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No, I quite like Mullvad and believe in what they are doing. Our laws are retarded but with that retardation comes absolute autism, so I think they're in a good spot. I wasn't clear with what I meant but I was referring to hosting of the same caliber, if you want to ghost what you're hosting you might end up on a list. I think VPNs could be going in a similar direction. If you are signing up for a large vpn centered around jumping Netflix regions you are one of many. If you go ghost by being part of a service that offers that then intelligence agencies might put you on a list IF THEY CAN. That's my hypothetical, Mullvad seems absolutely fine because they're not an ISP and there is an ISP that have spent decades spending their own money fighting tooth and nails in courts to limit governmental overreach.
You know which ISP this is? I'll be honest the thought of an ISP actually trying to fuck the government kind of makes me chub up a little bit. Also Mullvad seems like a damn good option. Even better if they could do mail payments but that's also trackable if the government tries enough.
 
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You know which ISP this is? I'll be honest the thought of an ISP actually trying to fuck the government kind of makes me chub up a little bit. Also Mullvad seems like a damn good option. Even better if they could do mail payments but that's also trackable if the government tries enough.
Yes, it's Bahnhof, the founder payed for the defense of the Piratebay people and they are currently facing a fine of 5 million SEK a day for not complying with some wide and retarded anti-privacy legislation and I think they're taking it to Strasbourg. They also faxed the police forms asking if the information they were looking for was a real crime or bullshit(mark the relevant box with an X). A real crime means mandatory prison of any length, like terrorism, child pornography, murder etc. Saying nigger on the internet and downloading Shakira is not a real crime. They are always in court defending my rights to shitpost and download music that I for real own but the cd is in storage somewhere.

edit: when ISPs had to log data they opened their own VPN service that their customers could use. A VPN provider doesn't have to log data. Even if they're the ISP running it.
 
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For some reason the camera app on my Android phone kept crashing when I tried to use it. I updated the photos app, and the camera app stopped crashing. Fucking Google is acting weird.

Sounds like it might be time to reimage your phone. Android, over time, can get junked up and start getting weird.

Going back to discord, I hope you guys don't use the same username here as you do there. I received a mail a couple of days ago about a privacy policy update and reviewing the changes in their blog hate-speech, spreading "fake news" about the coof or having bad off-site behavior are now banable offences.
Here is their summary if anyone is interested:

So, you might ask, what’s actually changing? We wanted to call out some key updates here:

  • More clarity and less legalese: You’ll notice that we rewrote our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy so that mere mortals can understand them clearly.
  • How we use your information: We’ve provided more detail what information we collect, how we use and share it, and how you can control your privacy on Discord.
  • Public and private spaces: We want everyone to understand the difference between posting in public servers, like those you can find in Server Discovery, and private servers and conversations, and make sure you choose the appropriate space, features, and settings for you and your content.
  • New and updated Community Guidelines: To help make Discord a safer place for everyone, we are prohibiting harmful misinformation and will now consider off-platform behavior in some cases. We’ve also updated the protected attributes in our hate speech policy to include caste, gender identity, age, serious illness, and more.

These changes go into effect on March 28, 2022 — we’re telling you about them now so you can understand what’s changing before then. To agree to the changes, all you have to do is keep using Discord. If you don’t agree, you should stop using Discord (though we’d be very sad to see you go).
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They want to police off-site behavior? That's fucking insane.
 
Yes, it's Bahnhof, the founder payed for the defense of the Piratebay people and they are currently facing a fine of 5 million SEK a day for not complying with some wide and retarded anti-privacy legislation and I think they're taking it to Strasbourg. They also faxed the police forms asking if the information they were looking for was a real crime or bullshit(mark the relevant box with an X). A real crime means mandatory prison of any length, like terrorism, child pornography, murder etc. Saying nigger on the internet and downloading Shakira is not a real crime. They are always in court defending my rights to shitpost and download music that I for real own but the cd is in storage somewhere.

edit: when ISPs had to log data they opened their own VPN service that their customers could use. A VPN provider doesn't have to log data. Even if they're the ISP running it.
Well god damn. What the fuck it take to get em in the US? I'd love to have them as s service provider since I'm sure they could make the cunts we have here like spectrum & comcast quake in their fucking diaper.s
 
For some reason the camera app on my Android phone kept crashing when I tried to use it. I updated the photos app, and the camera app stopped crashing. Fucking Google is acting weird.
Does that happen with other apps using the camera? If so, try using a system info app like devcheck or whichever you wish. Something that checks the phone's hardware. If your phone's camera somehow became disconnected from the motherboard, it would make sense for the camera apps to just fail in that fashion. I experienced that with the Nintendo 2DS.

While Nintendo devices run a check on hardware when they boot, the camera module is not included in that check. Kinda weird since even the analog module is checked...
 
Sounds like it might be time to reimage your phone. Android, over time, can get junked up and start getting weird.
Does that happen with other apps using the camera?
All apps that used the camera would also crash, until I updated the photos app. I'm guessing there was some sort of glitch that was fixed with the update, or maybe Google stopped letting me use the camera until I installed the update.
 
I thought Youtube couldn't get shittier but I was wrong. They are now defaulting auto-play all the time, it doesn't matter how many times you revert the option, it'll go back to auto-play after some minutes.
They have also done something with the order of tabs opening and which tab it falls back to when closing the current one. In the past it fell back to "last active", now it appears to default to "most recently opened"
 
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I thought Youtube couldn't get shittier but I was wrong. They are now defaulting auto-play all the time, it doesn't matter how many times you revert the option, it'll go back to auto-play after some minutes.
Seriously? Fuuuuuck. I hate autoplay.
how else are they going to get a shit ton of money from retarded ass kids who dont know any better
They have also done something with the order of tabs opening and which tab it falls back to when closing the current one. In the past it fell back to "last active", now it appears to default to "most recently opened"
I'm downloading a browser extension to avoid this. There are plenty of extensions/addons that will stop autoplay.
 
REALLY FUCKING CONTROVERSIAL, but Brave is a massive lie of a browser. It's supposed "privacy friendly" practices are just about as privacy friendly as a stock copy of Firefox (which you can tune to actually be more private than Brave can and ever will be).

I only use it for a mobile browser because Chrome is shit and mobile Firefox is just a locked down version of the desktop edition.
 
REALLY FUCKING CONTROVERSIAL, but Brave is a massive lie of a browser. It's supposed "privacy friendly" practices are just about as privacy friendly as a stock copy of Firefox (which you can tune to actually be more private than Brave can and ever will be).

I only use it for a mobile browser because Chrome is shit and mobile Firefox is just a locked down version of the desktop edition.

You aren't going to elaborate? What you wrote basically tells us nothing.
 
Can this thread be a memorial for software that had lost the plot? Youtube-DL's situation is so dire that I actually uninstalled it entirely in favor of YT-DLP. I have average-to-ok internet and, while YT-DLP has to restart downloads a couple times, that's nothing in comparison to the apparent TWO HOUR LONG wait for a ten minute video being downloaded via YouTube-DL. Did Google/YouTube seriously stomp their nuts to nothing? I feel kind of bad that I can't seriously use YouTube-DL anymore.
 
REALLY FUCKING CONTROVERSIAL, but Brave is a massive lie of a browser. It's supposed "privacy friendly" practices are just about as privacy friendly as a stock copy of Firefox (which you can tune to actually be more private than Brave can and ever will be).

I only use it for a mobile browser because Chrome is shit and mobile Firefox is just a locked down version of the desktop edition.
Yeah man just use bromite for mobile.
 
That guy treats every issue (fixable or not) as a "sky is falling" sort of thing. The sky is usually not falling.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if every issue he raises is really critical to you, you should be reading a print copy of "Bin Laden's Better Caves And Cavernkeeping", not browsing the internet.
 
Can this thread be a memorial for software that had lost the plot? Youtube-DL's situation is so dire that I actually uninstalled it entirely in favor of YT-DLP. I have average-to-ok internet and, while YT-DLP has to restart downloads a couple times, that's nothing in comparison to the apparent TWO HOUR LONG wait for a ten minute video being downloaded via YouTube-DL. Did Google/YouTube seriously stomp their nuts to nothing? I feel kind of bad that I can't seriously use YouTube-DL anymore.
The dev went MIA, allegedly because of IRL problems. Even if it wasn't for the deliberate throttling by Youtube, Google shite has an insane amount of churn that projects like Youtube-DL have to keep up with, so it was sadly a matter of time before it became unusable. But as far as I know, most Youtube-DL contributors are now YT-DLP contributors instead anyway.

That guy treats every issue (fixable or not) as a "sky is falling" sort of thing. The sky is usually not falling.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if every issue he raises is really critical to you, you should be reading a print copy of "Bin Laden's Better Caves And Cavernkeeping", not browsing the internet.
If you don't actually care about privacy that's fine, but people understandably get pissed when something advertises itself as privacy-friendly and then doesn't deliver on really basic things.
 
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to me, the POS software that grinds my balls in is Windows Defender; shits so defensive over literally anything (despite y'know, me being the admin of the fucking computer) and I fail to see why people would put their faith in a Microsoft(c) approved virus defender when it'd be easier to do their own upkeep
It's depressing that despite all this it's still among the best antivirus options for Windows. Guess it just goes to show that Windows is still swiss cheese with a door and all efforts at producing anti-virus software for it (beyond creating software that makes a bootable flash drive that installs Linux) are a fool's errand.

I still giggle every time Defender gets huffy about finding AutoKMS though :story:

Any McAfee product... anti malware, HBSS, etc.
'That's a nice processor you have...it would be a shame to utilize 99% of its capability for an indeterminate amount of time'
McAfee and Norton/Symantec are some of the worst anti-consumer software produced for the modern consumer computing market (Adobe and Autodesk share that title for production houses and Microsoft wins it hands-down for businesses). They go to such great lengths to deeply embed themselves in the OS and make uninstallation annoying unless you can get your hands on the machine right after first boot to uninstall them before they start updating themselves. Even the uninstallers are passive-aggressive as they begrudgingly do what you tell them.

Also in my defense I didn't know etcher corrupted usb drives when I first used it. I've since discovered ventoy & that is such a game changer.
Wait what? Do you mean it just writes images incorrectly or do you mean it actually physically ruins flash drives?

Nothing like winrar deciding not to unzip half the content of a .zip file or not work at all.
I've been using winrar since 1997 and that has never happened to me. Unless you hit the cancel button midway through, I suppose. It leaves what it was able to extract.
Please stop using winrar, even if it "just works." rar is a garbage archive format, proprietary to boot, and has long been surpassed by much better compression algorithms, open-source archivers and adjacent software to handle them.

On Windows the gold standard is 7-zip; its MacOS and Linux command-line equivalent is 7z/7za. Multiple compression algorithms (LZMA/LZMA2 are the current commonly available "state of the art"), superior compression ratios, tunable performance, multicore support for faster compression, checksum/hash support to detect tampering and corruption, encryption, etc.

Greybeards tend to prefer tarballs (tar archives compressed with a separate program); these days xz (an LZMA implementation) is the tool of choice when compression ratio is more important than compression speed and the (much) older gzip and bzip2 compressors still see common usage as well.
 
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