You mean the VPN? Changing server doesn’t fix it?

you know that suit from A Scanner Darkly? I think about that suit a lot…

Just an hour ago I changed my profile mentioning Lingua Franca because I’m downvoting non-English posts not using language tags… the last time I heard that word being used was probably like… 20 years ago maybe? It’s not a common word specially because the word itself doesn’t make much sense anymore (been several decades that French is no longer the trade language, so it just sounds funny)… and after just mentioning it in my profile I see it being used again… by any chance, did you read my profile? lol

I guess a lot of cameras cover sidewalks and so. I have one pointing at my front door and one at my garage door and both show the sidewalk… I never gave much thought about it until I saw that article about Amazon’s Ring cameras recording passerby faces and putting it into their database.

We all know it was actually inspired by HR Giger

In my country you have to registers SIMs with your real id/name, however criminals just use stolen SIMs hehe
The other day a neighbor of mine got a new phone and asked me to do the start configuration, create Google Acc, download Facebook, TikTok, Whatsapp and crap like that, she had all of that in her previous phone, but she traded it and didn’t remove the SIM card and thought it was a less of hassle creating a new acc for everything and registering a new SIM in her name than simply keeping her SIM and writing down her email addresses and passwords… and I believe a large portion of our population operates like that, absolutely barbaric.

you know that joke about vegans… every tech post I enter there is a kagi user announcing himself xD

nah, new wave was very 80s, I’d divide the 90s between grunge and rave

We are probably just completely out of touch with youth culture

In high school, but not much party politics, I mostly read old anarchists. At college you kinda have to go through the post-structuralist course, but it was then that I got more into reading economy and post/neokeynesianism - which wasn’t even part of the stuff I had to study…
I used to care about arguing about politics and economy, but since my 30s politics became “not my thing” because I watched American politics being spread through Twitter and young people reading more trending American internet liberal activists instead of their local union newspapers, and then I watched all the biggest media conglomerates of my country raising the flag of those activists and they believing they are “winning” without realizing they became so harmless they are being mocked. Nowadays, I just believe we absolutely deserve everything we get.

I’m particularly tired of the echo chambers social media created that turned everything in an “us vs them” mentality that when you don’t agree 100% on every topic you are a them and an enemy and everyone is under that homogenizing peer-pressure to conform… and I include the Fediverse on that, it’s the same crap. I don’t feel like being a part of any “us”, especially because I see everything corrupted by the American WASP-culture addiction to guilty and shaming that equally encompass conservatives and liberals, as the “us vs them” slowly kills all the real transgressive. I want distance from all the “us”.

I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it’s a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.

As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren’t ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff… and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I’m very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

owning them libs

I asked them exactly that hehe
So, technically the sites you are redirecting from will never know you tried to access them and the addon is not interacting with any page, but the dev didn’t address/think of probing. I don’t have enough tech knowledge to confirm the addon won’t react to anything, thus making itself known. I don’t know which probing techniques there are and how all those resist-fingerprint and sandboxing settings from privacy-conscious browsers work against it… it does, however, sound like a sophisticated and resource-consuming method that I don’t think they would be using on regular internet unless they have specific targets, so if they have such probing techniques they are probably using it on IPs going through the TOR network (and you shouldn’t use any addon on Tor anyway).
It’s all about your threat model, if you just want to avoid regular tracking and profiling the addon should be fine, now if you are afraid of some sophisticated and resourceful threat actors targeting you, don’t take your chances with any addon.

I use libredirect.github.io to not have to worry about clicking links

If you use some WFP manager you can block all incoming connections and also block all OS connections… I basically only let my browser communicating with the internet, the rest has no business online.

Oops, I forgot to mention the OS, it’s Win11 (I edited the main post now).

thanks, going to try it :)

Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha