As frustrating as this escalation is, it also signals they are losing and becoming desperate.

It’s difficult for them to change history, when people can point to previous versions of it. That’s why the capitalists are trying to shut all of these down.

Use borg/borgmatic for your backups. Use rsync to send your differentials to your secondary & offsite backup storage.

It depends on the surveillance coverage. If it’s widespread enough, they can track you between your departure and arrival locations. You’d also need two more disguises for both entering and exiting.

And of course, if you have a cell phone on you that pings anything, the jig is up.

Setup Lidarr, and subscribe to lists for curated content. Pretty sure you can even subscribe to Spotify lists for it to auto download. But finding people who make lists recommending new stuff you like is probably the best route to go.

There’s been a few stories outing the feds as running most illegal porn sites on the dark net.

Exactly. Who gives a shit?

I mean… I could recite the exact setup of mine in detail, but I’d probably be happier if my brain matter was dedicated to something else. Do not shame the ignorant. Envy them.

They knew this would happen. This was the intent. They’ve also been constructing cop city style military bases near most cities for “training,” and the collective reaction is largely apathetic.

The city leadership was not gullible pawns. They were involved in setting it up for this from the start.

Having a great Friday night!

You don’t think the EU and US are sharing surveillance data?

Germany’s returning back to full fascism, with overt state surveillance. This is bad news.

These efforts are almost never to get access, as they already have backdoors built in, but rather to legitimize the data they’re already gathering illegally. Once it’s legitimized, they can present it as is in court, rather than needing to go through the process of parallel construction.

Plus, legitimizing the backdoors allows other lower agencies access to them.

I’m surprised the toy market & microtransaction industries are not aggressively fighting this. YouTube has been the primary way for them to reach kids for the past decade.

This is misleading. It will keep your information private from the website you’re accessing (supposedly), but the EU authorities will know full well which websites you’re visiting and surveilling.

And of course, they will apply the non-compliance claims to absolutely anything they want to censor.

More like weigh the potential benefit with the potential risk.

I know it sounds wild, but now everyone’s medical data is going to be fed to Palantir, and RFK jr wants to put mentally ill people into camps. Are you comfortable with every mental health survey you’ve taken at appointments being in his hands? Do you think people with drug use in their medical history are going to feel comfortable with their health data being filtered through an AI selecting targets?

I mean, you’re seeing the same news we are. Still think I was being too paranoid?

The west is literally helping identify and kill journalists who are reporting on their genocide.

And it’s not even a new thing. Julian Assange was targeted by the US for exposing their assassination of journalists. No consequences for the assassins. And the UK & EU enthusiastically participated in helping the US in this.

Been telling people for years that you shouldn’t tell your doctor anything you want kept completely private. They always planned to get access for government databases. Plus, healthcare systems are notorious for security breaches.

No. Even mounting Nextcloud shares over the lan, on a 10gb fiber connection, gives absolutely dogshit performance.

Western fascists do something fascist: “What are we?! A bunch of Asians?!”