The snail can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals. The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk....
So I'm pretty recent to the high seas but I've seen a few posts now about "stop relying on your VPN" and "people that think VPNs will protect them are naive" and so on....
That sentiment isn't so much about piracy, but general security. Do keep in mind that the NSA can easily sniff your VPN traffic, even through logless Mullvad in theory, and access your account information to correlate and deanonymize you via subpoena. This is done routinely, and there are thousands of illegal subpoenas done yearly with no repercussion. Fortunately it seems the NSA is only going after heinous criminals, but that could also change. To be truly NSA safe is nearly impossible - did you know your password can be determined by a simple audio recording of you typing it? The NSA has frequently snuck into private residence to install keyloggers as well. What will a VPN matter in such a case?
So a VPN might prevent a DCMA notice from your ISP, but if the NSA starts caring about piracy y'all are out of luck.
The NSA has unlimited legal power in this context. They can legally go to any US VPN, copy all traffic onto their massive servers, and use it as they want. They probably already do this, although that claim is unverifiable. That traffic contains your IP address and the websites you've viewed, clear data of torrents you've downloaded, etc. Mullvad, being outside its jurisdiction, is possibly safer, but presumably since they operate servers in the United States at least those could be sniffed. There is precedent for all of this.
While it's unlikely for you to specifically be targeted, my point is that you can never be truly anonymous on the internet.
That makes it sound as if using a foreign VPN can keep you totally anonymous. It can't. The NSA has authority to also operate in other countries. They can and surely do MITM any traffic going from the U.S. to another country. They can and probably do social engineer or zero day compromise a Mullvad VPN engineer's credentials. Again, there is precedent for this. Not so much for piracy, but for sure for the very bad guys. They can keep your data forever and use it if they decide piracy is being very bad.
You are right that there is no precedent for the NSA going after piracy - and I'm definitely not even talking about piracy specifically here. But I do think everyone should know they are not as anonymous as they think they are any time they use the internet.
They're pretty exposed already, and in my opinion their targets probably can't do much to protect themselves unless they are part of a foreign government, like the Kremlin. But yea they haven't gone after piracy yet.
Ok, well they have access to supercomputers that can probably crack a target password 99% of the time. Unless you use a like 100-character password for everything you are probably not totally safe. And using it correctly is incredibly difficult, if not impossible in practice. They have found zero day exploits for Tails OS and deanonymized (very, very bad) criminals doing pretty much everything they could to stay anonymous, at least 5 years ago that we know of. So while your claim might apply to somebody pirating the latest HBO series, I can guarantee you the NSA knows everything about you and what you're doing. They just don't care, yet.
Well, your VPN knows your address so this advice is pointless. Unless you only access your VPN through a totally anonymous ISP at a totally random location on the planet each time, probably impossible due to KYC laws, you are certainly not anonymous.
Eh don't bother. You weren't as anonymous as you thought using port forwarding if you're doing anything bad enough to warrant NSA attention. Most users probably are not. Mullvad is just being honest about their limitations here.
Oh yea? Don't make me build a world based off of only this picture. I will force you to watch your treasured hobby turn into a shallow, second-rate typo-laden derivative dime novel. Goriknians forever!
Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic”...
the clitoris is apart of the liberal agenda as some of you may know, many may not. The clitoris is a left wing pr stunt lead by joe biden and ANTIFA, notice how only lesbian women talk about this hoax yet, heterosexual men (who are the majority) cannot find this sick joke. They are trying to fit homosexuality into our lives yet...
I would prefer a peaceful revolution, no need to DDOS them. I prefer to take the moral high ground and let the community figure out for itself how much they care about the content they produce, and which platform is most appropriate to retain control. There might always be a place for Reddit, but if they want draconian control let it be over data they produce.
Edit: It seems like there's enough people that would prefer this didn't happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I'm not going to move forward with this idea....
Given the precedent that search engines frequently return results from other search engines, then this would seem to be legal. But since Reddit actually hosts the data, they would most likely use legal means/DCMA to take down the bot. The real question is, can you afford as many lawyers as Reddit? Probably not. But maybe if the strategy is just to pull people over in the short term, it could work. I'm not going to do it, not worth the risk to myself.
I think like other posters said, it's best to keep the content separate. I feel a lot more positivity coming from Kbin/Lemmy. It's as if a million trolls cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I'm appreciating this for what it is, let's hope it stays that way.
As we've seen in the past week, a large amount of users don't care why subreddits are blacked out or why, they just want their timeline back to normal....
Even if it works at first and was legal, you will be fighting Reddit, who will be changing their page format in a breaking way faster than you can get your browser plugin to work again. No need to bring Reddit down, looks like fediverse growth is not slowing for now, and it's all the people you want on your social media website. Enjoy this for what it is.
Costs them millions, surely makes back far more than that. If this is about LLM why not have a separate API for 3P apps? No mention of increased ad revenue of course. Sounds like a bunch of corporate BS to me.
Parts of Broward County under quarantine due to giant African land snails (www.nbcmiami.com)
The snail can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals. The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk....
New VS Code Extension Replaces Booleans with Toggles (lemmy.sdf.org)
For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America (www.salon.com)
My daughter's America has become apocalyptic — safe states scattered, broken up by vast stretches of hostility
The truth about VPNs?
So I'm pretty recent to the high seas but I've seen a few posts now about "stop relying on your VPN" and "people that think VPNs will protect them are naive" and so on....
I will force you all to see my worldbuilding memes utterly devoid of their contex >:) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
But only to do my job (lemmy.world)
Meta says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic”...
The clit
the clitoris is apart of the liberal agenda as some of you may know, many may not. The clitoris is a left wing pr stunt lead by joe biden and ANTIFA, notice how only lesbian women talk about this hoax yet, heterosexual men (who are the majority) cannot find this sick joke. They are trying to fit homosexuality into our lives yet...
Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible (www.theverge.com)
All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
Is it illegal/poor taste to port content from Reddit over to Lemmy?
Edit: It seems like there's enough people that would prefer this didn't happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I'm not going to move forward with this idea....
What do you NOT want to see replicated on kbin?
Or the fediverse in general....
Continuing to use Reddit (A thought) (lemmy.world)
As we've seen in the past week, a large amount of users don't care why subreddits are blacked out or why, they just want their timeline back to normal....
TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)