Runke is the verb form. Runk is the noun form. You can say “en runk”.

ITT people claim that a Google VPN is a bad product for all use cases because Google is not a privacy-respecting company. This ignores all non-privacy use cases for using a VPN.

And even for privacy, this would’ve been a product where the vendors interest in protecting your privacy and your interest in protecting your privacy aligned in the case where you were not hiding from Google. For example if you used a Chromebook laptop, used the Google Chrome browser, or used Google services like Google Search and Google YouTube, then Google would already know everything about you. You can’t hide your activity from them, but they can help you hide it from others.

Similar situations exist for other privacy disrespecting companies like Microsoft and Apple, where a user might reasonably want to hide from everyone other than their vendor of choice, whose product they consider good enough to allow them to see their computer activity as part of their payment. If you already subscribe to one privacy disrespecting vendor, it makes the most sense to go all-in.

If a device makes an encrypted connection to a server the device makers own, there’s nothing further you can gleam from studying the DNS lookups. They can route traffic through the first server, and they can resolve any IPs through the first server. And since you insist the person you’re replying to doesn’t know what DNS is because they said it’s encrypted, I feel you might also not know that DNS can be encrypted. In that case, the network owner can see that a device makes a connection to the nameserver, but they can’t see which addresses the nameserver was asked to resolve. And similarly, the device can refuse a connection to the wrong nameserver.

Have you considered divorce?

Not too late to abolish.

Medal of Honour VR is 180GB, or about 24 minutes if your download speed never falls below the advertised speed. And that’s even a ‘nice’ example, some of the super large games like Call of Duty and MS Flight Sim update between every time you find time to play and make you download hundreds of gigabytes.

And to say nothing of node_modules.

I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime.

Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move

genocide of the Uighur people

Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/15-years-on-the-staggering-death-toll-in-iraq-keeps-climbing/239055/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker

their oppression of Hong Kong

Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

Yeah alright go home mate.

Look up China Ghost towns. Some insightful shit.

No it isn’t. This is the insightful western coverage.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chongqing-china-metro-station-nowhere/index.html
But as it turns out, predictably, if you check now the city has reached it and it’s a completely unremarkable piece of infrastructure.

Next they’ll write articles about the next stop in the line. Maybe western media can’t wrap their heads around purpose oriented modes of production.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/delivering-on-our-us-data-governance

The USA has invaded Cuba and the DPRK. Literally the only thing they want from the USA is to be left alone and allowed to be friends with whoever they want without the USA threatening to kill anyone who talks to them. They’d both be radiated wastelands if the USA could make that happen unscathed.

Prolewiki is the Lemmy aligned wiki, run and maintained by Lemmy/grad users and staff. Greenland is not considered global north because they are a colony of Denmark. Geopolitically their interests don’t align, and for the sake of economic classification, Greenland is exploited and Denmark is doing the exploitation. The map uploader didn’t decide who is or isn’t in the global north, they’re repeating the classification used by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development https://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/Classifications.html.

The USA is not a democracy. Not a weak or flawed democracy, as those require some democratic input. There is no democratic consideration done by the ruling elite when dictating their rule. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B The extent of the democratic process in the USA is voting blue or red. It’s a meaningless and infrequent vote.

Wait wait wait, TikTok follows local laws?! 😱

Somehow higher than 0% success rate.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/698670/Scorn/

You’re mystifying and mythologising humans too much. The learning process is very equivalent.

When you download Vicuna or Stable Diffusion XL, they’re a handful of gigabytes. But when you go download LAION-5B, it’s 240TB. So where did that data go if it’s being copy/pasted and regurgitated in its entirety?

Maybe they just want to get rid of them. The west seems to mind Nazis a lot less than losers.

The problem with the RFA source is the CIA funding, not that it’s in English. It’s pretty disingenuous to try to imply Newizu is pro-Putin or anti-imperialist, or anti-west or anything else that would qualify as a separate bias or agenda.

So exactly the same then. Sep 11 conspiracy theorists also believe the attack happened. They just don’t attribute it to terrorists but the local government. Which is exactly what June 4th conspiracy theorists believe. And from experience, obnoxious foreigners are usually June 4th conspiracy theorists, because those conspiracy theories are pushed by western propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia and BBC. They sometimes also believe they drove over people with tanks and shot people in the square. Same with Uighurs. Maybe you just wanted to talk about Uighurs or Xinjiang, but the conspiracy theorists believe Uighurs are being oppressed, and obnoxious foreigners are more likely to be conspiracy theorists. Even if you aren’t a conspiracy theorists, obnoxious foreigners usually are so at a certain point people just stop engaging.

If you’re an obnoxious foreigner who only wants to talk about Hitler in Germany, you’ll get similar responses. Or I know you said stop using USA a comparison, but in this case it’s a very easy and apt one. If you only want to talk about how the WTC attack was an inside job in the USA as a foreigner, you’ll get similar responses. It doesn’t mean they accept your version of events, just that it’s awkward to talk to you about it. Or I guess a similar one but back to Germany. If you’re a yank who wants to commiserate about how fucked the GDR was with someone who lived in the GDR, they’ll give you one half-arsed rebuttal then ask to change topic.