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by apecat 10y ago
Yep. To overclarify: my post was a joke about the (surface level) environmental benefits of an unde(r)veloped economy within North-Korea's current form of bizarro pseudo-stalinism.
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"Stalinism - Lovely weather for ducks"
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by apecat 10y ago
FreeBSD is so very much worth taking a look at. Hardware support is not on Linux’s level, so it’s not necessarily an endeavor I’d recommend for desktop use, at least as a first 'nix experience, even with the super nice ZFS integration
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by apecat 10y ago
Latest developments: "Three current Tor employees—two of which agreed to be named on the record—have confirmed that they personally know the authors of the alleged victim statements on the site, JacobAppelbaum.net. Although they contin
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"VPNs opened" was poor wording. Clarifications provided by the guys below seem to match what I remember from listening to talks on Tor by the project's developers. Operational security and Tor is such an interesting and frank
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by apecat 10y ago
Great article. The only real omission I noticed is the lack of mention of advanced browser fingerprinting techniques that can be used against browsers, even if caches are emptied, 'porn modes' activated, VPNs opnened. As demonstra
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by apecat 10y ago
Well, I admit to posting needlessy aggressive language while angry. I find few things as infuriating as people who claim they care about privacy while actively taking measures to spread personal information out of the context it was intende
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Indeed.
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Here's a thing I wrote on my personal FB wall as I linked to this article. #### Some creepy Danish assholes went ahead and released a full dataset on 70.000 random users of the OkCupid dating service "because data science". A
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by apecat 10y ago
I'm male but I have the benefit of being surrounded people of various genders who talk openly about stuff like this. I can only conclude that a great deal of everyday sexism and sexual abuse can be near invisible to men. Some things ca
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by apecat 11y ago
Please feel free to share some of these nightmares. These systems are so surrounded by an air of mystique and vague hints of danger, and I've mainly tried to read up on the supposed benefits of using mainframes to get why anybody would
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by apecat 11y ago
I missed this! This is great news and frankly deserves a mention on CF's really nice company blog so that as many site owners as possible learn about the new granularity for Tor. As a Tor relay operator and CF customer, I've been
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I can recognize the part about getting lost in reading, but it's mostly under control. And it happens to me when I read stuff I kind of don't give a shit about. It's like I get lost scanning for something to care about, and i
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by apecat 11y ago
Over 9000 internet points for posting Kunstler. His TED talk is literally how I in my early twenties realized that I hated life in my native, post-WWII Helsinki modernist, mid-rise suburbs. Without being able to put my finger on it, I'
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by apecat 11y ago
Related: "This study suggested ADHD to be present among 40% of adult male longer-term prison inmates" http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/735382