It's just been fixed, and you've been approved :3
The 1936 - 1955 USSR one is my favorite
Everything should be back up now. One of my reverse proxy layers stopped working due to an issue at the VPS provider. I was sick and wasn't checking anything, so I didn't notice. Sorry about that.
WHAT?? Are you serious?! I thought watches were permanent! /s
I haven't seen you in a while! Welcome back :)
I'm definitely not your overlord. Nope, not at all, not sure why you'd ever think that. Definitely no sarcasm in this comment.
The NSA’s BULLRUN program suggests that the TLS encryption is compromised anyway.
I doubt that. Potentially, at some point, that might've been true, but TLS constantly changes which encryption algorithms are used. The older algorithms that leaked documents state the NSA had cracked are no longer allowed in TLS and your browser will refuse to load pages that use them. Current algorithms are far more secure and the open source implementations used for them have no back doors. They're being audited constantly by hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity experts. If any back doors appear, we'll know pretty quickly. If you're using a proprietary browser like Chrome, however, there's no way to know if Google has altered the implementation in some way (although someone at Google probably would speak up if that was the case), so I'd recommend never using a proprietary browser. Use something like Firefox or Chromium instead. Ideally, Firefox or one of its forks such as Librewolf.
My money is on certificate authories having given the NSA a backdoor ‘for national security
This wouldn't do anything but make it a little easier for the NSA to run man in the middle attacks. It would not give them the ability to crack any encryption at all or even make that easier, and if the CA was ever discovered doing this, they'd go out of business immediately (this has happened before), so they're highly disincentivized from allowing it.
I don’t think that they need to compromise an app directly.
This is actually true, but not in the ways you listed. A lot of the web is now using Cloudflare's free CDN service. They proxy their traffic through it to make their sites faster and reduce server load. Cloudflare issues their own TLS certificates and the connection is made between the browser and their servers before getting forwarded to the destination. That means Cloudflare is in possession of plain text data from all users who use any site that happens to use Cloudflare. If Cloudflare has given the feds a backdoor (and they probably have), that would give them lots of data. Lemmygrad is not using Cloudflare, nor do any of my services including the genzedong matrix server.
Also, most people are using proprietary OSes like Windows or Android with Google services. No one has any idea what data is being collected by those, and what is being done with that data. So, for anything truly sensitive, use an open source OS like Linux.
If you need to communicate privately, please don’t use an open forum. Use an OS without telemetry (not Windows), make self-generated keys for GPG emails or OMEMO chat, and verify the key signatures directly with your comrades. If you need to communicate anonymously, bear in mind that there is no silver bullet.
This is good advice. Ideally, if your life genuinely depends on being able to communicate or otherwise use the internet privately, use an amnesic OS like TAILS that will irretrievably erase anything you were doing once you shut down or for something more permanent, an OS specifically designed for protecting your anonymity, such as Whonix.
There would be no need because if you use a proprietary operating system as nearly everyone does, they can and do just take the data directly from your device.
needs a 40 series
No one should buy a 40 series for anything. They're literally useless. Nvidia's own 30 series beats it, and AMD's last gen and current gen beats it too. Intel's $250 Arc A750 outperforms the $430 RTX 4060 in Cyberpunk at 1440p. The entire 40 series is a scam lol. It's honestly hilarious that Nvidia even released it.
There are people with the hardware. They're targeting rich people who can afford it because they can make more money that way. In fact, the 1050 Ti is a scam in itself, as are all the so-called "low-end" cards. Essentially, the price is lower, but the performance is WAY lower, so the value is horrible. The best value is usually mid-tier, like 1060 Ti to 1070 Ti. They're trying to make massive profit margins off of poor people and enthusiasts who aren't going to be upgrading often, and give rich gamers the best value, expecting them to upgrade regularly so they can extract more profit from them. It's truly disgusting capitalist behavior.
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