nah bro. crypto is decentralized bro. you don't get it. my IQ is very high

All the security features that he lists that are either missing or poorly implemented in Linux could be explained by the lack of a multi trillion dollar company developing Linux for profit

From what I've seen, security people tend to separate "privacy" from "security." Probably because the best security seems to always come at the expense of privacy, because profit. I agree with them that there is a massive trust difference that everyone can expect to have between Big Tech and Some Hacker, and it is basically that Big Tech is not going to steal your credit card info. It's not perfect and they might develop a surveillance tool that gets used by a hacker (and definitely the feds), but them seeing your most sensitive data is not much of a financial risk.

I would think that using Chromium for purchases and banking is safe enough for most people

Probably. Commercial VPNs are only somewhat helpful for privacy, they do hide your traffic from your ISP but unless you operate your own VPN, they just give a different set of eyes access to the websites you visit. It's true that websites won't see your real IP address, but browser fingerprinting is more complicated than using CanvasBlocker, and stock Tor Browser has a pool of similar users with the exact same fingerprint/set of IP addresses, so there is some degree of anonymity.

Cybersecurity researchers agree that Windows does have better security than Linux, though it seems to me that a much smaller userbase and an open source ethic does more to deter script kiddies than they give credit for. They are not interested in likelihoods of hacks being written, they are interested in substantial defense mechanisms

Here's the same guy on Linux. Seems that people never prove him wrong, but claim that he misrepresents priorities etc. I would think that most people criticizing him are (like myself) not security researchers, who have a specific way of seeing things https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

No one wants to hear it, but FF's security is bad. (I still use it tho)

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

She has the proper amount of respect for her audience's intelligence, props to her

Imperialism comes before fascism

i think privacy possum is like the upgraded badger, if you use FF

reminder that protonmail is highly sus
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/
Twitter told me that PM did not start logging the IP after the order from Swiss gov, they already had it. Twitter is also sus so maybe that's a lie. but PM doesn't allow for sign-up over Tor so I have my doubts.

I think you're right, I'm just making guesses. Things look messy and it's hard to get good information from English speaking sources. Syria was like that for a very long time

I don't know. They seem to be way better than the TPLF, or used to be. Maybe just a long friendly history and adjacency to northern Ethiopia, where the TPLF are IIRC

I mean, that's exactly what they are asking you to think about the TPLF, that they are some necessary ad-hoc force of the people's will against the cruel regime, despite ruling as a single-party state in Ethiopia for decades. In any case, there's no such thing as giving aid to the civilians in a war and not the combatants who control territory and resources.

More interesting is the phrase "offer aid to the civilian population as an incentive for a cease-fire.” In what world does offering aid to civilians end the shooting? Only in the world where NATO is trying to paint the TPLF as "the civilians" or "the masses."

I hope you realize that I'm saying that because NATO is so opposed to the Ethiopian government, we should be suspicious of all this pro-TPLF nonsense.

I just don’t trust any of this shit. And the conditions of a literal ongoing war create a fog of war that make it even harder to trust any sources of information at all.

That's definitely a real problem, and then you have to rely on random twitter accts that might be untrustworthy and can't really be used as evidence in a politicized internet discussion like this thread. I will say that I think the evidence is strong that the TPLF are not good guys and there seems to be more of a bias in their favor, strongest evidence of this being the NATO commander's propaganda in Bloomberg

I agree, but it's hard enough to get news out of Ethiopia, and Amnesty has reports condemning both sides. Same goes for Reuters, a totally captive organization. In spite of their obvious biases, it's not true that everything they say is false. I would not describe Ethiopia as AES though, not since decades ago

Sure, you don't have to pick a side. But the OP presented the TPLF as "the masses rising up" and that's not true at all

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-11/ethiopia-s-civil-war-is-a-problem-u-s-troops-can-help-solve
Look at the Ex-NATO Supreme Allied Commander telling the US that we need to intervene, and notice the caption : "Rebels with a cause." Objectively false; hardly 'rebels,' the TPLF were in power for decades until ousted by an election that they didn't like. "Cause" implies some noble deed beyond occupation through rape and violence. The ex-NATO commander says we should sanction the Ethiopian government and offer aid to "the civilian population as an incentive for a cease-fire," which must refer to the TPLF, who are combatants.
And I am not supporting Ahmed by pointing this stuff out

"telling me I'm repeating imperial narratives means that you think you are god"

Well FWIW, he can't be bad enough for me to *pick a side in this conflict between awful groups

crrrrringe
Idk about Ahmed but TPLF are awful
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-survivors-tplf-attack-amhara-describe-gang-rape-looting-and-physical

Gonna restart Purgatorio. Seemed much more complicated than inferno, got intimidated