Any general-purpose instance with 1000+ character limit?
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Dock A Loodle Fod [OC]
The continuing adventures of: Captain Stands Thirty Feet Away From The Subject. Curiously enough, this bird was the only one I found all day that obediently held still to have its picture taken.
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Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.
Online skeptics wondered if Mr. Miller had caught himself saying something he did not mean to. CNN says there was a technical glitch.
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I Sacrifice And Generate Three Green Mana [OC]
You can go on and guess what I'm going to spend it on.
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I took this from like 15 feet away with my RF 200-800 because it's what I had on the camera at the time.
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Our ideas about Packs - joinmastodon.org
Our ideas about Packs
Sharing our thoughts and plans behind sharing collections of accounts in the Fediverse.Mastodon Blog
Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
Mastodon is working on a new “Packs” feature designed to help you quickly find accounts to follow. It’s similar to Bluesky’s Starter Packs, and lets you opt out of appearing in the lists.Emma Roth (The Verge)
[Patch Notes] 0.3.1b Patchnotes
0.3.1b Patchnotes
- Second Wind III Support now only recovers life if the supported skill actually consumes a cooldown use.
- Fixed an issue where the Ground Effects for the Flaming, Sleet, and Shocking Map Modifiers did not receive the reduced frequency changes from the 0.3.1 patch. Existing modifiers on Waystones will not be affected by this change.
- Fixed a bug where stats that increased the chance of encountering specific content in maps were only increasing the chance relative to other content, and not increasing the amount of content encountered overall.
- Fixed a bug where Minion Instability was able to trigger on Spectres that had been removed after weapon swapping.
- Fixed a bug where the Infernalist's Altered Flesh Skill did not display stats on the character sheet correctly.
- Fixed an issue where Explosive Spear and Storm Lance were thrown at the character's feet when no enemy was targeted while using a controller.
- Fixed an issue where characters could get stuck in unwalkable terrain in the final phase of the Vessel of Kulemak fight.
- Fixed a bug which allowed you to 'upgrade' Runes, Liquid Emotions and Catalysts in the Essence Stash Tab, which could cause items to be deleted in certain cases.
- Fixed an issue where The Pale Angel could not spawn as a Corrupted Nexus boss.
- Fixed an issue where the Cruel Hegemony Unique Tablet did not sell to vendors for the correct amount of Gold.
- Fixed an issue where some guild microtransactions were not usable on all platforms.
- Fixed 2 client crashes.
Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1b Patchnotes - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
[Announcement] Rise of the Abyssal Supporter Packs Concept Art
The recently released Rise of the Abyssal Supporter Packs include the Trarthan Executioner and the Justice series, featuring a variety of exclusive microtransactions. We know you always appreciate the work of our artists, so in this post we've gathered some pieces of concept art for these supporter packs created by our art team. Check them out below!
Cruel Trarthan Executioner Armour Pack
Carrion Raptor Pet
Pulveriser Map Device
Apostle of Justice Armour Pack
Apostle of Justice Back Attachment
Banner of Justice Portal
Griffin Fledgling Pet
Sphinx Mystic Hideout Decoration
Early Access Announcements - Rise of the Abyssal Supporter Packs Concept Art - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Just learned about hexbear being defederated.
Parola filtrata: nsfw
I’ve had two major issues with these guys. While not necessarily worth defederating everyone, I really don’t want to deal with hexbear because:
- ALL of their content is political. When they first showed up on my feed, I watched what posts/communities came up and how their users interacted on non hexbear posts. I’ve done my best to remove all politics from my social media. These guys only talked about politics and would go to other communities to turn a normal conversation political.
- Everything was extreme and obnoxious. I don’t understand why everyone keeps calling them polite. There was a constant “you’re with us or you’re against us”/“my beliefs are always right” behavior that was really annoying, especially in a public space that wasn’t polarized before they got there. It reminded me of this one girl from middle school who would walk into a room and loudly talk about whatever she wanted until all the other conversations petered out.
They’re more than welcome to behave like that in their home, but they can’t go to a public space and expect everyone to cater to their beliefs.
From the admin on a post in Jan 2024.
While I do appreciate offering the reasoning on the matter, I'm quite surprised since I checked all banned instances and hexbear seemed like an oddity amongst the mix.
Perhaps it's so long ago that I dont remember the issues.
But to categorise the banned instances we have the likes of:
* threads
* Lemmynsfw
* maga.place
And the odd inclusion of one big instance which to me certainly feels like any average instance. Certainly no worse than lemmy.ml
Ofc its not my instance, I'm just bringing this up for reconsideration. If you don't wanna deal with it thats your decision to make. But it certainly feels unnecessary from the outside. Especially when so many nation based comms here post political content and so do most lemmy instances.
Sincerely,
PinkyCoyote/ SnokenKeekaGuard.
User and mod on this instance.
Trump says Israel and Hamas have 'both signed off' in first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
Trump says Israel and Hamas have 'both signed off' on first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
US President Donald Trump announced late on Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas had "both signed off" on the "first phase" of a plan to end the two-year genocidal war on Gaza.Faisal Edroos (Middle East Eye)
Qt 6.10 Released | flex-box layout, more vector animations, new search field, ...
Qt 6.10 Released With Flexbox Layout, New SearchField
Qt 6.10 application development framework adds a new Flexbox layout, SearchField control, and major accessibility upgrades for desktop and mobile apps.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month
AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month
Last month the Alliance for Open Media 'AOMedia' began teasing that the AV2 video codec will release later this yearwww.phoronix.com
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that’s how the codec game works.
That, and add some patent pools filled with dubious claims of essentiality, sales deals made under the threat of litigation, and ever-present claims of "twice as efficient it's predecessor" with a big asterisk. Fun times.
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That happens all the time. There’s no way to guarantee that it won’t happen with any codec or really with anything.
Yes, so there's no reason to hold back on releasing updates, since it could very well happen on AV1.
It is very expensive to defend against even when the claim is bogus.
The principle behind AV1, once again, is to have a modern codec that is out of reach from patent trolls. Those who are part of the AOM consortium, which developed this codec, have all contractually agreed to unconditionally license all patents they hold that are necessary for the implementation of the codec.
And those who are not part of the consortium and who would like to claim patents relating to the AV1 or AV2 codecs would have to face the legal teams of the companies part of said consortium, including Amazon, Alibaba, Adobe, AMD, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, ARM, Huawei, Samsung, Tencent, Meta, Nvidia, Apple, Netflix, and other large companies.
The AV1 and AV2 codecs, after perhaps H264, are the most secure codecs available today in terms of patent trolls. Nobody has both the will and the means to attack it.
Hardware = pay google -
Proprietary software = pay google or 3rd party -
Open source (d@v1d) = free (this is what most people use = VLC Player)
AV2 provides enhanced support for AR/VR applications, split-screen delivery of multiple programs, improved handling of screen content, and an ability to operate over a wider visual quality range.
aomedia.org/press%20releases/A…
AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next Generation Video Codec AV2 on 10th Anniversary
The Future of Innovation Is Open: AOMedia Member Survey Highlights Adoption TrendsAlliance for Open Media
Look at those sleek lines, it all interlocks.
AV7 is clearly the best.
Av7 - oh god imagine if you pulled that seven in a bit. Sexy.
Ah you got me thinking about graphic design now!
Good eye though ;)
The only solace I take in the enshittification of the web and the resulting rise in prices, is that we might see (be forced into) a return to the small web and an escape from the stranglehold that big tech and social media has had on us for the last 15 years.
If we’re lucky, the late-stage capitalism effect of ruining companies long term futures for short term gains might happen to entire industries instead of companies.
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Definitely. The conditions that created this version of the web have been gone for some time now. We've gone from connections that were temporarily and required hours to download a few minutes of postage stamp sized video. To always on connections capable of streaming multiple HD streams faster than real time in both directions.
For my part I'm also looking in to purchasing and trying to set up a small Adhoc mesh Halow network and running a few services on it for myself and any others in the neighborhood that are interested. A small, free (after the hardware) anarchist wireless network. 16mbps can do a lot with simple services, etc.Plus, if a number of people in the area decided to adopt and contribute more nodes to the mesh, you could go faster still.
That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.
It's a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it's still incredibly interesting.
reticulum.network/ is also pretty good for small info packets. Does a LOT more than meshtastic...but its VERY difficult to set up. Or at least it was for me.
Its a pipe dream but having small internet without a major ISP would be fantastic. But it will never happen as it is. Friends are thinking of creating a meshnet though just for fun.
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What preset were you using at the time? I know that longfast is not the best preset for larger networks that have a lot of users.
Personally, open source matters to me much more than the speed or congestion or whatever, which is why I chose meshtastic. Because the mesh core, foam applications are not open source.
Until there is an open source version, I absolutely refuse to touch it. I know that the underlying software is open source, but without having open source interfaces, I'm still refusing to touch it.
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nice! I took a look at all the options....
and decided that its all too much. wordpress get hacked daily. writefreely wouldn't install. And some of the other centralized services kinda suck. So im back to old:
nginx with a director filled with txt files haha.
Ill publish as time goes on and by interest. Ill take a look at micro.blog too. But im thinking I might create a neocities at some point just for the fun of it.
Yes, My home network setup is a bit complicated but I am using Pfsense so I have things on separate vlans with internal firewall rules to reduce risks.
All traffic in on port 443 is routed from Cloudflare to an NginX reverse proxy which decides how to connect back into my network for things
Years ago I would just run a server on the network with 443, 80 and 22 exposed directly to the world and never had any major issues. (Other than the normal automated attacks trying to gain shell access over SSH)
Gotcha, vlan setup sounds like the best possible way to do it, I don't trust my security skills at all, 22 with fail2ban is about as far as I trust myself!
The hammering 22 gets is astonishing though.
Most of these things are pretty secure out of the box.
Even without fail2ban disabling root login and only allowing SSH key authentication makes those scripts just a waste of time for the attacker. That game is a low effort attempt to just get the low hanging fruit for botnets though.
Meh.
I converted my blog from WordPress to a static site generator using Gemini's version of Markdown as the base format, and then hosted both HTTP and Gemini versions.
I later took down the Gemini version. The web site remains as static HTML driven by (a variation of) Markdown. No cookies, no JS, limited CSS. Even took out some old YouTube <iframe> tags and converted them to straight links to videos. Doing it this way does everything anyone would want out of Gemini without having to use a specialized client.
We should be promoting some kind of browser extension that flags a site as having no cookies and no JS.
How many of you out there are browsing the web using Gofer?
Gopher predated the Web.
I do agree that there have been pretty major changes in the way websites worked, though. I'm not hand-coding pages using a very light, Markdown-like syntax with <em></em>, <a href=""></a>, and <h1></h1> anymore, for example.
That depends on how you define the web
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(…
The Gopher protocol (/ˈɡoʊfər/ ⓘ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.[1]
gopher.floodgap.com is one of the last running Gopher servers, was the one that I usually used as a starting point when firing up a gopher client. It has a Web gateway up:
Gopher is a well-known information access protocol that predates the World Wide Web, developed at the University of Minnesota during the early 1990s. What is Gopher? (Gopher-hosted, via the Public Proxy)This proxy is for Gopher resources only -- using it to access websites won't work and is logged!
This has been mangled up by history. The important parts of the World Wide Web are having hypertext (basically links inside the document to other documents) and being networked (those links can take you to a completely different server). Apple's Hypercard had hypertext, but it wasn't networked. Usenet was networked, but had no hypertext.
This is laid out in Tim Berners-Lee's original 1989 proposal for the web while he was at CERN:
w3.org/History/1989/proposal.h…
Gopher has all the qualities he was talking about. Gopher was a different kind of World Wide Web. We decided against that particular route, and for mostly good reasons, IMO.
<blink>Welcome to my web page under construction</blink>
I would argue that's not quite correct. You can absolutely transfer HTML files over gopher, but you're not going to be viewing it in the gopher program.It was very much designed to be what most people would be more familiar with in concept as an FTP server today, almost. Pretty much all you could view in app were plain text files. and no links between. Everything else was a directory of files to be downloaded.
Gemini is definitely a bit of an inbetween. It does allow for linking between documents, but otherwise keeps everything simple and small, much like Gopher did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth…
The 90-minute live demonstration featured the introduction of a complete computer hardware and software system called the oN-Line System or, more commonly, NLS, which demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing, including windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.
In 1968
Wouldn't that depend on what you're watching?
You can watch reality TV on YouTube, or traditional television.
You can watch educational content and documentaries on YouTube, or traditional television.
Hell you can watch some traditional TV shows on YouTube or traditional television.
YouTube is just a platform for hosting content. Now they may have a "better" algorithm compared to traditional television, but that doesn't really change much.
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Well, have a look what TV show is getting the highest ratings. I had no idea someone could be that stupid.
I've heard this argument for like 30 years. Everything old is new again.
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Long ago, when I first got on the Internet, the big social media forum was Usenet. It was a distributed network of instances where users would have an account on a particular instance, where they could subscribe to "newsgroups" dedicated to particular topics. Their instance would broadcast their posts to a newsgroup to all the other instances that were following that newsgroup, so everyone could interact even if they were on different instances.
Then the World Wide Web grew, and centralized sites like Digg and Reddit appeared that handled the same sort of social media. Usenet faded. It's still around, I suppose, though these days last I checked it's largely a mechanism for distributing pirated files.
Someday those centralized sites might also fade. Who knows, maybe a decentralized system like Usenet might grow again to replace it?
The wheel turns.
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Yeah, Usenet was structured that way more for practical reasons than political ones. Local users were truly local, as in you usually connected to a server that was geographically close to you. Often it was on the same university campus you were on. The long-distance connections between servers didn't have the bandwidth for everyone to just be freely hopping around browsing whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, at least not at first, so mirroring the content was a better approach. It also made things much more reliable, the servers didn't need 100% uptime.
Usenet was a lot more "trusting" in its structure. The newsgroups didn't have moderators per se, and they weren't hosted by specific instances; they were more just a "tag" you could add to a post to let people filter which subjects they were interested in seeing. There was a globally agreed upon list of newsgroups and a distributed system for creating new ones, but it was all pretty informal. Wouldn't work well in the current Internet, it'd get spammed to death in seconds. But on the surface level it really felt a lot like the modern Fediverse does, with subject-specific groups and threaded discussions and such.
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No, it was every service replicating all posts in groups it served.
Like FTP mirrors of FOSS software, there are plenty of mirrors of Debian, for example. Except far bigger traffic.
Sort of. It predated the web, so calling it a "site" is wrong. Just like you can have an email application that's completely separate from your web browser, you can have a Usenet client that's also its own thing. Of course, people made web-based clients as time went on.
Your ISP ran a Usenet server that connected to other Usenet servers. The biggest problem with this system was that your ISP would automatically delete posts past a certain age. Following old threads was a pain.
Google Groups started as a Usenet archive where messages were kept forever. Google bought them and turned it into what it is now.
I get what the video is saying, but I don't see this as a bad thing. We moved on from many of those services because we found better ways to do things, or at least ways that we liked more. And when we move on from the services we use now, it'll be because we once again found something we liked better.
The internet has died several times, but each time it came back in some new way that had adapted to the new ideas and ways we came up with on how to interact with each other. I'm sure when it dies next, we'll replace it with something that better fits our changing wants and needs.
And hopefully, when that time comes, it's something much more decentralized and resilient against governments and corporations meddling and censoring us.
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Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume
Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit
Trump has claimed Portland is ‘war-ravaged’ - but residents and local authorities dispute thatAriana Baio (The Independent)
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VPN Comparison
I made a spreadsheet comparing different open source VPN providers.
Part 2 here
Providers
Notes
- Please do not start a flame war about Proton.
- Please do not start a flame war about cryptocurrencies. Monero is the only cryptocurrency listed because of its privacy.
- The very left column is the category for each row, the middle section is the various VPN providers, and the right section is which VPNs are the best in each category.
- IVPN has two differing plans, which is why "Standard" and "Pro" are sometimes differentiated.
- For accounts, "Generated" means a random identifier is created for you to act as your account, "Required" means you must sign up yourself. Proton VPN allows guest use under specific conditions (e.g. installed from the Google Play Store), but otherwise requires an account.
- Switzerland is seen as more private than Sweden. Gibraltar is seen as privacy neutral.
- All prices are in United States Dollars. Tax is not included.
- Pricing is based on the price combination to achieve the exact time frame. For example, Proton VPN does not have a 3 year plan but you can achieve 3 years by combining a 2 year plan with a 1 year plan.
- The availability section is security based. Availability is framed around a GrapheneOS and secureblue setup.
- The Proton VPN Flatpak is unofficial, but based on the official code.
- Availability on secureblue is based on the
ujust install-vpncommand. Security features must be disabled on secureblue in order to use the GUI for IVPN and Mullvad VPN, but not for Proton VPN. Mozilla VPN and NymVPN are available as Flatpaks, which are safer than layering packages. - I wanted to include more categories, such as which programming languages they are written in, connection speed, and security, but that became far too difficult and complex, so I decided to omit those categories.
Takeaways
- NymVPN is very very new, but it's off to a strong start. It wins in almost every category. I actually hadn't heard of it until I started this project.
- If you want a free VPN, Proton VPN is the only one here that meets that requirement.
- If you want to pay week-by-week, IVPN is the only one that allows that.
- If you're paying month-by-month on a budget, Mullvad VPN is the cheapest option.
- NymVPN is the cheapest plan for anything past 1 month.
- If you want to use Accrescent as your main app store, IVPN is the only VPN available there for now.
- If you want to pay for a bundle of apps, including a VPN, Proton sells more than just a VPN.
- Mozilla VPN is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is a verified Flatpak, but NymVPN also has that so it doesn't even matter.
VPN Comparison 2.0
After making a post about comparing VPN providers, I received a lot of requested feedback. I've implemented most of the ideas I received.
Providers
- AirVPN
- IVPN
- Mozilla VPN
- Mullvad VPN
- NordVPN
- NymVPN
- Private Internet Access (abbreviated PIA)
- Proton VPN
- Surfshark VPN
- Tor (technically not a VPN)
- Windscribe
Notes
- I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
- Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
- Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
- Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
- The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
- Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
- All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
- Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
- Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
- If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
- If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
- If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
ODS file: files.catbox.moe/cly0o6.ods
VPN for Privacy & Security | IVPN | Resist Online Surveillance
Audited, open-source VPN service with WireGuard, killswitch and tracker blocker. No logs, no false promises. Anonymous signup with 30 day money back guarantee.IVPN
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Can Nym be used on an OpenWrt router?
A guide is in the works.
Does it require a special app or can it be used with a standard wireguard config?
Nym looks interesting and I hadn't heard of it before, but based on my reading I wouldn't say it supports wireguard.
It implements wireguard but it still looks like you need to use their client instead of a vanilla wireguard one.
I've included it both as a post image and as an embedded image for maximum compatibility (e.g. for RSS readers), so there shouldn't be any problems. I've tested it on multiple browsers on multiple devices just fine.
Edit: It seems lemmy.world is breaking all lemmy.ml images
Port forwarding | Proton VPN
Port forwarding setup guide for ProtonVPN, plus how to configure popular torrent clients for port forwardingProton VPN
NymVPN doesn't supports it. I asked their support. They have plans for the future.
If you are looking for reliable port forwarding consider Windscribe VPN.
Israeli firm buys Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN raising privacy concerns
Private Internet Access VPN users don't look happy with the development. Read what they have to say & why they're concerned about privacy.Sudais Asif (Hack Read)
Pure vpn seams like a pretty generic scammy vpn like surfshark or nordvpn they have there own blog dedicated to why they are the best stating reasons like securing yourself in public wifi, protecting you from scams or getting hacked, protecting you against ddos atacks??? and just advertising vpn's as a jack of all trades privacy toolkit, which they really aren't.
VPN companies that are willing to lie to consumers about what vpn's actually do means they could be lying about other things, like there no logs policy.
Proton does a better job at explaining what a vpn actually does and doesn't do.
Why these common VPN myths are misleading
Does using a VPN slow down internet speeds? Is self-hosting your own VPN better for privacy? We clear up common VPN myths vs. reality.Douglas Crawford (Proton VPN)
Where is AirVPN? Arguably much better then these VPN providers offering static port forwarding among their features.
Provides configurations built for Wireguard and OpenVPN with each server having unlisted IPs to completely get around VPN blocks.
Owned by a "hacktivst" lawyer in Italy.
Multiple audit along with police attempting to sieze running servers. These are configured to dump there configuration on shutdown and run entirely in ram.
This is a battle tested VPN that has existed since 2010. They allow for completely anonymity using Creptocurrencies payments.
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How is it arguably "much better"? You just value port forwarding above all else? Has airvpn even been audited yet?
Anytime VPN discussions comes up in privacy forums it ends up being a bunch of torrent users whose only criteria is port forwarding
That seems to be a bug. That's my bad. Thanks for catching that! I'll fix it soon and edit the post.
Edit: Fixed! Sorry about that.
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Like 90% are just wanting an encrypted tunnel to a proxiy right?
VPNs and Tor are used for different purposes (sort of).
And common tasks like downloading big-ish files or streaming video should not be done on Tor (it's possible, but I believe it is discouraged), but can be done easily over a VPN.
As long as you can generate a wireguard config that works, for example, on your desktop/main pc with wireguard directly, then Gluetun should have no issue (as far as im aware).
Gluetun specific provider support is usually just there to get setup faster (I think so it can automatically get configs for certain countries, etc).
Assuming every connection you make is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS) or otherwise encrypted:
If you use encrypted custom DNS, your ISP sees only the IP addresses you connect to. If you use unencrypted DNS or ISP-provided DNS, they see the hostnames plus the IP addresses.
How does one know if their DNS is encrypted?
And what would the benefits of a VPN be, if any, in this scenario?
It can prevent man in the middle observation or attack and allow you to avoid a particular type of location tracking.
Another user on an instance I don’t see posts from talked about tls in response to your question about https. It’s important to recognize that the certificate based system for establishing identity when making a tls connection is cooked and has been for twenty years at least. It may have been designed flawed from the start.
Because of that, the combination of dns over https or dns over tls and a vpn you trust allows you to bypass certificate attacks.
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I didn’t suggest F-Droid for inclusion though. I merely used its applicable terminology.
My bad, I understand now.
Because it's security focused, it includes app stores that are good for their security (regardless of privacy). Other app stores, such as F-Droid, have security issues that Accrescent and the Google Play Store don't share. This topic has been argued to death countless times before, and I don't want to start a flame war, but do try researching it and see what comes up.
F-Droid Security Issues
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software.PrivSec.dev Contributors (PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security)
libtelio/LICENSE at main · NordSecurity/libtelio
A library providing networking utilities for NordVPN VPN and meshnet functionality - NordSecurity/libtelioGitHub
I wonder which VPNs of the ones listed open sourced their backend/server side?
edit: Neither Mullvad or Proton have...
- github.com/NordSecurity/nordvp…
GitHub - NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux: NordVPN Linux client
NordVPN Linux client. Contribute to NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
FWIW took me less than 1h yesterday to setup WireGuard on 4 different devices :
- server with
wg-easyand thus easy to use Web UI (before 2-step auth) - peers
- BananiPi 3 F (RISC-V) headless via
nmcli - desktop on Debian via NetworkManaged
- mobile phone on /e/OS via the WireGuard client (with Ente Auth to login back on server as admin)
- BananiPi 3 F (RISC-V) headless via
... and it was the first time I used WireGuard.
So I'm trying to imply that one shouldn't use commercial VPNs or benefit from their services, solely that setting up your own depending on your abilities and needs might not be as complex as you initially imagine.
PS: I did have experience with OpenVPN before and a running server already with Docker and nginx as reverse proxy.
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transmission in a container.
I do not agree with placing switzerland over sweden in that location category
and i think a category should included, that tracks age of vpn or something like that, considering this is nymvpns biggest flaw.. still hard to say how trustworthy it is + their software is less battle tested
(~~and just for someone curiouse, it should be mentioned that nymvpn does use mullvad servers/ has a deal with mullvad~~ sry i mixed that up obscura and mullvad had partnership, not nymvpn)
I do not agree with placing switzerland over sweden in that location category
I'd be happy to hear your elaboration on this. From what I know, Switzerland is seen as the gold standard in terms of privacy.
and i think a category should included, that tracks age of vpn or something like that
The issue is that age doesn't correlate with security. There could be an outdated, insecure VPN that's been around for 10 years, or a modern, secure VPN that's been around for 10 days. If I included it, there would be no "good" or "bad" values. Nevertheless, I will include this in version 2.0.
(and just for someone curiouse, it should be mentioned that nymvpn does use mullvad servers/ has a deal with mullvad)
I knew NymVPN used a small bit of Mullvad VPN's code, but I didn't know they used their servers. Could you link to this?
this is awkward i am sorry it seems like my memory failed me,
for one it is was mullvad and obscura that have a deal, not nymvpn..
and then i also thought somehow that vpns are in sweden protected by the constitution, but it appears its more like normal laws. Which appear to be effective tho.
But mainly i thought about that recently switzerland was proposing laws like this tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surv… (possible that laws like these get proposed in sweden aswell ofc)
which makes it sound like the privacy stands of the goverment is not that strong anymore, but there are probably no effects really at the moment.
I think i would rank sweden and switzerland equally i guess, i mean the famouse mullvad example kind of proofs that they are safe i think...
But like my research into the countries is not that deep, so if you really looked into this deeply and switzerland is really better for some reason, than i guess it is like this.
But i still think the age is important, like sure its completly possible that an old vpn suddenly gets infiltrated or idk what really,
but since for vpns are mostly trust based,
i think that the track record is the best option for this.. and new vpns just dont have that long of a record (personally i would not use like a 1 month old vpn for example, whoever good it sounds)
or can nymvpn offer garantuees similar to tor?
Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta
Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.Tuta
VPN Comparison by That One Privacy Guy
Welcome to the VPN Comparison! This section is meant to be a resource to those who value their privacy, specifical...thatoneprivacysite.xyz
Isn’t Mozilla VPN built on Mullvad?
Yes. That's included in the comparison.
Also, why this instead of thatoneprivacysite.xyz/#detail…
They don't include NymVPN.
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I was grumped by not seeing PIA on this break down. I’ve been using it for years and have always had a good experience with it. But I’m not so sure I know their privacy side now that I see this great break down
Edit: just re read the post again and I think PIA isn’t on here cause it’s not open source?
PIA is an American owned company obligated to comply with the Five Eyes Alliance, they’re legally obligated to retain your personal information unless noted otherwise.
Source their privacy policy, which FYi compare their Privacy Policy to another company like Mullvad and notice how theirs reads like a novel compared to Mullvads, that’s an immediate red flag.
Privacy Policy | Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read on to understand what data we collect or don't collect, how we collect, store and use the data.www.privateinternetaccess.com
Thank you for this
Still learning here
I’m finding out that I’ve been mislead. Probably by their marketing.
I remember an ad I saw for PIA saying something along the lines of “the only VPN that can prove in a court of law that they don’t retain your data”
Either it’s a lie or it doesn’t actually carry the weight I thought it did.
ProtonVPN has started to become blocked on tons of websites. I have to switch servers all the time, to the point I won't be able to keep a VPN connection up like I used to.
I've read Mullvad has worsened as well. There seems to be a general ban on VPN use (there was always some of course)
My last hope: non profits who offer VPN. They keep logs, don't allow torrenting, and require a real name to subscribe. Very few server choices, if any.
I'm... fine with that. I just want privacy. No surveillance. And I trust the non profit. Plus I torrent on a VPS anyway
What I would like to see are local VPNs, with a small enough pool of users on each server to not get flagged. A rotation between servers from time to time. Compliant with the law of course (as long as the law doesn't require total surveillance, evidently).
The goal is to hide everyone's activity from the providers and websites (yes, I know, fingerprinting)
But maybe there's some other existing tool/service I'm not aware of?
VPN on VPS (easy to do with gluetun)
Basically you use a container that's a VPN connection and connect other containers to it.
Both comments are me. Configuring Tailscale (or Headscale?) is on my to-do.
To be clear, connecting to the VPS is not what I use for the anonymizing part, it's the gluetun container that connects to ProtonVPN servers. This way I can still access my VPS with its real IP.
Not sure if there was a confusion there.
Simply using my VPS as relay would still attach my browsing to a single IP I'm the sole user of... or not? I do not know how that works.
No advantages privacy-wise, but it's like a seedbox! I keep the torrent client running.
Also I'm on a limited mobile data plan on my router at home, so this helps.
When I found out you could get a free 200GB VPS (look up free tier vps) - and because I had another paid VPS already anyway - I decided to make a seedbox. It's not a ton of storage but it works really well, very happy with it.
What would happen if you tried to put I2P on there?
... I guess you'd have to go by the different outproxies... ?
Using one only because it's super well known? Sure. It can be well known and scummy. But it can also be well known, trusted, vetted, etc.
And you also probably don't want to use one that is barely known as there's the lack of trust, getting, who runs it's, etc.
I'm not sure about your statement, but using a very unknown vpn could lead to possibly tracking you because theres less of a crowd to blend in with.
Assuming your statement is correct (idk if it is), then there's a middleground i guess.
You are right.
It is easier to blend in though if the vpn doesn't log (and before logging is added by feds if possible) or if the person tracking you is not a government and doesnt have that control or is just the service you use, etc.
Great work!
+1 to add NordVPN
Nord Security
Nord Security is one of the leaders in providing digital security and privacy solutions for individuals and businesses - Nord SecurityGitHub
Never heard of NymVPN. Does anyone use them?
I use Mullvad, and I really trust their devs. Not really looking to change, but having more options is always good.
I looked on the website. This is actually an “early bird” special price that is ~80% discounted. So after a while, it’s going to be $162/year and $310/2 years.
I don't really pay attention to these "discounts". It is, generally, just a marketing tactic. Plenty of services/websites/shops have the same discount 24/7.
trovate di pazzia tra i rifiuti della mia esistenza (dalla mia tastiera esce di tutto)
Nell’arco di pochi giorni, qualche settimana scarsa, le mie giornate sono diventate così tanto credo noiose che iniziano a spuntarmi fuori riflessioni assurde… vorrei stare infinitamente nel lettino a dormire, perché fa freddo e fa buio prima, e tutto ciò fa un pochino male all’anima (soprattutto il freddo, sto ferma e ho freddo, mi muovo […]
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trovate di pazzia tra i rifiuti della mia esistenza (dalla mia tastiera esce di tutto)
Nell’arco di pochi giorni, qualche settimana scarsa, le mie giornate sono diventate così tanto credo noiose che iniziano a spuntarmi fuori riflessioni assurde… vorrei stare infinitamente nel lettino a dormire, perché fa freddo e fa buio prima, e tutto ciò fa un pochino male all’anima (soprattutto il freddo, sto ferma e ho freddo, mi muovo in casa e il vento che creo muovendo l’aria mi fa freddo, non ce la posso fare), e le altre cose rimangono difficilmente in primo piano… ma, se questo mi porterà ad andare a dormire prima per stare in coma più a lungo, forse è meglio, tanto non è che ho molto da fare la sera… ben 2 post di recupero per i miei manga li ho scritti, e tanto domani mattina mi piazzo col PC a lezione e programmo come se fossi a casa, e tutto si ripeterà così all’infinito… 😤Ah ma, attenzione, ho divagato; le riflessioni assurde di questa sera non sono quelle di cui sopra, che tutto sommato non penso si possano nemmeno tanto etichettare come anormali, bensì… che minchia di roba esce dalla tastiera (a membrana, maledetta, mannaggia alla miseria) del PC? No, non è un pensiero che non c’entra assolutamente nulla con tutto il suddetto, perché in effetti usando meno il PC fisso ultimamente — ma in realtà, stando meno alla scrivania in generale, visto che troppi giorni sto fuori — dovrebbe accumularsi meno roba strana, e invece… scuotendola tra ieri sera e poco fa è uscito tutto questo bel tesoretto di roba (almeno, bello per chi apprezza il discarica-core, credo)… 🤢
…Peli minuscoli che mi tiro dalla faccia mentre faccio altro ed evidentemente ogni tanto finiscono anche lì in mezzo, quelli che sembrano pezzetti di unghia forse finiti lì dentro quando le ho sistemate l’ultima volta… e il resto, di colore marrone, a parte qualche microplastica sparsa e appena visibile, credo sia tutta pelle morta che rilascio gradualmente nell’ambiente anziché fare la muta ordinatamente come i serpenti… Va a finire tutto in questa specie di griglia nera di buchi (che non è come un buco nero, purtroppo, perché in quello la roba sparirebbe, invece qui girando o soffiando riesce tutta fuori, e che schifo) e boh, mi fa sembrare un mostro in decomposizione. 🧟♀️A parte tutto, non ricordo precisamente da quanto non la scuotevo così per pulirla, ma è stato non troppo tempo fa, credo… eppure, si riempie sempre di roba, e io non me ne capacito. Ma ci sarà un fottuto modo per evitare in primo luogo che diventi abitualmente una discarica? A parte i vari frammenti solidi di cheratina che vabbé, a me sembra di fare attenzione a non farli finire lì, ma evidentemente ho problemi di skill… come stramaledizione faccio a non farci finire almeno la pelle morta??? Io non sono Asmongold, le mani e la faccia me le lavo, quindi, veramente, sono esterrefatta! (NON toccate mai la mia tastiera, che sennò vi prendete 10 malattie, di questo ne sono alquanto sicura.) 😾
Frieren - Capitolo 7
Ancora una volta, Frieren decide di passare da vecchi amici... quelli che sono rimasti, almeno, e cioè uno: Eisen, il nano che...
Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”
The fellowship has attracted 16 scholars and journalists from several mainstream publications to serve as mentors, including The Atlantic, Spectrum News, The Spectator, Ynet, Times of Israel, and two journalists at The New York Times: Jodi Rudoren, the former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, who now oversees newsletters for the paper, including The Morning and DealBook; and Sharon Otterman, who covers education, health, and religion in the New York City area for the Times and who has closely covered the Palestine solidarity campus protests at Columbia and other universities.
The New York Times handbook of “values and practices” for its journalists states they “should take care to ensure” any public engagements—including giving speeches, participating on panels, teaching classes and presenting at conferences—do not “create an actual or apparent conflict of interest, or undermine public trust in The Times’s independence.”
In response to an inquiry from Drop Site about whether having staffed reporters mentoring for a program whose founder has said it exists to help Israel win an “information war” represented a conflict with the Times’ standards, spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said in a statement: “It’s ridiculous to suggest participation as a mentor in this fellowship is anything other than helping to build the reporting skills necessary for the next generation of independent journalists.”
Other fellowship mentors include CNN’s Van Jones, who recently issued an apology after drawing intense criticism for comments he made on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday making light of images of dead Palestinian children and saying they were part of an Iran and Qatar disinformation campaign; and Michael Powell, a staff writer at the Atlantic and a former national reporter at The New York Times, whose recent articles include “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World,” that criticizes groups like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming “stridently critical of Israel.”
Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”
Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.Sharif Abdel Kouddous (Drop Site News)
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Does it come with a free night with your wife or do I just have to wait my turn like everyone else?
If you're going to try to force ads at me like a boomer I'm going to make fun of you like one. Fair's fair.
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Frieren - Capitolo 6
Il tempo continua a passare inesorabile, ma le maghe non si fermano neppure in questo capitolo. Adesso sono a...
Taiwan’s president ‘prostituting himself’ – Beijing
Taiwan’s president ‘prostituting himself’ – Beijing
Lai Ching-te is “propagating separatist fallacies” while selling out to foreign powers, officials have saidRT
anyone who has to work to earn a living is a prostitute; we're just using our bodies a slightly different way.
this guy is special because he's rich enough to guarantee that he doesn't have to, he just loves doing it; he's not a prostitute, he's just the ruling's class' willing removed.
Oregon Fast-Tracks Renewable Energy Projects as Trump Bill Ends Tax Incentives
Oregon Accelerates Green Energy Projects Before Trump Phase-Out of Tax Credits
Gov. Tina Kotek ordered the move, which follows reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that highlighted impediments green energy advocates blame for the state’s poor ranking when it comes to the growth of renewables.ProPublica
The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos
Discord Hacker Allegedly Has Two Million Age Verification Photos, Including ID
It's being claimed that whoever breached Discord now has access to 1.5TB of user data, with more than two million photos.Discord (TheGamer)
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Just the UK, as far as I'm able to find. Some US users have to verify by clicking the box, but I do not believe they've been en-masse required to upload ID or use the UK's facial recognition nonsense.
From the discord age verification FAQ:
The age verification features described in this article are fully available only to users in the United Kingdom and apply to all new and existing UK accounts.
Besides some countries, people that had their account flagged as possible underage also need to verify themselves.
I know a French guy that joked about being 12 in a chat, got reported by a troll that got his account locked, and had to send his ID to unlock it.
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Throw away email! Are you going something illegal online that you would want to bypass the government and big techs absolute right to spy on everything you do! That's it people will henceforth only get one single email address assigned at birth that they will be forced to use for all online interactions henceforth. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself with all the children you put at risk with your thoughtless selfish behaviour. Now upload an image of your face certified by a government official and a copy of your birth certificate just to be sure that ~~terrorists~~, uh ~~criminals~~, uh child abusers don't win.
*Please tell me this is the most superfluous /s of all time. *
So, I looked at age verification - it was made clear photos were on device only and never transmitted.
If this turns out to be false, then the legal fallout would be apocalyptic.
(Edit: or not, see the comment by ambitiousprocess below)
How to Complete Age Verification on Discord
Age verification helps us provide you with an age-appropriate experience, such as managing default settings and controlling what sensitive content you see on Discord (more on when age verification ...Discord
Here's the information directly from the FAQ as of right now:
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
These were photos submitted via the compromised support provider (Zendesk) via the Discord support portal.
Automated age verification via their partner (k-ID, which has its own issues) is a separate system, which was only available to some users. Other users had to contact Discord support manually and submit photo ID, which went through Zendesk, which was then compromised in this breach.
support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Additionally, for the automated process, it's the video selfie that's on-device and never transmitted, but photos of your ID and selfie photo are transmitted, just supposedly deleted afterwards. Those ones are **not* included in this breach, as far as we're aware, as it's an entirely different third-party with wholly separate infrastructure.
Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification
Popular VR game Gorilla Tag partnered with the company k-ID to comply with age verification laws.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
Which is why you farm off stuff like this to third parties whenever possible
DiscordCorp will get a slap on the wrist and give people an offer of a free six months of discord turbo (so long as you provide payment info so it can auto-renew on month seven).
But ANY meaningful consequences will go toward Zendesk Corp for not doing what they were supposed to. And... then everyone will just use ZZendesk instead
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In my opinion, they're still somewhat at fault, because this was them failing to find and configure their software to work with a third-party identity provider who's infrastructure was built to handle the security of sensitive information, and just choosing to use email through Zendesk because it was easier in the meantime. A platform that I should note has been routinely accessed again and again by attackers, not just for Discord, but for all sorts of other companies.
The main problem is that legislation like the Online Safety Act require some privacy protections, like not collecting or storing certain data unless necessary, but they don't require any particular security measures to be in place. This means that, theoretically, nothing stops a company from passing your ID to their servers in cleartext, for example.
Now compare this to industries like the credit card industry, where they created PCI DSS, which mandates specific security practices. This is why you don't often see breaches of any card networks or issuers themselves, and why most fraud is external to the systems that actually process payments through these cards. (e.g. phishing attacks that get your card info, or a store that has your card info already getting hacked)
This is a HUGE oversight, and one that will lead to things like this happening over and over unless it becomes unprofitable for companies to not care.
What is PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Complete Guide
PCI DSS stands for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It is a set of security standards designed to ensure that all companies that handle credit card information maintain a secure environment.GeeksforGeeks
While there's plenty of merit to what you're saying, I'm too sick to have a coherent thought beyond maybe pointing out that the main issue with legislation like this isn't that it doesn't specify security requirements, but that it's forcing people who do not have infrastructure established to collect and manage sensitive info of this nature in the first place.
Discord never set out to collect this much PII, and as far as I'm aware there's never been a breach of their payment information processing. Like you say, it's an established thing to handle payments and is fairly routine to implement. There is no routine method of handling ID verification yet, and the solutions that exist were forced to be developed rapidly and with no standards.
The legislation is at fault for putting people in this situation - that they used Zendesk was a boneheaded move (I haven't seen details of the breach, was that really the vector that got attacked?) and sure, they're at some degree of fault for letting this happen. But the vast majority of the blame lies at the feet of the asinine legislation that all but explicitly mandated that this situation arise.
Oh, of course the legislation is to blame for a lot of this in the end. I'm just saying that Discord could have already partnered with a number of identity verification services that do already have this infrastructure up and running, with standardized and documented ways to call their APIs to both verify and check the verification of a user.
At the end of the day, Discord chose to implement a convoluted process of having users email Discord, upload IDs, then have Discord pull the IDs back down from Zendesk and verify them, rather than implementing a system where users could have simply gone to a third-party verification website, done all the steps there, had their data processed much more securely, then have the site just send Discord a message saying "they're cool, let 'em in"
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Are they legal in any EU jurisdictions? I'd hope not.
Not to mention half of their TOS being illegal/unenforceable in the first place.
Sounds like Discord is about to have 2 million cases of arbitration to sort out.
One person takes them to arbitration, it's short work for their legal team, if 1000 do it's harder, if 100,000 do, you still have to respond in a timely manner. The costs would be astronomical.
Valve and a few others removed it for that reason, it's a bomb waiting to blow.
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The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don't even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.
- Zendesk for their bad OpSec
- Discord for both outsourcing this AND not having contractual requirements to properly secure and destroy PII when it was no longer required.
I work in IT, and treat PII like it's dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.
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"Apparently" only those who were challenging the verification results and uploaded awaiting reverification are affected.
Not that that isn't bad enough
Me when I get a request for PII pertaining to a suspected corruption case: Have one of our corporate lawyers give me a written and explicit statement of what data I'm supposed to send to whom or get bent. I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole and gloves unless I have a legally solid affirmation that what I'm doing won't come back to bite me, and that our workers' council knows about it and will back me up.
I'm reluctant to even confirm that I can get that information in the first place. I mean, I'm the one with full access to the audit tool, so I probably do, but I'd have to access that data in the first place to check. I don't think that anyone would notice or care so long as I don't share that information, but as you said: dangerously radioactive; don't touch if I can help it.
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Are you really defending somebody else's income generating business?
Discord is a threat actor
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I think it's a UK thing
They have been passing legislation to basically dox their citizens for them to gain access to the internet
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I believe people from ~~EU~~ UK and people who say they were under 13 and got reported. They needed to send in a pic of them holding their ID to get unbanned.
edit: UK people not EU
Any time your account gets locked for age reason it requires it. So if you have never had an age lock it's unlikely you had to do it.
It's as easy as someone reporting you for being underage with no proof or even just saying "I'm 14 and what is this" as a meme to get locked tho.
Hell the auto flag system can hit you if you just talk like a kid sometimes.
And why any service asking it should be moved on from.
Pretty sure these people could have found a teamspeak, matrix, or mumble server without the requirement.
I've criticized the sort of personal information that is allowed to be managed by banking entities in the cases of Accidental Americans, where people who have nothing to do with America except that they were born in the US have their data handled by private entities to be passed onto governments they've never been in. Public entities that should handle and be responsible for it in their actual home countries want to wash their hands off from them and there's too much money against too small of a minority for anyone to care about their rights. It doesn't matter how banks have consistently proven that they or their staff can act criminally, either.
At least here, it affects a lot more people so it will likely bring in the change and reform it needs, even if the sensitivity of this data is significantly less.
Gonna have to say, this guy is definitely gonna be screwed by this:
Proofs the UK is a shithole as well funnily enough.
Nothing against the Brits but their government oh damn that's bad.
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so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?
I would suppose that this is because there is not a single way valid for every govt. For example, in Italy we have SPID, which is different from what Germany, France and every EU state have.
If Discord wanted to use it, they had to implement a numbers of way to do it, which can be not that easy.
Politicians: That's the point.
Joking aside, now that I think about it, what difference does does it make if companies are stealing infos and spying on you with government mandated age verification checks, and hackers stealing your government mandated age verification info? This just reinforces my view that governments (and companies) are nothing but glorified gangsters.
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
We nearly already do this with certificate services and they would probably be in a good position to offer an id service.
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
Then you just need to hack this company instead of Discord, you only change target.
A hacker stealing your id can do way more malicious stuff like more expertly crafted phishing and identity fraud just to name two.
No one involved in this from the government to the companies is innocent in this chain though in my opinion. A breach is always bound to happen.
To me giving a company or government permission to create the databases allowed for mass facial recognition is the same thing as giving the facial recognition data to criminals. It will be leaked/hacked/sold, etc. It is only a matter of time.
How many Social security numbers in the U.S. have been leaked/hacked/sold/illegally transferred? ~340 million.
Facial recognition will be a near useless tool for security in 10 years, and 100% for population monitoring at the rate we are going.
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my friend who also lives in the uk was unable to view a Reddit post that had a picture of dental decay because it was marked as nsfw and Reddit requires you to verify age using ID/selfie to be in compliance with the uk's Online Safety Act to see anything marked as nsfw.
my comment was a play on the people who think this is all worth it because it might prevent kids from seeing porn
IN BRIEF: Kiev's terrorism, Australia’s Russophobia: what Russian Foreign Ministry said
IN BRIEF: Kiev's terrorism, Australia’s Russophobia: what Russian Foreign Ministry said
The countries of the collective West, covering up the terrorist acts of the Kiev regime and the regular attacks of the Ukrainian army on the Zaporozhye nuclear power station, are becoming "direct accomplices" of the Ukrainian crimes, Maria Zakharova …TASS
Political opponents commit demonstrative punishment of Gutsul — lawyer
Political opponents commit demonstrative punishment of Gutsul — lawyer
The judges denied Evghenia Gutsul the right to attend meetings where her sentence of seven years in prison is being challengedTASS
Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
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Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
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Oh wait, you said should, not why.
I mean, I’m as big a ML fans as you’ll find on Lemmy, but this is a slop machine to build some Altman hype.
A controllable, integrated version as a tool, with augmentations like VACE or SDXLs controlnet would be neat. Thats also great because it’s not so easy for 1 click zero effort automated spam, which is by far Sora's largest market as is.
…And guess what. We have that, it’s neat already, it’s open weights, it's improving, and it’s not so controversial/abused because there’s an actual tiny barrier of entry to using it, like Davinci Resolve vs instagram filters.
The less barriers to entry the better for something like this. Imagine all the people who have always wanted to make movies/tv shows but haven't had the ability to who could use these tools to make pilots/trailer to sell to studios, or even create full series/movies to self-publish.
Trying to put barriers and "controls" in front of it purely because you don't like that it can be used to make "slop" is dumb.
You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.
People who don't have the drive to make things without AI well never produce anything of value with AI.
You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.
You've never been able to make and iterate as quickly with as high quality as you can using current video generation AI tools. That's fact.
What "e-waste tech" do you think you can make full scenes with realistic people and CGI with?
Smart phones record exceptionally high quality video. Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.
People who want to make stuff will find a way to do it.
Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.
Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.
And take years to learn how to use well, compared to literally seconds of using an AI video generation tool. Then there's the actual rendering and iteration, which can now be seconds versus hours/days.
Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.
People who want to make stuff will be able to make amazing stuff with ease with AI.
You AI haters are all so closed minded, only capable of thinking of the lowest common denominator. Who cares if people make AI "slop" when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?
And take years to learn how to use well
Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft. Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you're gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, "Yo Sora, make me a movie that's like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements."
Who cares if people make AI “slop” when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?
Because that's all that it's good for. Every year it's, "Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It'll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro." And every year it does get better, but it's still complete and utter garbage. It's still slop.
And even if it's not slop, LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media. Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech, it will always be that. LLMs just work that way. It is a limitation of the technology.
If you can't see that, then you truly don't understand what this tech is.
Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft.
So you think that things should always be difficult and extremely time consuming, taking years to learn, even though new tech comes out that means it doesn't have to be, just because.......why exactly?
The same people that dedicate themselves to learning and perfecting a craft can also use these tools and will be able to do amazing things with them - or they can continue not using them if they want.
Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you’re gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, “Yo Sora, make me a movie that’s like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements.”
Ok so again, narrow minded and short sighted. What people can do with this is do their usual movie making process - storyboarding, script writing, etc - but can then literally "film" the scene and chop and change it, iterating and fixing almost instantly. It doesn't just spit out an entire movie - at least yet! You can give it exact words to say, camera angles, filters, etc - it basically allows the would-be director to shoot scenes in real time at any time they want, from any location, regardless of the weather/time/location/etc.
Because that’s all that it’s good for. Every year it’s, “Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It’ll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro.” And every year it does get better, but it’s still complete and utter garbage. It’s still slop.
Dude, the technology has been around for only a few years lol. In that time it has absolutely gotten so much better - Google's video generation is a mind blowing upgrade for example.
LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media.
You don't understand how it works if this is what you think.
If you can’t see that, then you truly don’t understand what this tech is.
Huh? The first step is basically immediate generation of video that looks real.
What on earth are you talking about?
slop feeds full of bullshit
That look incredible though. That's the point - now people can make incredible stylized or realistic videos with nothing more than a few words and a few seconds wait.
You're like someone complaining about a technology like raytracing because all you saw was some devs use it to do a few shadows and cut their framerate in half. You can't see the big picture. You can't see that with every medium there is "slop" - there are terrible writers writing books, it's not just all new york times best sellers. There is terrible music, not just grammy winners. AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.
AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.
Doubt.
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It's a bit excessive for my taste as well. Traditionally if you felt the need to cut this much just to make the sentence come out the way you want, you'd just do another take instead of making this many cuts in post. Over-cutting of spacing also makes the pacing a bit too "word-vomit" rather than "polished" imo.
I imagine this is more normalized in stereotypically "zoomer" presentation of video content, but it might also just be this guy (or their editor's) style.
I don't think there is a good reason. It's an interesting ability for a model. I can see the appeal why people are interested in much the same way I can understand why people climb mountains. Wouldn't wanna do it myself but I can see why you like it kind of way. For me this falls into the category of "the general public doesn't need to have access to this." I get mad when I hear people talk about it in terms of what is and isn't allowed in it. "And then I tried to put a light saber in it and that was okay but I couldn't make me into Super Mario." You just created enough heat in a server farm that will kill a polar bear, that needs to be cooled with future drinking water we need to desalinate, and you have huffed some more air in the hyped up bubble economy surrounding so-called AI. All so you can see where the model draws the copyright line? And if you think that I was modest in my hyperbole, you'll probably agree with me when I say in a similar spirit that we as a species deserve to eradicate ourselves off this planet.
The so-called AI peddlers have the same problem as news peddlers online. It's fucking hard to turn users into paying subscribers. And they need to turn a profit at some point. It's the merciless mechanics of capitalism that dumps all these models on an unprepared general public at dumping prices. A drive to increase shareholder value above any other consideration. It's time to change that.
And I'm not opposed to this model existing. Research it, fine tune it, offer it for the actual cost you're running in the background plus a bit of a profit margin. And when it costs $207.40 per month to make these brief videos, I'd be okay with that. It would price out enough users not to undo any of the insufficient climate saving measures we as a species have already implemented.
Just going to drop this wiki link, so people know the precident set with this case is one of the driving causes for our current misery.
The general public won’t have access to it. They are locking it down more and more.
Governments, corps, the elite will have access though. That seems worse than open access to me.
This is a bit irrelevant but we can't use sea water for cooling instead. And if we're already heating sea water can't we just heat it up more in the end and create a combined desalination server farm.
Are they any major issues I'm missing
I have never once asked why something should exist. It’s the human will to make new cool things, and in 5y this model will train on your refrigerator, so you aren’t stopping it. These videos complain about the problems of exponentially increasing technology rather than look towards solutions, like anti capitalist organizing. Like, ok, this destroys copyright and IP: guess what copyright and IP is DUMB CAPITALIST NONSENSE. Let’s overthrow it. These people are complaining about companies selling access to these models under cost: that’s because this can never make a profit! If you don’t need labor, cost goes to 0. This will spur unemployment and harm, which will spur worker participation and class warfare.
And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.
To me all the complaining is the sweet voice of class consciousness.
And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.
Meat, whether you think it's moral or ethical or not, serves a need. People need to eat. People don't need AI slop.
It's kind of like saying, "Well yeah I leave this 50kw diesel generator running 24/7. It's way less environmentally damaging than meat. No, I'm not using the power it generates for any real purpose, but who cares, it's environmentally friendly!"
And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.
It's not meat.
It's cars and planes. We know this because we observed a drastic drop in air pollution in both 2008 (following the financial crash) and March 2020 that can be attributed to basically the entire planet no longer commuting and traveling.
That said, LLM's water and carbon footprints are likely going to be far more devastating than meat consumption, not that it'll matter. Everyone is still going to vote Democrat and Republican and things will steadily continue to get worse.
Literally mention meat and the internet goes berserk. Does anyone have any commentary on the remainder of my post?
We still couldn’t reverse climate change with 2020 or 2008 numbers… We are FUCKED. Best not to think too hard about it because thanos could barely solve climate change.
I disagree that LLMs carbon footprint will be more than meat. I think it’ll remain thousands of times less than meat basically forever in fact. That’s basically claiming that GPU servers will outnumber cows and chickens in the future. But whatever.
It's not meat.It's cars and planes. We know this because we observed a drastic drop in air pollution in both 2008 (following the financial crash) and March 2020 that can be attributed to basically the entire planet no longer commuting and traveling.
It's both, and a handful of other industries. The tiny blip of dropped emissions during covid did absolutely fucking nothing to help air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. It's just feel-good bullshit the media spread around. Travel is a significant portion of ghg emissions, very comparable in impact to meat production.
Ukraine cancels local elections
Ukraine cancels local elections
The powers of currently serving officials have been extended until after martial law is liftedRT
RT? As in Russia Today? Complaining that the country they invaded isn't holding local elections while they're bombing the shit out of it?
Weirdly, no one has commented on straight up Russian propaganda.
Not many countries hold elections during an active war.
It's remarkable that demradlibs used to be all "anti-war" during the Bush years but gradually moved so far to the neo-interventionist right wing through Obama that you're cold war level gung ho for NATO and for spreading Russophobia.
In reality there's absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about west aligned nations to have dysfunctional elections or open dictatorships and no amount of screeching about "western values" and corny reddit slogans like PutlerPutlerPutler changes that. Which is US/EU propaganda to the point of censoring "enemy" media but weirdly doesn't bother you amirite.
So you assumed I'm an American liberal...
Firstly, I'm not American. I live in Europe. So fail one. Secondly, I'm a Socialist, so fail two. Fuck liberalism, and screw America, but ultimately, that doesn't mean you have to swallow everything the enemies of American push. Oh, and I'm on Lemmy because I haven't touched Reddit in a while. You're the weirdest leftie that is still actively on an enshittified right-wing hell hole and the projection is real crazy. You cannot demand critical analysis from Americans, and fail in it yourself.
Oh, btw, Russia is capitalist, with many, many billionaires. The proletariat are not reaping the benefits of their exploitation.
I live in a world where you can be anti-captalist and not shilling for Russia.
Let's go back to basics though, if you have a source saying something, you have to ask who said it, and whether they have a motive. Russia Today is the Russian state broadcaster. It's a really dreadful source to use to understand a war Russia are currently in. I'd suggest you'd find a less biased source, but not too many of them are pushing Russian propaganda.
I'm really curious. How do you run polling stations, where you have to advertise to the public where they are, and to come there, and protect yourself from drone and missile strikes? I really want to understand how you can run elections where you're being invaded. Can you help me out here? Any examples?
I get really annoyed with Libtards throwing around terms like "tankies" but you're really kind of walking the ball into your own net (football reference) when you're shilling this hard for Russia.
If like me, you were wondering how this changed anything since they've been doing this for years, then you will find this part of the article to be relevant:
FTA: Martial law and a general mobilization were first declared in Ukraine in February 2022 and have since been extended numerous times.
So.. in other words, no... nothing has changed.
Chinese scientists unlock insights into far-side moon using Chang'e-6 samples
Chinese scientists unlock insights into far-side moon using Chang'e-6 samples
The China National Space Administration and China Atomic Energy Authority have jointly released new findings on far-side lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 6 mission, revealing that the moon's far-side mantle is colder than the near side.ThisCGTN
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people familiar with Indian companies' Russian oil purchases said
Smoking gun evidence indeed
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I wasn't blaming anyone, I was pointing out that it has become way too normalised for "people familiar with..." and "speaking on condition anonymity..." etc to be pushed as credible sources by news agencies that claim to be "gold standards" of journalism. At best it is lazy, too often the subtext is, "we are making this shit up."
The point of that story to promote rage about how western sanctions are being evaded
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China installs 100 solar panels a second as total PV capacity tops 1 terawatt
“Just staggering:” China installs 100 solar panels a second as total PV capacity tops 1 terawatt
China’s cumulative solar capacity surpasses one terawatt after the addition of a "staggering" 93 GW of new PV capacity in May alone.Joshua S Hill (RenewEconomy)
Well, that's one way to test an identity.
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It popped into my head, if I had to see it, then so do you.
i wish i could see it, it would give a fascinating new dimension to that movie lol
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Musk’s X settles lawsuit with ex-Twitter executives over $128m in unpaid severance
Elon Musk and X have settled with four former top executives at Twitter, including the former CEO, who accused the billionaire of failing to pay $128m in promised severance pay after he acquired the social media company in 2022 and fired them.
The former executives say that Musk falsely accused them of misconduct and forced them out of Twitter after they sued him for attempting to renege on his offer to buy the company. The plaintiffs are Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s former CEO; Ned Segal, Twitter’s former chief financial officer; Vijaya Gadde, its former chief legal officer; and Sean Edgett, its former general counsel. Musk and X have denied wrongdoing and said the executives were fired over their performance.
Musk’s X settles lawsuit with ex-Twitter executives over $128m in unpaid severance
Four former executives say Musk falsely accused them of misconduct and fired them after he acquired the companyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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