brainw0rms [they/them]

76 years*

Some crimes are unforgivable.

firefox always and forever, anything else is almost nearly certain to be a honeypot.

At the risk of sounding contrarian/lame, you should probably not be doing any of this especially if you don’t own the hardware you’re using (as mentioned by another commenter).

You don’t specify if this is university or middle/high school, but either way you are not entitled to and should not expect any privacy on a network you don’t control. Even if you are able to set up a VPN to mask your internet activity, your school’s network administrators almost certainly can tell that you are using a VPN, which itself sounds like it would be a violation of your school’s network policy and will most likely land you in trouble. Indeed, your repeated attempts to access blocked sites have likely already raised some flags.

Even the workarounds that others here have mentioned (like routing VPN traffic over port 443) are inadequate for a network that is being actively monitored. Believe me, it is very easy to tell when someone is connecting to a VPN this way.

I would quit while you’re ahead until you can afford your own hardware/internet connection, and then maybe worry about any notion of privacy. Use your school’s internet for what it was intended.

Bespoke: Involve random people on the internet in whatever weird exhibitionist fetish this is supposed to be

“Hey sister I’m going out for a bit will be back by 11”

“Ok”

Like no offense, but you should probably figure out how to communicate with your family before you attempt dating lol

It was a hidden, opt-out feature.

it’s literally in the privacy & security section of firefox’s settings with its own heading. how is that “hidden”?

average firefox user: screeching on the internet for weeks about some minor new feature or change

me: unticks a box and moves on with my life

i ain’t reading all that

i’m happy for you tho

or sorry that happened

Proton, yes. There are some criticisms to make regarding them, but I think most are either blown out of proportion or a non issue for the majority of people.

Joplin has the specific features you mentioned, maybe worth looking into. It’s a markdown editor. https://joplinapp.org/

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If that were true, there would be no reason for advanced tools like ComfyUI to exist.

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I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing.

So, you’re really saying the expertise required is not the same, then?

Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd.

Who is claiming that? Not me. Anyone who has used a generative AI tool for more than 10 seconds knows this isn’t true.

If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical “auto-doc” device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

What did you mean by this? The only one sneering and condescending here is you lol.

Somehow I doubt da Vinci and a modern digital artist toiling away in Photoshop would be able to agree on the definition of, or criteria for, what it means to be an artist…

Be installed on any PC I own