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by mirimir 6y ago
There seems to be this mistaken idea that smartphones are like small PCs that can make phone calls. But they're really far more like gaming consoles. They're pretty much locked down.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> In the past those views (which I have not changed) aligned me much more firmly with the "left" than the "right", and the reverse is true today. Yeah, same here. But arguably the "right" just talks that way
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by mirimir 6y ago
Once you take this path, you can make up anything that you like. There's no way to test it. Except, I suppose, based on how you feel about it, how well societies work whose members believe it, and so on.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> As a long-time Win32 developer, my only answer to that question is "of course there is!" As a long-time Linux user, that's what I say as well. And as a privacy activist, that's what I routinely use.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> ... over the past ten years or so we have seen the establishment of an entirely new set of sacred social norms ... That depends on who you are, and where you hang out. By "sacred social norms", I presume that you mean what so
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by mirimir 6y ago
> That corporate hologram shit makes my skin crawl. One reason that I love HN is that the primary mod says shit like that.
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by mirimir 6y ago
You mean "not strictly technical", right? As Mirimir, I have voiced opinions about such topics. I'm not dogmatic, but neither do I avoid dark humor, so I suspect that I've managed to piss off some on every "side&quo
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by mirimir 6y ago
When are you thinking it was better?
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by mirimir 6y ago
That is an extremely disturbing story.
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by mirimir 6y ago
I love how William Gibson reveals Eunice in Agency . I'd for sure love to be her friend.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, for sure. Also see Ian Banks' "Culture" novels.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yes, that is indeed a limitation. Nobody IRL will ever know that I'm Mirimir. Also, I can't attend physical events as Mirimir, or do anything with audio/video. I suppose that you could use other personas for totally non-contr
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, it depends on what you blog about. If, say, you blog about some social/economic/political position that is (or becomes) unpopular/unacceptable, your career may be toast. Such as, for example, happened for James Damore.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Back in the day, I used to PGP sign Usenet messages. I used a news reader where I could specify message ID. So I signed text that included the date and message ID.
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by mirimir 6y ago
OK, maybe Google is easily fooled, or maybe it cuts rights holders lots of slack, or whatever. But why would anyone need to search for pirated stuff using Google? For media I just use TPB, and libgen for books. And I presume that streaming
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, I meant for devs who are doing it innocently ;) The fact that it took four years in your example implies that permission shaving isn't hugely risky for devs.
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by mirimir 6y ago
No, I've copied Tor :) And re dynamic circuits, I did a crude hack: https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains I only use Tor via nested VPN chains. The VPNs mainly provide backup anonymity, in case Tor circuits are com
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by mirimir 6y ago
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge
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by mirimir 6y ago
I'm not at all familiar with Chinese VPN services. But it's my impression that the Chinese authorities mostly care about domestic VPN use. Citizens are limited to approved VPNs, which are obviously backdoored. More generally, as l
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by mirimir 6y ago
It'd be dismissed on national security grounds.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Right, you have multiple personas, which are using branched/nested chains.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Just use ~3 VPNs in a nested chain. So an adversary would need data from all three. Better yet, have the middle one be in a jurisdiction that doesn't cooperate with your adversary's.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yeah, when I was working on a project that involved interacting with ~25 WebGUIs, TST was a life saver. Especially the "load all tabs" option.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Is that really true?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sorry, I neglected to say that they get deposited through precipitation, and incorporated into ecosystems. As I recall, this is mostly about persistent lipophilic organics, some of which are endocrine disruptors. Concentrations are amazingl
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by mirimir 6y ago
There's an analogous horizontal phenomenon. Just as the deep oceans are gravitational sinks, the poles are thermal sinks. Cold traps. And so concentrations of persistent atmospheric pollutants are substantially higher there. So it goes
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by mirimir 6y ago
Maybe more likely it'd derail the work away from home movement ;) My maternal grandparents ran a farm, and I gather that they were quite the team.
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by mirimir 6y ago
This is, of course, the key problem. I mean, I know that I'm conscious. Or at least, that's how it occurs for me. But there's no way to experience another's consciousness. So behavior is all we have. And that's why
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by mirimir 6y ago
I wonder what communication channels are most important. Maybe facial expression, body language, and breathing.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Now, if I put music on and rub her back a bit... Well, ha! There's the magic, my good sir. Sure. There's also the magic of feeding my cat, so he stops nagging me, and sits on my lap purring. And just about everyone would agre

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