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Best non israeli-owned VPN?
  • Basically, your VPN just replaces your ISP. So for example, if I want an ISP that's okay with piracy a VPN can be3 a good option.

    Your IP address is not how you are spied on for the most part. It's more browser fingerprinting. So a VPN can offer a false sense of security when really enhancing your privacy is a lot less passive than that. Overall it can help but it's not a magic privacy button.

    Also entities like the NSA with a "god's eye view" can just track you anyways. Even if the VPN service wasn't compromised, they can just watch traffic going in and coming out and correlate it to you. It offers basically no protection from high-resource adversaries.

  • Deaths from the crowdstrike outage?

    I've come to the conclusion that there must have been deaths. There were global outages at hospitals, 911 services were out among other things.

    Yet I have not seen one official report trying to tally up the deaths. I'm trying to look for something but it seems like there is a blackout on the reproting of this aspect of it.

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    Over 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit 😞
  • Basically Nexus/STC is an attempt to recreate sci-hub but in a decentralized manner. Everything is mirrored on IPFS which in my opinion is not that great but it gets the job done. Sci-hub has been frozen since 2021 so new papers are not available. As time progresses, sci-hub becomes less and less useful.

    Scientific articles are crowd sourced instead of scraped. If the article isn't on there it can be requested. They also mirror libgen databases.

    Also it's named Standard Template Construct as a Warhammer reference.

    Here is a link on how to use it.

  • Over 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit 😞
  • Z-library is no good. They basically mirror libgen's database and then add additional books without feeding them back/maintaining public databases. It appears to be a for-profit enterprise.

    Libgen, annas archive, and nexus are much better for liberating knowledge.

  • In a proper society those behind this would be dragged into the streets and flayed alive.
  • It depends on what you mean by sustainable, it can mean a lot of different things.

    In terms of CO2 production, plastics really can't be beat at the moment. Their weight relative to other materials makes them cost significantly less CO2 to ship.

    In terms of biodegradability, we have composable plastics like PLA but you're not going to get the properties you want in terms of strength.

    If you make a model kit with biodegradable plastic but you have to buy 5 of them instead of 1 because they keep breaking, using ABS is more sustainable in my opinion.

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