Whenever this comes up it is important to realize that the way emissions are measured here is “product lifetime CO2 emissions”. The products are fuel. So basically it is just another way of saying " cars, airplanes and ships responsible for 50% of CO2 emissions ".

I just want to point out that this is not like for example Italy invading Africa. ROC was the government of mainland China before the revolution, they fled to Taiwan which used to be a part of China. Both ROC and the PRC think they are the true rulers of all of China, meaning both Taiwan and Mainland. If ROC would be militarily stronger, it would probably plan to invade the PRC.

People may or may not think that that is imperialist, but at least it should be taken into consideration.

They wrote this without googling anything.

I’m missing a bit the fact that this is not a law yet. This is the position of the commission, which the parliament will then need to approve and has to get past the ECHR as well most likely.

It depends on your threat model or how I like to call it: the paranoia level. Since all connections go through the ISP router anyway you won’t really gain that much privacy unless you directly put a VPN on your router.

Here is what you could potentially stop leaking:

• MAC addresses of your devices
• DNS queries if you use unencrypted DNS

Also theoretically, the router could be an entry point to do attacks against your devices.

People who use pfsense mostly do that because they want more features. For example I have an IoT VLAN that cannot talk to the internet.

For privacy the simplest thing would be to try and put a custom firmware on your WiFi router, like OpenWRT.

Everything else is a bit of an overhaul. And in the end, you always have to trust that the WiFi access points manufacturers firmware does not exfiltrate data.

Also, I would just try plugging in to the modem and see what happens. Most likely you’re just wasting power right now with that ISP router.

There is no perfect system, if you try hard enough you can get into almost anything.

Yes absolutely. The results are actually useful, they don’t have an incentive to keep you from finding what you are searching for. There is way less copywritten content and if there is, you can just block it.

Whenever I have to go back to “free” alternatives I am shocked by how much worse it is.

The threat model is that all communication is recorded and will be decrypted once the technology becomes available. The question then becomes for how long you want your data to be secure. If its for example 40 years, you need to chose an algorithm today that is still secure in 40 years.

If you have a drink that creates a nice tingling sensation in some people and make other people go crazy, the only sane thing to do is to take that drink off the market.

I’m not sure LLMs can do this. The reason is context poisoning. There would need to be an overseer system of some kind.

It’s not better than nothing - it’s worse than nothing. It is actively harmful, feeding psychosis, and your chat history will be sold at some point.

Try this, instead of asking “I am thinking xyz”, ask " my friend thinks xyz, and I believe it to be wrong". And marvel at how it will tell you the exact opposite.

Its probably talking about the UK stratospheric aerosol injection research. Like all conspiracy theories, just enough of a grain of truth.

Could use mullvad DNS.

You owe it to yourself to research past the platitudes. Then you would know that they already got raided and the police left empty handed because there was nothing to find.