Usenet as daily driver works 99% of the time. Only use VPN/torrents for extremely new or very obscure shows. $5/month pays for unlimited Usenet and VPN.

When Hamachi became unusable I switched to Tailscale to connect my phone, my laptop, and all my local PCs together. It just works, flawlessly. There are more features they offer like Exit Nodes (proxy servers to force Internet traffic through another PC on your Tailscale Network) and sharing your tailnet nodes with another Tailscale user on a separate tailnet, but realistically I just use it like I used Hamachi - as a dead-easy VPN between all my personal devices.

I use FireFox + uBlock Origin, and never see ads. I did have to disable my other adblock/privacy extensions (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, PrivacyBadger, and Ghostery) for YouTube before its anti-adblock stopped complaining, but FF+uBO seems to work just fine with default filters enabled.

uBlock Origin has kept their filters up-to-date for me. Still no ads, and no blocks from YouTube, since day 1. I did disable my other privacy extensions like Privacy Badger and Ghostery on YouTube to stay on their “good” side however.

Who views ads in Reddit? Except for all the shill posts, that is.

I can’t even begin to imagine 20,000 people dying so quickly like that. Absolutely horrible…

She’s a brave woman, talking to the reporter for that story. In that state, she’ll likely be harassed and threatened as a “baby murderer” even though this obviously was not her first choice.

What a tool.

David Hogg: What I see this as is a second step for our generation and the people in power that we’re not just voting. We’re also running. As a generation, we grew up hearing that to survive a school shooting, we had to run, hide and fight. I think, as a generation, we need to reinterpret what that means at a broader scale and that we need to run for office. We need to stop hiding from the responsibility that previous generations often did to protect young people and the future of this country and the future of this planet. And we need to fight for a better future where that never happens and a better system.

Damn, I think he’s ready.

The article focuses on threat actors, but I think that the more common use might be a coworker or boss deciphering what people are typing/shitposting outside of the official meeting. Always mute when you’re not talking, folks.

What prompted this increase? Are they targeting a specific business market that predominantly uses MacOS? Or is it due to a recent increase in the availability of Mac exploits?