What's wild to me, is that Trump probably would have won if he didn't personally convince a bunch of his base not to vote, before the fucking election.
It's just one of those miraculous blunders on his part, that prevented such an extreme amount of damage to the free world.
I'm almost speechless about the stupidity of it even 3 years later.
That looks so... serviceable!
I'm guessing from the unlimited money hose that was Silicon Valley venture capital.
Problem is, and the reason we're hearing about this now, the money is being redirected to AI, and all these negative income companies don't have enough capital to keep going.
That's why it seems like the entire Internet is going to shit all at once. The corporate money that tried to monopolize everything we access online has been cut off.
But the good news is that compute, bandwidth , and storage has gotten cheap enough to host powerful FOSS alternatives ourselves.
I'm cautiously hopeful this leads to a golden era of the open Internet.
Why do I need port-forwarding for torrents?
Torrenting happily on Mullvad right now.
I switched to Mullvad after PIA got bought by that spyware company.
They're great.
I can find just about anything I want through public trackers or DDL sites, so I haven't bothered to look into them.
I just joined form lemmy.world after they were targeted by the XSS attack, and the responsiveness of the instance went to shit.
This is actually my first comment here so it's also a bit of a test to see if comments work better than they are over there.
Edit: Instant post, I love it.
The real danger behind Chat Control and similar measures, is that countries won't even have to utilize parallel construction anymore. No longer will dragnet surveillance mostly target the big guys. They'll be able to basically automate prosecution of any crime that they desire.
Think about how many little slices have been taken out of our freedom pie over the last 10 years. How many similar dystopian laws have passed despite our outrage?
Technology is outpacing our ability to protect ourselves, and countries will keep pushing boundaries until nothing is left sacred.
Oppression never sleeps.