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.

Most people haven’t, till they have.

For security, Vanadium (only available on GrapheneOS. For privacy, Tor. Most everything else falls between on the scale.

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When was that, apparently I missed that.

A quick search says November 2019.

Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.

Torrentio has started blocking VPNs.

The sheer volume of communication data is far too large to monitor everything.

By people, sure. Run it through a magical analytical algorithm that flags stuff for people to look? Or if that’s still too much everywhere, they could focus it on a certain area’s towers and process that data. Will it catch everything or not generate false positives? No, it’s not perfect, but I could see it helping them and being done.

I doubt an agency like this would just hoard the info and not proactively use.

Even a lot of offices have moved to VoIP.

Depending on where you go to school, 70% is passing while 50% is not. While “not far off,” one is a C, the other a F.

they overspend by millions

Because everyone needs their cut.

either way a military tank is better than a civilian grade sedan.

Because they’re two different vehicles, not two different classes of product. If you compare military grade phones to civilian phones, the civilian would be better, and probably cheaper due to not having the buzzwords attached. And I bet a tank made by a private firm for non-government entities would in fact be better and cheaper than a military tank.

I would like something in between…BTW I’m installing Bazzyte on another PC.

If you’re somewhat familiar with uBlue, Bazzite, and immutables, I’d go with Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE). All three are uBlue / based off Fedora, so you don’t have to learn a 2nd OS while working on your current OS (Bazzite).

https://universal-blue.org/

These things will very likely not work on non-proprietary devices.

Depends on your bank. Most work on alternate OS (like GrapheneOS), and of course some don’t. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

If an app (especially bank) doesn’t work, I forward them this and try to ELI5 that their current method is flawed and less secure: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

How about the ~100 Grammer? Or even just “100 G” if you’re trying to be “hip.”

But when did you set Authy up? I don’t recall when Authy made the change, but it wouldn’t kick you out. It would, however, prevent you from signing in a new device. So if you lose your phone, you might lose access to those tokens…

Same website (granted, different author, but), same inflammatory language, same vendor, referencing previous erroneous article…I’m not even gonna read this one. Just going to copy/paste my previous response from the previous post:

At a certain point it’s the consumer’s (and blog writer’s) fault, and that’s after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that’s bad.

Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.

Doesn’t he have a rather large role in the party of small government?

And hopefully does something about. Disciplinary for the poor OPSEC and/or better resources to avoid it and/or better laws to stop this unfettered data collection and/or better training to avoid it in the future. Here’s hoping. Holds breath

Depends. In my experience, it usually does exist. Now there are hallucinations where GPT makes up stuff or just misinterprets what it read. But it’s super easy to read the GPT output, look at the cited work, skim works for relevance, then tweak the wording and citing to match.

If you just copy/paste and take GPT’s word for it without the minimal amount of checking, you’re digging your own grave.

I uploaded one of my earlier papers that I wrote myself, before AI was really a thing, to a GPT detector site. The entire intro paragraph came back as 100% AI written.

I’m sometimes super slow at the start of self checkout. If the bags are stuck together, not open, and if I didn’t bring my own, sometimes it takes me 2 minutes just to open a plastic bag. I’m trying my hardest!