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Yep! Battery + solar technology has advanced phenomenally in the past couple decades. We’ve already reached the point where solar + storage is cheaper than nuclear, even as far north as Sweden.

Save for niche applications, Nuclear energy is borderline redundant. Along with the classic points against nuclear (mining, meltdowns, waste), renewables are inherently more decentralised which promotes community ownership and reduces need for expensive infrastructure, plus it’s about 10x faster to set up.

Ah, I see, yeah I’m not aware of others doing both at once. I do think it’s a decent security model.

And yep, the big deal is controlling entry+exit gateways. Trusting those will always be the fundamental risk point in VPNs.

Well, it’s basically what Tor does, just with extra hops. So the vulnerability is still the same, but you’re trading off higher cost/lower speed for mitigating the risk somewhat.

Many VPNs (including Mullvad) do this “noise packets”/size hiding encryption thing. That’s good, but not unique.

I find this stuff interesting. It’s real distinction from Mullvad seems to be its “decentralized” model. Best I can tell, anyone can set up a server, stake some crypto collateral, and act as a link server in return for a share of pay.

While I think this model can work, my fear is that it’s subject to the same vulnerability as the Tor network - If the five eyes control a big portion of nodes (and given they’re profitable to run, why wouldn’t they do this?), then they can follow your traffic easily.

Chances are, like with Tor, that this fear is a bit overblown. But it’s very hard to know. I think the model (anyone can run a server) does have its own, probably equal weaknesses, compared to a single name (eg Mullvad) who stand to lose their entire business the second they’re suspected to be giving up data to authorities.

I think Proton are decent, but they aren’t great. Proton recently were legally forced to give up user information to the FBI by Swiss-US agreements after identifying a protestor’s email address. The VPN’s a slightly different ballgame, but the risk I’d say is meaningfully higher still.

Mullvad’s cash and Crypto acceptance, as well as its determination to hold onto no information, makes it significantly better. Whereas Proton will and have to give up whatever they’ve got. Depends on your sensitivity to risk.

It isn’t really going to be ‘banned’ though, because that’s impractical, and this legislation isn’t aimed at porn production or distributors. They’re mainly criminalising individuals for “possession” which can include simply seeing it online.

The real issue is all this law will do is enable police to arbitrarily imprison people for up to 2 years by claiming they viewed the pornhub front page. It’s yet another front for further police-state clamp down.

There’s a lot more I want accounted for before I accept this explanation

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“Stop Murder” always seems to translate to “stop murderers”. wth smdh

Growing dandelion indicates soil? I think the dandelion growing in between my house bricks and on my roof would beg to differ!

Well, that depends on it… being a mistrial, or missing new evidence. The appeals process doesn’t help when a hangry judge gives you a harsher sentence per their discretion.

For those who don’t realise, this is a demonstrable phenomenon - Hungry judges pass down harsher sentences, are less likely to grant parole, etc.

Not by much. Salts can do it a little, as can cold.

To make any vaguely noticeable difference, you’ll want to pressurise and supercool it.

As someone who has personally dealt with that kind of large contract, the data protection does not flow over to regular customers at all. Even with a big Google contract, our company still had restrictions on what kind of data we could put up there, specifically because of how Google said they’d process it.

Yeah no.

“Turning off a smart feature means your Workspace Content & Activity will no longer be used to improve the relevant smart features moving forward. The learnings developed from this improvement process may persist even after you turn off a smart feature.” “turning off a smart feature setting means that your Workspace Content & Activity would no longer be actively processed to improve the relevant smart features.”

That includes GMail and basically all your Google stuff. So they’re absolutely free to “improve their features” based on all your shit, and that would pretty certainly include Gemini.

To be fair, a ‘strong’ password isn’t likely to help all that much.

Those compromised account lists are almost exclusively from websites that were hacked to harvest passwords, or didn’t hash their passwords sufficiently in the first place.

Making a strong password is obviously ideal. But people are generally better off with some basic in-browser password management - avoid password reuse is the real big deal. Maybe diceware is the thing to use if there’s a specific password you need to actually remember and re-type across devices

My number #1 example when people say nobody as deranged and idiotic as Trump has ever been USA president before… Sorry pal, it’s pretty standard.

Except… none of these are proven, or even have any examinable evidence.

Most of them are “suspicions” and the others are just unilateral declarations by like, the UK police, which you can’t exactly take at face value.

That’s very true. Maybe their real use is to change other peoples’ perception. But that’s very… sad to need a diagnosis to do.

I can sympathise with that experience, I guess I can sort of see why you found it helpful. But aye, it certainly doesn’t reflect my own, at all.

Thanks for the understanding and open response <3