RatoGBM

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Cunningham Law (backfired terribly)

Can someone please explain why PGP is needs all of these? All explanations of public key encryption mention any email embedded emails.

And I probably don't completely understand what PGP is, so please give me a good article or video on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How to tell someone is reading Sapiens.

Still, insane that "science/technology improvements" did not improve happienes at all. Just shifted the standards.

 

Death Note Anonymity analysis by Gwern.

I think it would be valuable to read for people here, especially newbies and "privacy bros" to understand how ~~privacy~~ (anonymity) actually works.

Given a perfect weapon, can you commit a perfect crime?

The answer is surprisingly close to no.

Everything you do bleeds information.

A perfect crime is one that wasn't even noticed. If a perfect crime gets noticed it immediately reveals the following: you are smart and you have the knowledge and weapons to commit a perfect crime, and in a murder you must have had a motive, instantly ruling out 99% of the human population.

On the web you can be tracked using almost anything: browser window size, word choice, times you are online, internet connection delay, negative qualities like not giving your language will exclude the majority of people who do.

In fact, just this post alone is sufficient to narrow me down to less than a million (maybe even a few thousand) people.

Edit: This is actually about anonymity, privacy is slightly different, but I think this is still relevant to privacy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How on earth do you have to measure for Brave to be more private than Tor?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I lived in Russia, and in History class I was taught that Stalin singlehandedly showed up to save those poor helpless Europeans from bloody nazis, because it was the right thing to do.

When I loved in Europe, it were the Jewish partisans who won WW2 through brain drain on Germany, and the stupid Nazis killed themselves.

In the US I found out that the thing in Europe was typical Medieval European Kingdoms in a fight, and the real high-tech stuff was in the Pacific.

Now as a programmer, I know who truly won WW2: it was our legendary bro Alan all along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  1. Source please.

  2. bicilists drive way faster on the roads, so this metric should be deaths per km/h. And there are a few more stistical biases that might be at play here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I drive on the sidewalk and behave like a pedestrian. I probably should have known about the traffic codes you are talking about, but this has nothing to do with bikes, he shows it to everybody including other people who are trying to cross. What concerns me them most, is that those traffic guards, break the habit of actually seeing if there are cars around, meaning I am actually less safe when they aren't there.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

When I take my bike to school, there are those "School Crossing Guards." One of them guards a 2 line drive in.

This man uses his STOP sign on pedestrians. Here I am cycling, this guy holds his STOP sign up high so I am like "ok, I can go right across at full speed without breaking or slowing down." turns out no, what he actually meant was that all pedestrians (up to 5 people sometimes) should stop and the car should drive. 50% of the time in the car is a friend of his who stops in the middle of the crosswalk and starts chatting. I look and this and go like "my classes start in 10 minutes, so I am crossing." They both, he and his friend look at me like I am some self harm guy jumping under a car, and start shouting at me like why I am going when the STOP sign is up.

This is seriously getting out of hand.

PS: I drive my bike on the sidewalk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mullvad and LibreWolf are better than Brave, jokes on you.

I use links btw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Where is the Xign out button?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So you want everybody to give up their privacy to protect children from ****?