Pieter

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By day, he's just a computer geek. But by night, he also is.
Show threadPieter6h ago

@JulianOliver @zed That still sounds an awful lot like trusting a third party not to wiretap your VPN server.

You don't control your infrastructure unless you're the only one who can get physical access, but then all traffic that enters the internet from there can be traced down to you. Your traffic needs to mix with that of others to be anonymized, but then others need to trust infrastructure you have physical access to.

Show threadPieter13h ago
@JulianOliver Also, self-hosting is not the answer to everything. It gatekeeps democratizing tools so only technical people with time, skills and motivation to securely run a VPN can do it. Besides, VPS providers usually capture your identity information and I don't think routing your internet traffic through one single server is very privacy-friendly.
Show threadPieter13h ago

@JulianOliver Can you back up this claim with a credible news source that's widely known by people outside Sweden?

An angry internet mob has a responsibility to verify claims before it starts canceling people/organizations that appear to be on their side.

Pieter2d ago
abadidea2d ago

Dutch people. Peoples of the North, who lack a strong cultural awareness of how to handle heat waves. Please heed my words

1) Pull all the curtains closed. Reflect sunlight away from the windows. Tape up a bedsheet or something if you don't have curtains or blinds (not that rare in the Netherlands)

2) Open windows on opposite walls of the house, prop open the interior doors with something heavy, get a cross-breeze going. (Yes, the curtains may get flappy. I tucked the end of a long one under my bed mattress to mitigate this)

3) Take a quick shower with water that is only slightly warmed (neither ice cold nor steaming hot). Do this two, three, four times a day if you have to.

4) Similarly, drinking water that is ice cold may sound good but it's liable to give you stomach cramps when you're very hot. Your drinking water shouldn't be more than slightly cool.

Show threadPieter2d ago
@thomasfuchs I don't understand how this could align with Reform UK's popularity 🤔
Show threadPieter3d ago

@kde @postmarketOS The OnePlus phone I have available for tinkering is not supported 🥲

I understand that PMOS has limited resources available to them and I appreciate the work they have done despite those constraints. Hopefully it will soon become a viable Android alternative.

Pieter4d ago
Show threadGrapheneOS4d ago
Resolving most of Google's anti-competitive behavior with Android would be straightforward for regulators: ban the Google Mobile Services licensing model and require Google to make their apps and services work on any AOSP-based OS without privacy invasive access and massive control over the OS.
Show threadPieter5d ago
@hollie You didn't sew it coming?