Got a non-captcha-looped source? I gave up after ten rounds of clicking bicycles.

You can use your own builds of Signal (or preferably Molly-FOSS) including a self-hosted server. You can bring your own push notification as well.

It's also funded by the CIA. Although Signal is/was also indirectly funded by US Congress via OTF, and some claim that means the CIA is somehow involved too. Of course, computers, the internet and tor also had major US government funding, for what it's worth.

Sample size of 1 is not indicative of anything though... several entire families I know were in it when I checked, even people that have been dead for decades, still had their name, address history, DOB, SSN and phone number.

Personally I consider this way bigger than previous ones because of how accessible the data is. I could never find the previous Experian one, but there's several sources for this one now, and seems to have a lot more information in it.

.NET works on non-Windows OSes too, at least enough to have a GUI. Avalonia is cross-platform for example. Not only across desktop but also mobile and web.

Yes you are right. I don't think there is a realistic way for most people to be anonymous or private online anymore given all these offensive and invasive techniques being used regularly now. Hell cloudflare fingerprints people with TLS alone, and that doesn't care about javascript or anything else above it.

Attack the argument, not the person.

They're both correct, but TachyonTele is more correct about the history of the game as it started development in the beginning. But it's also true that SMB2 in USA was made by reskinning Doki Doki Panic because the real SMB2 was deemed too hard for western players.

And I'm not surprised a video game history class wouldn't know about internal development design decisions in 1980s Japan and only knew about what was stated publicly in interviews over and over etc.

I wouldn't say totally different, Miyamoto was more involved in Doki Doki Panic than SMB2 USA. And Doki Doki already had Mario elements in it from the beginning, like pow blocks and stars, plus the whole changeover from the vertical concept back to side-scrolling.

yes but this defeats the whole point of allowing bots on lemmy in the first place.

In the US? Absolutely.

Downloading or uploading any copyrighted content without permission is not legal. It's the same in most countries.

DDoS/spam/malware/hacking from tor and/or known VPN providers is not an imaginary threat. Many companies and websites block it entirely. This is not new, imaginary or lazy.