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by caeril 4y ago
Good point. A $1.3T behemoth that readily reports Ring data to the pigs and runs large-scale cloud contracts with the Feds totally won't run these cards through a UV-B or X-ray scanner to correlate and log the activation codes. You&#x2
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by caeril 4y ago
Yes, buy the Amazon gift card from a store with cameras, with an account set up with your burner SIM purchased from a place with cameras, and pick it up from an Amazon Locker blanketed with cameras. Use cash with fully-tracked serial number
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by caeril 4y ago
You're missing the point that Mullvad still has your connecting IP address. There have been countless cases demonstrating that "no-log" VPN providers definitely do log, and even if by some miracle Mullvad doesn't, they
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by caeril 4y ago
Indeed. This is to say nothing of the absolute parasitism inherent in the "cashless" society. The Banks/Visa/MC/Stripe/Square hoovering up 2% interchange and other fees for virtually no work is absolutely ludic
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by caeril 4y ago
> How do you think governments raise funds for your roads, utilities, and military? My military? The one that hasn't maintained a defensive posture since 1946? The one that, instead of defending me, goes out of its way to murder civ
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by caeril 4y ago
> crypto companies and influencers explicitly encouraged This wasn't Jim Cramer or some vetted CNBC talking head talking P/E ratios or future earnings potential. These are carefully-engineered social media accounts with followe
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by caeril 4y ago
anecdote: I've been tinkering with electronics projects all my life, since I was a kid with Sam's Kits and Heathkit. I have an absolute ton of discrete components, soldering gear, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, mi
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by caeril 4y ago
Furthermore, he was only wrong on point #3. People make fun of this post on account of Dropbox having been a commercial success, but the first points are still valid (and even more true today, with modern tooling) that FOSS self-hosted solu
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by caeril 4y ago
Reddit-tier comment but nonetheless spot-on. This insufferable guy is taking a victory lap on actively fragmenting the internet along ideological lines.
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by caeril 4y ago
> 8kun’s newfound Russian connections will likely hold, but that hardly means Lithuania should stand idly by. I think it's long past due for Krebs to stop referring to himself as a "journalist". Editorializing like this be
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by caeril 4y ago
Regarding your concerns: - SearX instead of DDG - PeerTube instead of Vimeo or YouTube - There are a TON of FOSS TOTP authentication apps that you can build the .apk yourself if you'd like. You don't need Authy or GA - Y
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by caeril 4y ago
You joke, but allocating and writing random data all over the heap and hiding and constantly moving key material through it is the idea behind Schneier's Boojum.
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by caeril 4y ago
Markets price in the future, not so much the present. Right now the gold market is pricing in a Volcker-style freakout by central banks. If Powell pivots, this will surely reverse.
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by caeril 4y ago
In "emergency situations", there is this crazy modern technology called "blankets" and "jackets" and "coats". Home heating is primarily a luxury for comfort, not survival. Given sufficient insulation,
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by caeril 4y ago
How many people died or were injured (even medically, long after the fact) from Three Mile Island? Dramatic, sure, but nuclear power kills far, far, far fewer people than buckets of water or BIC lighters.
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by caeril 4y ago
As a US citizen, I'd rather a foreign power with no jurisdiction here gobble up my data than the local jackboots with a rubberstamp judge who can execute a no-knock raid on my home whenever they feel like, predicated on dubious suspici
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by caeril 4y ago
> The court took this decision away from human beings. No, the court remanded the lawmaking decision to the states, as it should be. There's this section of the CA-NV border known as "state line", which has a litany of cas
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by caeril 4y ago
Hormesis is definitely "a thing". Getting hit by a truck may injure you to the point of being permanently weakened, but a series of lesser traumas will generally improve your bone and connective tissue strength. The phrase is tech
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by caeril 4y ago
> Back in my dad's days, Obesity was much lower and bodies were much healthier and more vigorous. Erectile dysfunction was much less common, and average serum testosterone levels were higher. I guess it's uncouth to suggest tha
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by caeril 4y ago
> seems like a lot of people are rooting for as much pain as possible No, some of us are very pro-Bitcoin, but we love seeing the bubble pop so that it can return to its correct use-case: as a currency, not a speculative risk asset.
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by caeril 4y ago
> Doctor is not going to prescribe TRT based on my post Apologies, for some reason I read this through my biohacking lens and hadn't even considered standard medical channels, ha.
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by caeril 4y ago
> If they are low get on TRT This blanket advice is a bit dangerous. Once on a test cruise for longer than a couple months, it's a lifelong commitment. Low testosterone has a LOT of input variables. You need to know your cortisol
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by caeril 4y ago
There are MANY couples for whom a balanced approach is financially and emotionally suboptimal. If spouse A has earning potential of $300k/yr, and spouse B has earning potential of $50k/yr, and child care costs $40k/yr, it&#x2
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by caeril 4y ago
> but it isn't wireless, which I think is a fair requirement I don't see how this is a fair requirement. Most people would rather NOT be one 0day RF side-channel attack or bluetooth link key compromise away from someone outside
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by caeril 4y ago
Same reason very intelligent fund managers are buying 10y TSYs yielding 2.8% despite inflation giving them a NEGATIVE 5.2% real yield: Everyone thinks that 5 years out, everything will be rosy. The metalworker saving 0.6% on a 5/1 ARM
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by caeril 4y ago
> The risks seem really obvious after everything falls through The risks are obvious the second you see that they offer 15% yield, which is roughly DOUBLE the current yield of the average junk bond, and about QUADRUPLE the yield at the t
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by caeril 4y ago
The (attempted) RMS cancellation was precisely this, and it was preceded by many instances of Aspies or socially awkward men at conferences having their lack of social awareness misinterpreted by "the woke" as harassment or gene
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by caeril 4y ago
Voting is a much worse waste of time and resources than making the right choices. Even if you vote for the "right" congressional candidate, the hurdles of getting a bill out of committee, avoiding lobbying pressures/temptatio
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by caeril 4y ago
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by caeril 4y ago
Maybe. This is largely a "we don't know" situation. Everything you say is correct, but it's also correct that the "Sweet Spot" effect is real, that well spacing parasitism hasn't been solved, and that the

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