I don’t think any alternatives exist that are easily viable.

Most require you to buy specific phones and flash the OS or buy them from a specific supplier who pre-images them.

Carrier compatibility is also a major issue if you’re in any country with a cellular network requiring that you use VoLTE services in general…these third party OSes can’t always get at the vendor binary blobs or simply won’t include them because legal and privacy preserving reasons.

You may have some luck with GrapheneOS or maybe LineageOS but those are the only mainstream “alternates” to Android that exist; which actually have a decent chance of working well and can usually be installed to a fair number of different devices; as long as you can unlock their bootloaders and root them day one.

As Dick Vayes would say; that criminal is probably the Bonehead of the Day.

It’s probably time to leave reddit; even if you do manage to get your accounts back.

As a former mod of /r/Genderqueer I can say they’ve been terminally enshittifying for a while now; and have gone full AI rampage to eliminate human mods because they get accused of bias constantly. It doesn’t help that some mods are legitimately bad too; some of the stories I could tell you from when I was in private mod-only meta-reddit communities would curl your toes. Even I wasn’t without my biases; but I had the interest of my community at heart…which, as you know, nonbinary and genderqueer people are very vulnerable to abuse and harrassment.

It’s time to step off the reddit mothership, and don’t bother looking back unless you must. Tools like redlib can at least help you view reddit posts still, anonymously even if you can’t comment.

I’ve been running my own personal Redlib instance locally using WSL2, Docker and Podman. It’s been invaluable in ensuring I can still read things I need to read.

Furthermore the article clearly states:

Testing on frozen shrimp from the distributor, Indonesia’s BMS Foods, also tested positive, the FDA said.

The shrimp was in fact contaminated. But as a precaution; with anything Radioactive, it is always presumed that anything that is in contact with a contaminated object, is also in and of itself inherently contaminated.

I recommend you watch some Kyle Hill on Youtube;¹ he explains clearly how these things work. Radioactive contamination is no joke. It is handled with this level of caution for a reason. It kills people quickly if left unaddressed.

¹ - I wish I could explain which “Half-Life Histories” episodes are most relevant; but I cannot. They all are; they all describe nuclear disasters and they all contain good explanations about what happened and how they’re contaminating things and such. It is much to watch, but very informative.

I do not expect the news or the government to tell the truth about the findings in general.

Nuclear stuff is still, to this date in the USA, treated as “Sensitive Information” which may be “Classified” under a number of laws which require gagging/nondisclosure/censorship under the guise of “protecting our National Security.”

My partner is a former employee in that sector. The amount of information that could be ordered to be protected in this way is likely more than you’d expect.

To be honest; I would imagine that the Cs-137 is a product of illegal fishing. Fishermen are told not to fish in contaminated areas; but may do so anyways out of desperation for a catch they can sell.

I remember nuclear disasters near SE Asia and Japan over the last decade. It is also true that Shrimp are also, not so unimportantly, Bottom-Feeders. As Bottom of the Ocean feeders. They literally hoover up the soil at the bottom of the ocean and eat the microbiological life living there. With recent nuclear disasters; I think it’s possible some orphan Cesium got down there.

Naturally this is just my theory; based on my limited college educated knowledge of biology and the food web.

No. Not without paying a hefty license upgrade fee (Retail copy) or doing something incredibly shady. (Piracy tools which I won’t specifically name but I’m sure you can find and likely know the dangers of obtaining for some users.)

Unfortunately no. Home edition will actively ignore Group Policies and Registry keys relating to privacy.

You would be better off using a 10 Pro license or pirating 10 Pro and keeping it from phoning home.

Our loaf here is Pumpernickel / Burnt (Very dark grey).

He is such a sweet cat.

You seem a sound and competent writer as well; have you considered writing your own content as well? Or are there challenges to that I’m not understanding?

It is likely they have the ability to sign the public key of your console with a “Suicide Key” which would signal your console to commit suicide by burning some internal e-fuse.

It is also equally likely this is an over-broad version of “Legal Rear Armor” that means nothing explicitly about what they can do. This is because modifying your system has long carried risk of bricking and their security systems to prevent modifications have only increased in strength.

It’s likely the new security system in the Switch 2 is so naively hair-trigger sensitive that it absolutely will brick you or disable some functionality permanently if it thinks you even so much as modified a backup copy of a save file or encrypted binary stored on your SD card itself. It’s very likely that any kind of attempt to write invalid foreign files onto an SD may result in issues. I’d expect Switch 2 systems to spontaneously self destruct if exposed to bad quality or fake SD cards with insufficient capacity; or an SD card that is failing if what I am guessing is true.

Is this confirmed? No; it’s just idle wild speculation. But it is what I expect from Nintendo; given that their creatives have all been driven away from the executive positions of power and only money driven executives are left at the helm.

Given that the Switch has already been thoroughly cracked; it’s likely now more than a want or need, Nintendo now has a mania or obsession with making their consoles un-exploitable. Likely, this is because they’re too naive to avoid promising their consoles are ‘unbreakable’ to their third parties and publishers.

Unfortunately Nintendo is full of foolish pride and stubbornness. Tinkerers and video game preservers the world over will need to once again break the Switch 2 security to pieces to prove to Nintendo that this endeavor is futile.

In the meantime; don’t tinker with a Switch or Switch 2 you can’t afford to lose. Hell, don’t even buy one if you’re sensitive to it being un-tinkerable. Don’t gift them to any children in your life either. Instead; gift them something more useful; like teaching them how to emulate one of the older Nintendo Systems and gift them a Library of ROMs so they don’t have to torrent it themselves and ‘give the family computer a virus’ or ‘cause a scary letter to be sent to their parents’ with their inexperience. If you can’t bear piracy; then go pick up one of the old legitimate retro systems. Buy it somewhere used and pick up whatever used games you can for them at any occasion.

Given the absurd number of sites that require a login for no discernible security reason at all whatsoever; I get it.

A “Common” password makes sense. This password should never be used to log into or protect anything secure however.

Similarly a “Common” password might be used to enable login more easily from certain devices; but ideally this “temporary” password should probably be something that is, yet again, different from the first “Common” password you use.

It boggles my mind that someone like this isn’t at least using a specific passphrase for secure work accounts only.

While I can personally understand a need for some password reuse across multiple domains; at least there should be some separation of larger “superdomains” such as “work”, “personal” and “throwaway” so that breaches don’t have such a catastrophic impact.

A system of generating secure, unrelated but memorable phrases (for you) for those times you can’t carry or use a password manager is frequently essential. That way you can recall the password on the fly when it is asked of you; all you need to do is think about the unrelated thing you attached that information to.

Good idea; bad execution.

If they think for a minute that Trump won’t order his goons to arrest people doing this; they’re being careless.

Instead of a bullhorn; a private message blast out to any interested parties would suffice; ideally via a secure Signal group chat or something similar. A phone tree being set into motion could work too; ringing phones; as could an SMS trigger an alert to all neighborhood residents.

All that said; it’s good that they’re basically warning folks of federal agents snooping around. There’s no reason to let them get away with it casually during this Administration; if they want to illegally investigate immigrants, make it hard on them. Document everything.

Unfortunately this law is unconstitutional as ever. This is nothing more than a scare tactic; as it should not survive a true challenge in the SCOTUS. If it does survive such a challenge; burn them all, congress and all.

No; it’s not inarguable.

I do feel that some minor limitations around social media should exist; such as hours of the day you may not be allowed to read or post; but they should be simple age-gates created to privately verify a person’s age via a simple SSO/OAuth style token. If you can’t authenticate against some privacy respecting identity proving entity you probably aren’t old enough and any account(s) you create would be limited.

Not all social media needs to be age-gated either; but social networks could be forced by law to avoid monetizing your account or habits at all if you don’t willingly identify. (and by doing so; also CONSENT TO THIS MONETIZATION) In short; if you are not verified they’re required to assume you are a child and handle your data as such…with utmost respect to your privacy.

All that being said; I’m going to be watching carefully.

I still think they have time to backpedal, make it right, and clarify. I don’t permit my installations to talk to their data collection services anyways; via network policies. I have no problem tightening those screws and forcefully disabling their telemetry in other ways as well.

If I have to migrate; well; I already have LibreWolf installed. I might try a few other forks next; to see which ones ‘just work’ with the web properly to protect my privacy while still allowing all websites to work properly as intended so long as I give that website appropriate permissions as I see fit.

I don’t believe that anyone misunderstood the wording.

The problem lies within the broad meaning of the chosen words. If you are angry, you have absolutely every right to be.

Regardless of Mozilla’s intent here they have made a rather large mistake in re-wording their Terms. Rather than engaging with a legal team in problematic regions; they took the lazy way out and used overbroad terms to cover their bottom.

Frequently when wording like this changes it causes companies to only be bound by weak verbal promises which oftentimes go out the door whenever an executive change takes place, or an executive feels threatened enough.

Do not be deceived; this is a downgrade of their promise. It is inevitable that the promises will be broken now that there is no fear of a lawsuit. There’s nothing left to bind them to their promises.

The Mozilla foundation wasn’t ever intended to remain “financially viable”; it was supposed to remain non-profit. They should be “rightsizing” and taking pay cuts instead of slipping a EULA roofie into their terms of use.

It is not only true; it is required by the WMF. Wikipedia and Wikimedia will go dark before it compromises those values.

Wikipedia can always be revived by it’s massive worldwide community; on Tor even. Trump taking down the WMF servers won’t help; the databases probably get backed up daily and would likely end up on torrents within moments of it being taken down.

As an editor with advanced rollback rights on Wikipedia; I can agree with the above statement.

It is Extremely Difficult; even with slighly escalated rollback rights such as mine; to push an agenda on Wikipedia.

WP:NPOV is a good read and the editing community and contribution culture on Wikipedia enforces it strongly.

EnWiki itself for certain has some very strong Page Protection policies that prevent just any editor from munging up the encyclopedia or changing history.

It’s safe to say that Wikimedia cannot be bent or broken easily by special interest groups…Vandalism and PoV pushing is quickly quelled by sysops on Wikipedia. There are more of us editors than Elon could ever possibly hope to take on.

Not even Elon Musk gets to ignore Wikimedia policies. That will never change. They are written in blood and sweat and cannot be manipulated. The entire foundation is set up in a way that it always, eventually, cracks down on corruption and greed. Not even a cabal of admins, bureaucrats and Wikimedia Stewards can help you.

This is unsurprising. A Chinese model will be filled with censorship.