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Fun fact, the url in the original ad redirects to this video because the MPA couldn’t be bothered with the domain renewal

www.piracyisacrime.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

Sounds like a pretty average day in the Linux community

Well, let me start with this gorilla they called Harambe…

I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand * TorrentFreak

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

I’m not scared of governments surveying me, as someone who has worked for several national and local governments, they don’t have the time or budget. I’m not scared of advertisers surveying me, they’re just going to try and sell me something anyway. I’m not scared fo data brokers, they don’t want my data, they want to sell it to some one else for a profit and don’t really care about it.

What I am afraid of is someone I’ve pissed someone off and that any of the groups above don’t care about my data enough to protect it from the asshole who will use it vindictively.

A lot of paranoia on this community :(

There’s a few sign in checks (The variety makes me think Disqus or something similar.), a couple of keep alives, your phone registering for Wi-Fi calling, Fallback DNS requests, a couple of CDN requests which I would get is likely update checks and finally YouTube content for NewPipe. I think I’m seeing five tracking cookies based on the rest of your apps here, probably being sent “Do Not Track” requests.