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New comment by almostbasic in "AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen"

almostbasic — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:33:58 +0000

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New comment by almostbasic in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

almostbasic — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:12:19 +0000

But that has not happened since PIA was acquired by Kape. All that proves is that the previous owner was trustworthy.

New comment by almostbasic in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

almostbasic — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:11:33 +0000

But, that happened since they were acquired by Kape. All that proves is the previous owner was trustworthy.

New comment by almostbasic in "A Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution"

almostbasic — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:12:06 +0000

I believe we are only scratching the surface of our history.

New comment by almostbasic in "FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'"

almostbasic — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:11:28 +0000

Is anyone really surprised?

New comment by almostbasic in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

almostbasic — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:10:03 +0000

This is amazing The rise of the AI generated em dash is insane.

New comment by almostbasic in "Show HN: A Provably Zero Trust VPN"

almostbasic — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:56:09 +0000

They just announced they are killing meshnet

New comment by almostbasic in "Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription"

almostbasic — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:25:16 +0000

This is absurd. I would never buy a vehicle like that.

New comment by almostbasic in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:03:18 +0000

For sure. Pictures certainly have their place on the web. I was speaking more about websites where the entire design is made of images, even when it doesn’t make any sense to do so.

New comment by almostbasic in "Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:54:32 +0000

Meta puts money over minors.

New comment by almostbasic in "When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:44:56 +0000

It really makes you wonder what other weapons they have that we don't know about.

New comment by almostbasic in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:35:19 +0000

It makes sense. All of the streaming services have exclusive rights to certain shows in addition to their own shows, so you have to subscribe to every service out there to see everything, whereas you used to just need 1 cable subscription for it all.

New comment by almostbasic in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:33:29 +0000

Agreed. 99% of the websites out there today are so loaded with images and videos that they would've taken 25 minutes to open on dial up.

New comment by almostbasic in "[dead]"

almostbasic — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:17:38 +0000

This is a complete game changer!

New comment by almostbasic in "Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff"

almostbasic — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:16:10 +0000

Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.

New comment by almostbasic in "Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff"

almostbasic — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:14:21 +0000

Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.

New comment by almostbasic in "Leaving Freenode for a new network"

almostbasic — Wed, 19 May 2021 18:12:25 +0000

> - When they merged with Kape Technologies (resulting in the ludicrous situation of having Mark Karpelès as their CTO) I lost all faith in them and immediately switched to Mullvad.

This is not true. Mark was hired by London Trust Media and never worked for PIA. Since Kape acquired PIA in December of 2019, there is no connection at all between Mark and PIA.

New comment by almostbasic in "Leaving Freenode for a new network"

almostbasic — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:50:15 +0000

Private Internet Access has no connection to Freenode at all anymore. It WAS owned by London Trust Media, which also owned PIA, but Kape acquired PIA in December of 2019 and has had no connection since then. We do not have any involvement or knowledge of any takeover of Freenode.

New comment by almostbasic in "Leaving Freenode for a new network"

almostbasic — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:30:08 +0000

Private Internet Access has no connection to Freenode at all anymore. It WAS owned by London Trust Media, which also owned PIA, however Kape Technologies acquired PIA in December of 2019 and has had no connection since then. We do not have any involvement or knowledge of any takeover of Freenode.

Google gives police IPs of people that searched particular keywords or addresses

almostbasic — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/google-gives-ip-addresses-to-police-of-people-who-have-searched-particular-keywords-or-addresses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24757401

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