ranger_danger

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   by ranger_danger 12d ago

   Besides the irony of a privacy-conscious user using facebook to buy a car... those "perfectly-serviceable vehicles" are 1. no longer manufactured, and 2. will not last forever. Unless a new age of unconnected cars becomes a realit
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   by ranger_danger 12d ago

   I think most people would not be on board with your solution, but in general to your point I would say everyone draws the line somewhere different. Yes there are many (maybe most) who will not give up their comforts or risk modifying their
3. 33.▲
   by ranger_danger 12d ago

   But GrapheneOS relies on a proprietary, black-box security chip from Google... who pinky-promised to open-source it but never did, and that just doesn't sit well with me. I think it's entirely possible that a compromised Titan mod
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   by ranger_danger 12d ago

   > the surveillance networks can capture metadata - who talks to who and when If this is part of your threat model then I would suggest a different tool such as SimpleX since it uses onion routing and can be configured to always use priva
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   by ranger_danger 12d ago

   I tried it and it was fine while it worked, but eventually I had to go back to regular Signal because Molly's updates did not follow Signal's closely enough, and at some point the server code changed enough to where I was unable t
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   by ranger_danger 13d ago

   I have tried many, many, many browsers across multiple OSes and different hardware, and they all give me endless captchas. Firefox, Waterfox, Iceweasel, Icecat, Seamonkey, LibreWolf, Pale Moon, Mullvad, Tor Browser Chromium, ungoogled-chrom
7. 37.▲
   by ranger_danger 13d ago

   Can you provide sources for these claims?
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   by ranger_danger 13d ago

   I figured they're just admitting AI models have plateaued and are coming up with some fake story about self restraint so they don't lose VC money
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   by ranger_danger 13d ago

   I'm not convinced it would be completely negated... maybe slowed down a bit, but sure.
10. 40.▲
    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    Sorry, I don't consider that a bypass, or easy.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    I certainly would not call that adequate, especially for someone like Cloudflare with their scale, and with what their customers expect. What you describe may be technically possible in a very narrow sense, for only specific types of DDoS
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    > because you live in the global south I don't, but thanks for confidently assuming.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    > there is no way to turn off Google AI search &udm=web works fine for me, you can use a browser shortcut or extension to enforce it
14. 44.▲
    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    You might have better luck using google maps (even the web version) to find menus.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    Do you have a source for this claim? Cloudflare gives me endless captchas on almost any website.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    I have to anyway because google always gives me endless captchas, as my ISP frequently rotates IPs with people who can't behave.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    I don't think it's fair to blame AI just because people aren't prompting unique design elements into their vibe-coding.
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    What did you mean by this?
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    Why does this repo always seem to have trouble staying online? All the other mirrors are down, and it's not because of this post, because I have been watching other mirrors of this repo disappear over time that aren't even listed
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    by ranger_danger 14d ago

    > The random bold formatting is as good a tell as it gets. Don't forget the emdash and overuse of emoji.
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    I didn't mean it so much as a physical constraint, but an operational one. Not everyone wants to (or their policy allows them to) manage TLS certs directly on their origin servers, and some services only allow plaintext HTTP origins, l
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    I should have clarified... when I said "proxy TLS" I meant while retaining the typical features that reverse proxy providers offer like those I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662319 If for
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    > Actually, you could proxy based on SNI alone If you assume the origin speaks TLS and holds the cert/private key, and isn't using ESNI/ECH, then I suppose in a limited way it's possible. But... > because they want
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    Previous discussion less than a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341411 The comments on that post were not nearly as favorable as this one for some reason.
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    Depends on what you want "without AI" to mean... is it just stories about AI, or anything that an AI has touched at all? Or purely vibe-coded projects?
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    Even if it is, the software on the device could theoretically do whatever it wants with the data before it's encrypted/uploaded, and if it's sent to Apple, they could do whatever they want with it too.
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    I mean, anything with a microphone or camera (and some things without) can theoretically be used to listen to/record you at any given time for a myriad of reasons. If you are worried about such a device being on your person, I think th
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    Lately for me it's "anything employing calm and rational critical thinking against a hivemind already dead set on misinformation gets downvoted."
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    by ranger_danger 15d ago

    I would assume you could make big enough differences in color/contrast/brightness and especially 3D rotation (similar to taking a photo of a screen) would make such a signature unreadable... but I would love to be proven wrong.
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    by ranger_danger 16d ago

    Yes in multiple ways, and there's probably more than this: It's relevant that a screenshot doesn't have a signature, in the case that you want to remove any "proof" or tracking info from a real photo when uploadin