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by mirimir 7y ago
It's pretty clear that they do. Read about SOD, for example. Or official policy on StingRays and stuff. Basically, telling investigators to lie to prosecutors and judges.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, that is vastly amusing. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Huawei backdoors stuff for its government. It's well known that US manufacturers have done that.
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by mirimir 7y ago
It is arguable that the US and Russia have collectively committed a crime against humanity that's comparable to genocide. Not in any simple numeric sense, of course. But even 1% annual risk of killing a billion people, protracted over
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by mirimir 7y ago
I didn't say anything about spying staving off climate change. That's pretty much a done deal, at least to the extent of destroying our current civilization. We've been in free fall to that, for at least a decade. And about n
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by mirimir 7y ago
I love privacy 'n' stuff, for sure. But relative to the risk of global nuclear war, and the certainty of global climate disruption, I couldn't care less about the NSA and its adversaries. And hey, maybe all that spying reduc
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. I never got into gaming. Except that my life has become more and more LARP. So yeah, I get it. Of course there'd be computers in games. But once you have an OS in a game, why not just run a VM? Or would that use too many resources
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by mirimir 7y ago
I'm having no luck finding any URLs, but if you look at histories of many physical constants, you see that new measurements tend to lie within error ranges of the most recent previous measurements. But occasionally, there's a jump
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by mirimir 7y ago
Here's why: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html PGLAF has taken an extreme position. In order to comply with a German court ruling about copyright infringement, it's made the entire site unavailable to
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by mirimir 7y ago
Ah. I missed that. Thanks.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I guess. Maybe it's just satire about flashy but useless eye candy. When you're running lots of VMs, you end up using as little RAM as possible. It used to bug the hell out of me that Whonix came with KDE. Now finally they switche
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by mirimir 7y ago
Gutenberg blocks German IPs.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, same here. Like, what's the point of an "operating system UI" in a Linux desktop environment? But then, I also don't get the point of doing that in some game engine called Unity. I mean, is that a viable way to do
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by mirimir 7y ago
All here for free: https://www.epubbooks.com/series/1-voyages-extraordinaires Registration required, though.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's a very good explanation!
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by mirimir 7y ago
I pretty much gave up on Windows over a decade ago. After years and years of doing this and that to prevent snooping, I finally had enough. I did keep a Win7 VM, however, in order to use Excel and Word for work. But I migrated all personal
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, this is the obvious simple fix. This VM that I'm typing in is behind at least eight NAT routers. There's the pfSense perimeter router, and at least one router between that and the ISP. And then there are three pfSense VPN-ga
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by mirimir 7y ago
Ha. There was actually an obscure point. That is, the people who turned into viruses didn't become ancestors. It's also an even more obscure reference to a Burroughs' schtick, which I won't repeat here.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Perhaps. But TFA reports a recent test that was frightening enough.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe the NSA has adequate resources.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's an insulting offer, no?
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure. But Microsoft has known about his domain, and this issue, since 1997, if not earlier. So they've had over 20 years to think about it.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Elsevier presents an excerpted version of the paper without any obvious disclosure that it's an excerpt. Except for "Pages 24-31", anyway. So here: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016&#x2
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by mirimir 7y ago
The people who discovered prions thought that they were discovering a new virus. Except that it didn't contain DNA or RNA.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Trippy. But not if you're epileptic.
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by mirimir 7y ago
You setup port forwarding in your router to allow that.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Those switches only work with a router that actually creates the vLANs. I use one with pfSense, running on a small box with a used Intel server NIC. So I have a mix of LANs and vLANs to keep stuff more or less isolated. If I want WiFi, I ju
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by mirimir 7y ago
Back in the day, you only knew about microorganisms and viruses that you knew how to grow. And that apparently excludes about 99.9% of stuff. In Biology 101, I recall that we cloned bacteria from sewage, and then cloned a bacteriophage. But
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by mirimir 7y ago
> I don't know why you don't explode into viruses ten seconds after you enter the ocean ... Basically, none of our ancestors did. Or vice versa , mutatis mutandis , and so on.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Indeed, one could argue that Microsoft has been encouraging its customers to effectively spoof the domain. So it's totally obvious that it ought to buy it. Still, this is the funniest thing that I've seen in months.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Oh. Well, then, just put all the IoT stuff on the guest network. Maybe hard on your guests, though :(

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