Just use yunohost on an old laptop with a vpn to a reputable endpoint and backups over the network to a nas which then syncs to another nas somewhere else. Thats my setup. I check everything is working an updated once a month and otherwise leave it alone.

I don't think that is correct. If you are an EU citizen in Australia you are under Australian laws. However, if you are an EU citizen whose data is transferred outside the EU then the entities transferring it have to add the GDPRs standard contractual clauses to the contracts to give you the same rights as if the data was still inside the EU.

2012, my bad.
"On the narrow fiscal grounds of covering the costs smokers impose on government, further increases in tobacco excise may not be justified. At over $1.3 billion per year, tobacco excise revenues may already exceed the direct health system costs of smoking10. When the broader fiscal impacts of smoking are considered (eg shorter life expectancy reducing smokersâ(TM) superannuation and aged care costs), smokers are probably already âoepaying their wayâ in narrowly fiscal terms."
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What I see is that NZ has managed to successfully demonise a percentage of the population and then milked them for taxes. Smokers were, in the words of treasury, more than paying for their health cost back in 2010. Smoking has decreased by 6.2% of the population since 2010. Immigration has increased the population by the same or more and immigrants get health tested with are you a smoker being a question over that period. What better situation for the government than a stable population of addicts they can tax until death. Not really morally righteous though is it.

Installed on True NAS core, setup the jail, started Plex, signed in, downloaded android app, signed in and found i could only play 1min of one of my home videos on my network unless I made an in app purchase. WTF? Uninstaller android app, will remove plex tomorrow.

Why hire an army of hackers to make $2.3B? Wouldn't it be much easier just to pump and dump bitcoin?

The SCC's are intended for use in countries without the GDPR to enforce the same conditions in a contractual form.

However, the problem with the U.S. is that the security services don't give a shit about the SCC's and there are proven cases of them using the data so the EU can no longer turn a blind eye.

That money is probably under threat now with Edge going for the market. Why give Mozilla hundreds of millions to show competition when you have actual competition from Microsoft?

I would say the canary die a long time ago. What you have now is more the emperors new clothes. That emperor is buck naked but you ain't gonna say anything and neither is anyone else because even if it is true he (and the alternate emperor that is also wearing no clothes of a different color) will fuck you, your family friends and supporters for a long long time even if what you have done is right, moral and legal.

Just think of all the hours spent trying to free Assange, the hours spent on his supporters infighting. All that time was not spent on something else. People are finite and can only deal with so much. Tie them up in Assange, bring in the grifters, the factionalists and do what you want because they won't have the energy to fight it;

Probably this,

"Privacy; Consent to Use of Data. Your privacy is important to us. Some of the software features send or receive information when using those features. Many of these features can be switched off in the user interface, or you can choose not to use them. By accepting this agreement and using the software you agree that Microsoft may collect, use, and disclose the information as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement (aka.ms/privacy), and as may be described in the user interface associated with the software features."

And the arbitration clauses....

And section 15 that requires you to ratify the full agreement to be able to read it. :)

Plus the college level education to fully understand it is pretty shaky, I would expect to fully understand each of the different areas they cover their ass it would take a fully qualified lawyer specialising in that area. The chances of them being able to explain it to a college level educated person for their specific context is probably about fifty fifty.

And finally, the link you provided isn't actually the correct license (and you won't know the correct license until you agree to it so you can read it) but, for example, if you plug in preinstalled, windows 10 installed by manufacturer in the US into here https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... then this is your license: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

But, you might also note that it refers to any web links in the agreement and any updates to it and an additional 3 agreements, Microsoft Privacy Statement (aka.ms/privacy) Microsoft Services Agreement (aka.ms/msa) Adobe Flash Player License Terms (aka.ms/adobeflash) Of which the first then would refer a lawyer to another agreement as they need to using the enterprise edition in business which leads to a clusterfuck page that says things like,

"When a customer tries, purchases, uses, or subscribes to Enterprise and Developer Products, or obtains support for or professional services with such products, Microsoft receives data from you and collects and generates data to provide the service (including improving, securing, and updating the service), conduct our business operations, and communicate with the customer. "

Which to a lawyer (The customer using the product) says that Microsoft can at any time gain access to his and his clients fiels and personal information. The only reason lawyers in many countries (France for example) are allowed to use Microsoft is that the EULA is largely unenforceable, Microsoft has never been caught using lawyers files against them and all the lawyers are trained in it and it would be a disaster to try and change.

Ha, that was going to be a short reply. Apologies.

Facebook can control by having a lot of the money or Facebook can control by being the money. Imagine how bad things would be if government was unable to control Facebook in any way because the effect on the economy would be catastrophic.

This movie is about how they faked the earth takeoffs. :)

Christians. They only have a couple of billion more to steal and we will have to agree with them.

What appears to be being left out of the conversation is that it obviously doesn't work. Where are the thousands of arrests? Where are the tens of thousands? Facebook submitted 16.9 million times in 2019 and 20 million in 2020? Apple has been scanning secretly. Yet no arrests. This looks to me like another excuse to surveil people. After all, once the system is in place it isn't that far a stretch to submit a hash for other content.

$87 million to 400 billion is such an amazing range of values that I doubt the estimates are credible. However, if true, it is an incredible theft and probably won't be confined to just pandemic relief. The first time I went to the U.S. I was amazed at how lax privacy was. I could look up someone's name and find their profession, family members, address, phone numbers, voting records, etc...It was insane.

I wonder how many Russian gangsters bathed in swathes of Trump checks and blessed his name. :)