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    2 months ago

    I wonder if some sort of “Dead Man’s Switch” might be an appropriate solution for something like this? IIRC there are services that will send out messages to certain people if you don’t log in for a set amount of time, so maybe something like that could be set up to email friends/family/a lawyer/the consulate of your home country or whoever in case you get snatched?

    It probably won’t be able to tell them where you are or what exactly happened obviously, but it could at least let people know something’s up.


  • I feel like the “getting into privacy” journey for a lot of people tends to look like a bell curve - you start off with a few apps and minor tweaks to protect you from the worst online privacy invasions, and then it gradually builds and builds until you become the sort of person that has all their cat pictures on an air-gapped encrypted server hidden in a cupboard somewhere while you use SearX to find the best mask that will confuse facial recognition cameras, and then after a while you break through and just go back to using a few apps and tweaks to protect from the worst of it again.






  • Yeah as a European, I’d like to see America get back on track but I think we kind of have to see it as an unreliable entity at best and a hostile one at worst for now.

    And even if Trump is out in 4 years (not a given at the moment IMO) and isn’t replaced by someone just as bad (or worse), there’s no guarantee that US politics won’t just slide back into the same nonsense in 4 years anyway.

    I think the logical thing for most other countries to do is to figure out how to go on without the US and hope it comes back around eventually, but this might take a long time to unfuck.


  • Brit here. It’s always been like this, at least for my whole lifetime. I remember in the 90s they were trying to get biometric ID cards going with people’s fingerprints and retina scans on them, and the government has been pretty consistent with trying to undermine encryption, harvest everyone’s metadata etc. Best I can tell, we seem to be the testing ground for any Orwellian nonsense that gets dreamed up, before it gets shipped out to the States and other places.









  • I did poke around a bit more and found that I didn’t have the direct mode on, so it was hopping around. Switching that on and doing a direct connection made it much better, like 50Mbps. But that’s still only 25%-ish of the regular speed, whereas I thought it’d be about 50%. But way better than like 2% of the original speed which is what I had before lol.