PhlubbaDubba

@PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Content hosts are just fucking militant these days about forcing ads onto their users, it’s like they take personal offense to the idea that nobody likes seeing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed For 3 Seasons At HBO, Deal Runs Through 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure John Oliver is their cash cow at this point, him and Real Sports

  Everything else just gets written off as other people’s shit that HBO bought the rights to rebroadcast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly my plan is to try and get copies of my family’s old home videos

  Might be interesting to see if any kids I have being able to see when I was their age has any effect on how they see me as their parent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So the question is what you’re trying to hide and how much effort the adversary is willing to put into getting at what you’re hiding.

  The more effort and resources an adversary is willing to dedicate to learning what you’re saying and hiding, the harder you’ll have to work to remain unseen.

  In a modern surveillance state, you’ll need quantum proof encrypted chat, self hosted servers with intrusion defense protocols scaled to adamantine toughness, and in all likelihood, strong physical security as well, and also strong password policy, I’d recommend a master password document containing only strings of randomly generated characters of twenty four or more characters in length, protected by a master passphrase in the form of a sentence you can easily remember with the spaces replaced with dots dashes, capitalizing the first letter of every word, or some other distinguisher to make it easier to remember.

  Even better would be a password vault service that offers the additional benefit of being able to detect a leaked password from a website side data breach, and then inform you and give you the option to change it right there in the application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of need to do so to track dissidents deemed dangerous to the function of the state

  The closest esperanto ever got to revolutionary usage was that some esperantists taught it to others in Gulags and Concentration camps while pretending it was another language to avoid the suspicion of Nazis and Soviets, who both regarded it as subversive because it was a language explicitly designed to be “easy” to learn and to encourage international cooperation

  Toki-Pona was invented in the 2000s and achieves it’s low word count by basically just reducing itself to a pre-civilizational language without concepts for most colors and not having a proper numeral system, things that might be necessary for use in inspiring and carrying out an ideologically motivated revolution.

  The closest America has to a language usable as a code language used by a dissident underclass is AAVE, which is a dialect of english that’s been trending towards american standard english as time has gone by and is even easier to learn to understand than Toki-Pona or Esperanto if a man in a suit was determined enough to spy on its speakers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, yeah, yeah...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is for people with fundamental incompatibility with the military, either disability or personality clash with authority

  Even civilian work parallel to the military can be hard to access in those circumstances