It really does say something about the audience they’re targeting

How does geo engineering dim the sun?

geo-

word-forming element meaning “earth, the Earth,” ultimately from Greek geo-, combining form of Attic and Ionic gē “the earth, land, a land or country”

When President Trump issed an Executive Order targeting Chris Krebs—a respected cybersecurity leader and the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—the cybersecurity industry should have responded with a unified voice of outrage and support

The author isn’t wrong, but “cyber security” isn’t an independent bastion, it’s part of an industry that consumed itself in a canabalistic orgy over the last 25 years and what’s left now stands behind, and as, oligarchs.

This is part of why penalties have maximums.

They could easily charge $200/file with a cap of $5M. Slap in the wrist for Facebook, ruinous for almost everyone else.

All of the driving forces behind fascism are still there. If they don’t successfully make progress on the oligarchy they’ll be facing this threat again and again, except each time more powerful. It was close this time already.

Not trying to by doom and gloom. It’s how they work, and those fighting fascism are often unwilling to see and act on that, finding themselves with an erroding support base as they get picked off with fear mongering and other propaganda.

If it makes you feel better they’re super shitty to their paying customers too.

Microsoft makes its money from business and enterprise customers. Home users are a drop in the bucket.

Money from home users is from stealing data.

https://rentry.co/megathread

That is a good place to start your journey.

Ok, audiobook isn’t the same as an ebook.

Spotify is absolute ass for audiobooks and podcasts. I wish there was something better for streaming, although one of these days I’ll get around to self hosting. Maybe after retirement…

Anyway, for audiobooks I used “Voice Audiobook Player”, it’s free and open source, minimal permissions required.

For anyone wondering about podcasts, “Podcast Addict”. It has too many menus and options, can be confusing, but still a million times better than Spotify. Once you have it set up the way you want those options are very nice. Still confusing at times though :D

It’s been a while since I had the opportunity for audiobooks, so those specifically I’m a little out of the loop. Audiobookbay was a thing at some point.

For e books… Z-library and/ or Anna’s archive. The reader I use is ReadEra premium, it can handle pretty much any format although default to pick is epub. I don’t think you really need to buy premium, I just did because I wanted to support them. I’ve been using it for forever with almost no problems. You can adjust the things you want (font, spacing, light/dark, etc), but the basic format when reading is very simple once you have it set up