It’s not the logs or the data which they would be monitoring with an encrypted no-logs VPN. What they would be monitoring, presumably, would be the fact that you are using a VPN at all. That’s also what they would be trying to block. They might try to block it by interfering with access to certain ports or blocking certain IP addresses, but there would be limits. Even China can’t stop all VPN traffic to get around its firewalls.
Every time someone says “I can’t stand the gaslighting and abuse anymore. This time I’m leaving him.” it’s an opportunity for them to really follow through.
Sometimes we are held back more by the stories we tell ourselves than our actual capacities. And the solution is to stop telling ourselves what we can’t do, but telling ourselves that we can and even will change our situations.
I think evil is an underlayment, not mere will to harm, but the force that moves towards destruction. The distinction of actual evil against some psudo-evil is false, a way that it hides itself. When we deny it it’s because we fear its nearness, as we should, because it is even within us, and good doesn’t always win.
But OP was asking for cynical takes.
Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.
Sat doen and watched a bunch of the new Quantum Leap the other day while feeling lonely, and that felt pretty good.
It’s kinda wild that an IT Certification company can’t handle Linux, but I’m sadly not surprised.
Eat of this toenail, for it is my flesh. Do this in remembrance of me.
When do you reckon they could last do that?
Can midichlorians be eliminated ?
Rich asshole says he’ll invent something good but very expensive and so only available to the elite. People ITT: “Good things are bad!”
Yeah so, good for Altman, best idea he’s had probably. Spend the money before the bubble pops my dude.
Oh come on.
This guy couldn’t even get a train to run on time.
Why proprietary cloud-based IoT isn’t sustainable.
Not sure. Some enthusiasm is understandable, but Go and Swift don’t draw out evangelists the way Rust does.
Well, if they make it good, it has a permissive license and future updates and forks can take it private.
My grandpappy started this here AI company with a handful of GPUs he whittled himself, and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let big gobmint regulations cost us the family business!
That looks like just choosing to violate the GPL because you want to.
10 I guess, but just because I can doesn’t mean it’s fun to do all the time. Requires deliberate effort.
Not even sure hateful bigots are the hardest to empathize with. Everyone has hated someone or felt disgust before. That’s sort of an ‘in’ to the mindset.
I have a harder time with people like the Paul brothers or Mr. Beast. People who seem to have desires without beliefs.
I’m guessing by fiat you mean government issued currency that is not backed by precious metals but by faith and credit of the issuing government.
They call it fiat because a government just declares how much of it there is.
Blockchain tokens are also fiat in this sense, it’s just that the protocol makes the declaration instead of a government.
The other notable difference is that I can buy things with USD or other government currencies. I can’t with blockchain tokens. I mean technically I can but they have to be converted first and the popular ones are mostly depictionary so you’re deeply disincentivized from using them as currency.
The value of USD comes from people taking it in exchange for goods and services, and the US government taking it as payment for taxes. The value of a Bitcoin comes from people giving you USD for it under the assumption that they can sell it for more USD later. Like a stock, but without the incidental fractional ownership of a corporation with actual capital.
It’s a cool concept though, and peer-to-peer digital payment is a good thing, but it cannot function as a store of value without a connection to the material world.