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WallyFunk
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- I ran a little experiment once with Reddit and registered with the Tor Browser. My first post was shadowbanned. After contacting the mods of the subreddit, they unbanned my post and it was visible to everyone. So I concluded Reddit is hostile towards Tor IPs. You have to go out of your way and contact mods to get posts visible, which people aren't going to do.
Reddit is (somewhat) pro-anonymity and doesn't even require an e-mail when signing up and they encourage you not to use your legal name, with username suggestions like SpongebobSquarepants45, but I see why they don't like Tor. Had no problems with VPNs, although VPNs are not really anonymous and we have to blindly trust them.
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- Interesting project. One thing I noticed: when I clicked the button, a fullscreen window got spawned, without any prompt asking me if I should enter fullscreen (Latest Firefox). On a sidenote: this could be used for browser-in-the-browser attacks[0] where someone could present a mock browser UI with a fake URL.
Other than that, it's a great project. Anything to just sit without distractions gives us an unfair advantage over the majority of the world's population who are addicted to phones.
[0] https://mrd0x.com/browser-in-the-browser-phishing-attack/
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- > One logical possibility would be written records of some sort, using a substrate that hasn't survived—prone to waterlogging or insects, modern paper would certainly not survive across tens of kiloyears
Sometimes impermanence is a feature, not a bug. I was always told by my elders: 'The Internet is forever'. Once you put things on it, it's hard for them to be removed. A permanent record of sorts. But over the years I've found many sites just evaporate with entire Library of Alexandria events occurring daily on the web. Yes, we have Archive.org which has mirror copies, but it doesn't catch everything.
And bit rot is useful too. After I die, I don't really want my precious data lingering around. Let it rot.
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- Recent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...
Good deep dive.
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https://who.is/dns/microsoft.com
What are the potential ramifications of this?
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- I have the Gandalf rescue ISO[0] on this, among many other ISOs I use incase I need to repair/rescue or install stuff. My Ventoy setup is a veritable 'Swiss army knife' for general IT related things. The Gandalf Windows preinstalled environment has all this bundled with it, if anyone's interested:
[0] https://www.fcportables.com/gandalf-boot-iso/Tools/Utilities included on this Windows PE: AoMei Partition Assistant: Partitioning solution WinRAR: Powerful archiver and archive manager 7-Zip: Archiver and archive manager Defraggler: Disk Defragmenter MS Paint and Wordpad: Microsoft’s basic image and text editors Macrium Reflect: Backup and disk imaging solution CCleaner: System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool Media Player Classic: Classic Windows media player HWiNFO: Hardware information and diagnostic tool Snipping Tool: Screen capture application. Windows Defender: Microsoft’s excellent antivirus app TeamViewer: Remote control solution Double Drive: Driver backup application Winmerge: File comparison tool Opera: Web Browser, Fast, simple and safe way to get around on the web GetRight: Download manager Ntpwedit: Change or remove passwords for local system accounts Partition Wizard Virtual Keyboard Virtual Magnifying Glass DiskCryptor: Disk encryption application similar to Bitlocker Bitlocker: Microsoft’s disk encryption application Powershell: Powerful automation tool is both a shell and a scripting language UltraISO: Directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROM Unlocker: Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages Gimagex: A graphical user interface for the ImageX tool SuperAntiSpyWare: Free Malware Remover Magic Jelly Bean Key Finder: A utility that retrieves your Product Keys HiJackThis: Spot home page hijackers and startup programs Ghost: The classic imaging tool Skype: Provides video chat and voice calls VNC Viewer: Remote Control Software Sysinternal Suite Troubleshooting Utilities VLC Media Player: Open-source cross-platform multimedia player IrfanView Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer: User-friendly image browser, converter and editor Mozilla FireFox: Another great browser Easy BCD: Boot management tool and bcd editor Snipping Tool: Take snapshots Drive Snapshot: Disk imaging solution MyLan Viewer: Network/IP Scanner Rufus: Utility to format and create bootable USB flash drives Wise Data Recovery: Recovery program to get back deleted photos, documents, etc. WinToolkit: Customize Your Windows Installation ImgBurn: CD burning tool Treesize: Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs Klite Codec Pack Basic RecoverKeys: Retrieves your Product Keys Remote Desktop: Latest version of Windows remote desktop DismGui: Dism with a graphical interface Klite Codec Pack Basic Google Chrome: Great Browser Powershell: Automation scripting - 4 points
Isn't this 'Vote with your wallet'? I know I vote with my wallet. Everything I buy is a vote for how I want the world to be, and what products I want to see flourish and prosper. I also evangelize these products to others so they get on board too, because I alone will not make much of a dent, unless I recruit others to purchase it too.