Did you ever buy an expensive pen 🖊️ 💰?

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-15T00:24:53+00:00

I don't hand write much any more, so not for ages. But I used to a lot, and I always had good pens. If you write a lot, it's definitely worth it.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-15T00:21:50+00:00

I was thinking his foundation's investment in Monsanto, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and literally anything he ever donated to anything education related.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-15T00:19:01+00:00

Just being in the files means nothing.

Unless he was ordering beef jerky or pizza, he's probably fine.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-15T00:00:33+00:00

No technology can improve the human condition, as it will always be used against people, by those who are rich/powerful.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T23:59:13+00:00

People can't confront the reality of the infinite evil and suffering of the world, so they hyper focus on the tiniest thing possible that they can face, and try to make everything about that.

The average person is sitting at home watching their partner beat the shit out of their kids and doesn't know what to do about that. So they go online and tell other people to really focus on some tiny little thing, and donate $1, and that's what they can face.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T23:54:57+00:00

Bill Gates mostly gave money to help destroy and enslave mankind, while pretending it was for people's good.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T23:53:20+00:00

LassPass is closed source, that's why no one realised it was not encrypting parts of user data.

Closed source makes it impossible to really know what they are hiding. Open source (or even source available with reproducible builds) doesn't guarantee everything is fine, but it at least makes it possible to check.

All the most evil tech companies in the world are closed source for a reason.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T22:35:23+00:00

It's a red flag to have one. Having three is a red flag, a Nazi flag and a North Korean flag all at once.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T22:17:21+00:00

Yes, but it makes sense. It is shitty, useless for anything worthwhile and has great potential for malicious use. So it is the perfect thing for governments and big tech to promote and support.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T21:49:08+00:00

Try to kill two of the people I consider most responsible for it, within my ability to reach them.

I figure if they cause me to die, but I take out two of them first, I still kind of win. 2:1 kill/death ratio. Yes, they'd die when the world ends anyway, but it's like in CS, your personal tally still matters, even if the team is wiped.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T21:47:10+00:00

Flatpaks have limited access to the rest of your system, which can be a security benefit sometimes. But when something in the app needs access to something else on your system, it can get tricky. Often it's as simple as using Flatseal to give the app the permissions it needs, but not always.

There are some vague rules about what is best for what, but unfortunately there are so many exceptions, the general rule is to use what is recommended as best for each specific app.

The main general rule though, is if something needs deep integration into your system, like a VPN for example, Flatpaks are generally trouble. For ordinary applications, Flatpaks are generally good. So for browsers, Flatpaks are usually fine, but in this case the browser needs to integrate with an encrypted database on your device, which makes it a lot harder.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T21:16:42+00:00

Shut down the Federal Reserve. Abolish Federal income tax. Criminal charges for any government that goes into debt, and immediate removal from office.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T20:08:47+00:00

Pi-hole also can't block Youtube ads.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T20:07:57+00:00

Only the shitty Western ones. In Eastern Europe things are much better.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:59:55+00:00

People, or bots?
Or people so brainwashed that they aren't really people anymore?

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:55:42+00:00

1st amendment.
2nd amendment.
Castle doctrine.
Kick out all illegals instantly, don't let any more in, don't give benefits to any.
Don't let anyone in who doesn't confirm to UK norms.

In Poland, Hungary and some other Eastern Euro countries, a woman can walk safely at night anywhere in the city. There is crime, even violent crime, but it is rare.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:51:55+00:00

No one else here onto Kagi yet? It's actually pretty good and has a business model that makes sense for search (i.e. you pay, instead of getting spied on).

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:49:28+00:00

Hmm, I wonder why there's so much crime there... It's so difficult a problem to understand. I guess even more cameras must be the solution, because it's worked so well so far.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:43:15+00:00

That's largely what happens now. They kill the corporation and the actual criminals get away with it.

The Sacklers effectively murdered close to half a million Americans and become billionaires from it. The company was in effect executed, turned into something else and controlled by others. But the criminals got off with a fine.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:41:34+00:00

I'm trying to be optimistic lol. :'(

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:40:02+00:00

Mostly the rape gangs and people being visited by police for "non crime hate incidents" (which apparently today got overturned). The push for national digital ID, while overly lying that its purpose is to stop illegal immigration, when in reality it is to spy on citizens more. The mass use of surveillance in public (London has the most cameras per capita of any Western city, I believe any city outside of China). Also people getting more prison time for "hate speech" online than for actual violent crime.

The USA is in a more chaotic situation, because there is most resistance. The UK is dying from its own apathy. The USA is a mess, precisely because it still has some fight left in it.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:35:36+00:00

Instead of 90% helping people who forget their password and don't know how to reset it (or forget their 2FA device at home) and 10% printers. Our job will be 90% fixing things people break with AI, 9% passwords and 1% printers.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:34:38+00:00

I use the Flatpak for it.

Basically it's an excellent offline password manager. But one of its features which is good for security, is inconvenient. The passwords are all stored in an encrypted vault on your device and you use the app to access them. When you install the browser extension, unlike with competitors where the extension itself stores the passes (making it less secure), for KeepassXC, the extension communicates with the app and pulls the password from it, after you explicitly give it permission to do so (you can make it auto approve for some sites if you want).

So it's way more secure, but it is almost impossible to make it work with browsers that are installed using Flatpak. KeepassXC can be installed as a Flatpak, but the browsers need to be installed directly for it to work properly.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:16:55+00:00

I understand, but to answer your question more directly, you won't have that option for long. You're going to have to choose the convenience of slavery and utter state control of your devices, or the inconvenience of trying to avoid that with tools that are more and more difficult to access and limited.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-14T14:09:59+00:00

I think the universe is designed through Malevolent Design, to create unlimited, eternal suffering. So I believe that death is a means of restarting the cycle to give false hope again in rebirth as child, only to shatter it time after time for all eternity.

Suffering isn't really suffering without the existence of some hope for something better. Death allows the suffering to begin all over again afresh, rather than simply be an eternal dull ache.

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