I’m not going to say it

Notgonnasayit

JUDEAN PEOPLE’S FRONT!!

There, I said it

See yesterday’s Economist interview with Bannon . He literally says Trump will serve a 3rd term, and that his definition of “winning” is that MAGA control all institutions in the country, permanently.

I know that sounds hyperbolic but it’s pretty much a direct quote

I’m not into sports. Never watched a World Series game before in my life.

Now I can’t frickin’ wait! I plan to go to a bar and watch. Preferably a MAGA infestation zone. I wanna hear them howl sweet MAGA tears

Chaturbate

Firefox is teetering on the edge

Get LibreWolf . They take FF builds and rip out the telemetry/ads/AI/enshit.
It’s… beautiful

sounds… hot

Depends on your definition. As far as his followers and those who publicly support him… yes, he is and they are

I’d be interested to see accessing .onions versus using exit nodes. I’d bet the latter is where most of the issues are. ie, I bet you the BBC onion works a zillion times better than https://www.bbc.com/

A lot depends on your Tor circuit. There are lots of very slow Snowflake nodes (FWIW I operate on an a VPS with high bandwidth and ~98% uptime)

We need to view religion – that is, faith, or in other words belief without evidence, the same way we view racism.

It is not really a personal matter. It is a profoundly uncivil way of dealing with others in a modern diverse society.

I don’t have what it takes to be a parent

All it takes is the creativity you get when high. You know what fruit kids will eat? Apple chips, Mango chips, dehydrated strawberries, frozen blueberries

The same fruits you crave when really high

getting two computers to talk to each other is so so much harder due to NAT traversal

… which is why you will take IPv4 on my home network from my cold, dead hands, and why all IPv6 traffic is blocked in the network that hosts my PC/laptop

There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.

I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.

It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”

But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.

they know they’re lying

Here’s the thing: these people aren’t merely “religious”; they actually believe the Bronze-Age mythologies.

The only way to do that, and still function in the technological world around you, is to have an Orewllian-Doublespeak, Faith-based approach to reality.

In short, they habitually engage in belief without evidence

Once you practice that enough – once evidence doesn’t have a bearing on what’s true – then your own ability to know what is true and what simply feels good, is similarly eroded.

No, they don’t know they’re lying. They can’t tell the difference between what their in-group culture Feels Good About, and what is objectively true.

Source for this assertion?

China blocks old style bridges like obfs-4. They recently managed to detect some snowflake bridges, but again only against individually targeted users – they can’t find “all Tor users in Shanghai” for example.

I suggest some background reading

https://harpia.pages.torproject.net/support/censorship/connecting-from-china/

suspicion of using a VPN or Tor

My point is that using a VPN is trivially easy to detect, and can be en masse, dragnet style

Tor usage (especially with a bridge) is difficult or impossible to detect, even for nation-states, and to the best of my knowledge is only tractable against specific targeted individuals/machines. It’s not possible to “get a list of all suspected Tor bridge users”, even if you are an ISP

Tor Exit Nodes

Good point. The moment you leave Tor, you lose a lot of its protection.

In theory, exit nodes should completely hide the connection between you the end user and what goes thru the exit node. In practice, exit nodes can leak metadata/side channel info. And they are always susceptible to global network analysis that nation-states are able to use (albeit as far as I know only against targeted individuals, not in mass-surveillance mode)

Sorry

No matter how much your friends said it would make you cool if you robbed a liquor store… you’re the one that pointed the gun at the cashier.

Tor won’t be affected by this.

Tor bridges are virtually impossible for even major governments to detect, much less block.

Unfortunately it works like any other prohibition: when the regulated legal market goes away, the hard stuff takes over