Love seeing older ladies in here! Mine isn’t this old yet but love my lady cat as she starts to get a little older and wiser.

When you say car camp, do you mean like in an RV? Or “glamping”?

If it is just the essense of travelling and sleeping with minimal stuff in your car, then there are some places up in Manistee National Forest where I have done exactly that as well.

Seems like this is a great spot based on the suggestions! Will definitely consider a trip out there this year then.

I don’t mind memes and stuff like that at all. I would agree with @KingStrafeIV@midwest.social, once the memes and stuff get out of hand it can start to drown out useful conversation.

I say post and let people decide what they want to see. If we see some backlash then we can start to reign things in or modify as needed. “Meme Mondays” or something of the sort is a good, contained way to still have them be present.

I would have to agree. All the wilderness that is out there along with changing environments and terrain really makes for some amazing scenery as well as places for wildlife to really blossom.

Same here. My wife has seen/known about him for a while and was heartbroken hearing what happened to him.

Small time shop on the south side called Robust is very good. Or if you are up north then Wormhole is also a good choice.

Love it! Even though I am not from there they play a big influence in the midwest area, and are one of the nicer areas for camping I have found so I go there often.

Would love to see input on info from the area from locals so hopefully they also join.

Another good solution for tangles like this is taking warm oil and trying to run a comb through it. Helps break up tangles and stuff for anyone else having issues! Glad little girl is doing better!

I said this in another comment but these things are absolutely pervasive and I can’t stand it. And lots of it isn’t even in person. At least make someone go to a physical place to gamble away their money.

Speaking of that second point, how are legalization efforts in Ohio?

So it seems like it was ProtonMail that handed over the information and not their VPN service. Just for clarification.

Technically speaking, if the people really wanted to remain fully anonymous they could’ve used a VPN to login to their email and the information could’ve then pointed to a VPN service which would have to comply with the authorities. Not sure how much they have to comply with Swiss orders in those regards but it seems like this is unfortunate but not fully on Proton imo.

Care to share why those are terrible? Because from what I’ve seen Proton and Mullvad are pretty reputable.

I agree NordVPN isn’t a good one, they have had a bad rep for breaches in the past and tbh that site used to be more credible a year or two ago before they reformatted and inserted all the ads in there.

Maybe share actual reputable VPNs then than talking down?

If you do solid research on it, it shouldn’t be a huge concern. Considering all my charges for my VPN are processed through Gibraltar and they post third-party audits on data retention and clarify what is logged, then I’d trust mine.

This is a decent list from a trustworthy website, although the one I use isn’t on there.

This is great! Love having something I can send people when trying to introduce them other than me trying to explain it.

Sorry, but how is this an example of Dems feeling the results of their own actions?

lol wow such a silly thing and makes total sense as to why insta is fighting them on it then. Companies will fight tooth and nail over their particular “branding” of tech/products that basically everyone has.

Wish they would explain in the first post as to what legal actions have been taken against them because I am curious what grounds they would have for that (also kinda weird to have a request for donations in the same message without any further explanation).

Love the alternatives and think that Insta is grasping at straws, but hope we can get more info as stuff moves along and these fedi services get the support they need to withstand bullshit legal actions that grind down smaller operations.

I also think a big portion of it is riding the popularity wave while you can and getting your name tossed in the bowl while it is going on is a good look.

Seems more like people trying to capitalize on the bull run before it is not as lucrative to an outside investor.

You know they dump logs because like I said they employ third-party contractors to come in and perform security audits that validate their privacy policy, which if you do proper research should include dumping of logs, or only minimal data retention (like how mine only required an email address) along with dumping. So you can confirm it, I guess you can still be weary of that if you’d like but it is in their best interest to make sure you are actually safe, otherwise that is a hit on their reputation.

As for what happened after receiving a DMCA, they tell you that you have so many strikes on your account and that if you violate that a certain amount of times within a time period, then they will terminate your service. The ISP is not the person who would be pursuing you, their only liability is that you don’t do illegal things on their network.

But again, all these steps beyond just a VPN are to ensure there is as little identifying information as possible so they can’t track you down. Unless you are a literal Scene person who is doing the actual dumping and uploading of content, no one is out here watching you unless you leave easily identifiable information public while torrenting, at least this has been my experience after torrenting probably 100s of TBs of data both via seeding and leeching.

Ah lol my bad, unfortunately I have also been looking for this but the only direction I’ve ever seen is that large financial insititutions are really only in work with the big guys and there isn’t much on the open source or alternative front besides Google and Apple.