ReversalHatchery

ReversalHatchery , vor 3 Tagen

A blockchain does not mean decentralized. It means a public ledger where each new item validates the one(s) before it

ReversalHatchery , vor einem Monat

Sometimes I hate that I can't downvote. This is just a very silly and mindless opinion. What the heck is your problem with having an option? With a possibility?

ReversalHatchery , vor einem Monat

That wasn't just an insult, but honest opinion. The fact that you didn't respond to the questions shows that it was actually a mindless opinion. "I don't want to deal with this, I don't even want to see this, take it away, I don't care if others wanted to use it!"

ReversalHatchery , vor einem Monat

Restrictions and surveillance of digital payment systems even more. But at least that's convenient, right?

ReversalHatchery , vor einem Monat

Get the hell out of here with forced id-d registration. Nobody needs or wants that other than surveillance capitalists.

Fine the parents who let the kids register early, if it gets known. This will only be a problem for those who let their kids be brought up by the internet.

ReversalHatchery , vor einem Monat

I largely hope that they will block funds because of this before the system gets built out

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

You don't even need to cough with the right setting on. That's just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don't submit freaked out bug reports.

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

I don't know what they mean, but to me it didn't become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?

I'm not running it from the command line, I open videos with it from my file manager, or through the Jellyfin plugin.

I mean when I'm on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.

Yes, that's what I do. Of course, your desktop environment has to know that you have this MPV and it can open such and such files, but it can work like that.

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

Ads are probably actually not that bad. But to me the massive stalking is unacceptable. So, uBO FTW!

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

It protects you only if you have chosen the right VPN provider.
Of course if you choose some random VPN that was advertised in a youtube video that may as well be a downgrade depending on what your ISP does with your data already.
But if you choose a honest VPN provider, who's values aligns with yours, and does not share (neither collect) any data on your usage and traffic, then that can easily be better.

Also keep in mind that ISP's often operate knowing that they are the only provider in the area. Or the only usable one, or that the others aren't better either. There's no competition, and they make use of the fact that they can do whatever they want that is legal (a lot of things is), because the user can't just switch to another that does not do it.
However, there's a competition between VPNs. Unfortunately most of that competition is driven by lies, but fortunately not all of it is.

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

I think Firefox uses DoH by default in certain places

ReversalHatchery , vor 2 Monaten

Yes, or more precisely it's DNS over HTTPS.
The S at the end stand for Secure, but technically it means that it is HTTP inside TLS. TLS encrypts the traffic, and verifies server responses to be authentic.
HTTP and HTTPS are most often used by websites, but there are many more common uses of it.

When a program - like firefox - uses DoH to resolve domain names (that is, find their corresponding IP address, they can have multiple), then instead of asking the DNS server that was configured in the operating system (often automatically set by your router's "advisory", though DHCP) through a clear text channel that is prone to inspection and manipulation, instead of that it asks a DNS server that communicates over HTTPS, just like webservers do.
By doing this, domain name lookups have the protection of TLS, and they look like as if you have just visited a website. It's harder* to find out which server was that request sent to, what was the purpose of that request, and since the content of the request is encrypted, and the response is encrypted and signed just as when visiting a website, it's harder to see as an outside observer what was being done, including what website's IP did you look up, and it's harder for them to modify this response.

DoH servers to be used may be set up with an IP address if that is fix and never changes, or through a domain name. If you only have the domain name of a DoH server, then you can't contact that yet, first you have to look up it's IP address using either an other DoH server who's address is fix or the current one is known, or with a plain DNS server.