Yeah I watched some Gutfeld. He does go through the motions but his jokes never really land. It’s kind of like having a conversation with an AI chatbot: it’s convincing to a degree but something is off and it’s nowhere near as enjoyable as talking to a real person.

We’re only a few DOF away from getting Zuckerberg-powered prostate exams. Eww…

Can’t they take this money and just ignore those crazy people honestly.

You don’t understand that a bribe - sorry, political donation - is like a job: someone pays a politician to do a job if/when they get elected. If they don’t do the job, the next time they run, they won’t get more money.

Just like you at your job if you get a salary and you don’t do the work: the next month, you don’t get a salary anymore.

Here’s an interesting video about Zuckerberg’s rebranding:

Why Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Shouldn’t Distract Us

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Finally a real list that doesn’t include Dave Chapelle - whom I already knew and whom find extremely unfunny.

I do enjoy Bill Maher very much. I don’t always agree with him but at least he makes good points and he’s funny. If nothing else, I respect his ability to address points regardless of which side of the political divide they traditionally fall on.

I’ve watched Joe Rogan too - not for comedic value but to listen to some of his guests - and he sucks ass. I didn’t think he was trying to be funny, because he really isn’t. Buf if he is, it’s not working at all. He’s just a terrible Youtuber the same way countless other Youtubers are, just with a bigger audience, as far as I can tell.

I don’t know any of the others you mention. So I will gladly check them out now. Thanks!

I use a calyxos device to share VPN, as of a few months ago.

Hotspot & Tethering

• Allow clients to use VPNs

Oh wow I totally missed that. It works great! Genius!

Thank you for that. Suddenly it makes repurposing one of my old cellphones a very simple and viable proposition.

(and I’m posting this from my laptop connected to the hotspot connected to the Calyx VPN 🙂)

get a older cell phone. Put lineage OS on it, or calyxos… share your VPN over hotspot, these are the only two ROMs that I’m aware of that allow you to do that

That’s what I thought too. So I tried it on my CalyxOS phone and… it doesn’t work: the hotspot doesn’t route through the VPN. And from what I read, it’s by design.

I have an old Nokia 4.2 running LineageOS. I might try that one.

end-to-end VPN

Incidentally, do you know if the GL.iNet devices can act as a VPN server too?

At this point, I think China is well known for infiltrating local businesses and forcing them to sell networking gear with trojans.

The US is better known for surveilling people indirectly by exploiting corporate surveillance data collected by big tech monopolies doing their bidding for them and by directly “tapping the line”. I don’t think US officials asking US companies to compromise their products and keep quiet about it would fly in the US. At least not yet. But I wouldn’t put it past them either.

To be honest, of all three, I’d rather purchase something made in Europe, even for a premium.

There are others that aren’t Chinese but nothing anywhere near the price bracket you’ll get from GL.Inet

Can you give me some pointers to non-Chinese equivalents of those GL.iNet routers? I’m quite ready to suck up the extra cost.

The recording seems to show that Epstein and Trump were close enough for the disgraced sex offender to know how Trump ruled his White House

It takes one to know one.

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Not really. It would only require the new user on the new instance to be able to “own” posts and comments made by the old user on the old instance.

For example, the old user account could transfers its posting and commenting history to the new account (and the new account would be asked to accept the transfer of course).

When it’s done, whoever visits the new account, will see posts and comments made from the old account up until the transfer, and the old account’s posting and commenting history would be blank.

Then If the old account were to continue posting afterwards for some odd reason, it would build a new posting and commenting history from that point on. Or the transfer could become effective only after the old account is deleted permanently.

I don’t know exactly how any of this is implemented, but it would definitely not require monkeying with the actual past posts and comments.

It’s not reputation or being recognized, it’s having an unbroken record of posts and comments, for myself and for others checking out my profile. I want my old comments and posts ported to my new account and deleted from the old, so that whoever checks my new profile sees all I’ve posted with all my old accounts.

Or said another way, the only thing that should change when I migrate my account is the @server part of the name and nothing else. And it should be trivially easy to do too. To my knowledge, this is not possible at the moment.

I don’t think there is an account migration tool yet.

I am in the same boat: I want to move out of SDF but I can’t really because I want to keep the community I moderate and my account’s posting history. I mean I could certainly create a new account and pass the moderating rights from the old to the new, but I’d still be starting from scratch posting-history-wise.

So I’m holding off until account migration is finally a thing.

What software do you use to forward the texts automatically?

Actually I kind of had the same idea but for the whole phone - i.e. leave a cellphone with phone features at home (so voice and texts are received on this static phone that never gets used for anything else) and forward calls and texts on another cellphone with data only. But I don’t think there’s anything to set that up easily.

Why do all fascists have that weird breeding obsession?

They’re control freaks. The ultimate control is controlling life.

Surely you meant “Chinese officials knock on doors to find knocked up women.”

Besides the subject matter, this video makes me sea-sick. I don’t know what it is with this trend of zooming the video in and out to punctuate the narrator’s delivery, but this one really takes the cake. I couldn’t even watch it to the end and had to look away to listen to it instead.

Here’s my ambition: be there for my family and enjoy life with them for the fixed number of hours I have on this dirtball. Working overtime isn’t compatible with my plan. Nobody goes to their grave thinking “I should have worked harder”.

But you do you…