It's called Zipf's Law and it's a fundamental statistical probability formula found in many, many things, from languages to distribution curves.

VSauce had a good video covering this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

Hope Anna's has a good Onion site setup... Cause they are gonna probably have to rely on that soon enough.

Watch the end result be you can't find random chests in Minecraft dungeons or Terraria caves cause it falls under the category of "lootbox" in games...

(May seem hyperbolic, but we are talking about 70 year old boomers trying to make regulations for video games. I'm not sure I have the most positive view of the potential outcome)

People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment conteM targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding.

Ya know, I'd take this claim a lot more seriously if this wasn't the 100th time they've claimed this about someone, or basically anyone, that isn't them... I like GrapheneOS, I use GrapheneOS, this is being typed from a Pixel running GrapheneOS... But the developers have long since been known for being extremely toxic in nature towards anyone and everyone they deemed as a challenger. CalyxOS (what I used before), LineageOS, Murena, iodeOS, even the Linux kernel itself... Not to mention the personal attacks on people like Louis Rossman.

I want to take these claims seriously... But unfortunately I can't without actual, legitimate proof.

This is why we need 3, 4, or even 5 monitors at a time.

I learned something today... and I'm not better off for having learned it. What a dumb ass virtue signal to use on something.

There are plenty of ways to convince people to take privacy and security more seriously, but this isn't it. This is more likely to make people not take it seriously. Spotify Wrapped is a fun little gimmick that a lot of folks appreciate. Heck even I did, and I only rarely use Spotify.

It's likely something out of their control. I imagine their payment processor either uses it, or requires the site to use it. Mostly to combat automated fraud.

You likely won't find any site, that has online shopping, that doesn't use some sort of way to gatekeep against this behavior, unless it's crypto-based. And even then it likely still has something like that. Even if the site redirects to Paypal, you're gonna face that.

Your approach simply isn't realistic to the modern web. You can try uBlock, but blocking those connections likely will make the site ultimately not work for you.

Fairphone brings a much better device to market with better cameras, a better screen, likely a better chip, open hardware specifications and modularity, a completely unlockable bootloader (with likely support for CalyxOS and other ROM's shortly), and up to 8 years of software support(!), but people say they won't get it because no headphone jack...

MFW people have their priorities extremely mixed up... That's been the world now for 6 years, it's time to get over it. Letting perfect be the enemy of good is how you decide to throwaway something as good as what Fairphone seems to be offering. Sony still offers Android devices with headphone jacks, just don't be upset if you don't get another Android version pushed to your device.

Probably because it is... Cannabis smoke isn't that healthy overall, but it's found to be safer than Tobacco smoke is at least. It doesn't carry nearly the carcinogenic risks of tobacco, and afaik, it doesn't carry the same risks for COPD, chronic bronchitis, etc. Though longer term studies would be needed for those to get real data to know for sure.

Heh, I'll just leave this here for folks.

YT-DLP

Meanwhile...