It’s not that we’re uninformed, it’s that we disagree.

route my traffic to a different country where I don’t live in and them viewing my activity is potentially less of a problem

Depending on where you live, and where your service resides, this could be tricky.

In the US, for instance, if you’ve chosen a provider in Australia, then a FVEY agreement could be in place to share that data. This gets around the technicality that intel gathering is not occurring on US soil and is not being done by the gov.

And again with the US, if you’ve chosen a country that’s not amiable to sharing user data, the US could very well be justifying that country as a target for pilfering data anyway.

So, that would leave choosing a service provider within the US, which should need to go through the FISA courts for any access to citizen data, but who knows after the Snowden revelations.

I guess that’s the state of privacy if you’ve got a nation state that’s targeted you for surveillance. Only way around it I can think of is data to be encrypted in transit and at rest, and only you control the keys. But that’s not something that’s going to happen with something like mainstream email anyway, too inconvenient for most folks (and you also don’t know if your recipients are security conscious either).

Fucking gyrenes, where’d all my crayons go?!

TempleOS has entered the chat.

The first two and the last three are the same

I read that as “all five are the same”. And I’m like damn, don’t want to work in a slaughterhouse if that’s true for you!

I remember crashing in a friends room after a night of hard drinking, sleeping in a reclining chair. He gets up in the middle of the night, walks over to the closet, unzips, and straight up takes the longest piss I’d ever heard to date. Right on the carpet, which makes really curious splash sounds within the first several seconds of becoming saturated.

So yeah, moving voluminous amounts of liquid through the human osmotic filtration system. I’m actually still quite surprised to this day that he didn’t piss all over himself in his sleep instead (or worse). And that was high school, I wince to think about how college went for him.

if you’re using the same password for everything since 91 there’s around a 0% chance that password hasn’t been leaked

Plot twist, they’ve never had their password leaked due to never having a password.

They spend every last waking moment trolling through public or university libraries to find computers that people haven’t logged out of, and are still logged into social media, dialup modems, irc, bbs, mainframes, etc. It’s these accounts they make posts from.

Pretty lonely world when you only ever get to make one comment on one account at max like once a week. And then you never get to check the replies. You never get to check your email either, you don’t know if anyone has sent you and e-card for your birthday.

Oh and not to speak of constantly getting kicked out of those libraries once the librarians recognize you. To the point where you have to move to yet another city to have any online time again.

But hey, they’ve never had their password leak at least!

unless you have nvidia. Fuck nvidia.

flips off in Torvalds

That’s a feature. Statistically, comment quality is inversely proportional to it’s depth.

Don’t go deep diving!

(And this is /s if anyone’s wondering.)

For me it’s funeral potatoes, or half the desert dishes from various potlucks that would happen in the chapel gym.

Jokes on them though, all those recipes are posted online now! Don’t need a temple recommend for that shit lol.

That’s how mine are these days. I just noticed that my prescription expires after a year (the paper one), so if I’m tempted to get an updated pair of frames, it’s going to mean an eye exam for me.

They played some minesweeper for 10 minutes.

Yeah that’s pretty fucked. Who uses a brass toothbrush?

Oh damn, for a second I thought it was a pic of that transatlantic flight that had to turn around due to an explosive diarrhea incident.

Everyone has these feelings

Not me!

Rural public transport: Paved road^[1] and two feet!

[1]: Paved road optional

Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

(The idea’s that the company tanked, just like this tanker did.)

The front fell off.

Oh boy, don’t ask a mormon about baptisms for the dead then.

| you fall through the floor of your toilet and spin off out into space

$40 worth of the right mushroom variety can get you the same effect.