Mikina

This right here. I've spent a few hours troubleshooting why I can't play Hell Let Loose, which also uses EAC, even though it should support Linux. Turned out, that you need to specifically search for (in your Library) and install "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime", which is a separate game that for some reason didn't get installed when you install the game.

I suppose it's going to be the same with Battlebit, because I'm sure I played it on Linux and had 0 issues.

I've recently switched to Nobara, and has been unsure whether to go with Wayland or X11. Mostly because I've read that Wayland has issues on NVIDIA GPUs and will perform slower, so I went with X11 (On KDE). Is that still the case nowadays, or can I just use Wayland?

Laughs in GrapheneOS

I'm curious, what does that have to do with GrapheneOS?

You actually don't need a Youtube Account, unless you are a paying subscriber to some creators!

Check out FreeTube, it's a desktop app similar to NewPipe on Android, that allows you to subscribe to creators while still not requiring an account, and without ads.

As for Android, I don't know what phone you have, but if you're ever buying a new one, I highly recommend just getting a (paradoxically) Google Pixel and installing GrapheneOS. An older Pixel is OK, just check which versions are still supported and for how long on the Graphene website. And the installation is super easy, and can actually be done in a browser without any issues, and takes like 15 minutes.

I've recently switched to Graphene and it's amazing. I have a separate profile for apps that refuse to work without Google Services, so they are contained, and additionally Graphene sandboxes the google play services, so they can't do anything you won't let them, in contrast to any other Android phone where Google Services can basically do whatever they want without any way to limit it.

I also run Mullvad VPN on my phone all the time, but I don't think that it's neccessary.

Exactly! AdNauseam is my inspiration, unfortunately I dont use it right now because it doesnt work with my setup, due to Mullavad in combination with PiHole being too good at their job, so it cant really click on the adds even if it wanted to.

It would ideally require a solution that uses its own DNS server, so you can keep on using PiHole, and prefferably avoids living in your browser so you can keep it locked down for privacy.

One of the projects I have in mind is to explore some kind of "offensive privacy", where the focus would not be on not being trackable, but on your computer spewing random bullshit and behavior into the algorithm to confuse it, and have it learning on behavior that's not really true, but only generated. This will enable you to kind of fight back and if done by enough users even reduce the effectivness of ML algorithms, since they would be learning bullshit. Unfortunately, the scale required to effectively affect the learning process of ML models would be enormous, so it's not really feasible, but I think it's still better than just "staying hidden".

With the advances in AI, creating a tool like that, that would simulate several random user behaviors on your IP/fingerprint, shouldn't really be that hard.

And as an added bonus - if it clicks on adverts, it's costing someone money. Fuck corporations.

The biggest problem i have with my data being collected, analyzed and used is in the fact that it will almost certainly be used to teach a ML model about how to better manipulate with people like me - the people that are privacy conscious and are trying as much as possible to reduce their fingerprint.

That data is invaluable, and if there does exist a way how to target even people like that, which there probably does since we're only humans after all, the ML model will eventually figure it out. And they have literally billions of people to experiment and learn on.

Now, we already know from a few leaked studies made by Facebook that they cab already pretty well manipulate people into mostly whatever they choose. Take a hypothetical situation where you get a crazy out-of-touch billionaire, who decides to buy a large social network company, and then decides "Hey, I really want this candidate to win. Tune up the algorithms!".

And the ML models will get a clear goal, that has been already proven to just work pretty well at influencing user behavior. And any data you give them, it helps the model to fine tune into influencing people like you . Which would also be really hard to prove, because ML models are by definition black boxes that are really hard to reverse engineer, and proving that it was trained to do this is AFAIK almost impossible.

I don't want no part in that. Thankfully, all the large social networks have CEOs that are reasonable and would never try something like that, right?

And one more thing - you may not think that data about your behavior are of interest to anyone right now. But look at China and their Social Credit. And imagine how would have I.e holocaust turned out, if the government had access to all the data, opinions and profiles of people that are being collected now.

Oh, you mentioned you sympathize with the Jews three years ago in a private message? Well, let's hope the country you live in never ends up in a situation where that could be a huge problem for you or your family.

So, every time any site is offering a "personalized, curated list" for you (I.e the google search result, or YouTube recommended videos), assume you are potentionally being manipulated, and avoid the site altogether- because there's no other way how to prevent it. The ML model knows that you know, and is already trying to figure out how to manipulate people that are taking care not to be. And if there is a way, it will figure it out with some success.

Yes, because you don't want to provide them your content for free, so they can continue building engagement on your behalf.

I've recently switched to Kagi and it has been an amazing experience so far. I definitely recommend that to anyone who can spare the 5-10$ a month. I like their business model, and the way I can customise results to I.e always ignore reddit posts, while still maintaining privacy because they are not in the ads business (yet?).

And the results are usually pretty on spot, while also avoiding the major ai/spam blog posts by default.

And every time a Reddit results show up, I'm immediately reminded why I don't want to go there by an error telling me that I can't use the site without logging in.

Fortunately, just changing the link to old.reddit.com still works even through VPN, but fuck this behavior. I do that only for questions I really need an answer and couldn't find anywhere else, and most of the time the replies are shit anyway.

Thank you for this, I've never heard about this show, watched the first pilot, and am hooked. It looks amazing!