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by mirimir 7y ago
I've been writing about privacy, anonymity, etc for many years, as Mirimir. And I can't write honestly unless I test stuff. I don't do anything iffier than many who write using their meatspace identity. But for many years, I
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, it's loaded with abject horror, presented humorously. I can't say that I "like" it, in the sense of enjoying it, any more than I enjoy images from more recent atrocities. But I think that it's valuable, in tha
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by mirimir 7y ago
Basically, quality control was iffy, so an appreciable percentage of munitions didn't work. Or were just lost and forgotten, in the heat of battle. Weapons too. So it was quite the wonderland for kids who liked to blow stuff up, and pl
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's how they got DFS. Two agents pretended to have a lovers' argument at the library, to distract him, and the third grabbed his laptop. I don't use laptops anymore. Just host machines for VMs. And I always shut them all d
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by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks, that's insightful.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I'd still rather have FDE, as well. For me, LUKS.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, iCloud is not really private. You can use iTunes backup to your own computer. But then, that must be securely full-disk encrypted. And then it's you who'll be holding the password and/or key.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe teach us compassion.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Indeed. And removing all traces of Windows Media Player was one of the first steps after installing Windows.
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by mirimir 7y ago
It was either that or MP3Sparks.com, I think. But it wasn't long before I discovered torrents.
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by mirimir 7y ago
TFA basically argues that risk aversion has stalled progress. As others note, it seems like examples are cherry picked to support the argument. And some important issues just aren't mentioned. Such as "pollution", "toxic
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, I remember when Winamp went to hell. I ended up using AIMP, which was fitting because I was "buying" music from some Eastern European "store" that operated under Russian copyright law.
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by mirimir 7y ago
My memories of childhood friends are utterly bittersweet. When I was ~9, I fell in with a group that played with WWII munitions that we found in the woods. A few years later, two of my younger friends were seriously injured. I was never ove
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by mirimir 7y ago
Does Apple ban apps that interfere with other apps? Or is it Google that does that?
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by mirimir 7y ago
I mostly write stuff for others, and they do what they want with it. Or for GitHub. But my own stuff only goes on Tor onion sites. So it's strict HTML, because Tor's latency punishes client-server dialog. And also because people w
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by mirimir 7y ago
Or VibeSquaD. (not UK Vibe Squad)
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by mirimir 7y ago
Back when I was a child, it would have been about headphones with alligator clips ;)
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by mirimir 7y ago
If I see an account that's been shadowbanned for years, and has consistently posted appropriately for maybe several months, I report it via the contact address.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yep. And you can vouch for good comments from shadowbanned accounts, just as for manually flagged comments. Being rather paranoid, I check this account occasionally via Tor.
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by mirimir 7y ago
In postwar East Germany, about 1% of the population were reportedly informants for Stasi.[0] I wonder what percentage of parents get caught up in this. I bet that it's more than 1%. 0) https://www.dw.com/en/east-ge
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by mirimir 7y ago
One could argue, from an ecological perspective, that human society has fundamentally become a paperclip optimizer.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Right. and even better, move the baseband to a USB-tethered device.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, and it started with the development of minicomputers and PCs, which facilitated the process, starting in the late 70s.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Really? I mean, there are so many fewer dead than potentially infected who may just have a cold. But if that's true, it just confuses things more.
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by mirimir 7y ago
The more I read about this, the more I wonder about the reliability of mortality rates generally. Or at least, for diseases where diagnosis depends on DNA-based testing. I mean, it seems likely that pretty much everyone who dies will be tes
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by mirimir 7y ago
Damn. So I use Thunderbird, with no HTML, images or remote resources. And there's a site that, every week, sends me this message: > Please view this email in an HTML compatible email client.
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by mirimir 7y ago
They certainly do, for me anyway. In my cranky old Firefox.
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by mirimir 7y ago
tl;dr - It depends on who's asking.
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, so reckless endangerment is a crime.[0] It's especially serious when weapons are involved, and when children are endangered. How does that not apply? Except, of course, that there's no body with the requisite authority or powe
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by mirimir 7y ago
It's something like people who are into violence being immoral, I suspect. Not that I'd pick religion as a reliable measure for morality.

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