people having a life and being able to afford to change their lifestyle away from fossil fuels is more important at the moment.

we really need more education surrounding the issues and better alternatives, once everyone realises how much damage cars cause and once they realise/once they have a viable alternative (i.e. trains) then people will start to switch away. in the mean time people still need their cars to get to work, because that is how the US is designed, and expensive fuel will only result in them having less spare change, rather than them actually using their car less.

sure, if everyone had enough money that they could afford to change up the way they do things or if everyone had a job that they can do from home or if everyone lived within walking distance from their job, then maybe you would have a valid argument. people are much less likely to go on a road trip, for example, if its gonna cost them 3x more than they expect it to cost, but people need to go to work to survive.

it might be easier to downvote, but its not easier for you to write 2 paragraphs and still not explain it.

the joke is about rape.

thats 5 words.

yeah, people are so ignorant. how do people think joking about this bullshit is okay.

Ah, my bad, I’ll edit my comment.

Sounds like an avoidable problem, that Proton didn’t have a whole lot to fight it with. Obviously they could/should have fought it in court, but this could have been avoided if the individual simply didn’t link a recovery email and/or didn’t share the same email across Apple products + protesting. Although, the article does point out that if you sign up over Tor or a VPN it requires a verification email, which sucks- though you could just use a temporary email address to get around it. As CaptObvious pointed out (literally @CaptObvious@literature.cafe lmfao) the reporter pointed out Proton rejects temporary emails.

Key information:

The core of the controversy stems from Proton Mail providing the Spanish police with the recovery email address associated with the Proton Mail account of an individual

individual is suspected of being a member of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia’s police force) and of using their internal knowledge to assist the Democratic Tsunami movement.

Upon receiving the recovery email from Proton Mail, Spanish authorities further requested Apple to provide additional details linked to that email, leading to the identification of the individual.

This case is particularly noteworthy because […] complex interplay between technology firms, user privacy, and law enforcement.

requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism laws

primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving protests and roadblocks

Proton Mail’s compliance with these requests is bound by Swiss law

Comment from Proton:

We are aware of the Spanish terrorism case involving alleged threats to the King of Spain, but as a general rule we do not comment on specific cases. Proton has minimal user information, as illustrated by the fact that in this case data obtained from Apple was used to identify the terrorism suspect. Proton provides privacy by default and not anonymity by default because anonymity requires certain user actions to ensure proper OpSec, such as not adding your Apple account as an optional recovery method. Note, Proton does not require adding a recovery address as this information can in theory be turned over under Swiss court order, as terrorism is against the law in Switzerland.

fix the homelessness problem or trans rights issues or the home heating problem or improve the looks of the cities or fix the wealth gap or fix NHS or lessen sexism or improve public schools or lower emissions or improve nuclear power or reduce coal or subsidise renewables or improve privacy or fix all the issues created by the UK government over the last 30 years or help fix problems caused by colonisation in ireland or do literally anything useful for once? nah, too expensive.

a £230,000,000 mass surveillance program akin to that of russia or the ccp? of course we can!

Musk is a cunt.

I’m using Firefox + uBlock Origin and don’t have a paywall.

This explains it pretty well https://callmebymygender.top/

What adblocker are you using? It doesn’t appear for me.

lol sounds like you do, good on you. I’ve been listening to them for a bit and I really like them. I’ll be checking them out some more later, thanks again for the great comments!

Wow, nice. I love it when people are clearly so interested in what they’re writing about.

Sounds like I’ll start with Planned Obsolescence then, and work my way through their stuff. Thanks for such solid recommendations. :)

same- went straight from Lorna Shore into Lil Darkie earlier lmao

I’ve been meaning to listen to Gojira for a while- what album/song/whatever do you recommend I start with?

Wake Up & It’s Over - Lovejoy (although the singer has had some stuff come up about him being nasty with his ex girlfriend recently)

Soul Elegy - Termina

Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token

Fatalism - Polaris

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - MAY-A

Post Human: Survival Horror - Bring Me The Horizon

Euthanasia - Stray From The Path

List is a genre trip and a half. Nice picks :)

Couple friends and I started a Minecraft Realm again, so I’ve been playing that a lot. Though we’ve been thinking of switching to a traditional server so we can use mods to slow down progression (please let me know if you know of any good ones).

Also got into The Finals. I’m dogshit, but I love it.

Isn’t this an anti-ddos page? Happens all the time at my school because we’re 3000 people using one connection.

This feels like what Linus Tech Tips said, and we saw how that went…

I dont think that makes them bad, but they do need to educate themselves.

True true. You’re right there my friend.