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  • What other purpose is there for those flights? Making sure the Palestinians aren’t preparing to invade the British enclave on Cyprus?

    I have no idea about the legality of sharing the info directly with Israel, but I would be very surprised if the US is kept out of the loop. If the US then shares that with Israel or not, I’ll let y’all guess. 🙄





  • I used to, but that’s not enough and that’s only for me anyway. To few people are doing it, so you can be easily identified because you do stuff like this. (See the TOR browser approach and their recommendations about changing the defaults) Many sites don’t like it so most people aren’t willing to do that or rather don’t care or know how to.

    By Bowdlerizing/randomizing the data for each call (or site/session probably) instead, the data will still be ‘valid’, but not as traceable and would negate the need for such hacks that almost noone does and which also makes you stand out like a sore thumb.

    It probably isn’t possible or at least not easy on Windows/Apple, so it would be a Linux only thing. Which is a problem too and opens up to Linux blocking or subtler “upgrade your browser to…” type errors.

    There are certainly issues and problems with this I’ve not considered or mentioned. It is not a popular idea among the tech giants for one, and they’d do whatever they can to nip something like this in the bud.


  • I’m not really knowledgeable enough to say for sure, but this sounds like a privacy nightmare. It’s hard enough to keep browsers in general from giving up enough info to identify you even without cookies, but I can’t even begin to see how to stop this from leaking just about everything.

    Direct HW access for browsers? Not a fan. What we need is a layer between the browser and the HW that anonymizes and generalizes the API responses instead. I get the increased latency would be directly opposed to what this is trying to achieve, but it’s a prize I’m willing to pay. It’s contrary to what every tech giant wants, which is an indication it’s actually a good idea. They aren’t our friends.




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    I you make your own, there is no risk for blindness. Blindness comes from methanol, not ethanol. If you use a yeast based process to produce the alcohol and then distill it, there is no way to accidentally produce methanol in that process. The cases where people get blind or die from moonshine stems from when the feds replaced moonshine with methanol to be able to make that claim and disrupt the business of organized crime during the prohibition. There are still cases now and then where people try to make drinkable alcohol from some industrial base and don’t know how to.

    TLDR: Don’t buy, make.




  • This is a sure sign that the NSA have been reading everything encrypted with standard cryptos for quite some time but they see that the opposition (China in this case) is showing signs of catching up. Can’t have that, even if it means losing capability for themselves. They have other ways in so the drop in capability is not as big as one would think.

    I personally wouldn’t trust anything but one time cryptos to be safe and I don’t trust any algorithm from that source to be safe. It certainly should be and it is very much in their and our interest to make sure that it is, but the possibility that they are trying to eat the cake and pull a fast one is frighteningly far from zero. It would be monumentally stupid to try because shit like that always gets out and that would jeopardize every system in the world. Stupid isn’t exactly in short supply these days.