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Primarily; I just refuse to be intimidated by the extremists. It's fine to take reasonable steps to protect yourself; but don't completely force yourself into any kind of isolation because you feel it protects you; that's exactly what THEY want.

I mean, in non technical terms, I basically stated to cosplay as a pirate if you catch my drift. No need to not shun media in the meantime.

I actually disagree that media habits will be collected or targeted. It's easy to defeat at least the overt tracking at least on Netflix using uMatrix or uBlock Origin; and I've done it myself.

Media habits are already collected, and targeted. They just aren't used by fascists yet.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/streaming-industry-has-unprecedented-surveillance-manipulation-capabilities/

You also can't use uBlock on a smart tv.

You should be reasonably safe, and fine, using a major streaming service; as the fee to use them can easily be paid by privacy respecting means. (AKA scratch-cards purchased with either cash or crypto currency)

Netflix streams aren't privacy encrypted. Doesn't matter how to pay, it can still be very easily linked to you via your internet provider. And Netflix would still have a profile built around that account.

Don't recommend Waterfox as it's less secure than either Mullvad or Librewolf. It also still has npapi support which is definitely not a secure thing to do.

I removed Matrix and Fluffy Chat from the recommendations, due to the encryption issues until I can look into it.

Just for clarification tho, Matrix and XMPP are not social media networks - it runs local on your phone, and if deleted from the phone, your account is deleted too. So how many fascists are using Matrix doesn't matter if you're not hanging out with fascists. You have to invite and know the people you'll be messaging, and if you want a large group, someone has to self host the Matrix instance on your own.

I don't recommend Signal because it requires a phone number, and not all Voips (especially privacy voips) work with it . They're also based in the USA and contain proprietary blobs. I think they've only had the protocol audited as well.

If you really want something like Signal (that's also not on the Play Store btw but F-droid instead) then Molly is a fork I'd recommend:

https://molly.im/

They hid the Manhattan project really really well, if you've ever looked into the history.

But any knowledge on how modern triggering works on them I'd imagine would be kept a state secret wouldn't it? I don't think it's something you'd want others to know.

Doesn't that depend on how they're set up? I'd imagine in the 50+ years since they've been invented they would have designed it so it could, specifically because modern anti missile defenses exist.

I mean, I know world governments can be dumb, but I would imagine they're not that dumb as to bother maintaining a key super weapon just to not upgrade it / design it so that it won't work if used.

Shooting down a nuclear icbm doesn't really help as much as you think, if it catches it.

Not to mention the atmosphere lighting up wouldn't be much better

There was a study that showed controlled anger can keep you alive longer in old age.

I remember it because I immediately thought "huh, 'man to angry to die' meme is real".

I'm trying to spread this around as much as I can right now, but starting 2025, you don't be able to travel to the EU anymore with just a passport, and will need a Visa.

*Visa. Passport won't be enough to travel to the EU and select other countries in 2025.

Republicans literally wrote a playbook on how they're going to do it called Project 2025 ya dunce.

It's clear Americans need to learn the hard way just like Europe did a long time ago.

Better be real soon. You'll need a Visa to travel to the EU starting in 2025 - just passport won't work anymore. EU was preparing for this scenario for years, expecting a huge wave of American immigration after a Trump win.