That’s not really company imposed spyware though. If I thought in any way that my boss was trying to make me install spyware I wouldn’t the very least install it in shelter, something that has been disappeared during the Google play store purges. You can still find the apk online atleast until Google kills android soon with their ban on user installable software outside of the play store.

Cool, I have some ideas as well, like maybe write a script that hashes configuration files that needs a secret password to put into edit mode, if the config changes without being out into edit mode first, disconnect the server. Maybe use a raspberry pi that’s hidden from the network to do this. I know that wouldn’t work for large websites maybe because they can’t afford to go down for hours at a time, but it would give you an additional layer of security for sensitive stuff. I’m more into game programming but I know how exploits work and stuff. I’m pretty sure many types of things like this already exist in the market. One idea I had was pretty neat. Basically in your eula you reserve the right to hack back people that try to hack you, and you have an automated system that uses some known exploits to get a ping or maybe install a rootkit on anyone who is trying to mess around in your system. Later you can just get on and deanonymize them. This requires you actually spend time researching your own zero days. People in defcon hacking competitions do this. They are sort of masters with decompilers and hex editors.

Yes i never saw this feature until I discovered shelter which uses this to protect your personal info.

Still worth it. The amount of time you will save by not having junk on your phone slowing it down will make up for it.

It depends a lot on the person involved. People vary a lot. A fair bit of women like the traditional female role but many don’t. They do tend to make relationships toxic in the modern day because being viewed in those terms, men have very little value in the modern economic games. Dating a man was more appealing when that meant you could just be a stay at home wife and raise children maybe, also maybe work part time when the kids grew older. Now there is little reason to date a man. It means mostly giving up your entire life for essentially nothing, having a roommate really. It might lower costs a bit but at the cost of taking on tons of risk and exposure and losing the sole claim on your property. The amount of women seeking traditional relationships far outreaches market capacity. Around 10% of Americans are doing well financially, even less than under feudalism in relative terms of social status. Half of Americans are basically in poverty. This means that even traditional relationships are probably not going to be good, as any man who has that kind of money probably has about 9 other options besides yourself as a woman. Men also just don’t really have a good place in modern society.

Pseudocapitalism and corporatism is so antihuman in so many ways, from fiat currencies creating high tax burdens making property ownership very unrealistic, to the very low economic efficiency making workers spend most of their time at jobs to get anything done, to the ruling class being full of actual morons who stay in wealth forever because of fiat currency and the stock market always returning more than what anyone else can expect to gain over their life, giving them infinite leverage to start one bad company after another to essentially move money and debt around. They spend tens of billions on propaganda and political advertising to keep power, while your average American is struggling decade after decade and has no political group to represent their interests as a working class person.

You should just get a cheap phone to use for work. No reason to have their software on your own device. That will undoubtedly be used for creepy purposes.

Stardew Valley, which is an amazing harvest moon like game, and subnautica if your device is compatible.

Another good option is to download winlator from the internet and use it to play older Windows games. I play FTL on it. You could also play stuff like Civ probably. I think civ 5 has a touchscreen mode.

It helps, honestly one of the best defensive strategies is defence in depth.

Also doing basic things like running your webserver in a VM, and you can write some script or something to just block any IP that is port scanning I’m pretty sure. I would do that if I was hosting. Also remember to block port scanning in Firefox. It’s not enabled by default. This helps to keep you safe when you land on a scanning webpage.

This is why I use emby.

No but I definitely should

One good solution might be decentralized webhosting and infrastructure. If people want high speed access, they have to seed it at a low rate. Nothing crazy is required just constant seeding at low rates. A few max connections and a cap of maybe 50KBps min is required. You also use random hash checking against multiple clients to verify correctness, and you have p2p blacklisting of known bad actors. A solution for people who don’t have steady Internet access might be to just seed a similar amount on quota or to buy p2p credits to access the content.

This is part of an idea I have been working on for an internet 2.0. There is a basic cryptocurrency called compute coin, and as you seed you mine coin. The verification works by utilizes many nodes to verify everything is working correctly. You can buy coin that people mine instead of seeding if you wish. A very small portion of each transaction, a fraction of a fraction of a percent goes to a nonprofit who works on the tech and fomalizes the standard. You can also just buy compute time on the network. People are free to sell their resources at whatever price they want and the market balances itself automatically. The transaction fee is calculated automatically to cover the budget of the nonprofit which oversees it. DNS is also handled p2p. If I were in control I would also make it mesh network friendly, with sliders to prioritize what the user wants, from latency, vs avoiding certain countries, vs cost, vs using a whitelist of trusted nodes for security purposes.

This would also require swarm security to prevent any one user from being able to sniff out keys and passwords and stuff. Basically the network would work together to generate periodic temporary keys to allow machines to access the data for a period of time without revealing itself to anyone. The nonprofit would be the only completely trusted authority and it would have a board who oversees banning of nodes and the money seized would go to support the development of solutions and strategies to combat any fraud on the network. This seems expensive at first, but with Asics this can be made very cheeply. I imagine people would want to run different types of nodes to generate currency. Asics would be a good cheap solution. It’s a market that will build itself very quickly. You can also have verified nodes that cost a bit higher then average probably to access but can provide additional security for certain tasks. These can either be crowd sources or run by institutions which publish node lists.

If the law wishes to regulate it, this could only be achieved by region specific keys and would not be network wide. Courts might have to set up a way to subohena resources that gets registered in a public domain that gets released to the public after a year or so, in order that citizens can verify what the government is snooping on.

It can also be used for free by just having a algorithm automatically determine mining rates to pay for the use of the user, with a buffer to keep a seemless experience.

Perhaps for this particular problem however you could just set up a p2p platform with file verification. People could offer free nodes, businesses could pay money to these nodes to get access to high speeds and large amounts of bandwidth. People can also join p2p nodes where what they can download equals to what they contribute to the network. This can just be estimated based on average use and maintained with a buffer if people really don’t want to seed all the time.

Oh nice I’m far from a professional programmer. Thxs for the explanation.

Who cares? The average EU citizen will benefit far more from the regulation. I don’t think any of their laws have been bad so far, mostly requiring standard connectors, requiring user access to install what they want without apples permission, and monopolizing software stores in general. This might be a great opportunity to actually get some consumer friendly competition out of Europe for once. Also Samsung already allows third party app stores, has USB C like every other modern device, and allows side loading. It’s going to get interesting once Google starts complaining that they can’t control users devices after they buy them as well with their upcoming ban on non Google approved software installations.

You could just limit the precision of the float. If you are writing banking software or something you could just add a special case to flip flop the remainder or something. I think pretty much all modern languages support this. You should also be using doubles for any numbers that could potentially grow really large like fiat currencies. The issues with floats really is that it will often favor precision over range. You could end up with lots of numbers after a decimal and very little integer range which could cause overruns or something.

They see everything as sinful, because they themselves are the most sinful people. It’s no mistake that serious religious people tend to be both some of the worst and also some of the most miserable people you ever meet. I believe in God as well but I never assumed God was a dumber then your average human, or that it was just a way for me to impose myself on the world. I always assumed God was close to perfect and so whenever I would assume things about God, I never assumed dumb things like God being a Republican or something. To me God was just an imaginary friend who explored psychic spaces with me. Someone to talk to or pray to if you want to use their auspacious language. The older I get the more I see religion as evil. Even if some of what it says is good, some of what Hitler said was good too. That doesn’t make it a good thing. Religion at its core is a very mean and oppressive worldview and the people who practice it aren’t very rational on the simple ways. Not to state that everything needs an explanation, but the idea that a grown adult would think God dislikes someone because they are gay or something is incredibly dumb. When you see the dark side of religion like this. If you can put yourselves into the shoes of others and see that religion has created so much horror and suffering for simply kind and innocent people who aren’t hurting anyone, not to mention it dehumanized almost everyone, especially women, and is mostly powered by fear, you can really see the issues with it. The worst problem of all however is that it trains people to not think rationally but to think like a schizo. To start with an answer and work backward to try and prove it.

The other dark side is that humans are basically monkeys and they can be extremely shitty to each other. It’s hard to say whether the atheist or the deist constitutes the better person, but at this point in history and probably all points, religion just became a vector for the powerful to impose their shitty views onto everyone else. Stuff like what project 2025 is doing. They are basically using religion to mobilize a idiot army to destroy freedom and democracy, so they can have their hoa corporatism. They are like the Nazis in so many ways. They claim to be things when they aren’t. They claim to be free market capitalists when they are anything but.

What really bothers me is how if they could just be honest for once in their life and admit that the reason they really voted for trump is because they are sick of mass immigration, they might actually get a compromise or resolution. Probably not because the state doesn’t care about those things, and sees it as something that will drive down labor competition and stuff, but because they cannot be honest they live in these delusions and it becomes their reality just out of repetition.

Also their weakness, their actual moral failings make them extremely easy to manipulate by people who are quite literally evil. Because they hate gay people for example, trump got power a second time and he is quietly in the background destroying everything they ever loved. The constitution, the free society, their basic ability to even use the internet and access information without being brainwashed. Trumps hyperinflating the economy which is going to destroy the bonds market, honestly already has, but much of it isn’t going to be refinanced for a few years. This hatred they have makes them blind to everything. Their fear of being an outsider is also a giant weakness to them. They feel as if they have to be maga to fit in at work, to keep their jobs. They are a slave to money in this sense. This weakness also traps them into being manipulated because they don’t realize how many people actually agree with them, most of them in reality since your common person, for all their weaknesses actually isn’t an evil piece of shit like the Republican politicians. Their laziness also becomes a vector for evil to be done through them. They love to be political and vote, yet most people have zero desire to actually learn anything about the issues they vote on, or even history. Now it’s too late. You aren’t allowed to learn about campaign finance, history, political theory, or any of this. The algorithms will try to hide this stuff from you and direct you into brain rot. Their lack of moral character also becomes a vector of evil. They can never take responsibility, because it’s hard. It hurts a bit to admit you have been fighting for the wrong side, but with this pain also comes the ability to change for the better. These are the types of things I learned through my meditations with God. None of this is in the Bible. The Bible teaches obedience, not trusting your own judgment, God taught me the opposite of this, only show obedience to people who deserve it, judge within yourself so that you may know where you are wrong and improve. Most people tell you that one side or the other is better, God taught me that no side is better but representative of two fundamental irreconcilable aspects of reality. Honest work vs human dignity. Democracy as strength in freedom but republicanism as strength in property. Both are necessary. Humans will have children they can’t take care of and then expect others to take care of it. Republicans also always tend to become deeply dark and cynical people because the culture is always against their interests even when they are valid.

Religion teaches you to love religious people and hate gay or atheists people. God taught me to love good people and hate evil people. To realize how lucky I was to know him,but to also understand that so few will ever know him because they are too dishonest and do not love what is good and true like their own soul. That is the shame. I ended up becoming a lucifarian eventually. Not really for anything other than style and aesthetic reasons, and because I dislike religion so much. I still have my good character tho. It’s also a statement I guess that if you want to shit on me as a trans person then I will not play your stupid games but be what you don’t want me to be. It’s also because I’m not an atheist or really anything close to it. I don’t feel right describing myself that way. I still pray all the time to God, and I think it’s a better way to describe myself that takes the power away from religion and humanity to try to define what I am in a way that they like to. It’s also protest against the right, I spent my entire life being a humble and kind Christian, and all of these people were atheists who called me stupid. Then when maga becomes popular, all the sudden they claim to be Christians and are just horrible people. They have destroyed something I liked, and ironically now I usually say I’m an atheist just because I hate those people so much. Someone became a Christian less then 4 years ago trying to preach to me about some stupid hateful schizo nonsense. It’s pisses me off. Those people do not know anything about God, it’s just a way for them to use power and steal from something. That has been a great realization for me. Christianity was only cool when it wasn’t popular like everything else I guess. As soon as it becomes popular it gets ruined by the common people and their stupid views and biases. I never read the book, I just followed in the ways of Christ because even as a child I could see the flaws in scripture and religion in general, and yet they do just the opposite. They cling to the book and religion because they do not actually believe in God. They just see it as a useful tool for indoctrinating young people. That is why they will never know God. They treat God worse than even their most hated foe, because they never believed it was real to begin with.

Sorry for the monologue btw, not sure if you even care to hear that, but at least it’s unique. Might give you something to think about today during work to make the hours pass gracefully.

I like KDE because it doesn’t look like it was made in the 1980s but I know many fellow nerds probably like the nostalgia.

Almost like the only things most Christians do is what they personally like about the religion. The part that tells you to not sleep with a man if you are a man, literally tells you to not wear two types of cloth in the next sentence. You never hear republicans going after the people wearing two types of cloth do you? Never a single word. Not once in the history of the Republican party have they tried to dehumanize people who wear two types of cloth. Funny how that works. Almost like religion is just a tool they use to spread their hate.

Also fuck the people who wrote in scripture that being gay is a sin. I hope those people burn in hell. 2000 years of suffering and killing of gay people because some asshole couldn’t be bothered to think for 30 seconds about whether it’s actually wrong or not. Probably a good thing because without its several flaws, religion might have came to dominate the world.

cd /

sudo rm -rf *

Basically the Linux version of deleting system32 but idk I’m not a super Linux nerd yet.

Cool I didn’t know that