They (the govt) would know that they issued a certificate to ex. lemmy.dbzer0.com

They can’t know that the certificate is issued to conmie

Unless, of course, the instance logs the age certificate used by each user

And also, unless the govt’s age verification service logs the certificate issued by each citizen

But Porkbun charges per mailbox.

I pay for Tuta, and I have added my personal domain. It works as catch-all, allowing me to have an infinite amount of addresses, so I can use a different email on each website.

We just hope they do force Android to allow sideloading. However, I wouldn’t expect them to do so, given their latest decisions…

Auto save on cloud sucks.

Depends on the cloud. I like my files being automatically backed up to my private Nextcloud server.

There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.

Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.

Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.

I didn’t say that it can’t be detected. I said it fools your eyes.

Besides that, stop using ML for everything. My guess is that you need insane amounts of processing power for ML to detect hidden messages inside terabytes of live internet traffic.

In fact, the algorithm for steganography is standard. It’s probably trivial to detect it, unless you add encryption and padding to the mix.

Sorry, out of the loop. What does MAP stand for ?

The United States paid nothing for these shares

There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.

You can’t block VPNs without blocking the entire internet. You can block known VPN services, but you can’t prevent people from hosting their own.

Some known VPN protocols could be blocked, using introspection tools. However, this would just render corporate VPNs useless. VPN traffic is just bytes, and so is WebSockets. Good luck figuring out whether my HTTPS traffic is legitimate internet traffic, or masked VPN traffic.

It is indeed very suspicious that they talk about “median” and not “average”.

For those who don’t understand what the difference is, think of the following numbers:

1, 2, 3, 34, 40

The median is 3, because it’s in the middle.

The average is 16 (1+2+3+34+40=80, 80/5=16).