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Even without behavioral changes, nothing I can do with 120k a year will ever surpass somebody having a baby.

My study suggests the other 90% let them to vary degrees.

Carney could deny the by-election or at least delay it, but that’d cause conservative tears so he’s avoiding the drama.

Majority Labor and Potato lost his seat, blessed be the aussies.

That’ll be important. We’ll also see how Canadians react to the atrocities the USA will commit in the next 4 years too however.

How it plays in U.S. politics

To the extent that Canada’s election will make news in the U.S., it will be presented as a story about Donald Trump – as a personal repudiation on the eve of his 100th day in office.

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This impressed me to see acknowledged by CBC.

Explain how they gained more seats then.

The conservatives barely lost because the progressives and the BQ voters cut their legs off to hoist up the liberals.

The game was too memorable for me, dropped it quick. The same thing happened when I tried the Dead Space remaster.

There’s $140 saved. I miss demos, well, besides the indie scene embracing them I mean.

There are things like the Hydra… application found on github. I was gonna call it a store front.

All I’ll say is I’ll be watching where fire bans are in effect if it ever comes to that.

Mad respect.

I don’t know enough to know how severe a problem that is. Mainly I just see it as another added layer of obfuscation, nothing is perfect if it connects to the internet.

Yeah but I think Tor and…not using big corporate USA internet services to begin with would help.

Would mullvad VPN have given up that information? Which VPN matters too.

Wine, it’s pretty funny wording in hindsight.

Forums with paywalls have always been way more civil so I agree.

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Just gave it a shot driving home from work making wrong turns on purpose to see how it’d do re-routing. Passed with flying colours. Even got voice assist working via RHVoice F-Droid repo. Doesn’t have the same fidelity with individual house numbers on a street in my small city I noticed, but does provide an accurate batch list of houses found on that segment of the neighbourhood block.

That openstreetmaps had the newly installed round-a-bout installed last year on them in my insignificant satellite city was also impressive.

You’re right though, like it doesn’t have stuff like the plant I work at labelled, but oddly does label a bunch of small electric substations under the company name on the site lol.

Oooh, Organic Maps works well at least local to me, thanks for the recommendation.

If i can drop Google Maps, the only Google related things I would still be using are Revanced Youtube and GrapheneOS.

Search I moved to Ecosia which is still Bing. Hopefully not for much longer given their most recent relevant announcement about making their own euro indexer/engine teaming up with Qwant.

I’m sure that won’t bite us in the ass in 4 years, right Carney? I’m sure the enemy owning the narrative in Canada won’t be a problem.

An OPSEC community would probably say no, so I probably don’t need to ask in those communities. But I’m curious about a (digital) pirate’s perspective on this issue…

Still committing OPSEC crimes, but I’m not as bad as I could be :P

I mean, the sources listed here are supposedly “safe” right? But honestly, how much would you trust these “safe” sources?

I think we’re talking about different sets of standards. Even with that in mind, my own “trusted” list is a much smaller handful of any list posted online. Trust in pirate spaces shouldn’t mean at face value and should be constantly tested with stuff like virustotal. It just means I haven’t been compromised or seen anyone else report back with an infection for a long stretch of time on a specific website. There’s always occasional breaches as malware enthusiasts test the waters now and then, usually not with a big/popular release. Stuff that could fly under the radar. Usually it comes down to whether or not that website has an active comment section or forum with active mods/admins who stamp it out continuously. I tend to prefer traditional bulletin board forums. rutracker.org or cs.rin.ru. I still don’t touch any file right away. I let other people be the “brave” lab rats. See if any squeal first. I tend to avoid niche application piracy entirely. Those seem (and have been in my youth) to be the virus hotbeds cracked by total unknown entities. Plus I don’t mind paying for independent / small company niche software. Often enough in those cases I can find a free open source alternative anyways.

It’s worked out so far. I haven’t been compromised in my adult years. But this isn’t some “do as I do” thing, it’s basically internet street smarts. Comes with experience and infections. I minimize risk and can trust my gut now, but I acknowledge it’ll never be risk free.

When doing sensitive tasks like banking or filing taxes, do you:

>Use a different OS on the same machine? (Dualboot)
>Or put the pirated content inside a virtual machine?
>Or just use a completely separate computer?

Separate computer. An otherwise useless old laptop running Fedora. OPSEC would probably say it’s not good enough because it’s on the same network as computers which installed pirated software.

And since PC is much different than a Smartphone:

Would the extra sandboxing on Smartphones make pirating games on a Smartphone much safer compared to on a PC? (Not that there are much mobile games worth playing, just curious)

GrapheneOS here which does sandbox better than most, but I don’t use my smartphone for anything sensitive. That’s really without trying to, it’s just not something I ever felt the need to use a smartphone for. I’m not as familiar with Android/Linux as I am with Windows. I know exactly where to periodically check for telltale signs of infection on Windows. I can still bend that OS to my will even as it gets worse for most end users. I’m less sure of myself on anything else. Working on that, HTPC is Fedora KDE spin now. Like you say, not much mobile games to play. I think I’ve bought like…3 ever. So, never felt much need to sideload. I usually stick to F-Droid and NDS emulators anyways. I have a Picross / Picross 3D addiction.

Non-installed/non-executable files such as .mp4 .mkv .mp3 .pdf .epub, are mostly safe right? I mean, you are using another program to opening it, not executing a file, there aren’t much attack vectors as long as the video player / ebook viewer is up to date right? (Or am I understanding it wrong?)

Usually, but sometimes there can be a flaw in a specific application exploited. I don’t think I know of any from media formats outside of maliciously edited ROM files smc or v/z64 for cartridge based system emulators like extremely outdated ZSNES or Project64 1.6 specifically.