mirimir

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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, of course. I also have decades of muscle memory with using disposable gloves in a lab context, but that's not so useful when you don't have 100 gloves per day to burn through. But even so, I'm always conscious of what I&
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by mirimir 7y ago
There's the simple expedient of 1) touching potentially contaminated stuff only with your left hand, 2) only touching clean stuff with your right hand, and 3) never cross contaminating your left and right hands. And whenever you can, w
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by mirimir 7y ago
I carefully avoid WebGL, because it's an over-the-top fingerprinting risk, even for different VMs on the same host. So I'll never see this. And indeed, nobody who cares about privacy should ever risk it. But so it goes. Edit: I&#x
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by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. Somehow I never heard of that. It seems interesting, albeit 60 years outdated. But then there's the 1984 update.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Ah yes, Asimov. It's been decades since I read his work. What would you recommend?
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure. And conversely, there are infinitely more colors than that particular digital representation can express.
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by mirimir 7y ago
In Fall , Stephenson argues that the speed of light reflects resource limitations in the machine(s) running our reality.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. I gave up about 20% in, thinking that whatever it is, it's either BS or over my head. Which is where much cosmology and theoretical physics leaves me. And yes, that probably says more about me than them ;) But whatever, I rathe
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by mirimir 7y ago
Many years ago, in a previous life, I heard about the ~friendly competition between Caltech's Dabney and Flemming houses. Various spacecraft components would have "DEI" (Dabney Eats It) or "FEIF" (Flemming Eats It F
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, I know that "Google" won't. But there have been leaks about many issues. And this is arguably a huge, if poorly reported, issue. Perhaps not relative to the total user population, but huge in absolute terms.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> We're moving back to a hosting model where you can not completely rely on any hosting company to get the job done. That's become my mantra about anonymization: that you can't trust any one system/provider, so it&#x2
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Instead, you have to span [your content] on multiple platforms and tell your audience where to find you if you get deleted. OK, so what's the safest holdout?
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by mirimir 7y ago
This site maxed out 2GB RAM and 2GB swap in my VM, and I was lucky to kill Firefox fast enough to avoid needing to reset the VM. WTF does a site need with over 2GB RAM? Edit: I mean, I can run Debian with a basic GUI desktop in less than 1G
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by mirimir 7y ago
Paris too: https://johnknifton.com/2016/02/14/the-wolves-of-paris/
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by mirimir 7y ago
Someone at Google could. Someone at Google fixed it, and others there are likely aware of the circumstances.
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by mirimir 7y ago
It'd be really cool if OP could document exactly what happened, and how exactly it got fixed. Or if someone else could leak relevant information anonymously. But I appreciate that nobody involved would want to attract attention.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. So which of the Linux distros that run on Pinephone do support FDE with LUKS?
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by mirimir 7y ago
It is pretty gross. I mean, how would you like being dragged through the water, with a hook in your cheek?
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by mirimir 7y ago
I find it hard to imagine how eating living animals wouldn't be considered animal abuse. I mean, how is it distinguishable from crushing them underfoot? Because teeth are OK, but high heels are not?
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's a good point. So yes, diversity is good.
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by mirimir 7y ago
For what it's worth, I believe that "recklessly" is more accurate than "accidentally". In the motor vehicle context, for example, people acting more or less prudently, and in good faith, occasionally have accidents.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's a good sign, actually. Because it means that you'd need to push pretty hard to get banned.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Which is why I would never trust Google for any business functions. Which is why I'd never trust Google for anything .
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by mirimir 7y ago
Privacy in meatspace is dead. Totally dead. Hopeless. Never coming back, unless technological society crashes. Privacy online is all that remains. In meatspace, I strive only to be unremarkable. In my case, just a tired old man. Nothing to
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by mirimir 7y ago
Hey, just thought I'd ask. You never know when you're gonna need a new voice ;)
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. Could "would of" be a regionalism? I sometimes say "woulda", but don't write it.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> You would want something like an airgapped computer with on or off line dead drops possibly hidden with stenography. Well, "the best is the enemy of the good". That's the whole point of risk management. As a practical ma
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by mirimir 7y ago
As wealth/income inequality increases, capability to suppress dissent becomes increasingly important. And yes, "domestic terrorism" will include anything that threatens the wealthy.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Wouldn't you need to clone their SIM or otherwise fake their number?
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, fair enough. I'm no expert on Orchid. I rather lost interest, after it became clear that it was useless to me. You're wrong about nested VPN chains, however. Depending on geographical distribution, each VPN adds 50-100 msec rt

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