Make music, perform music, make games, make movies, write small books and maybe draw pictures.

And then I would try out being a research attorney, being an EMT, a pilot, maybe working with NASA at some point and working for some government agency specializing in digital warfare.

People always assume if you had everything you would just sit at home and be lazy and never try anything. But from my experience you don’t do that shit just because you’re complacent, you do it because either you are way too stressed out to try out new stuff or you are in the middle of a depressive episode. Almost all people I know wouldn’t be able to be lazy for more than 2 weeks, they would start making something.

NGL the question and the projections read like they are two different posts.

Yeah I’ve come to accept that there’s an amount of money needed to get comfortable. But when you get there, any surplus will not bring any happiness and might even inspire egoism and jealousy. But there is a line.

Yeah this will populate information about DNA and genomes from you and relatives into their database.

This can be an issue for the following reasons:

• you will give up your privacy to a very substantial degree
• there’s a small chance you will give up safety of you or your relatives because investigators can access your DNA now

My first thoughts were the naked gun or Monty Python movies.

This is probably the best answer. If everything is truly only running on local network and nothing is exposed with a port through your router, you are very safe.

Most issues get introduced when running a server exposed to the Internet.

That said, on the lowest level, if they want to get you, they will. It’s all a risk analysis. And the more interesting you are to adversarial parties, the higher the chances you’ll get pursued.

If you’re Edward Snowden, 99% your calls and conversations are always on record.

If you’re John Doe, truly only your ISP cares when they get a law enforcement request because you really pushed the envelope.

Trending movies are notoriously bad, because movie studios will really try to rake in the revenue.

On the other hand, ripping music from YouTube, no one cares or is able to track it, so risk is very low.

I feel so sorry for the onion.

I’m very new to open source but I’d love to get involved but is there a discord or something to get up to speed?

I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.

Depending on your setup, YouTube will still fingerprint your browser and track your behavior, as is common practice with ad networks.

Your cookies and data might be cleared but as long as yt has any way to generate a unique identifier out of your browser preferences, it will identify you and start looking at your behavior / figuring out an algorithm.

Just fyi.