route my traffic to a different country where I don’t live in and them viewing my activity is potentially less of a problem

Depending on where you live, and where your service resides, this could be tricky.

In the US, for instance, if you’ve chosen a provider in Australia, then a FVEY agreement could be in place to share that data. This gets around the technicality that intel gathering is not occurring on US soil and is not being done by the gov.

And again with the US, if you’ve chosen a country that’s not amiable to sharing user data, the US could very well be justifying that country as a target for pilfering data anyway.

So, that would leave choosing a service provider within the US, which should need to go through the FISA courts for any access to citizen data, but who knows after the Snowden revelations.

I guess that’s the state of privacy if you’ve got a nation state that’s targeted you for surveillance. Only way around it I can think of is data to be encrypted in transit and at rest, and only you control the keys. But that’s not something that’s going to happen with something like mainstream email anyway, too inconvenient for most folks (and you also don’t know if your recipients are security conscious either).

He’s not our guy, buddy!

No I hate MS. I won’t ever forget the pain that was developing edge cases around Internet Explorer (fuck IE 6, that shit was the worst).

The first two and the last three are the same

I read that as “all five are the same”. And I’m like damn, don’t want to work in a slaughterhouse if that’s true for you!

Sometimes when I’m bored, I’ll do some google maps “tourism”, and just cruise the globe. One of those spots I’ve visited, is right at that tri-border with Russia, N. Korea, and China.

I always thought it was weird that China doesn’t have a direct shore/port on the Sea of Japan. It doesn’t really look like the Tumen River would cut it to give sea faring ships access either. Annexing Vladivostok would fix that.

they’re universally known around the globe for their amazing

Their amazing what?! Corndogs? Churros? Eggrolls? You gotta tell us!

Ah, the True Poutine Fallacy.

For me it’s funeral potatoes, or half the desert dishes from various potlucks that would happen in the chapel gym.

Jokes on them though, all those recipes are posted online now! Don’t need a temple recommend for that shit lol.

Full article here (wayback machine; the original was partially behind a paywall for me).

All the scientology malarkey aside, it’s bananas to me that anything electronic is the purview of the US Copyright Office. It’s insane to me that the RIAA/MPAA et. al. lobbies have been so successful in getting the US government to do their bidding.

Well I guess nobody expected that.

Everyone has these feelings

Not me!

Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

(The idea’s that the company tanked, just like this tanker did.)

The front fell off.

My wife flips her fucking lid.

Sheeeeeeit!

I’d go with state actors first.

When a particular social media platform is centralized, you can buy yourself a say percentage of stock and have sway over it (cough tencent), or have a useful idiot ruin the platform (cough musk), or another useful idiot to run propaganda you like anyway (cough truth social, cough fox news, cough newsmax…), or yet another that will sell out it’s host country’s citizens for cold hard cash (cough facebook).

But when that social media platform is decentralized? Well, then you’d need to figure out how to poison the well early on to stave off adoption. The Saudi Arabias, UAEs, Chinas definitely don’t like the idea of lemmy, and it’ll be way harder for them to control if critical mass is hit.

Gonna have to learn how to necromance if you wanna keep sucking that dick.

I work in enterprise IT, and whenever I see new announcements from the C-suite offices that include the words “streamline” and “merging”, I can tell things are going to get worse, way worse.

I shouldn’t be surprised anymore that execs truly believe they have the perfect solutions, all of which actually make things worse, way worse. No difference to them, they’ll just fall up anyway.

It’s a pseudo hobby of mine to attempt pin pointing a picture on google maps when enough information is visible in the picture/post context.

In this instance, I saw the street cones have “City of Riverside” stenciled on them, and zooming in I can see the street sign in the background says “Fourteenth St”.

So a gmaps search of “City of Riverside cemetery fourteenth st” got me to the right city block. After that it was “cruising around” in street view to find this intersection. I further confirmed with a unique gravestone on the right, and a gate in the background.

Finally, the exif info on this file looks like it’s stripped/scrubbed, no geo info or other hints to give away location. I’m hoping Lemmy by default strips exif info on upload (I know it’s a common practice for other social/image hosting apps).

So right about here.