Rednote is a proprietary app-only non-federated social network subject to the censorship of a totalitarian government, China. It blocks discussion of 6/4, Free Hong Kong, Uyghur genocide, and probably all the other stuff normally censored in China. I encourage any skeptics to visit the Chinese Wikipedia from within China.

The simplest explanation is that OP doesn’t have good opsec, and got a few tracking cookies after deleting cookies, before setting up their proxy/VPN. Then, on the VPN, the advertiser recognized their VPN IP address, and chose to exclude that from generating location data, deferring instead to the location indicated in their existing tracking cookies.

Privacy is hard. The system is rigged against privacy. You have to do everything perfectly, because one simple mistake could leak your IP address.

No person should have to pledge loyalty to the party to graduate. I don’t think you could sue for this in China. The party controls everything.

The counterfeit claim is bullshit. If they cared about counterfeits, they’d raid Amazon first.

In the garden, there are two chickens.

It would be a more meaningful discussion if the government wasn’t controlled so much by large corporations and oligarchs.

Why should I care? There’s no inherent reason lotteries deserve to exist. There are several reasons they shouldn’t exist.

Inkjet printers are good for furry artists who sell prints at conventions. Hmm… that’s actually so specific that it reinforces your point.

Everyone already had the choice to use this before. You can visit any site with a search box, and add that site as a search engine to Firefox.

This is forcing it down people’s throats.

How do I prevent new antifeatures from being added? How do I even know about the new antifeatures as they are added? Does Mozilla publish an RSS feed of each antifeature like this that they add, that gives a quick explanation of how to undo it?

I think we’re more at the point where they should be getting arrested by local cops. It says a lot that local cops are defending them instead.

Saying “I will shoot you” is illegal, no matter who you are. It doesn’t matter if they work for ICE, the FBI, the local police, or McDonalds; they should be arrested if they say that.

Maybe it was a phishing scheme to identify people’s IP addresses based on where they loaded the image from. In that case, each person would only receive one message. Fortunately I use a proxy, so they got nothing.

Removed by mod

Qualcomm won’t send you a datasheet unless you can promise an order of 100,000. Arduino has always been open specification, and this is totally incompatible with Qualcomm.

Clickbait headline. It’s only referring to the end of Windows 10, and pretending like it’s news.

This is kinda how nuclear reactors are anyway. You can’t just shut them down instantly. The fuel rods produce energy for a while after the control rods are inserted, so they have to have dummy loads for them. I think it’s usually just an emergency water supply that they can boil off.

I know some turbine systems have resistive loads that can be used to stop the turbine quickly in an emergency, but they are only meant to be used for an instant before they overheat.

I would never subscribe to Crunchyroll, because they use DRM.

Going into an apartment complex, arresting everyone there including children, including US citizens, without a warrant? That’s illegal. But there’s nothing you can do about it except sue them afterwards.

Or maybe God likes it. Maybe God is thinking, “I wish I had thought to make something so horrific. This is art in its terribleness.”

Atheism is not a religion because there’s no organization or membership. Atheism is only a theology. If they went to atheist church, it would be a religion.