mirimir

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by mirimir 8y ago
No, I wasn't. Sorry, I just don't get the point. Implementing a bunch of proprietary location-encoding schemes is just insane. I do see the profit motive, obviously. But I can only hope that people will avoid using stuff like this
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by mirimir 8y ago
Sure. Why not? I just won't talk about anything that I talked about before. It's exactly like someone asking questions about someone else. That all goes to /dev/null.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Huh? Maybe not two short words. But clearly, two numbers can be represented by two words.
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by mirimir 8y ago
They're just someone who contacted me, and asked for help with identity management, VMs, VPNs, OPSEC, etc, etc, etc. It's not uncommon, given how much I write online about that stuff. Sometimes, if they want too much hand holding,
3335.
by mirimir 8y ago
I have a hard time believing that W3W isn't an early April Fools joke. I mean, seriously? And why three words? You only need two, unless you're coding altitude. And damn, you already have two numbers (angles) with arbitrary precis
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by mirimir 8y ago
Very belated edit: That comes across as a bit heartless. I mean, we have no clue who each other are in meatspace. So why is a potential identity change so problematic? It's just the TFA example: > Bob (Eve): Hey Hey > Alice: Yo B
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by mirimir 8y ago
I use KeyBase. Not long ago, one of my contacts deleted all their devices. So I got the skull-and-crossbones warning. Then they messaged me as a new account. Now this is an anonymous contact. There is no way that we will authenticate in mea
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by mirimir 8y ago
Hey, years ago I took a firearms safety class. The instructor joked that the Second Amendment ought to include tactical nukes ;)
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by mirimir 8y ago
ISPs never see .onion URLs. They just see encrypted traffic to and among Tor relays. But yes, they could block that. In this case, it helps if the evil US military actually does use Tor :)
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by mirimir 8y ago
Ummm > NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack > from https://www.wsj.com to https://stags.bluekai.com . > Suspicious data: (URL) https://stags.bluekai.com/site/4454?
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by mirimir 8y ago
Maybe so, but that ex Philly cop is still jailed on contempt, because he says that he's forgotten the disk password. But generally, I'd rather avoid having a warrant served, and my stuff impounded. So advertising my IP address as
3342.
by mirimir 8y ago
In my experience, that's only the case because they have no bloody clue about how much they're being tracked. Also, from 2012-2013: Study Finds Broad Wariness Over Online Tracking: https://www.nytimes.com/2012&#x2F
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by mirimir 8y ago
As I understand it, these crust fragments wouldn't just be lying flat on the boundary between the lower and upper mantle. They would likely have rotated during their movement in the flowing upper mantle, and gotten stuck at the boundar
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by mirimir 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation of the LEA exploit. I should have been clear that I was talking about opennet mode. If you want to use Freenet in darknet mode, among people who know each other well, and trust each other, it's at least safer
3345.
by mirimir 8y ago
Sure, but some criminal investigators have figured out how to know "what the stuff is". They serve it themselves, and have hashes for the encrypted chunks. As far as "who requested" the stuff, as you say in your other
3346.
by mirimir 8y ago
It's a ~20 year old P2P network that relies on traffic obfuscation for plausible deniability. But peers see each other's IP addresses. There's lots of child porn on it. In recent years, investigators have been using customize
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by mirimir 8y ago
Yes, the Internet caught many "corporate and political powers" by surprise. But now they're getting it locked down. > I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet fre
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by mirimir 8y ago
tl;dr Some areas of the boundary between the upper and lower mantle are littered with huge (~10 km scale) fragments of subducted crust. Edit: I recall reading, some years ago, that oceanic crust sometimes fragments during subduction. Using
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by mirimir 8y ago
I wonder about that too.
3350.
by mirimir 8y ago
Well, if their plan is detecting opioid residues on the outsides of packages, they must be aiming for at least nanogram detection limits. Because they're counting on sloppiness in weighing and packaging. And those levels are far be
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by mirimir 8y ago
https://speedyverify.com/
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by mirimir 8y ago
But damn, consider the potential lulz. If someone intentionally contaminated the postal system with fentanyl, an appreciable percentage of all packages might show up positive. I vaguely recall that this accidentally happened during the 2003
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by mirimir 8y ago
That still allows geolocation. But one can lease hosted SIMs. Actual SIMs in server farms. So they're "real" mobile numbers. Just not located where you are.
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by mirimir 8y ago
There's ~no correlation between nutrient content and levels of toxic contaminants. If one added a lethal dose of botulism toxin to some food, it wouldn't change the nutrient content. But it would still kill you.
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by mirimir 8y ago
That's because "organic" by the FDA's definition is bullshit. There are all sorts of exceptions. For one thing, it's difficult to find arable land that hasn't been contaminated with persistent pesticides. Also,
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by mirimir 8y ago
Human milk could not be sold commercially, because levels of many contaminants exceed legal limits. And ironically, indigenous peoples in the far north have among the highest levels. Because they live in a global cold trap.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Belated edit: More like ~10^81 times the speed of light. > According to the theory of inflation, the Universe grew by a factor of 10 to the sixtieth power in less than 10 to the negative thirty seconds, so the "edges" of the Un
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by mirimir 8y ago
IANAP, but I think so. I vaguely recall that early inflationary expansion was very fast. Like several times the speed of light.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Yes, TFA says nothing about what happens after surviving the fall. But from Burko and Khanna (2019) I get this: > The fate of an astronaut who falls into a black hole depends not just on the latter’s properties (such as the intrinsic p
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by mirimir 8y ago
Rather like bit rot.

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