Appreciate the offer to be transparent.

But..."It was (just) a debate!" (skip to around 2:15) Pathological liar tells you everything you need to know about how things are going to happen. Will say anything necessary to achieve their goals. The ends always justify the means.

Xiden. Lol. Thank you, going to have to remember to use that one in other posts elsewhere.

Yep, cant avoid woke trash being allowed to virtue signal and shit things up to no real business purpose on a supposedly 'professional', 'work/business-only discussions' networking site. Getting fatigue from the one-sided permissiveness of a lot of sites. Looking forward to deleting my account off of there when I think I can start to retire early.

Yep, did not watch. More cooked and canned propaganda from folks who are going to execute their agenda regardless of what they 'officially' let the public know about, no thanks. Not eating the bread being offered by this circus.

It is change, hopefully, one way, or another. Things have been stagnant for too long, anyway. And if we have a modicum of luck and resolve, it will result in things moving forward.

His quote should have read "Boy ya’ll want power, God I hope you never get any over me or mine." Much more honest.

? ProtonMail has a free offering in their plans.

Ironkey is a physical device with a hardware encryption chip that encrypts the contents. There are online services you can use that will store your information in an encrypted container that can only be accessed by a password that you hold. When you go to access the container, its first downloaded (in encrypted form) to your device, then decrypted there with your password. When you're done with the file, it gets re-encrypted (on the device) and saved back to the cloud. If you lose the password, no one, including the company, and you, will be able to get your data. No take-backs or un-dos.

If you want control over your own info locally, and not use a cloud-based third party service, then you can either use a hardware device, as you mentioned, or roll your own version of a software encrypted file vault like KeePass, for account management, or well-vetted encryption software like VeraCrypt to store other files, on your own storage that you keep physically secure.

Unfortunately, This is correct. Wealth transfer, and concentration of power.

Youtube-dl with a GUI front-end (Github)

Protonmail.

Unlink everything used with Google passthrough auth and use a password manager to keep track of individual passwords for each site. Cumbersome, I know.

Standalone GPS (Garmin, etc) with internal sets of maps, like before Google maps existed.

I've also been using CoPilot for android, which works the same way, except you can use it on your phone. Maps are cheap, and accurate, and the app works as advertised without any unnecessary issues.

Parler now has a link to download the android app (apk) right from their homepage. You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see it. (Android and iOS icons, bottom right)

Parler-release.apk

Parler now has a link to download the android app right from their homepage. You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see it.

Parler-release.apk

This sounds like they're trying to use thoughtcrime.

I'm assuming the mods alt sites they've already suggested are with different hostings. More than one.

I hope they do, very much. I hope the ego hardon that's going on right now with banning/silencing whoever they like knows no bounds. Let them ban other public figures without caution. It will force those figures to more visibly choose a side, or to do nothing, and hopefully get voted out because they chose to be lukewarm. The line's being drawn in the sand, anyway. (Added: also, never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake)

This may actually finally stimulate some of the serious development of alternate platforms to social media a lot of people have been wanting for a long time now.

Yeppppp. An easy redpill you can give to others when they make light of things, or handwave off things as 'conspiracy theories'. Many different sites, different people, different actions (account bans, app removal, content scrubbed from the public view). Coordinated action, demonstrating deliberate forethought and planning.

I just pulled a copy from https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/?id=com.parler.parler but haven't looked at it yet. Anyone know if that site is ok?

 Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parler.parler if you want to download a copy of the apk for yourself for sideloading later.

Telnet chat room is best chatroom.

+1 for IRC and related services. Back to basics. Kinda feels appropriate.