Please understand that browser extensions make you more easy to track. I used to be under the same assumption, but uBO is as far as you should go. fingerprints include your extensions.
Not at all.
Do anything where you log in under one location with vanilla FF. Do everything else with 2 or more browsers under 20 other locations.
It's always kind of funny when the Technology folks wade into well-researched and well-worn Privacy territory.
Do you want to not wave a giant flag of your activity to Google, Meta, MS, and your ISP when you do literally anything online? Either use a VPN and Mullvad (or Librewolf, but YMMV) browser, OR a VPN and Tor OR Tor with an https bridge if paying for a VPN will make you a target (Tor bridges are not for casuals, save them for those in genuine need).
VPN locations need to be changed. Frequently. Router level VPN at home becomes your "This is me" location, then make use of VPNs on each device when you want an extra layer of obfuscation.
There's not a lot of middle ground at this point, and it's not difficult.
Sure - but I'm also still wondering what the consensus is on Frank-N-Furter. Hero? Antihero? Villain? When I search online, I get all 3
You forgot a couple zeroes.
Wait...is Dr. Frank-N-Furter a villain? I always thought he was the hero and Riff-Raff was the villain.
Can we get the reverse of this post?
Like, I'm going to call all my reservations feeding appointments from now on. "Hi, yes, I made an appointment to consume the flesh of lesser beings in this room? Yes, four of us total consuming flesh tonight in this room, it's under Shimada? Great..."
Case in point: Smeg already does this, and all their products are considered upmarket. They're just really solid normal appliances.
Not me.
Why? Did they get something other than Filet O'Fish?
Request from @Allero@lemmy.today...well, kinda. They asked for J-Law and got this. Put yer GD pitchforks away.
No AI used, ya snobs!
Credit to @Broadfern@lemmy.world for coming up with "MinTay" as an OS name.
Americans, I don’t need to tell you where we are as a country. We are currently operating outside the bounds of the Constitution. Quite a bit outside, in fact.
A lot of this is predicated on the use of the long-standing Unitary Executive Theory. Google it if you’re not familiar. If you are familiar, your cortisol level just jumped reading those words.
I have a bad feeling that 2028 is going to be more of the same. Even if it’s not, it’s not getting better. I’ve worked in a lot of developing countries, and even without a conflict to tear a functional country apart, it can take decades to recover from a period of prolonged corruption and survival for spoils. It's going to be a rough patch.
Also, it’s been 54 years since a Constitutional Amendment that mattered to Americans was passed, the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18. The longest gap between substantive Amendments was 61 years, between the 12th and 13th – that stagnation included the Civil War, you’ll recall. IMO, it’s inevitable that in the next 15-20 years, we end up at a place demanding a Constitutional Convention to unfuck all the fuckery that’s only just getting started now. Not some little band-aid stuff, I mean like a full-on gut-rehab.
So we must ask: How do you prevent an Executive ruling by EO fiat? How do you dismantle the Unitary Executive Theory once and for all so it never does this to the country again?
You revise Article 2 to make the Office of the President an Executive Council.
There’s two current examples of this in action at the national level: Switzerland and the UAE. Classic Examples also include the Venetian Republic, which was baller AF for the day. I’ll take the Swiss Example, which is that a seven-person council where everyone takes turns being the ceremonial head of state. No single person can go off the rails, no single person can flip out and jerk around tariffs, no single person can put their personal enrichment ahead of the nation and get away with it either. Not that the Swiss are immune from issues, but this is a single-issue fix.
How would Americans work this? Probably pretty easily.
We already segregate ourselves by geography: The Southwest, the PNW, The Plains, The Great Lakes, The South, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. It really depends on how many divisions you want. Governors already have conferences grouped by geography and culture as well. This is the natural progression.
And no, 12 districts is not the right number. Depending on if you want ties or tie breakers to enforce decision-making, six or seven regions would be the way to go. It’s not the mess of Congress, it’s a group small enough to arrive at decisions quickly. Maybe a super-majority of five out of seven so it doesn't turn into the Supreme Court right now where one swing vote ruins everyone's year.
So if we’ve revised Article 2, we’ve eliminated the Electoral College as well (praise be!). Depending on if we have an enlightened set of descendants and survivors rebuilding from the wreckage of the Thunderdome being erected now, what would make the most sense would be either rank-choice or direct 50%+1 wins in most counties in the region, which is how janky US elections are already organized anyway. As much as I don’t love the Electoral College, it stands to reason that something needs to prevent one major metropolitan area from just steamrolling the rest of the region. LA, NYC, and Chicago, yes I mean you.
The Council would take on some part-time duties of Cabinet positions, rather than adding a half dozen people to the room. Some of those roles might actually be better delegated to those sub-national levels anyway. DOT, HUD, HHS, and USDA come to mind as already being so on-the-ground as to benefit from decentralized leadership. Things like DOI or DOD or State stay at the national level. Questions like “Who does The Football follow?” are worth asking, and as much as the fun job of being Ceremonial Head of State rotates, so does “being on call” for Defense issues, Domestic Issues, etc. where a council member can make some decisions that can always be re-checked by the council as a whole, or push decisions to the full council if needed.
Thoughts? Come at me. Tell me I’m an idiot or whatever, then steal this idea for a PoliSci thesis.
Some, but only if you're using a very common device (i.e. Dell Latitude) with Windows. Browser fingerprinting gives up hardware specs, so hiding by blending in only works when your hardware is hard to pin down.
Use a browser that hides hardware specs, like Mullvad or Libreworlf. Even Brave is ok.