Majestic

I doubt they would be allowed to hand out keys (which they do not hold) to another government that would compromise American businesses, agencies, etc.

Um, yes they would. The very point of eyes agreements is they allow countries intelligence agencies which aren't allowed to spy on their own people to spy on each other's people then pass each other the data. Snowden revealed this all a decade ago.

The CIA and FBI do not store classified sensitive info on iPhones that are backed up anywhere. At least not anything that would come as a surprise to the British or be a risk. Nothing they wouldn't have access to via the existing intelligence sharing.

The UK and the US are thick as thieves and have been since the end of WW2.

I don't care about Nazis switching to Linux and neither should you. Not a good look.

Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to fulfill their newbie requirements so I will be kicked out eventually but hopefully I get that show before that.

If you can make it in other private trackers you can make it in this.

If you want to stay in this tracker:

• first off grab some 2x free upload stuff to build a bit of ratio, grab every such one you can find that's been released in the past week or so and has a chance of being active.

• After that look for free but not 2x ones which are very popular, maybe learning materials or something like a massive collection with few seeders and tons of leech. You can actually partially seed on a tracker like this, they don't require complete downloads or seeding to 1:1, all you have to do is seed for 24 hours so if there's something big you can grab a part of without ruining your ratio you can do that but be careful not to bite off too much download without getting some upload first.

• Download portion of their requirements is of course easy, it's upload and bonus points that hurt.

• For the bonus points requirement, it looks intimidating but grab a ton of ebooks or other small files like music, stuff under a GB each, get 40-60 such files and set them to seed on a machine you can keep on for weeks. That will get you the bonus points needed with time to spare.

This is frightening.

They do not have the ability to just remove e2e back-ups in the UK alone and walk away from this, that's not how the law is written as I understand it.

The snooper's charter gives the UK government the RIGHT to DEMAND access to encryption keys of any user GLOBALLY. The law is that they can force the cooperation of Apple to decrypt the account of an American user, of a German user, of a Russian user, of a South African user, of a Brazilian user, of a Japanese user who have never stepped foot in the UK.

So they're claiming that this protects their users, that they haven't complied but the only way to avoid complying with these secret gag orders for compromising encryption GLOBALLY at the demand of the UK government is to remove themselves entirely from the jurisdiction of the UK. Is to remove all executives and technical personnel from UK soil, to not hire such people who live in or are citizens of the UK as technical personnel as they could be gag ordered and compelled to cooperate. To basically entirely pull out of any presence but maybe storefronts in the UK and take steps to prevent the arrest and pressuring of their executives and key technical people with access from being subject to UK coercion.

That they haven't done that means all users globally are still at risk. This may be a big PR stunt to convince people they haven't caved when in fact they have in secret and will hand over data of global users to the UK which shares it via eyes agreements with the US, with France, Australia, etc. This has the added benefit of allowing the UK to keep such access secret by acting annoyed with Apple but not actually pressing any case. If they try and actually prosecute or pressure Apple that's a sign that they haven't cooperated globally, if they only offer angry words to the press IMO that's a sign that in secret they've given access globally and only informed UK users that their cloud data isn't protected.

An interactive firewall.

One that blocks programs from accessing the internet and prompts the first time they try until you click a button that says allow or you choose the alternative which is deny. A program like this you'd have no reason to give it internet access, it's something whose operations should be entirely local.

Yet another reason for people to run a default prompt (deny until prompt answer) firewall.

Oh shut up Bernie. Sell-out.

You're part of the problem as much as the rest of the DNC, the fact they let you live on a shack at the periphery of their ranch to herd wayward sheep back onto it for them doesn't mean you're not part of the same failed apparatus from the standpoint of the sheep.

Time and again he had chances to break from them, to publicly stand against the their bad positions, to create some daylight and time and again he bows his head, and utters his submission to the party leadership and their positions and claims it's not ideal but we must vote for them.

Even after they did all they could to screw him out of the nomination. Talk about pathetic. For a contrast look at Trump, the GOP tried to kill his campaign and he just got angrier and angrier as a result. Look where Trump is now and where Bernie is now. They both had their first serious showings in 2016, one's now charismatic leader of the cult of doom and all his enemies in the party cower in fear at his name and edict, the other is a sheepdog still, a laughingstock who has no principles and always upholds the DNC strategy. Who is blind to genocide. Who had a real movement, a real chance for working class resistance and eagerly, happily dismantled it to pieces for the Democrats.

Voyager crashes for me on iOS too. Usually from scrolling too much in All. It’s gotten better but still happens too easily. Doesn’t happen as much in subscribed subs view or local.

i haven’t yet encountered an AP that is capable of providing all of the features that i currently use. ie ad blocking; personal vpn;

Pfsense does both of these. pfblocker NG in particular is a very powerful network adblocker with lots of lists. Pfsense can also run VPNs, it supports openvpn and wireguard in both client and server mode and you can set up multiple so one client, one server.

web hosting; and cloud-like internet accessible storage via ssh tunnel (in addition to others).

If you just need personal services it would be best to run something local, setup a wireguard tunnel on pfsense that gives access to your network and VPN in to access things remotely. If you need to share with others I suppose this can become a problem.

It's sadly been an issue for several decades with TV. Older TV shows used in re-runs would often have the original music replaced if it was anything by big bands because they didn't want to continue paying those royalties. They'd even sell DVDs with lousy replacement music instead.