“Your face doesn’t match how you say you feel”

Work is being extra difficult today. It’s not at the point where I’m in danger of burning out, but I’ll sure be glad when I clock off for the day.

Aw I’m really sorry. I hope the time you have with her is happy and something you’ll cherish.

😂 yeah that’s strong terrier energy. They either have no concept, or give no fucks, about how small they are. My family’s Jack Russell would square up to horses and she would not back down from anything

Thank you! I’ve never come across one but it sounds delicious.

I think the closest I’ve had is getting a beef sandwich with a pot of gravy to dip it in myself.

Nothing straight in this house!

Right, I understand.

There are browsers that implement a lot of Tor Browser’s anti-fingerprinting features, such as LibreWolf.

The problem is that if you’re connecting to a site from an unique IP address then you’re still uniquely identifiable regardless of how much your browser resists fingerprinting measures. If you have a dynamic IP address, information can still be derived from this to build an approximate profile for you (location, language, possible interests, statistically likely demographic bands etc.). It’s surprising how accurate these can get.

The strength of the anti-fingerprinting features in Tor browser is really an additional protection on top of the main anonymisation feature: the routing. Everyone using the Tor browser and routing appears (kind of) the same to a site.

Connecting through a VPN provider is a half-way measure, but still won’t be as good as Tor. To a site or tracker you’ll appear as one of a smaller set of people connecting from that VPN where your browser fingerprint is different from others in the pool of people connecting via that VPN. That may not be enough to personally identify you, but it’s enough to build a fairly well-targeted profile of you.

So tl;dr: anti-fingerprinting browser features are really cool and technically clever, but they don’t protect against all the ways you can be profiled. And somewhat counter-intuitively, using only browser-level de-anonymisation features could actually make you appear more unique to sites or trackers, because you’ll be one of relatively few people with that combination of browser and network connection profile.

Okay I’ve never heard of this before and I need to ask: what makes it “wet”?

It sounds like the people you’ve used as an example certainly try to do good.

I think an issue here is that “ethical” and “unethical” as value judgements operate on many different levels and just because someone does something considered one or the other, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are wholly bad or good.

Providing services aimed at helping poor and marginalized people? I’d argue that’s ethical.

Accumulating wealth? I’d argue that’s unethical, whether it’s by doing something helpful or harmful: as another commenter pointed out, it’s a zero-sum game and keeping more for yourself means there is less for others.

I don’t think the people you described are bad people; they’re doing something philanthropic within an unethical system.

A big part of the anonymisation of Tor is from the routing, so I’m doubtful that just using their Firefox customizations would be enough.

Using Tor Browser with default settings is probably the least time consuming way of reducing a site’s ability to uniquely identify you.

Yeah that sounds like the best solution.

Just FYI some banking apps don’t work on GrapheneOS (ones that check for strict SafetyNet support I think).

As I understand it, the banking apps should benefit most from the default sandboxing in GrapheneOS. I’m not sure there’s much benefit in further separation of them is there?

Also, Musk seems to be relying on not addressing global warming to accelerate his ambition of colonising Mars.

Aww please give Rizzo a hug and tell him he’s the best.

Beehavioural even?

I’ll show myself out…

I’ve never attempted to make bagels before but these make me want to try.

It’s all metric until the final part 😭

That looks amazing! He should be proud.

You know, I love those albums where they fucked around did things like hard-pan all the drums to the right channel. I’m here for the experimentation.