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Mullvad fits your criteria. Proton is annoying to use on phones I think but they do have a free VPN.

Really there's very little that a VPN is suitable for over TOR. Probably, if you can't run it over TOR it's not secure over a VPN either.

I am. Now that I've learned a bit more about politics and animal agriculture subsidies, I think that it makes more of a difference to be involved in animal liberation activism than it actually does to be vegan. (Obvs both is best.) Either way there's an incomprehensible industrial moral horror going on and everybody should do something about it.

IMO no, for two reasons:

• reading code is harder than writing it. If the AI writes you a standard implementation, you still have to read it to make sure it's correct. So that's more work than just doing it yourself
• AI will produce code that looks right. Since it can't understand anything that's all it does, next most likely token == most correct-looking solution. But when the obvious solution is not the right one, you now have deceptively incorrect code, specifically and solely designed to look correct.

I've never used Copilot myself but pair programmed with someone who used it, and it seemed like he spent more time messing with the output than it would have taken to write it himself.

No TikTok, no Kaspersky, I'm excited to live behind the Great Firewall of America.

simply show them your phone background, the BRICS waifu picture

Nice work! Get your "user testing" time in and enjoy.

seems like it'd be hard to get reliable data on this. anybody here in the fentanyl business? im not a cop :)

yeah I think housing first usually. car as housing was a reasonable idea, I'm not gonna knock the plan too much, but clearly it didn't work. IMO it is actually kind of hard to buy a cheap car that works on a tight timeline. Especially because budget wasn't $4k, it was like $2k. Needed to be enough left over to pay for gas/insurance/repairs/parking tickets until she was able to get a paycheck. Takes a lot of time on the internet, multiple meetups, negotiation, possibility of getting robbed, etc. I think calendar time 2 weeks last time I bought a shitbox, and the clock is ticking at $90+ a day if you're in an SRO hotel or something.

I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, every institution that theoretically gives people free housing that I've interacted with here has been pretty bad unfortunately

how any lump sum payment could uplift somebody out of homelessness.

it can certainly happen but the stars have to align on a very single clear cause. I helped a migrant family like a month ago who got pulled over with a gun in the car, which made the county impound it until they could pay $2k to get it back. Doordash was their only source of income so they couldn't pay rent and no longer could sleep in their car either. Local jail support org was able to get them a couple days of hotel while we tried and failed to get their car back with bribes, and ultimately I and some other contributors were able to give them like $600 for their first month's rent in another state. At that point they almost immediately found two under-the-table jobs and became self-sustaining. They're probably still precarious but at least they're housed now. Really nice folks with a cute toddler.

But the thing is they had good connections in the immigrant community which allowed them to get an apartment without proof of income, and to quickly get those jobs. Two adults getting min wage can make rent so they literally just needed the starting capital. It's harder for a person on their own because the kinds of job you can get at a moment's notice generally don't pay enough to live without a roommate. Idk I think that all we can say is that allthetimesivedied needed something other than $4k - maybe just more capital, maybe a different kind of thing.

not a good car but a car, unless the market is locally fucked in Portland. In Chicago for instance I see several 07-09 Sentras with ~120k for $3k on Facebook Marketplace which would get you from A to B for a couple years. Nicer than my last car, there's probably some $2k shitboxes still

unfortunately it is more of a webnovel: His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai