To be honest, it’s also very easy for a big corporation to take over Lemmy if they really try. They have the money to have fast servers and unlimited traffic and all the promotion, grassroots or otherwise. They don’t do it because right now Fediverse is a small collection of opinionated individuals and it’s not worth it trying to control it.

To be faaaair, you needs to be a ten-ply hick with a treasure trail to ever have a problem with Canada goose

It’s so good that most of the og tobacco barons are dead and don’t have much power, otherwise current admin would be introducing mandatory smoking right about now

Putin has other stuff to worry about. Other than enormous amount of troll all over the internet, he lost probably all the influence on the US.

If you strip all the politics of nuance, everyone is exactly the same and nothing ever happens

Yeah, I’m writing code on Linux and for Linux and I use it extensively since 2012. I can remember maybe one or two times man was really helpful. Usually it’s an enormous book that somehow doesn’t contain exactly that bit information that you’re looking for

If Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you’re a suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate the Telegram Terms of Service, we will perform a legal analysis of the request and may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities.

Doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. And more importantly doesn’t seem insecure to me.

More people will bring a lot of interesting problems we don’t have right now. First and probably most important is money. High intensity traffic and storage is exponentially more expensive with increased load, and I don’t know if it’s possible to afford it without some kind of monetization

insecure and share data with law enforcement

[citation needed]

an armed minority is harder to oppress

With the level of police militarisation, I wouldn’t be so sure. If police murders a bunch of queer people, it’s still a pr disaster and so it’s something they want to avoid. But a bunch of queer people with guns in one place is called a compound or even possibly headquarters and they’re allowed to deploy tanks and flamebombs against it.
In the escalatory war wins the side that is legally allowed to own tanks and deploy flamethrowing robots. Every time.

There is an old Russian joke.
Son asks his father, “Daddy, I’ve heard the price of vodka went up, does it mean you will be drinking less?”, and the father answers “No, son, you will be eating less”.

their bones are fragile and once a wing is broken, it’s game over for them.

Your eyes are also very fragile and once they’re gone it’s over for you, and big birds are very well equipped for that.
And geese can bite your nuts.
I am not confident enough about both of those.
Large dog will fuck up most of humans 9 times out of 10.

No, that’s not what I said, I said that commercial companies make a lot of misleading claims about their products and about what naked VPN does.
And I’m curious about your application and how does it provide security to you

What do you mean?

Both times, just like the other times, the candidate they chose won the popular vote on primaries. Your idea that they were unpopular go directly against the only available way to actually check the popularity of the candidate.
Voting population of the US is just deeply racist, sexist, and stupid, but that’s besides the point.

Well, dems went with the popular vote.

It never gave you any, that claim that every VPN provider makes about security and privacy is mostly false. It saves you from like two types of attacks that are so specific I can almost guarantee you you never encountered them in the wild. They also make it 10% harder for your local provider to keep tabs on you at the expense of introducing another very specific ledger of everything you do, that belongs to a trump loving company apparently, and unlike your ISP they are legallly allowed to do whatever they want with it.
It’s not what VPN is for.

When you do live streaming there is no time for backup, it either works or not. Better than nothing, that’s for sure, but also maybe marginally better than whatever we had 10 years ago

I unfortunately don’t know the specific names of the models, I will comment additionally if I will not forget to ask people who spun up the models themselves.
The difference might be that live vs recorded stuff, I don’t know.

Relax, they didn’t write a new way of doing magic, they integrated a solution from the market.
I don’t know what the new BMW car they introduce this year is capable of, but I know for a fact it can’t fly.