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by mirimir 6y ago
You did right by her, so hey! Details aside (because OPSEC) I'll be dealing with something like that for (ideally) years. With luck, perhaps for the rest of my life. It is quite the privilege, as difficult as it may be sometimes. And w
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by mirimir 6y ago
The title ought to include "in Signal", or more generally, "in apps that use online dictionaries". I always disable that. And it's easy to check; just test with no uplink. Also, misspelling is a profiling risk.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I liked "frack" and derivatives in BSG2.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Some of my favorites come from the Jargon Lexicon.[0] 0) http://hackersdictionary.com/html/The-Jargon-Lexicon-framed....
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by mirimir 6y ago
But not so much in the UK, right?
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by mirimir 6y ago
No, but the article implies that he was identified by the fact that he was running Freenet.
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by mirimir 6y ago
There's a key distinction between Tor and Freenet. With Freenet, all nodes host content, access content, and relay traffic for other nodes. But with Tor, only clients (including onion services) host and access content, and they don&#x2
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by mirimir 6y ago
Hey, I respect Freenet hugely. It's almost 20 years old, and it's been ~well maintained throughout. People do hate on Java, but I've had no problems with it, using OpenJDK in Debian. But I don't buy the argument that it&
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by mirimir 6y ago
> These are the stories fearmongers tell because it happened to one or two people many years ago. Here's a recent one:[0] > Gibson’s arrest grew out of an ongoing probe of the “Freenet” — an online network that allows users to an
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. I didn't know that. It wasn't well enough known in the mid 90s. But perhaps it was by the mid 00s, which is when I was properly diagnosed.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Point being, your brain is like a washing machine. If it goes out of balance, sometimes it will only oscillate further out of balance unless the process is arrested. Turbofan engines are a far more dramatic example. That's a great
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by mirimir 6y ago
By all means, then, go for it. Me, I'll run my Freenet nodes in anonymously leased VPS, and access them via Tor. But actually, I won't, because there's not much of interest there.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I agree that Freenet allows publication that's both anonymous and not readily censurable. What it doesn't allow is anonymous access, except in the sense of plausible deniability that depends on highly technical arguments. Tor actu
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by mirimir 6y ago
In reality, police identify Freenet users that have "downloaded" child pornography. And then they arrest those people, impound all their gear, and file charges. So defendants now face the challenge of convincing juries that they w
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by mirimir 6y ago
Where do you see that?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Actually, IPFS' network resilience is a great fit for high-latency overlay networks.
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by mirimir 6y ago
That's dangerously incorrect. Freenet provides no anonymity. What it provides is "plausible deniability". All Freenet peers know each others IP addresses. There's no onion routing. There is the option of running in &qu
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by mirimir 6y ago
It hasn't even been necessary to break the encryption. Police can just run Freenet nodes, which serve child porn, and then log IPs of peers that download chunks of those files. While it's true that Freenet does a good job of obscu
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by mirimir 6y ago
Maybe we ought to be printing manuals, documentation, manufacturing methods, etc on Tyvek.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, Seymour Benzer and Max Delbrück weren't biologists.
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by mirimir 6y ago
What's interesting is that it got back to ~$10K so fast after the crash to ~$5K in mid March.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, "it's still you + gmail.com". And some of us will refuse to use that address.
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by mirimir 6y ago
That's been my experience. For decades, I was diagnosed with depression. Eventually, I was prescribed an SSRI. And that became a disaster, over the course of a few years. But then I saw a psychiatrist who inquired about my use of psych
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by mirimir 6y ago
That's what I was thinking, more or less. And I just found this survey: https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/20/14337282/games-for-women-a... I'm guessing that "real gamers" play games that
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by mirimir 6y ago
There'll likely be refrigerated suits.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> I think the only teacher we accept is a pandemic itself. It does seem that way. > Therefore I'm very happy it's Covid19 and not something worse. That's a truism, I suppose. But it's perhaps too early to conclude
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by mirimir 6y ago
Nope, there are no atoms. Except at the surface, I suppose.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, it's complicated. Here's an amusing (albeit ~neutral) summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9-H5C_4UDU
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by mirimir 6y ago
Some years before the war started, the factions that became the North (majority) and South (minority) participated in negotiations at Geneva. The deal stipulated national elections, with interim partition (North and South) after a delay to
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by mirimir 6y ago
Honest question: Is "gamer" a very useful category? I never enjoyed board games, and I grew up before electronic games existed, so I'm clearly not one. I have relatives who are, however. And they play games that are so differ

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