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).

Preacher: Can you read, my son?

Bubbles: Well that depends; can you go fuck yourself?

source

OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944 (declassified)

Good memory, it was the precursor to the CIA.

OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944

There’s a link at the top for the full pdf. And do note, OSS is Office of Special Services, the WWII precursor to the CIA - not Open Source Software lol.

Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.

Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:

• Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

• Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

• When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.

• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

• Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

• Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!

I read about some smart tvs computing a hash of what’s on screen to phone home about, in attempt with figuring out what content a user is watching when that content is 3rd party controlled.

We need some privacy laws up in this mother fucker.

stupid clear background thing

In web design that’s called a modal.

They’re things on the road that take you to your abode.

“And there’s really cool people here!”

Get me a bucket, I’m gonna fucking puke.

It must smell so horrible in there, with all those brands (farts) mixing together.

And living this way isn’t new there, either, it’s an “evolution”.

I can recall a story over a decade ago about google employees renting uhaul trucks to live in, parked on the google campus parking lots. The same article also followed some engineers who were illegally living in rent-a-storage spaces.

So compared to that, it makes these pods look like luxury living, even though they’re all pretty depraved.

Being a software dev myself, I’ll gladly take a lower salary in a low cost-of-living city if it means I can own a house (and not be mortgage poor, either).

If you buy OEM laptop, how would you sell subscription windows with it?

“SomeShittyAntivirus free for 12 months with purchase of this laptop!”

s/SomeShittyAntivirus/Windows/g

Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.

It’s called meth.

A moose once bit my sister.

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!

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.

Edit: Tilde

I prefer the call it a floppy hyphen. Though I’m not allowed to use the term in code reviews anymore.

Edit: Oh shit! An sdf.org account, first one I’ve seen in the wild. I haven’t used mine since I don’t want to goof off like I do and reflect poorly on them.

Pffft.

What about the hadron collider firing up in 2009?

Or the Mayan calendar running out in 2012?

Or the great cosmic body collision of 2024?

Oh wait…