It skips over all the advertising slop and stories

That’s what ad block and a scroll wheel are for.

I’ve started to add date limits to my web queries for things that don’t require current information like recipes.

No I do not want to see your AI slop recipe for tomato sandwiches “author” from 2025, I’ll go with a shitty web blog from 2021 thank you very much.

No, no see, we need to disappear more people whose skin is darker than milk because those people make all the tourists feel unsafe!

/s

That’s what I did for my wedding - shoutcast with a requests plugin so the wedding party and guests could choose what songs to play.

Right. Typically post sentencing, there is zero reason for a prosecutor to meet with a convict, unless they want more information after a previous plea deal.

Even that’s fucked up though. He said he’d go to Costa Rica because they promised not to immediately send him back to CECOT (something sudan and the like have not promised).

And then the US government said, “okay, you can be deported to Costa Rica, but only if you plead guilty to all this heinous shit and serve your full jail time in federal prison first.”

I don’t disagree that the judiciary can’t (and shouldn’t) be considered a monolith, but aside from this decision, it’s important to know that several decisions against the administration have come from Republican appointed justices - some even Trump appointees.

I haven’t read this decision, but if they are saying the original order was based on a federal challenge and this concentration camp could be considered a state owned and operated facility, then contesting based on a federal law wouldn’t apply.

If we’re a betting person, I would guess this goes up on appeal, or the original plaintiffs would try a different, state statue based challenge.

Hope mine like shitty candy!

I’m guessing processed foods, vaccines, and a sprinkle of whatever makes the kids trans. But good news! Drinking bear blood can cure it!

/s

Get a second opinion from literally anyone else. If your optometrist is dismissive and down playing your concerns, fire them and get a new doctor who will listen.

Dude, have your pupillary distance checked. I got a pair of glasses from warby parker and used their “hold a business card to your nose so we can guess at that measurement”. This pair was instant fucking headaches until I went into one of their brick and mortar stores and they checked things.

The focus point for my lenses was a good 5mm below where it should have been. My eyes are fucking bad and so I was basically looking through the distorted edge of high index lenses.

A quick trip back to the shop for the lenses to get redone and now I can wear them comfortably.

This is for anyone having issues with new glasses - if your prescription hasn’t changed that much from your prior year, but new glasses hurt or are severely uncomfortable, get that shit checked out. That shouldn’t be the case.

For you, @OP - if you’ve always had a script but never been able to use your glasses due to headaches/motion sickness, get a different eye doctor. Don’t just go to a mall lens crafters, try to find an optometrist whose name is on the door. Tell them your symptoms. They should check your eyes for a plethora of things - maybe you’ve got astigmatism, or something else.

It’s not normal to have a severe reaction to glasses if they’re the correct match for your eyes.

He should have respected the flag, like making it black and white except one of the strips is blue. Or by putting it on an article of clothing like underwear so the flag can literally go up your butt. You know, “respect”.

/s

A VPN will help with the first, but probably not the second item.

GeoIP lookups will get fooled by VPNs, but that’s not the only way to figure out where you’re located. A browser leaks a ton of information that can be used to validate your location, and public VPN endpoints are fairly well known (that’s why you can see YouTube/Netflix blocking known VPN egresses.

I can take a stab at this.

So let’s talk Internet traffic first. When you go to a website, your device first has to do a DNS lookup to find out the IP address that corresponds to youtube.com. The DNS server sees your IP address and probably logs that request, and that it has responded. Next, your browser attempts to connect to the IP, get a response from youtube, and render it.

If this was back in the day, youtube would probably let you connect with an unencrypted connection - http://youtube.com/, but pretty much everyone uses https these days (SSL encryption).

Encryption is basically just a way to secure a connection from eves droppers (namely, your Internet service provider/government). But the end points of the encrypted communication (in the example above, your device and youtube) is decrypted at your browser and at their servers. All your ISP can see is the DNS lookup (assuming you are using their DNS servers, or that you aren’t doing something like DNS over HTTPS - encrypted lookups), after that all the youtube traffic is encrypted so your ISP just sees a bunch of data going to a specific IP address.

So what does a VPN get you?

Well, now your source IP when you reach youtube isn’t your phone or your home in Ohio, it’s wherever that VPN terminates. This is probably the best use for VPNs - to get around region locks.

Your local ISP only sees the DNS request, then a bunch of encrypted traffic (same as before).

But critically, the VPN owner can log every single bit of unencrypted traffic that passes through. Also, they can link your behavior to a paying account via username/password and payment methods (not great for privacy). They effectively fill the role of your original eves dropper - your ISP.

So what did using a VPN actually do?

• Your ISP no longer knows as much about your browsing, so I guess that’s good.
• But now another 3rd party knows as much as your ISP did prior to using the VPN.
• Your ISP doesn’t know your DNS lookups now, but your VPN provider might.
• SSL traffic is still encrypted regardless - no change here.
• YouTube doesn’t know your device’s original IP (maybe).

The only other thing I’d say is that VPNs + torrents can may e protect you from DMCA take down notices. It’ll be that VPN termination IP that shows up in trackers, not your ISP provided IP.

Oooooh, sorry. Didn’t you get the SCOTUS memo? Third countries (e.g. not the US or their original country) are absolutely okay now.

What? The person doesn’t speak Ugandan? Oh well not our problem!

This shit is so fucked up.

when has slacktivism ever changed the minds

Hey, don’t you remember how changing your Twitter profile picture to have a green overlay encouraged the Arab Spring to bring lasting democracy all over the Middle East?!? /s

Hey, are you me? Work is making me travel internationally later this year from the US to the EU. My plan is to wipe an old pixel and install graphene os.

I legit do not have Facebook, twitter, or bluesky accounts - only Lemmy and Mastodon. Those apps will be installed under the non-default account (along with signal and proton apps), leaving the primary account with Google play installed and some simple apps like Google maps, Spotify, etc.

Before I leave the plane after arriving back in the states, I’ll blow away the non-default account, leaving the relatively clean default account.

I’m also traveling with my work phone, but that’s really locked down with their MDM software.

Both phones have lock passwords, I’ll remove the work bio unlocks before leaving the US.

I may install LinkedIn so there’s something to find, but probably not.

Hope this helps.

I would, but it’s literally baked into a video ad. I had to drop from my home Wi-Fi (DNS blockers) and open it in chrome on mobile (no ad block) to get the video ad to load, all while dealing with a ton of invasive ads, pop up (and under) advertisements, etc.

What a cluster fuck.

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As a counter point, the US would have to re-vote for the 14th Amendment.

As a counter counter point also the 2nd.

You know, I think I like the established way of doing amendments - passes by Congress and a plurality of the states.