The rules of cybersecurity:

1. Under no circumstances should you own a computer.

2. If you absolutely must own a computer, under no circumstances should you connect it to the internet.

3. If you absolutely must connect it to the internet, it’s too late and they already have you

Noted, totally_not_a_gun_pinky_promise.stl will print just fine

Piracy is a service issue, plain and simple. It would be all but dead if media companies gave their customers what they actually wanted, but line must go up at the expense of literally everything else.

Hey, same.

Damn man, go for a walk or something.

You’re very angry for a person who literally used the term themselves a couple of comments ago. What term would you rather use then? It’s colloquial, everyone knows what I’m talking about. Are you the kind of person who gets angry when someone doesn’t call it “GNU/Linux” too?

Obviously capitalism makes pretty much everything worse but let’s not pretend AI wouldn’t have issues without capitalism too.

The Most Moral Army In The World™

I’m not really sure what people want when they raise this complaint about Proton, it’s going to be true of any company. They can’t refuse a legal order, there’s very few jurisdictions on earth where the authorities will just allow a business to refuse to comply with a legal order and the ones that do are not worth running a business in. As far as I know, they’ve never given up content of emails or traffic logs.

If your threat model includes the authorities of the US or any country you might happen to be in, then you shouldn’t be trusting any business that might be compelled by them.

People hate inconvenience more than they hate their data being mined.

If we’re being real I don’t really trust anyone with my data.

Inserted ads, although in my experience they’re placed by the podcast network rather than Spotify.

Interesting that she apparently had knowledge that would tear down “corrupt system” before but wasn’t interested in sharing it until the corrupt system turned on her.

Yet you participate in society. Curious.

Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.