MrDisposable

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by MrDisposable 2mo ago
Regarding Signal, Telegram, and WhatApp: 1. Never ever have Signal installed on the phone during border crossing. The presence of the app itself may trigger them (speaking from first-hand experience). 2. Having an empty Telegram account may
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by MrDisposable 2mo ago
Yep, full agreement here. The amount of hoop-jumping is ridiculous. However, I live in Russia so I have to do all that, plus some more (e.g. the work to protect my own self-hosted VPN after Roskomnadzor issued the recommendation for big Rus
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by MrDisposable 2mo ago
There's no PIN for deleting a particular profile, but you can quickly delete it manually, assuming that you have some private time available – for example, when you are stopped at passport control and told to wait in the waiting area.
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by MrDisposable 2mo ago
This is exactly my setup with GrapheneOS. The default / main profile is patriotic, with a sterilized Telegram account, state-adjacent banks and apps, etc. The second profile (that uses a separate PIN) is not so patriotic: it has foreig
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by MrDisposable 3mo ago
> the things people are willing to do in order to fit into a group Given our evolutionary history as social animals, this is expected. The genes (and memes, in the Dawkinsian sense of the word) for alienating oneself from the tribe and
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by MrDisposable 4mo ago
I had to migrate from Authy because it doesn't work on Graphene OS. Migrated to Ente Auth and couldn't be happier.
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by MrDisposable 5mo ago
Russian here, a former Android and iPhone user. I had to switch to Graphene OS in full paranoid more due to our worsening situation regarding VPNs and phone searches. After about a month of using Graphene OS, I'm not looking back – it&
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by MrDisposable 1y ago
'Pampers' and 'Xerox' in Russia.
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by MrDisposable 1y ago
This is fantastic. If I may ask, how did you do the environment models? Did you use textures and UV mapping? or just untextured models with a shader for the contours?
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by MrDisposable 1y ago
Finding out is not a problem. Fixing is.
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by MrDisposable 1y ago
> I have yet to see a use case that doesn’t amount to buying drugs or defrauding rubes Russian here. My forgotten Bitcoin stash saved my ass multiple times by providing a way to transfer money to a friend abroad who then paid for my west
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
This is magic. Just tried it, worked right away for me.
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
A newbie question: How does Nextcloud compare to Dropbox and Syncthing? Can it serve as a replacement / alternative to them?
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
I was a paid Kagi subscriber. I unsubscribed due to my temporary financial difficulties, but I'm resubscribing as soon as I'm able to afford expenses like this. I'm VERY happy with them.
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
> The war against Ukraine has overwhelming support among the population I may be an outlier, and this is obviously an anecdote, but in my entire social circle there are literally two people supporting the war. One is a hardcore Z fanat
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
> However, after the war started, I lost all interest in reading anything Russian. I know it's irrational, but these lost their luster instantly. Russian here, living in Russia. Not surprised about this at all. Actually, I predict
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
This is great, thank you. I have a Markdown file for Blender shortcuts I learned, but this seems to be more useful for remembering them. (BTW, found a typo: Seperate should be Separate)
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
There's an upside to that: it's likely that in your environment such knowledge isn't necessary for everyday life.
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by MrDisposable 2y ago
Russian here. Just to give you an idea of how aware of VPNs the general public is: I have a friend, she's 30 and she's never been tech-savvy or nerdy. A typical stay-at-home single mom focused on raising her kid. Today she asked m
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
My last two episodes of such "superfocus" happened because the workloads I've been working on were essentially dopamine loops, not unlike playing Diablo or even a slot machine. The first task was game sound design, and the se
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
A stochastic parrot, a blurry jpeg of the web is able to provide sound, actionable, verifiable advice on topics such as modeling in Blender or managing a Linux server -- despite not being generally intelligent.
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
Just plain convenience and my laziness. Also, I'm not concerned about being prosecuted for the use of VPN (well, at least for now), I just want my Internet to work.
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
Some good news amidst this doom and gloom: I just installed AmneziaVPN ( https://amnezia.org ) on my VPS and it works great so far -- and pretty fast as well.
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
Already supressed, which is expected given that it's just 2 months before the election.
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
Via a business bank account in one of the Baltic countries, or via a personal bank account in Georgia. For people who don't have bank accounts in other countries, or are of conscription age (means you can't get an international pa
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by MrDisposable 3y ago
Russian here, living in Russia. My paid VPN provider stopped working months ago. Then my self-hosted Outline server stopped working. Then my self-hosted OpenVPN stopped working too. Both were hosten on Digital Ocean (Frankfurt). What curren
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by MrDisposable 4y ago
I think the missile attack is much worse. They just lost 1) a flagship, 2) named "Moskva", 3) to a country with no navy, and 4) no airforce capable of carrying anti-ship missiles. Bonus points: 1) parallels with Tsushima, and 2) t
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by MrDisposable 4y ago
It was officially confirmed by the Russian defence department this morning. The official version: it sunk while it was being towed due to a storm (spoiler: there were no storms in the black sea at that time.) My version: it sunk right away
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by MrDisposable 4y ago
There absolutely is a flood. Mostly to Armenia and Georgia. As for me, I'm torn on staying vs leaving. This may seem irrational (and it probably is), but this is my home. I'll be perfectly fine in any European country on a day-to-
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by MrDisposable 4y ago
Russian here. No, I'm not prepping in the traditional sense of the word (e.g. a bunker, a stockpile of canned food and ammo, iodine, books on survival etc.). All my prepping is Russia-specific: making sure that my commercial VPN is pai

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