There is a small chance that the guy was actually suffering from AI psychosis but even in that case, I'm not sure an auto-generate report is enough to warrant admission into psychiatric ward. This is fucking scary and this story should get more traction.

Surely, as a society, we've understood the boundaries between planning and thinking? Or are we heading straight to the thought police here?

It all depends on the details, and then subsequent reaction. But having a conversation about mutilation or ways to do so, can have plenty of non-nefarious explanations. From "I'm writing fiction", "settle an argument amongst friends", to the one that should be more than enough: I was just fucking curious.

There already copy product from other company.

As long as they are based in Sweden and owned by Swedish citizens then you have no standing to even complain.

A derivative browser like Mullvad is merely a patch on top of a base browser. No one is forcing you to use it.

“Does the Fediverse need more users?”

Counterproposal for Darrell Issa: go fuck yourself

Good luck

Same with many of us current residents, but what keeps us here is the system designed to do exactly that —among other exploitive things. 🥲

Well, I mean... Russia, UAE, China, etc. still exist, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

I saw what was written. I stated when/how it wouldn't work (and, in fairness, if the pulley and pump were seized then squealing and burning rubber would be an obvious sign). I already pointed out the ease and low cost of a belt replacement myself, there wasn't a contention about it. Electric is more expensive but I never contested that point either.

I get what you're saying but I hadn't taken a position on it. I just had a problem with what you presented as absolutes. If I were to appeal to experience myself; I developed a steering fluid leak while in Bumfuck, Nowhere. With no fluid to keep replenishing it, and before I could make it back to civilization, the reservoir had emptied and I'd lost all power steering. It's just what happens when air is allowed to compromise a hydraulic system.

Now, do I think drive by wire has the potential to be abused by threat actors, the alphabet soup groups, lil Billy's Flipper 9001, and so on? Sure, so long as RF plays a role or can potentially be added into the system. Do I think there's an end goal to turn vehicle "ownership" into something more like an unserviceable and indeterminate rental agreement? Absolutely, same as everything else being reduced to a service. But did those questions have anything to do with my gripe? Nope. Without stalking through the rest of your replies, I'd imagine we're mostly on the same page.

As a quick edit, are you just saying "You can still steer without power steering?" Like "steering still works without the 'power' part?" It just dawned on me that was possibly what you saying, and that's certainly true. I can opine about how godfuckingawful it is at low speeds on rough "roads," but it's true you can still steer and get an upper body workout at the same time.

A good rule in cybersecurity is to minimize attack points yeah. But it should not be "optimize minimize" rather, "minimize where it will improve the current model of things" ("premature optimization is the root of all evil"). In this case, the digital surface attack of "2/1" is counterweighted with, essentially, reducing the financial / legal surface attack to "1/2".

You got it. Snail mail stuffed with dough.

It works a little different on Android, but you can still chain OpenVPN, Wireguard, and TOR all at the same time, caveat is your apps have to support a proxy setting. Use firewall permit only localhost connections.

Or if you have a server somewhere, set that up to do the chaining and have your mobile connect to that.

"Mullvad". The VPN company funding right wing politics in Sweden. No thank you

Normalization of wearable tech that is constantly recording audio and video is something I hope doesn't happen. I found the Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You creepy.

Not OP, but I was curious too. There's a guide that looks legit for running your own multi-hop wireguard: https://vpnlab.io/en/guides/multihop-wireguard-chain-setup-guide-50

And a more sketchy/AI looking python project: https://github.com/a904guy/VPN-Chainer

How in the heck can you pay for something like that with cash?! I looked in their FAQs, but I didn't see if you just mailed them an envelope with 20s or what.

You can do this on Linux but not on Android for example. And even on Linux it is not trivial. Mind to share a guide? I am curious

Well mullvad has multihop already with better control than obscura, but it is the same company.

I understand their multihop like that the second server accept all traffic from other mullvad servers without knowing your location, while the first has another wireguard layer so they cant see your traffic. Great and enough if you dont fear mullvad being coerced into changing their logging.

With obscura, mullvad accepts all traffic from obscura servers too, but the servers are operated by different legal entities.

This is made less useful by lower actual technical barriers. Like the servers could be in the same datacenter, while on Mullvad they could be in different countries!

Lots to improve for now but you gotta start somewhere

They work fine already but could be better. Open source and contact to the dev over PGP but they could have a public issuetracker or a semipublic read-only one or so.

Currently this is really just a companies thing, not legislations. If you live in frankfurt and choose frankfurt, your traffic will go through an obscura server in frankfurt and then a mullvad server in frankfurt. Not amazing if you want to make tracing harder by using servers in different countries.

Speeds are fine, the android client is reliable. LAN bypass works, no split tunneling is annoying though

In my opinion I don't see adding another player as a useful step, especially when their selling point is "company trust." Why trust two companies when you only need one? A good rule of thumb in cybersecurity is to minimize attack surface and going through two companies seems to add more unnecessary complexity and seems to require more trust, counter to their selling point.

Mullvad already collects next to nothing and if you pay with monero there's almost no link to you, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't just use Mullvad outright. Mullvad also has server multihop functionality if you want that specific feature too.

I think https://nym.com/ is also worth considering if you want something more secure than a VPN.

Eh, far safer to chain your own vpns. At least the you know tunnel A cannot see tunnel B's traffic. Who's to say if Obscura is correctly doing as they say, or just decrypting it and forwarding over another tunnel. You can't verify that yourself.

They stated slipping belts and a leak. A PS pump still works with those. A serp belt replacement is the easiest possible thing to do on a car besides plugs. Electric? Youre shit out of luck. $3000 down the drain minimum for electric.

I'm just saying the push for electric steering was so they can control your car easier under the guise of safety. Its not an improvement for the end user.

Temporary? Just fucking ban them completely and be done with it.