https://ooni.org/blog/

OONI monitors internet censorship and other forms of network interference, especially by state actors, worldwide. It’s an important contributor to digital rights and freedoms IMO, and you can run their client in the background to contribute non-personal data on pretty much any device.

How is your network handling telemetry shenanigans?

When they send over these time travelers, they’re not sending their best…

Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?

Lol I went through the exact same process.

Well yes it needs to be inaugurated first, which will not happen until January.

I interpreted “it” in the post title as referring to Linux. Firefox is “just a browser,” but Linux is not.

I cast Pass Without Trace

Yep, you did it-- Mint is the right answer!

Damn okay well if the hackers are at that level I guess you’re just screwed.

Let’s see the hackers figure that one out!

If you use iCloud mail (I don’t), they have an email relay service, too. They call them “email aliases.”

Four! I thought oh his puke looks like a Pacman pill because space people eat space food and I guess it’s like that.

How did you explain how McDobalds knows when you’re broke or in a hurry?

Damn great username btw 👌

She’s so fat that observers are really mostly seeing what she used to look like.

It’s just less visible/explicit. It’s still bad press when it gets noticed and called out like in this thread, it’s just sneakier.

Security implications?

People working with these technologies have known this for quite awhile. It’s nice of Apple’s researchers to formalize it, but nobody is really surprised-- Least of all the companies funnelling traincars of money into the LLM furnace.

Okay but how does starting a secure shell help?