Would something like Anubis or Iocaine prevent what you’re worried about?

I haven’t used either, but from what I understand they’re both lightweight programs to prevent bot scraping. I think Anubis analyzes web traffic and blocks bots when detected, and Iocaine does something similar but also creates a maze of garbage data to redirect those bots into, in order to poison the AI itself and consume excessive resources on the end of the companies attempting to scrape the data.

Obviously what others have said about firewalls, VPNs, and antivirus still applies; maybe also a rootkit hunter and Linux Malware Detect? I’m still new to this though, so you probably know more about all that than I do. Sorry if I’m stating the obvious.

Not sure if this is overkill but maybe Network Security Toolkit might have some helpful tools as well?

Holy fucking shit.

If someone is posting about you downvoting them, then they’re a seriously flawed individual. Some people will take any reason they can to call other people racist. I think it’s a fetish, honestly.

You’re fine.

I know, she was the VP. I didn’t have her confused with Machado.

She conveniently happened to be in Moscow when the US invaded. I thought I saw an article saying she had been in contact with US officials shortly before her “vacation.”

Edit:

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture (The Guardian)

I don’t know, seems pretty unambiguous…

Wait, isn’t she the one who conspired with the US for the position she now holds in the first place?

Edit for those who doubted:

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture (The Guardian)

Back when I lived in a rural area, I always hated driving by the fields while the tractors were spraying. It felt like I was being violated chemically. People have a right to clean air, do they not?

Of course, they thought I was just a stupid liberal. I can’t tell you how many times someone told me “It’s not harmful to humans.”

Oh. Yeah, Berlin is definitely an exception…

It’s telling that they generated an AI schoolgirl to lure right-wingers further towards extremism…

In Europe, 18th Century churches are new.

And then they hit you with the “If you just don’t bother women, then you won’t be accused of harassment!” and the “Believe victims! No one actually weaponizes false accusations in retaliation for petty grievances. Women never lie!”

Emmett Till begs to differ…

Yerp, the wealthy are always insulated from the problems they create. And then they get upset when we try to tax them to contribute to fixing those problems.

“It doesn’t affect me, why should I pay for it?” “Motherfucker, you caused it!”

Yes, and covert recording by definition is done without the knowledge or consent of the one being recorded. It should be illegal everywhere, but some states have single-party consent laws which allow it.

(imagine applying such a rule to sexual activity, it would be absurd; yet somehow it’s totally legal to broadcast a person’s name, face, and location to the world without them even knowing what’s happening?)

Exactly. But fascists want privacy for themselves, and if they don’t get it then they’ll call people commies. But if anyone else wants privacy, then fascists say they’re acting suspicious and must be guilty of something.

Make it make sense. (Yes I know, conservatives are self-contradictory and have no ideological consistency; rules for me not for thee, we get it…)

I’d say from the huge numbers of people out protesting in the streets against the regime and winding up in body bags by the thousands because the regime is massacring them, that they probably want the downfall of the mullah.

And the reason it’s “difficult to determine” is because the regime cut off their internet access to isolate them from outside observers and increase the fog of war. People saying “it’s difficult to determine what they want” is precisely what the ayatollah intended to happen.

As for what they want to replace it with, that’s what a referendum is for. So I don’t get this “don’t give them a referendum, they’ll just choose wrong” mentality…

Why are you assuming I’m from New Zealand? All I know is they don’t have federal agents going around executing people extrajudicially in the streets…

That’s not entirely true, he’s read a book of hitler’s speeches…

Huh? New Zealand is in much better shape than america.

Doo itt!!!

I mean, remaining on a sinking ship doesn’t save anyone else from drowning. Some people have a life raft, I can’t blame them for using it. I would get out if I could, cause things don’t seem to be getting better anytime soon except on the off chance the midterms actually save us.

Ideally, the folks getting away on the life rafts wouldn’t be determined by how much money they have. Maybe send the most vulnerable first, and the people with the means to resist stay behind. But that’s not how this situation works, unfortunately.

It’s a crabs-in-a-bucket situation. Why pull down the ones who can escape?

Why would he stay and help you if you’re just going to guillotine him afterwards?