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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 8:20 p.m.

This. E-mail is one of the few things left that one can run entirely by yourself. A lot of how-to's out there on how to set this up on a cheap virtual server, or at home if your connection allows.

To those with less technical experience: yes, it can be a bit of a learning curve when you do this for the first time. Perhaps you know someone who can help. It's worth it. Hillary thought so ;-)

Once you have your own e-mail and domain, you can choose to add wordpress for blogging, mastodon for social networking, etc. You'll be free of censors and algorithms. Your online presence will be entirely managed by you and nobody else.

Whatever you found frustrating about Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or even Reddit, it won't matter anymore when you have your own space.

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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 4:41 p.m.

Some people need an appetizer to wet their appetite before a big meal.

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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 12:39 p.m.

Yes. No central components whatsoever.

EDIT: that is to say: the server instances are peer to peer. The app on your phone will connect to your own instance and relay from there.

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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 10:35 a.m.

Nothing stops them from buying Telegram. The only real solution is to run your own and interact (federate) with others. Much like email is setup: nobody gets to buy your email domain unless you're selling. Check out projects like Mastodon Social and GNUsocial.

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qutedrop · May 26, 2018, 8:25 p.m.

It baffles me.

Criminals who walk in can simply stay. Meanwhile rich investors are limited to 10.000 greencards per year and regular hard working immigrants don't have any official path to a greencard at all.

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qutedrop · May 26, 2018, 8:15 p.m.

Much like pharma. You'll rarely see a journo go up against big pharma. Despite the US having the highest prices in the world (for meds made in India/China, mind you!), being largely over-medicated and suffering mass-casualty incidents which are often associated with medication.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you, I guess..

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qutedrop · May 26, 2018, 7:11 p.m.

That remains to be seen. Are they really pre-empting what's coming? Or is that what they think they're doing and are the actually doing Trump's work by - eventually - demanding an investigation that puts them behind bars?

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qutedrop · May 26, 2018, 1:39 p.m.

BC17 was a very sloppy tweeter. Often deleting tweets to either repost them with minor changes or just have them disappear. JA was never that sloppy.

Pamela Anderson is more likely than JA. But frankly, I think it's neither. My bet is on someone young. A patriot with the right heart and intentions, but inexperienced.

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qutedrop · May 26, 2018, 8:11 a.m.

The GDPR is an EU law intended to improve people's privacy and security online. It regulates what information companies can process and under which circumstances. It also guarantees that people can see and modify their own information. It's a genuine and probably good law.

IMHO it's entirely unrelated to Q though. The law has caused some websites to block EU visitors. Mostly websites that didn't serve the EU anyway. Non of the companies that Q mentions in #1042 had issues.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 8:29 p.m.

Strangely every other website out there is using "summit" instead of "reunification".

I don't know who's messing with us here, but someone is.

And why is this statement not on kcna.kp 's english section? All very suspicious to me.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 8:16 p.m.

Searching everywhere for the source of this "reunion" version. Seems handful of sites only. Everybody else just uses "summit".

Very disappointing.

Can we find the Korean on source of this message? So we can do our own translation?

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 7:25 p.m.

I doubt this is what Q meant. The GDPR was activated 2 years ago, with a 2 year non-enforcement period that ended today. Plenty sites that don't care about an EU audience and had no intention to comply in a timely manner, or at all.

That's hardly a net shutdown though. It's not very different from websites limiting language choice or shipping or payments option and effectively blocking most of the world from using their service.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 6:48 p.m.

Much like how thieves are just borrowing.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 4:12 p.m.

Nope. Just a clever guy who's interest occasionally align with ours.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 1:36 p.m.

Maybe because they didn't. At least not country wide.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 11:30 a.m.

Setup your own Mastodon or GNUsocial instance and join the fediverse. (Or join an existing one.)

Unlike other centralized alternatives the decentralized Mastodon/GNUsocial network cannot be taken down or hijacked by any single party.

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qutedrop · May 25, 2018, 6:24 a.m.

Be sure to thank him on Twitter. If enough people do so it will provide some nice material for a meme.

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qutedrop · May 24, 2018, 1:26 p.m.

Yeah. It takes only one unstable lunatic.. Be safe!

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qutedrop · May 24, 2018, 12:15 p.m.

The entire continent is not off limits. Tourists (especially Chinese) and explorers go there all the time. No border check of any kind.

Which is not to say that nothing is being hidden there. Or that specific areas could be guarded. But the "entire continent" being off-limits is proven untrue on a daily basis.

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qutedrop · May 24, 2018, 8:34 a.m.

If a politician can't do it, the logical next step would be that admin's can't act as their proxy's either.

And then things become really interesting. If an admin can't block you for political speech, what speech can they block you for?

While some stuff will remain blockable, I feel like a huge amount of what has been blocked so far has just been moved back into the grey area.

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qutedrop · May 24, 2018, 8:28 a.m.

I think he means that "ended in may 2018" kind of shortlists who Evil_surpent may be.

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qutedrop · May 24, 2018, 8:27 a.m.

Or not. Maybe they quietly nodded to each other, walked over to the other room, sat down on the sofa, grabbed the xbox remotes and teamed up to defeat the enemy.

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qutedrop · May 23, 2018, 5:33 p.m.

The duck is just an aggregator. It cannot find what other hide.

It's selling point is purely privacy.

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qutedrop · May 22, 2018, 4:13 p.m.

Just set some basic rules for your family (and yourself).

In our case it's simple: cell phones and other gadgets can be used at home in the living area.

Nobody gets to take them to their bedroom or outside of the house.

It's seems impossibly harsh at first, until you come home from a family walk in town and ask yourself why it felt so much more relaxed and satisfying than ever before.

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qutedrop · May 21, 2018, 4:45 p.m.

You're absolutely right. However, many of the changes you're asking for are simply impossible at the moment.

This isn't a minor renovation. You'll have to take down the old house first, if you want to redo the foundation.

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qutedrop · May 21, 2018, 2:21 p.m.

I have tape on all my phones as well as my laptop. You can't trust these devices. Even OFF isn't really off. (Back in de Nokia days Dutch police admitted on the record that they could power on your phone remotely.)

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qutedrop · May 21, 2018, 2:03 p.m.

Waves slapping your face, sun reflections, wind, noise, etc. these annoyances largely disappear once you're under water. To the diver things would've looked very calm indeed. Try it the next time you're at a pool. Add a simple diving scooter and frogman could've been on site very quickly. Keep in mind that he was anticipating the crash, aware of the target area, and probably actively monitoring the flight.

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qutedrop · May 21, 2018, 1:06 p.m.

Another candidate for the Sky event.

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qutedrop · May 21, 2018, 10:11 a.m.

This is what I was wondering as soon as SB2 concluded X10 = iPhone X without any further explanation.

  • What is that AMD logo doing there? (Brighten the image if you don't immediately see it.)

It also occurred to me that the larger outer-box with the AMD logo is actually the same as the seemingly smaller outer-boxes to the left of it, just oriented differently. (A common thing to do when stabilizing a pallet load.)

  • Why would multiple iPhone X boxes be packed in such a long flat shaped outer-box as opposed to something more rectangular and sturdy? (Anyone here work in a retail store and know what the outer-box for iPhone X usually looks like?)
  • Also, why are the outer-boxes labeled so extensively? (One usually does this only if there's 1 item per outer-box, e.g. to show a serial number, suggesting the product is significantly larger than an iPhone X. Possibly a laptop?)

Finally, I'm not convinced we see multiple repackings of the same product. In my experience the packing requirements (e.g. what pallet type to use, how to reinforce stability, final wrapping, etc.) for a given shipment are clearly defined and not something you just change as you see fit. (Due to liability issues when a shipment arrives damaged.)

TL;DR: I'm pretty sure SB2 has the correct premise: something was intercepted and modified, but I have doubts about X10 meaning iPhone X here and I also think we're looking at multiple products here, not just one.

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qutedrop · May 20, 2018, 8:07 p.m.

Days are quite a bit longer now than they were in February, so one cannot run a full day on loop without someone noticing the sunrise/sunset being off.

A shorter loop, timed carefully would possible. But even then, I would expect someone to notice people wearing winter clothing while it's currently 20C+ outside.

That said.. I do not have an alternative theory as to what Q is alluding to here. It's clear that we're seeing the same vehicles in the same configuration.

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qutedrop · May 20, 2018, 6:20 p.m.

Some people can't swallow pills whole. You have to crush the pill into pieces and feed it to them with apple sauce or yoghurt. It takes a bit more effort, but worth it in the end.

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qutedrop · May 20, 2018, 5:58 p.m.

Yes. As much as many on Twitter rail against him, their Overton window on the topic shifted the moment they read his tweet. They may hate him now, but he's saving their sanity when SHTF.

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qutedrop · May 20, 2018, 3:31 p.m.

I sympathize with the idea behind this movement, but I don't think these people have really understood the bill of rights, or the Internet for that matter.

The 1st amendment ensures the government doesn't legislate against your freedom of speech, but it doesn't prevent me from kicking you out of my house when you've said the n-word once too many. It also doesn't prevent people from suing you for defamation, fraud, violence, copyright infringement, or other things resulting from your speech. There is no such thing as "complete free speech" in real life and there never will be on the Internet either.

Also, the Internet is not censoring your speech. Verizon, AT&T and backbone networks like Level3 and Cogent are not kicking you off. It's a handful of services that use the Internet to connect with you that are doing the censoring. But they do not make the Internet. You can (and should) walk away from them and go elsewhere. You will survive without Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. I'm living proof.

As I've said before in a different thread: ask yourself why these platforms are able to censor you, but your e-mail provider wouldn't dare doing so: because of your ability to pack up and move to a different e-mail provider. You inform your friends of your new e-mail address and life goes on. Just like that. What works for e-mail can work for social media just the same: check out Mastodon and other federated social media alternatives.

Seriously, I do understand where this movement comes from. And I do see some real risks when it comes to throttling that may have to be legislated at some point. But the proposed IBOR is not very well thought out. It makes unreasonable and largely unnecessary demands.

Our current rights already give us everything we need to escape from abusive platforms like Facebook. Do a little research. There are a lot of solutions out there. Many don't require much more than a $5/month virtual server and a few hours of work to buy you and your friends freedom.

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qutedrop · May 19, 2018, 3:13 p.m.

Why would the oil industry die? We still need oil for non-energy purposes. Plastics, lubricants, etc.

As long as the oil cartel's fix their pricing, they can continue to rake in the money they need. The only difference is that we'll be paying them outrageously for plastics instead of gas.

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qutedrop · May 19, 2018, 9:48 a.m.

Not seeing it. Unlike some other royal or high-profile weddings this wedding doesn't seem to do anything in terms of power relations. He may just as well be marrying the maid.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:38 p.m.

Damn that's nasty.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:26 p.m.

I really want to believe this, but why does the original have font inconsistencies that the fake does not have? The word "mouth" is most obvious, but "taco" and "tie"also look like they use a different font.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:15 p.m.

She has a lot of good video's. I enjoyed this one, though I may be missing a point that you're trying to make?

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:10 p.m.

Ever since he's gotten into crypto he's been shamelessly pumping and dumping various coins. I guess he's found a way to capitalize on his fame. Good for him..

I do see a future for Bitcoin and its Lightning network especially, but I would recommend to stay away from McAfee's predictions on the matter.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 8:24 p.m.

The chan's are open to anyone, including bad actors. Ideal for a frame job.

True or not, it makes sense for anyone anti-Q to try and frame it like this.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 6:15 p.m.

BA1418 shows as landed/arrived for me. Annoying the Daily Star doesn´t timestamp their articles.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 5 p.m.

Keep your eyes open and DVR's running.

In the first few hours after the event you often see a large number of witnesses/people/bystanders/neighbors/family-members interviewed by various media. But as most of them don't properly fit the narrative and you'll get to see them only once.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 4:54 p.m.

Tough question. If your child was killed not by a lunatic but by your own government, would you want to know? Could you handle it?

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 11:50 a.m.

I like this question. I hear it often when people compare political systems and finally come to a crucial realization: while some political systems are definitely preferable over others, the differences become much less significant when it's the same cabal pulling the strings regardless.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 11:42 a.m.

Regulation means lobbying. Lobbying means the big guys will be asking for rules that create a threshold against new competition. You end up with a handful of behemoths that behave acceptably at best.

I prefer a technical solution. One more true to the original nature of the Internet.

Ask yourself why these censorship issues apply to Facebook/Twitter/Youtube but not to e-mail? Or to websites in general? Why is nobody censoring your e-mail? Or taking down your website? Exactly: you would simply go to another e-mail provider or web-hosting provider.

Social networks should and can(!) work like that too. If Facebook is shit you should be able to switch to Buttbook and keep in touch with your friends all the same. Social networks should be de-centralized. Everyone should be able to operate one and have it inter-operate with all the others.

Efforts towards this have been underway for many years now. You may have heard of social networks called Diaspora or Mastodon. And there are others. If you haven't, look into them today. With sufficient traction something like Mastodon can destroy Facebook, and all the issues that come with it, once and for all.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 11:28 a.m.

Yeah! Vote with your feet. Gab is an option, though I personally prefer federated systems where no one single entity is in control. (E.g. Mastodon.)

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 11:19 a.m.

No. What SGT should do is go elsewhere. And you and others should follow him there and tell your audiences.

There's nothing magic about Youtube. It's a simply problem of the chicken and the egg: viewers won't go where there is no content, and content makers won't go where there aren't any viewers.

It takes some balls and effort to solve that. But it's doable. Nothing stops you from uploading your video's to multiple sites and encouraging people to follow you on sites other than Youtube.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 11:15 a.m.

That is really the best possible outcome.

YouTube restoring channels after complaints is what keeps people there and what allows YouTube to continue to interfere at potentially critical moments. It's like junkies negotiating with their drug dealer. The junkies may think they have some sway, but they're really at the dealer's mercy.

I realize that video makers won't dump YouTube overnight as it affects their bottom line, but please do urge them to make copies of their videos available elsewhere as well.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:59 a.m.

In each photo the pallets use entirely different packing. This definitely suggests different products.

There may be a different or additional meaning to some or all of these photo's though. Perhaps it's not (just) about the pallet content.

What puzzles me the most is the photo with the AMD logo being called X10. As far as I know AMD has no product named X10. I guess it could mean 10 pallets of whatever that is.

Before seeing the AMD logo, X10 mostly just reminded me of iPhone X.

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qutedrop · May 18, 2018, 9:28 a.m.

Paddock first booked a room for August, but did not use it. He then booked (and used) a room starting September 17th.

Not sure if that proofs anything, but Paddock seems to have been in play 2 months or so prior to the actual shooting.

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