia has recently become a #Cloudflare site, which is bad for privacy and the planet.
I actually cannot buy something because the /only/ sites that sell it are Cloudflare sites or #Amazon, both of which I boycott. I will therefore go without.
Dear #searx developers: plz make the “site:” parameter capable of wildcards so I don't have to add this to every search => “-site:amazon.com -site:amazon.de -site:amazon.ca -site:amazon.fr -site:amazon.sa -site:amazon.co.uk”.. and then do the same for ebay. ATM it's like a game of whack-a-mole.
resist1984
boosted
@resist1984 neither coincidental or laziness: it's #AffiliateMarketing.
Every click stores a cookie in your browser and if you complete any purchase on Amazon within 24h after clicking that link, they gain a 10-15% commission on the sale.
That's why almost all "reviews" of such products say amazing things about it. They could care less about the product, they only want you to goddamn buy it already.
Sadly, it's not just Amazon. Lots of platforms do these affiliates nowadays...
Product review articles almost always give a link to where to buy the thing, and that link always points to #Amazon, which I find disturbing. Are they getting a kickback from Amazon, or are they just being lazy? I'm guessing the latter.
resist1984
boosted
It is exciting to see #Amazon's #Drone delivery program collapsing, I hope this is the end of this idea. It would really have a horrible impact on so many aspects of daily life. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air
resist1984
boosted
Why does the #creditCard company receive details about the flights you book? They don't seem to receive transaction details for any other kind of transaction. The credit card statement doesn't show me what specifically I bought in a shop or restaurant. Why is there difference in the info sharing when buying air travel?
The right to be online should be coupled with a right to be offline.
There has been a fight for the right to be online (in part to push for Internet in rural America & for the poor). Superficially that's fair, but the problem is govs already operate with the assumption that people are online. So people are being forced to use & trust svcs from dubious gov-admin'd sites (e.g. #Cloudflare). How can I opt out? Now we need a right to be *offline*.
#AstraZeneca is surprisingly approved by more countries than any other #vaccine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210730161956/visaguide.world/news/vaccine-checker-proof-of-immunity-for-travel/ ...which suggests you can probably enter more countries having been immunized by AstraZenica.
When archive.org gives bad results (e.g. “you've sent too many requests”) the next escalation is often to use metasearch.nl or xeek.com to search, then use their “cache” feature which visits the site through #MortyProxy. But those two search engines often come back with “Warning! This instance does not support direct URL opening.” Is there a more robust proxy?
I don't know if the fax machines/servers of CT Corporation are so-called “secure fax”, but it wouldn't it be funny if they were receiving faxes like many people, that is by a 3rd party service that just delivers the fax by email anyway?
So if you fax a letter to a corp whose resident agent is CT Corporation to the fax# of CT Corporation, they will print the fax & send it by UPS at their client's expense. So have fun sending letters to corporations that say "sorry I cannot/will not email outlook/google for $whatever_reason.. so I'm faxing your reg. agent" They will pay around $6 for each letter sent that way
Joined Mar 2019
