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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Revolution is a monad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That depends on your threat model. It's a useful strategy to hide your traffic from your local network admin (e.g. at the workplace) and your ISP, but it's a bad strategy for hiding your identity from the sites you're visiting.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I'm sure you're a great couple but if your concern is future-proofness consider separate domains.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Privacy is a trade-off against convenience, and there is no perfect privacy.

VPNs are a mediocre privacy tool, because they presuppose trust in the VPN provider. Tor is flawed because it is open to correlation attacks.

There are low-hanging fruit that everybody should be using like sensible cookie policies, HTTPS-only mode, and DNS over HTTPS.

If you are looking for a solution on the far end of privacy/inconvenience you could look into I2P and use that situationally.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah there was a probably a nicer way to do what they are doing

I understand the worry that this is coup

but if you choose to believe

Seeing as there is nothing I can do about it

I empathize with the sentiment, but you're delusional.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, I've only seen it done by referendum because parliament / congress had been dissolved by then. But hey, YMMV

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The way things are going, the next "vote" you'll get is to ratify the new and improved constitution. I've actually seen a couple of coups first hand, that's usually how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Don't get me wrong, it's terrible that they were granted access to very sensitive information (government contracts, employee data, probably tax returns last I heard) with no oversight. That's gone, no way back.

But make no mistake, this is not a heist. It's a coup. They are seizing control of meta-infrastructures of the government: payroll, contracts, payments, communications, software. This is how you hold a country hostage.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Should really be prefaced by: Don't bring your phone. Write the phone number you plan to call if arrested on your lower arm in sharpie. If for some reason you have to bring your phone, read the following.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

This! It's just the name of the software, not sure why everyone's getting so worked up about it.

I think it's a brilliant use case for federation, hope this sees some adoption!