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by oil25 7y ago
> It was secretly installing webservers that dont even remove themselves when you uninstall the app that makes them scum. To be fair, dragging an "app" to Trash does not constitute un-installation. It was a poor design decision
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by oil25 7y ago
I don't understand. If you don't trust Skype so much that you're paranoid over the quit behavior, why not use another program to communicate? Not that your paranoia is unjustified - the Snowden leaks made it abundantly clear
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by oil25 7y ago
Get off social media, get to bed early and actually rest, limit caffeine and junk food, take up a meditation routine and inquire about the source of all these "I" thoughts (literally, "where does this thought originate"
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by oil25 7y ago
> Why would I need a VPN for browsing if all my traffic is https and I use HTTPS DNS? Until TLS 1.4 is deployed, each HTTPS-protected site you visit will still reveal the domain name in its certificate, giving your ISP a pretty good ide
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by oil25 7y ago
> Tor exit nodes have been caught injecting malware into binaries downloaded over HTTP through them It's more accurate to say bad actors have been injecting malware into HTTP-downloaded binaries. Some of these bad actors use Tor exi
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by oil25 7y ago
The hyperbole is strong in this article. It's no secret nor mystery that the US Government is interested in Tor, but the thesis that it's untrustworthy because it is funded "100%" by them is just ridiculous.
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by oil25 7y ago
Sure, I do. TLS provides end-to-end encryption and sites which don't support it are not allowed to run Javascript in my browser.
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by oil25 7y ago
FRS and MURS frequencies would probably be most ubiquitous and useful in an emergency. If you get a second SDR, you can "hop" and listen to trunked frequencies used by emergency services, local and federal channels. Or you could b
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by oil25 7y ago
If true, this doesn't bode well for the recent heat wave in Alaska, which is already the most violent and dangerous state in the US.
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by oil25 7y ago
HAM Radio or SDR! It's worth picking up something as inexpensive as a Baofeng or RTL2832U transceiver, even just to listen on common frequencies.
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by oil25 7y ago
Yes, a more secure and practical alternative to "VPN services" is the Tor network, which externalizes the cost of infrastructure to volunteers and thus reduces the risk inherent with centralized control. While Tor is also not with
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by oil25 7y ago
Can someone share the cited research? Twitter appears to be blocking Tor these days - what a disappointment: > 403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
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by oil25 7y ago
I haven't had much success with that, probably because it's difficult for me to disjoin emotion from passionate evangelism. It may even have been counter-productive. What has your experience been? Can you share any strategies for
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by oil25 7y ago
> So all this trillion-dollar hardware is really at the mercy of those men with the little brass keys? > That's exactly right. Whose only problem is that they're human beings. (WarGames)
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by oil25 7y ago
One way we can begin to address, or at least help recognize, mass surveillance is to use the same tools of surveillance the oppressors use on us. A recent phenomenon I have observed on YouTube is the rise in "First Amendment audit&quot
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by oil25 7y ago
Reading articles like this make me quite sad, not because the described lifestyle is unappealing to me (I'm a vegan who doesn't drive, avoids plastic, and is "off-grid" on solar power), but because on an individual level
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by oil25 7y ago
The great irony is Americans (and most of the Western world) are now living in the safest, lowest-crime periods in history. It's truly double-speak to fear monger about gun violence, terrorism, muggings, etc. when statistically one&#x2
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by oil25 7y ago
OpenBSD disables Intel Hyperthreading by default. If you don't mind the security risk, you can enable it with a kernel flag. The other comment about using apm to adjust performance is spot on, too.
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by oil25 7y ago
One of the main advantages of Thinkpad is Coreboot/Libreboot support to free yourself from Lenovo BIOS - and even neuter Intel ME. Aesthetics are a personal matter, but ergonomically I also prefer Thinkpad over MacBooks.
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It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried(theguardian.com)
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by oil25 7y ago
> We've been eating heat cooked food for millennia. "We" have been eating raw food for millions of years, far longer than cooked foods, which are a relatively new phenomenon in our biochemical evolutionary history.
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by oil25 7y ago
Nice idea, but you're better off accomplishing it with TLD wildcards or AXFR transfers than a hosts list, since new sub-domains are always being created and rotated.
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by oil25 7y ago
YouTube and Maps are one of the few Google services left which are still available over Tor. You can proxy youtube-dl and retain some of your privacy this way.
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by oil25 7y ago
This is far from a complete list - I got only 8 netblocks with that command. Try this one instead which queries Merit RADb: whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS15169'
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by oil25 7y ago
Bill wrote his letter 21 years before this definition materialized and it actually served to inspire the free software/open source concept altogether. > There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate
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by oil25 7y ago
Check out NewPipe ( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe ) to replace the proprietary YouTube client on Android. For Maps, thankfully it still works in Firefox, which entirely relieves me of Google Play Services and th
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by oil25 7y ago
We've come a long way from Bill Gates' original characterization of open source (long before it was called that) as thievery - https://worldhistoryproject.org/1976/2/bill-gates-writes-ope... I'm sti
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by oil25 7y ago
Well said. Unfortunately I can't help but feel the Snowden revelations have had such a profound chilling effect on free speech and the press, that we are now afraid to go on record - even with pseudonyms - to denigrate the NSA, CIA and
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by oil25 7y ago
GDPR strikes again! > Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We c
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by oil25 7y ago
The sad and depressing state of the Web in 2019: proprietary third-party JavaScript and cookies are required to view a simple, innocent JPG.

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