There are some that were fixed, but fixed with great effort. The hole in the ozone layer for example.

My final answer will be overpopulation. Personally though I think the population should be about 1 billion just so I don’t feel quite as much existential dread at my own insignificance.

They can see the timing and packet size for your requests to the VPN server, as well as what your VPN provider is. On the VPN’s end they can see what sites the users (collectively) are visiting, the packet sizes, and the timing. That information alone is enough to identify who is doing what with reasonable accuracy.

This is before issues of using the government’s massive resources to brute-force encryption, possible government backdoors in VPN servers, and browser fingerprinting.

There are various steps that can be taken to mitigate this, and this of course assuming the government has access to the ISP’s metadata from both your network and the server’s network (not a stretch, but not necessarily guaranteed).

Did they not already have an army of lobbyists?

I assumed they did, given the amount governments are bending over backwards for them.

I’m not sure the topic is really about privacy, but if your threat model requires a VPN + Tor, you’re already screwed.

The government can see the metadata of your requests. With enough metadata they can identify what you’re doing. Adding a second layer doesn’t really change that.

I stopped watching him myself for a few reasons.

Firstly because I watched that 3.5 hour documentary on the Nvidia AI GPU black market and thought “this could’ve been an email”. I gained next to nothing from the time I spent on it and I did not enjoy it. The same applied to the rest of his videos too.

Secondly because I’ve started to be pro-professionalism, and Gamers Nexus lacks professionalism such as in his dealings with LTT.

iVPN, PrivadoVPN, Windscribe and ProtonVPN are generally considered leaders in the space IIRC.

Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux.

Why OpenSUSE specifically?

Firstly, my general rule is “upstream or Mint (because screw snaps)”. CachyOS was a decision I made prior to this rule but otherwise I have 6 options (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and OpenSUSE).

• A rolling release is out of the question, so Arch’s out.
• Ubuntu’s always out.
• Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux. I value security so Mint and Debian are out.
• Fedora tends to adopt new technologies fast, which isn’t really what I want.

So by process of elimination, OpenSUSE it is.

Another part of it is nostalgia. I used it briefly when I was first switching to Linux full-time. I ran into various issues and moved off it. Private internet access wouldn’t install, I didn’t even know what proprietary media codecs were at the time, and tumbleweed had a few bugs that caused me trouble. Despite all that, I’m nostalgic for it partly because of the themes I ended up installing.

Two reasons. Firstly because it’s illegal to have the same distro on two different machines, and secondly because I’ve been meaning to switch back to OpenSUSE for a while (but I ain’t gonna be gaming on OpenSUSE).

IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I’m thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora (and switching my Fedora Laptop to OpenSUSE maybe).

I don’t get it. Why is everyone donating to Omarchy. What are they hoping to get from that?

I wish as a user I could deny app’s permissions. Normally it’s just something like below with no option to break certain functionality for privacy.

This app will …

[Install] [Cancel]

They’ll use machine learning to determine based on your behaviour if you’re under 16, then they’ll ask for proof of age. They are required to have multiple options and none of them are allowed to be a checkbox. Sites are also supposed to take measures against circumvention by VPN whatever that means. You can easily circumvent this by not creating an account, unless you rely on the YouTube subscription feed like I do (though I’ve got a fallback now).

I personally support the idea of restricting social media, but banning accounts is the complete opposite of what’s needed. The algorithm should be what’s banned.

Ummm, they already harvest your personal data to that extent. I guess some of the really paranoid might be caught in the wider net but honestly if you’re that paranoid then you’re probably not using social media directly anyway. The media too is bringing up this point in that it’s a privacy concern but the internet is far less private than 99% of people think anyway, it’s a data security concern but not a privacy concern.

Now, the recent age-checking for porn introduced by the e-Karen without any parliamentary or even media debate, that’s something to be concerned about.

Apparently Brave’s got some cryptocurrency components, so I guess that’s where the cult-like following is.

No, while I do hold countries like China and Cuba in higher regard than America, I don’t hold them in higher regard than any real democracies and I hold countries like Russia and North Korea in even lower regard than America.

GrapheneOS exists for maximal security and privacy, not for freedom.

Not a Pixel 3, that’s not supported anymore by the Graphene or Google devs.

EDIT: Network issues meant duplicated reply.

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