route my traffic to a different country where I don’t live in and them viewing my activity is potentially less of a problem

Depending on where you live, and where your service resides, this could be tricky.

In the US, for instance, if you’ve chosen a provider in Australia, then a FVEY agreement could be in place to share that data. This gets around the technicality that intel gathering is not occurring on US soil and is not being done by the gov.

And again with the US, if you’ve chosen a country that’s not amiable to sharing user data, the US could very well be justifying that country as a target for pilfering data anyway.

So, that would leave choosing a service provider within the US, which should need to go through the FISA courts for any access to citizen data, but who knows after the Snowden revelations.

I guess that’s the state of privacy if you’ve got a nation state that’s targeted you for surveillance. Only way around it I can think of is data to be encrypted in transit and at rest, and only you control the keys. But that’s not something that’s going to happen with something like mainstream email anyway, too inconvenient for most folks (and you also don’t know if your recipients are security conscious either).

Preacher: Can you read, my son?

Bubbles: Well that depends; can you go fuck yourself?

source

OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944 (declassified)

Good memory, it was the precursor to the CIA.

OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944

There’s a link at the top for the full pdf. And do note, OSS is Office of Special Services, the WWII precursor to the CIA - not Open Source Software lol.

Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.

Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:

• Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

• Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

• When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.

• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

• Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

• Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!

I read about some smart tvs computing a hash of what’s on screen to phone home about, in attempt with figuring out what content a user is watching when that content is 3rd party controlled.

We need some privacy laws up in this mother fucker.

No I hate MS. I won’t ever forget the pain that was developing edge cases around Internet Explorer (fuck IE 6, that shit was the worst).

stupid clear background thing

In web design that’s called a modal.

Dead at 3am? They’re already eating your face.

They’re things on the road that take you to your abode.

“And there’s really cool people here!”

Get me a bucket, I’m gonna fucking puke.

It must smell so horrible in there, with all those brands (farts) mixing together.

And living this way isn’t new there, either, it’s an “evolution”.

I can recall a story over a decade ago about google employees renting uhaul trucks to live in, parked on the google campus parking lots. The same article also followed some engineers who were illegally living in rent-a-storage spaces.

So compared to that, it makes these pods look like luxury living, even though they’re all pretty depraved.

Being a software dev myself, I’ll gladly take a lower salary in a low cost-of-living city if it means I can own a house (and not be mortgage poor, either).

If you buy OEM laptop, how would you sell subscription windows with it?

“SomeShittyAntivirus free for 12 months with purchase of this laptop!”

s/SomeShittyAntivirus/Windows/g

The first two and the last three are the same

I read that as “all five are the same”. And I’m like damn, don’t want to work in a slaughterhouse if that’s true for you!

Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.

It’s called meth.

I remember crashing in a friends room after a night of hard drinking, sleeping in a reclining chair. He gets up in the middle of the night, walks over to the closet, unzips, and straight up takes the longest piss I’d ever heard to date. Right on the carpet, which makes really curious splash sounds within the first several seconds of becoming saturated.

So yeah, moving voluminous amounts of liquid through the human osmotic filtration system. I’m actually still quite surprised to this day that he didn’t piss all over himself in his sleep instead (or worse). And that was high school, I wince to think about how college went for him.

A moose once bit my sister.

if you’re using the same password for everything since 91 there’s around a 0% chance that password hasn’t been leaked

Plot twist, they’ve never had their password leaked due to never having a password.

They spend every last waking moment trolling through public or university libraries to find computers that people haven’t logged out of, and are still logged into social media, dialup modems, irc, bbs, mainframes, etc. It’s these accounts they make posts from.

Pretty lonely world when you only ever get to make one comment on one account at max like once a week. And then you never get to check the replies. You never get to check your email either, you don’t know if anyone has sent you and e-card for your birthday.

Oh and not to speak of constantly getting kicked out of those libraries once the librarians recognize you. To the point where you have to move to yet another city to have any online time again.

But hey, they’ve never had their password leak at least!

I had to squint at the “Quart Bags” one, and was really hoping it said “Queso Bags”.

As in, you had some legit purpose for needing to put Costco brand "Que Bueno’ nacho cheese into a ziploc bag on a regular enough occasion that it warranted 3d printing a dispenser for them.

I think I will ponder this for my nightly meditation as I fall asleep tonight.