rangerdan

Yay, a blank dark page. Thank you, page author, for contributing to making the Internet an inaccessible shithole and requiring Javascript to read simple text.

Corebooted Thinkpads are the gold standard. Don't listen to this article - it's utter nonsense - the author even recommend Libreboot which is effectively abandonware barely maintained by one unstable individual.

Stopped reading at "Macbook is ... as trustworthy as the Libreboot ThinkPad". Anyone who trusts closed source, proprietary, for-profit platforms from PRISM partners doesn't know what they're talking about.

iOS is just as bad, if not worse. See https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e73...

"Safe and effective" yet we don't even have a full year of data on it. How are people this clueless?

This is how you know you need a vacation from computers - when you write an article literally fetishizing sounds they once made. The whole piece is symptomatic of a fried brain. To the author: go outside for a long walk and shut your devices off.

More baseless gender-bating nonsense. Nothing to do with technology or "hacker" news. Just some useless trivia editorialized to paint the "MEN BAD" narrative. Can't believe how the quality of front-page stories has deteriorated over the years on HN.

> Fruits are special, enjoy them sparingly.

Imagine telling a frugivorous ape (which is what humans literally are) that fruit are to be enjoyed sparingly when our physiology and biochemistry has evolved over millions of years to eat exactly that. Then we wonder why there is all this sickness and disease.

The audience here should know that where there is capability, there is abuse. Android and Windows are no exception.

> If the US Government forced Apple to add other entries to the hash table, this would constitute a warrantless Government search of the private physical property of US citizens. This is a clear-cut, unambiguous breach of the 4th Amendment.

There's no reason not to assume this isn't already happening, being closed source and proprietary. The question to ask is, what are we going to do about it?

They don't have any incentive to, in fact the opposite is true - they purposefully don't fix zero days so intel agencies can use them to spy on dissidents.

Right? Even suggesting that there might possibly be perverse incentives to prolong a state of emergency will raise ire and draw ban hammers.

How do people not realize this, even when it's been made so painfully obvious with their photo scanning debacle? There is *zero* privacy on closed source, proprietary, for-profit, shareholder-owned platforms. Zero, zip, zilch, nada. They own the platform and they own your behavior when you use their products.

Chris Hedges calls it a "coup d'etat in slow motion". The elites have realized time is on their side and they can implement their agendas on their own schedule, covertly.

Question vaccine safety or efficacy in a public forum and you'll see soon what censorship means.

Wear a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, face mask and put a pebble in your shoe.

Use RFID blocking wallets.

Pay with cash where feasible.

Don't run google/ios services on your phone.

Freeze your credit reports and check them annually.

Stop visiting social media.

Disable ontrac/onstar crap in your legally owned cars.

Use Tor Browser.

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Privacy is not difficult, it just takes a bit of effort and discipline.

No shit. It goes without saying that almost all "covid" measures are complete and total security theater, no different than TSA in a post-911 world. Just more evidence we are living in a deranged world still largely driven by mainstream media narratives.