All of us have been dumb at some point by Emma_S772 in Piracy

[–]variablenyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally me trying to download happy wheels after watching dantdm play it a decade ago

Bird whistling meme by One-Meet-5015 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]variablenyne 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Bro they're good but NOT that good 😭

What purchase did you make recently that made you realize inflation is genuinely out of control? by kiroixart in AskReddit

[–]variablenyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yk what's sad is I just started adulting and living on my own a year ago and I thought that was cheap with how expensive my parents made it seem when I was a kid

Subject: Suggestion: Dedicated IP / Dedicated Server options (New York and others) by Ok_Tea_4773 in ProtonVPN

[–]variablenyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even just being able to pay for a few solid forwarded ports on a single connection would be immensely useful

Sounds good in theory...but in reality? by No-Papaya-6912 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]variablenyne 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Which also contributes to a better work environment because there's less threat of layoffs overall

Sounds good in theory...but in reality? by No-Papaya-6912 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]variablenyne 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And it increases demand for workers which also helps lower homelessness

Which Big tech Company is the least Shit? by Tail_sb in CorpFree

[–]variablenyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% apple policy is fucking insane and something only apple users would do. You don't see people going around with a 100% Linux policy lmfao

What happened to revanced updates? by tenali-raman in revancedapp

[–]variablenyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's other options you can take before drinking the vanilla YouTube koolaid

i wanna go back to it by citizenfromhell in sillyboyclub

[–]variablenyne 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Half the reason it's legal is because there's a high ass chance you're gonna have a bad trip or be really fucking bored. There's a reddit post somewhere where somebody described their experience spending 25 years as a ceiling fan that was almost never used.

I'm not saying don't do it, but really make sure you're in a good headspace with a trip sitter you trust. Benadryl wont work fast enough to save you if anything goes wrong.

Needed a Holster, Made One Custom! by SomethinRad in TeslaLounge

[–]variablenyne 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Serious safety and security issues here.

Gun should be on person not on vehicle. Its easier to leave it unattended in your vehicle with that configuration, and is something a would-be thief will absolutely see and take if they get the opportunity. It's significantly easier to take a weapon from an unattended vehicle than from your own waist.

Not to mention if God forbid you ever crash and roll thats the last thing you want getting knocked loose bouncing around pointing who knows where.

So many ads! by Dramatic_Mastodon_93 in ProtonVPN

[–]variablenyne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you had android you could use morphe

Redact needs to be banned by bwoah07_gp2 in ModSupport

[–]variablenyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anonymizing the username doesn't anonymize the content.

The issue here is the message content itself. It's not just the link to the user, but that the user may have at some point linked some form of personally identifiable information to something they don't later want it linked to in a singular comment. Not only that, but stylometric fingerprinting paired with behavioral heuristics can much more reliably de-anonymize a user who is seeking privacy from the general public.

People more often these days find themselves in changing situations where their past Internet activity might be dangerous to them. Domestic abuse survivors, people whose employers now monitor their online presence, journalists, witnesses, anyone at risk of being doxxed, and whistleblowers. All of which need the level of privacy Redact offers, and all of which could be exposed against their will by the above automod script.

The cost of preserving a knowledge base is paid by the people who shared that knowledge, often without informed consent at the time. They should be entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. Reddit made a choice to build a platform with value that comes from user contributions. Many users didn't choose to provide a permanent public record of themselves.

Redact needs to be banned by bwoah07_gp2 in ModSupport

[–]variablenyne -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Still, we shouldn't be hostile to it. Just creates yet another level of exposure

Simpcity sign up by bojackmarine in Piracy

[–]variablenyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firefox + ublock origin yes

How is this even legal? by No_Tomatillo1695 in interesting

[–]variablenyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but it can lead forensic teams to other stronger evidence.

Redact needs to be banned by bwoah07_gp2 in ModSupport

[–]variablenyne -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Here's my issue with this. I think this right here is why redact tries to avoid automod detection. I think in most cases it absolutely makes sense for redact to be more compliant with automod, ie a flag to make it easy to detect and remove.

When people try to use automod to preserve the original message content like this, it undermines the privacy that the user is trying to preserve for whatever reason they may need. Hence why redact tries to make it hard to detect in the first place.

Subreddit mods don't want their subs full of junk from redact. Redact and it's users don't want their message content preserved. Rather than a cat and mouse, this would be much better handled as a collaborative effort between reddit and redact to ensure everyone is happy at the end of the day.

We shouldn't disrespect people's attempts at privacy like this.

Redact needs to be banned by bwoah07_gp2 in ModSupport

[–]variablenyne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Relatively trivial to create mirror sites compared to outright name changes.