Incredible community project. Massive scale. Looking forward to this much more than to TES 6. Also doubt that Bethesda is even capable of creating a top-tier game these days.

What I don’t really understand as a non-US citizen is why no one from the current US regime (except Trump (who has legal immunity, which is already laughable and highly problematic)) got into any sort of legal trouble over any of the unlawful and unconstitutional acts that were done for many months or years now. Even when considering that Trump himself is immune, why does it seem like all the others are immune, too? Is nothing working over there? Is the US justice system already completely and utterly broken? If you steal candy from a random shop you probably get 100% prosecuted (and quickly), but if you act against fundamentally important laws or even the constitution, you just get away with it?

Not just themed Chrome but with Microsoft’s anti-features (data gathering) and unwanted integrations added on top. Or instead of Google’s. Not sure. Anyway, if you don’t want to freely give away even more of your browsing data to either Microsoft or Google you shouldn’t use any of those.

If you want a Chromium-based browser for the desktop, try Brave but be wary that you need to change lots of settings to make it behave well (but it’s still the least bad Chromium-based browser, when not counting Vanadium for GrapheneOS/Android).

If not, try Librewolf, which already behaves well out of the box and reigns among the top Firefox-based desktop browsers.

If you read “national security” as a reason anywhere, you can read that as “bullshit”. True for any administration.

After you’ve already established security, you can add obscurity (without compromising security) on top for an even bigger gain in security overall. But you can’t do obscurity in place of security.

I read somewhere (and it seems very plausible, though I’m not sure whether it’s scientifically accurate) that the subjective feeling that time runs so fast is something you automatically get with increasing age, and it has to do with what’s still exciting or new for you in life and what is not. With increasing age and life experience, you get the feeling that anything is still exciting or new less often over time. You’ve kind of seen it all, that’s why days seem much more similar to each other than when you were still a kid (when almost every experience you’ve made was still a fresh one), that’s why each day is less memorable, that’s why it seems like time is flying by like crazy.

This is not just a dark chapter. If they also get this power, they can eliminate or disappear anyone at will. It’s one of the last major things they need to gain full dictatorial powers.

I’d guess that filling the gap with pretty much anything is better then leaving an actual gap. Maybe add a proof from police that you weren’t in jail or something.

Fascism doesn’t want education or truth. It just wants loyalists who follow the fascist doctrine

Fascism doesn’t want education or truth. It just wants loyalists who follow the fascist doctrine

In this particular case, I don’t get what’s in it for them. Of course they generally want more power and wealth, while ignoring everything else. But is this also really about that? If so, how? Also they are alienating even a big portion of their stupid base with stunts like this. It doesn’t seem useful, any way I look at it. It doesn’t seem lawful evil or neutral evil like they usually are. It seems chaotic evil.

“Terrorism” is being used as a highly relative term. Just like international laws are also being viewed as highly relative.

GrapheneOS is the best mobile OS. Even though the Graphene team has weird habits of communication which might be off-putting for some, the OS technically still is the most secure AND most private mobile OS distribution you can have on any phone. It’s literally at the top, according to many technical and data protection experts. It’s so good that Cellebrite can’t crack it even with physical access, and some police in some country (I think it was Portugal) will assume you’re a criminal for using it, because it’s so secure and private and they can’t stand the thought of someone fully utilizing their personal rights. Plus, it has great documentation and is easy to install. Despite it being so secure and private by default, it still allows you to shoot yourself in the foot by installing the sandboxed Google services and so on, if you really want to. So it can also be used like an off-the-shelf Android, just with some additional hardening and extra protections on top which you benefit from, but the benefit will be much smaller of course when you install and use spyware apps.

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Das liegt daran dass die Rechtsextremen schon seit vielen Jahren versuchen, durch Manipulation und Propaganda die Konservativen mit ins Rechtsextreme Lager zu ziehen. Leider haben sie mit solchen Manipulationsstrategien längerfristig Erfolg. Deshalb ist es wichtig, klare Grenzen zu ziehen, denn die AfD versucht, viele Grenzen zu verwischen, um daraus einen Vorteil zu ziehen. Zum Beispiel, indem sie sich selbst als konservativ tarnt, obwohl sie rechtsextrem ist. Zum Beispiel, dass eine linke politische Einstellung nicht automatsich Kommunismus oder Anarchie bedeutet. Zum Beispiel, dass eine konservative politische Einstellung nicht automatisch rechtsextrem bedeutet. Das müssen sich die Leute heutzutage immer wieder neu ins Gewissen rufen und sich immer wieder überlegen, was eine Partei wie die AfD eigentlich will und worauf sie hinarbeitet: nämlich genau das gleiche, was die Nazis in 193x-194x gemacht hatten.

Kurz vor der Entstehung des 4. Reichs in Deutschlands gibt es nur 3 relevante Gruppierungen: Faschisten, Mitläufer die sich von Faschisten beeinflussen lassen, und Antifaschisten. Alles andere hat keine Bedeutung mehr - man ist entweder dafür, es ist einem egal, oder man ist dagegen. Insb. Linke und (echte) Konservative müssen mehr zusammenhalten, damit hier kein 4. Reich entsteht. Die neuen Rechten sind stark geworden durch massive Propaganda im Internet, aber sie sind genau wie die Nazis damals besiegbar. Nichts ist unumkehrbar. Wer glaubt, dass schon alles verloren sei, spielt den Faschisten nur in die Hände und will Deutschland längerfristig ruinieren. Es kommt jetzt darauf an, frühzeitig den Kurs zu korrigieren, bevor Deutschland 100 Jahre später erneut durch Faschisten ruiniert wird.

Yeah. It’s also why I tend to write longer mails/messages which should be easy to understand and unambiguous, no matter who reads it. It means I have to deal with much less follow-up questions, which always annoys me because they often come at random future dates when I’m already busy with something completely different and maybe already forgot details about the issue by then. The ideal case is when an issue is solved and explained with just 1 mail/message. Then you can immediately focus on other things.

Generally, a Samsung phone isn’t great for privacy. Consider getting a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it. Much better Android baseline. More secure as well.

Any connection to Samsung’s servers is likely non-essential, but do check that OS updates work.

Google Play Services is Google’s main surveillance stack on every commercial Android distribution. It transmits a lot of unique device info to Google, every 20 minutes or so. The minimum data being transmitted is:

Phone #
SIM #
IMEI (world-wide unique device ID)
S/N of your device
WIFI MAC address
Android ID
Mail Address of your logged in Google account
IP address

However, this app might be required for Google Play to function. And also for some other apps. So check those dependency issues. In general, you should prefer using open source apps or any apps which don’t have such stupid dependencies. Some apps merely complain when you don’t have the Play Services app running (by displaying a popup) but still work.

There’s also the issue with Google’s DRM called “Play Integrity”. Some apps use Google’s Play Integrity API to “verify” that the device is an “officially sanctioned Android” and then act like any other Android is “unsafe” and then refuse to work. If you encounter this, be sure to complain to the app developers about this.

If you need the Google Play store but want to block network access for the Play Services app (which you should do), you should probably use the third-party Aurora store app.

About the Ironfox connections: not sure, but the “firefox-settings” hosts from Mozilla sound related to the Firefox Sync feature which syncs your settings/bookmarks/… with Mozilla. If that’s the case it’s also non-essential and can be blocked.

Used to prefer GOG over Steam. GOG did nothing for Linux gamers though, they didn’t even release their Galaxy client for Linux. Will prefer GOG over Steam again when this changes (they said recently they want to change this, but only after Valve has already invested a lot into making Linux gaming a real thing with almost zero friction). That’s also basically the best thing that Valve has done - they really did help to make Linux gaming a reality, and Linux gaming is an important step towards toppling Windows’ dominance. They deserve a lot of credit for that. But there are also plenty of other things that you can criticize about Steam.

If you’re on Windows though, you should definitely always prefer GOG over Steam because it’s DRM-free (you buy it, you own it). Of course, there are many more games only available on Steam, so it might not be possible all the time, but at least you should prioritize your choices.

We also have plenty of other monopoly problems, one of the biggest is YouTube.

The trump family wealth has increased by a lot since his 2nd term. His own wealth went up from like 1bn to 6bn. The wealth of his supporters and big corporations also went up. The rest doesn’t matter.