The rules of cybersecurity:
Under no circumstances should you own a computer.
If you absolutely must own a computer, under no circumstances should you connect it to the internet.
If you absolutely must connect it to the internet, it’s too late and they already have you
That’s fair, honestly I was mostly joking. I just have a fairly deep distrust of IoT devices, even if not for the privacy angle they’re generally not built with robust network security in mind.
I know that it’s done when it stops making noise.
That’s the neat part, the definition is whatever is most convenient for them in any given moment. They’ll define the most milquetoast liberal as a socialist if they get in their way.
Piracy is a service issue, plain and simple. It would be all but dead if media companies gave their customers what they actually wanted, but line must go up at the expense of literally everything else.
Damn man, go for a walk or something.
You’re very angry for a person who literally used the term themselves a couple of comments ago. What term would you rather use then? It’s colloquial, everyone knows what I’m talking about. Are you the kind of person who gets angry when someone doesn’t call it “GNU/Linux” too?
Obviously capitalism makes pretty much everything worse but let’s not pretend AI wouldn’t have issues without capitalism too.
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Americans and their exceptionalism again.
That’s horrifying. I really hope he’s triple-checking everything.
People hate inconvenience more than they hate their data being mined.
If we’re being real I don’t really trust anyone with my data.
Interesting that she apparently had knowledge that would tear down “corrupt system” before but wasn’t interested in sharing it until the corrupt system turned on her.
Yet you participate in society. Curious.
Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.
This is gonna be an unpopular opinion here but telling people who have used Windows their entire lives to just switch to Linux as if it’s that easy is entirely unhelpful and makes the Linux community look elitist and out of touch.
That thing is so ugly that it almost loops back around into looking cool again