I first discovered Arena through their Twitter profile. They post so much interesting stuff. It's what Tumblr should have been from the start. I just hope it is sustainable well into the future. There's too many important ideas that could be wiped out if this gets shut down.
One of Tor's weaknesses has always been the exit node problem, where things can be seen in the clear unless encryption is used. And sometimes it's not used, so personal data can be gleaned through exits.
Another weakness is the Tor Browser Bundle itself. I'm not certain if it's 'compromised' but we'll never know, due to the secret nature of 0-days. People don't take extra caution and connect to Tor with a specialized Tor router with a kill-switch / fail-closed system, thereby mitigating real IP leaks.
There's also a more academic in nature problem of a 'bird's eye view' of the Tor network, whereby if you control and have insight into all the hops a Tor user makes, you can do correlation attacks, but I'm less concerned about that than the other two weaknesses I mentioned.
> Gmail have turned off the basic HTML view. The new interface is unpleasant.
It's not the UI that bothers me (it's actually quite nice and modern) it's that it loads like treacle, when in the past I exclusively used the basic HTML interface as it was more snappier & performant.
Good. Means it's more lean. And nothing's stopping someone installing NTFS functionality with apt. I once had to add exFAT[0] compatibility to Ubuntu because I had a thumb-drive flashed in that format.
As someone who abhors subscriptions, I think it's a bad idea. This is why I love pay-as-you go electricity meters and pay-as-you-go phone plans, and sometimes lifetime purchases of software licenses. I also detest 'bills' which force you to cough up money and get disconnected from the service if you don't.
With pay-as-you-go if you don't have the funds, you simply bear with the circumstances until you can afford it. For example, if my electricity is cut, I am forced to use a duvet with two blankets on top to stay warm when if I had the funds, I don't need to, since the heat is paid for.
Same with Internet. I sometimes have no Internet for the day, but when funds arrive I can get back online. But those moments are teachable: I simply read a book, or clean the house when there's no Internet. Subscriptions are a marketer's dream. They want you hooked. Fuck that.
Escalate the issue and @mention Twitter employees. Hopefully someone will listen. You will have to create a new account to do this. Sometimes Twitter over-moderates and something triggered a false positive. Twitter has re-instated many old suspended accounts already, and hopefully they'll do that for you too.
> Consultant engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who was already working as a surveyor for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, was employed to mastermind a plan for sewers, pumping stations and the redevelopment of the embankments of London. The results of his remarkable efforts are still maintaining London’s health today. The Great Stink may not have the historic cachet of the Great Fire or the Plague of London, but its influence was ultimately to the good of the city.
Now the UK still has to deal with smog. Cars might be all electric in my lifetime, but smog is still a persistent problem and causes respiratory problems.
> Until not long ago, plenty of places in the world wanted to model themselves after America. But after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade almost two years ago, America has, for some nations, become a model … of what not to do.
What specific things apart from US abortion laws are 'American' in nature? If it means McDonalds outlets then fair game, but I can't think of anything else, apart from maybe the US 'hustle culture' that is always admirable.
An iPad with a keyboard peripheral is the closest I got to coding on a phone. I type really badly on phones, I can't bear the thought of coding on one.
Humans have went dark considerably over the years. I don't know the exact date when encrypted comms became the norm, but we rarely transmit plaintext out into the Universe anymore. We still leak plaintext, but the vast majority is encrypted now.
I consider them very private. I use Pinboard, but for sensitive stuff, I store that locally using my browser's bookmark manager, then at the end of the year, export it and convert to a boring plaintext list of URLs which I use going forward. I am not sharing this list, ever.
Setup a new AppleID. No need for that stress. If you have everything stored in iCloud, that's a problem though. I don't store anything in iCloud, because, like you, I could get locked out. I have other places to store things that I trust more.