Not trying to be a downer, but I’ve worked the trenches of an internal IT help desk for a company, and you should prepare yourself for doing free volunteer tech support if you set something up like this. You’d be shocked at what things can be road blocks to otherwise intelligent, seemingly technical people. The risk of it drops if you use something more standard like Google Sheets, but it doesn’t disappear entirely.

You will probably need to go with something that works for the lowest common denominator of your group. That might be “horrible messy email thread manually turned into a shared Apple or Google calendar once a week by a volunteer”. If you don’t, there will be constant friction with them. I’ve seen similar collaboration efforts fail on a team of professional systems engineers simply due to a difference in how each person wanted to take and maintain their notes. No one could settle on a standard and eventually the person pushing for it gave up.

In short there are multiple angles to this, more than simply privacy vs ease of use.

That said, nextcloud appears to be the current standard for this outside of Google and Microsoft.

I’ve never used any crypto black markets, but this sort of shit fascinates me. My understanding is that silk road was effectively the “Pirate Bay” of crypto black markets. It was the most easily accessible, “good enough”, and popular enough that it made headlines.

It was never the only one, or the true “source” or originator for much of the scene. These places absolutely still exist, but they’re slightly less “open”. Comparing to piracy again, it’s like getting into a private tracker rather than using one of the known public ones. You have to dig just a little for it.

Don’t know how much is agency honeypots or astroturfing, but last time I browsed the dark web one of the most popular “subreddits” on what is supposedly TOR’s biggest reddit equivalent was all discussion of current marketplaces and their specialties, annoyances, and trustworthiness.

I figure the key would be finding a way to make these cost less (including upkeep/replacement over time) than the marginal energy generation capabilities.

On that note, I’m sure there’s a reason besides “everyone else is too stupid to think of it” but I wonder why solar window shutters aren’t a thing.

I expect they’ll just script/automate some way to get 1000 entries for every legitimate one. Then again, I’m not familiar with what the entry requirements are. Unless the entry requirements are more than the potential profit, you’re still going to see scalping.

Excuse you. Hamster sex worker.

Do not speak of the old magics to me…

I have five Gmail accounts. Youngest is 5 years old. Oldest is around 20. Even have the apparently desirable firstname.lastname address for myself. So I’m not familiar with the current hoops to jump through, admittedly.

That said none have been banned, so while I recognize the risk, I don’t agree with that inevitability, especially if you aren’t making heavy use of it.

Any email service that is not self hosted has the same risk, and self hosting isn’t generally in reach for people due to all the unwritten “trust rules” the major providers have quietly implemented.

Imo, if your risk model has to account for nation state actors, you’re not the type of person who needs to ask about this stuff or you’re already screwed.

There are plenty of different options for throwaway emails and defense in depth on that if you don’t want the link to be direct, but the idea is ultimately the same: make what you need to get by, insulate between your real and it to taste.

There’s a lot more to this than lock in and open mindedness. Are you going to cause friction to multiple other people in a collaborative situation? Are you going to do it for something as small as opinions about data collection companies?

Like, go ahead and question it. Go ahead and see if you can get by without it. But if it’s making things significantly more difficult, are you personally capable of compromise? No one is making you sign your whole life and soul over to Google. You can make, use for this one class, and delete the account when you’re done.

While funny, your teacher and school aren’t going to give you kudos for being a smartass.

Just make a Gmail account and set it up to forward to your real one. Only things that live in it will be the stuff for this class, and only temporarily.

What do you actually lose privacy wise from that? They get to know you’re in the class you’re in and see a very small subset of your communications related to it.

Ultimately, you’re the only one who can decide how much extra friction you’re willing to put up with for your principles, but in my experience it’s better to just make whatever bare minimum skeleton account you can to meet the needs and get on with life. Would you rather spend time fighting to make your special case setup work while giving the teacher reasons to evaluate your work more harshly, or learning the material?

Plus, there are benefits to blending in.

That’s something I see in my workplace even without AI, just with coding/scripting/automation.

It helps you do things faster. It doesn’t ensure you’re doing the right thing (unless you have someone skilled build in all the guardrails).

So many of my coworkers are at the “This chainsaw is amazing! I bet it would be great at driving nails!” level of scripting, and AI is only making them more reckless.

People still made places for themselves, but it took some effort, and every personal site ended up being a reflection of the person who made it and their skills.

Generally, you aren’t going to get the proper day to day feeling of any of them after taking them for one or two days. I would also strongly suggest against just “switching it up” on your own. You can and should totally talk to your Dr about your concerns and questions, and they can help you with planning out a safe way to properly test the different meds and how they effect you.

Firefox on desktop as I haven’t taken the time to migrate to a fork like Librewolf. Ironfox on mobile.

uBlock Origin on both, Rethink DNS on mobile as a local VPN style ad blocker across all apps.

In general, people don’t tend to give themselves actual down time anymore (not looking at a screen. taking a walk, reading a book, or sitting around type shit) so when we have that level of relaxation all the built up anxiety and exhaustion comes crashing down all at once. So sleep.

I can’t comment on the documentary itself because it’s not out yet, but I definitely think them inviting him into their home was part of a wider attempt at image management. Doesn’t mean it worked.

Bluetooth shower speaker. Most even have control buttons too, so you can adjust the volume, pause/play, skip/rewind, etc.

Yeah, I’m annoyed that the article treated Fielder’s confusion seriously. Why was he there? Oh so mysterious and confusing!

To help her try to portray the character she wanted to portray when facing a prison term. Come on now.

Last I checked you can import it when you first run it, or from an option menu somewhere, and it adds it to the options you have when starting a new save. I just followed instructions from the GitHub.

Apparently if you have a supported ROM (check here) you just drop it in the same folder as the exe to import it.

Each game is meant to playable as a standalone thing, any direct storyline continuation from previous titles is covered in the game itself. Technically Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask are a pair with MM as the sequel, but either can be played alone with no real loss of context. MM does build on gameplay of OoT though.

It’s not a spoiler to say that across the game series it’s generally a plot about some reincarnation of the three central figures of Link, Zelda, and Ganon. There’s often implied reincarnations of other characters too across multiple games, but that’s mostly just callback fluff for fans. There’s one game set first in the in universe timeline that sets up the impetus for the reincarnation cycle, and one game that splits the timeline into a few branches based off three different interpretations of the ending of that specific game.

The two main newest ones, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, are a two-fer as well, and are a new timeline or convergence of the split timelines depending on who you ask.

For a first time player, don’t worry about it. Whichever game you play will give you what you need to know. Any understanding of the “grand series plot” just adds some extra oomph to scenes in later released games than OoT and MM.