VidarReturns

I'm so bored Middle East conflict. It's a decade long war, and Israel is winning..
Israel are terrorist scum, but that doesn't automatically make Pakistan good. It's a suck situation, and the USA taking sides with Israel somehow is supposed to make us care more.
If Pakistan were to win, then would it be a bastion of freedom? No. Again, it's suck situation, but it's also a waste of effort for us to concern ourselves.
What's next? Taking sides in the Ukraine/Russia debacle?

2024-04-12 06:04:50

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Many Libertarians aren't going to be happy with this message of pointing the finger at politically left wing parties. But it's true that it's primarily the political left that gets people fired from jobs and attacks people in their personal life. Generally, the political left have no morality, will lie, cheat, and steal from the opposition without feeling guilt. While the political right have their own problems, at least the political right tend to be moral.

2024-03-22 09:09:44

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90% of people use the operating system installed on their device. End of story.

2024-03-09 05:30:41

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This would have been a great way to lead the article. Put the best stuff out front.

2024-03-07 08:15:36

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Matrix isn't the enemy. At least Matrix gives the Option for federation, and more widespread usage would only help make self hosting easier. imho Signal is the centralized and data-collecting abomination people need to be warned about.

2024-03-07 08:10:04

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You'll get the most subscribers by appealing to the lowest common denominator. Sad reality. 🙂

2024-03-07 08:06:33

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Glitches out? Hmmm. On Android, my friends, family, and I have never had Element force a sign-out.

2024-03-02 18:32:25

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Interesting bit about the Gab ads. I saw a post from Gab recently talking about how little they make from ads and how they intend to disable media uploading by free members. Gab seemed to indicate they may be removing ads.

2024-02-25 17:31:14

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I like the topic of the latest article, but I'd like to make 3 critiques regarding the content if I may.
1. Mark states crypto is a "cesspool of ignoble intentions". That could be interpreted as "There is a lot of scamming going on in crypto", and would be very True. Mark's choice of ambiguous words certainly could be made more clear. I don't really know what his opinion of crypto is in general use.
2. Mark wants to begin "forcing KYC"? Maybe. Or maybe some other verification is needed? We don't know. What we do know, is that absolutely more verification of some type is needed to prevent imposters. Exodus never uploaded their program to the snap store. The malicious snap package was someone pretending to be the creators of Exodus.
3. Canonical wants to "pretend Snaps are all about cross-platform distribution"? I'm not a fan of Snaps. I can't even use Snaps on NixOS. But there is something Flatpak and AppImage can't do that Snaps can- Snaps can run a background service. Snaps are good at non-GUI software. Is Ubuntu intentionally making the GUI Snaps slower than they could be? Probably, not. But that's the good thing about FOSS technologies. If we don't like the Snap GUI package, then we can still use the Flatpak or AppImage instead.
I try to give this critique fairly and with good intentions. I'm thankful for the article, and the light it shines on the problem of the Snap store. Cheers 😊

2024-01-10 07:26:40

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I would have liked to seen the article come from the perspective of "Look, what is this? Are you okay with it? Here's why we should be concerned" and quite less condemning.
Aside from that, great information to bring to light. I did not know this, but now I'm glad I do. Perhaps we need a browser extension to alert if the site we are on is using a CDN

2024-01-07 13:31:32

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I like the write up. I didn't know Signal was hosted on Amazon

2024-01-05 17:24:55

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Whether anyone agrees or not with the positions of Simplified Privacy, this was a great write up. It spells out very well where you stand, and the good reasons for doing so.