globalnode

i like this reason, and the 'dont do nothing' sibling comment. both make sense to me.

i await your write up!

but what i dont understand is if windows is such a disaster with their privacy policies, why would you trust their built in firewall to stop them? its all about trust.

so user either has a malware proxy running requests without being noticed or voluntarily signed up as a proxy to make extra $ off their home connection. Either way I dont care if their IP is blocked. Only problem is if users behind CGNAT get their IP blocked then legitimate users may later be blocked.

edit: ah yes another person above mentioned VPN's thats a good possibility, also another vector is users on mobile can sell their extra data that they dont use to 3rd parties. probably many more ways to acquire endpoints.

no downvotes was making me think id been shadowed, at least thats not the case for now it seems. my comments on here have tended to snarky recently.

nunya

many of the int 21h interrupts were virus install checks, telling for the future direction of microsoft?

oh i get it, geo blocked. had to fire up tor out of spite just to have a look

still getting 403 after a few hours

my belief (without proof) is that in a world of big data, we're all likely on some sort of govt database with a note about what we do or dont do but as a privacy enthusiast I'll continue making it as difficult as possible for anyone to syphon off my data easily and for free.

I've also recently become aware of the depths of how insecure our data really is. windows recall is one problem, but they make the o/s, whos to say they arent sending data to hq about you anyway. then you have firmware that can do what it wants before you even get to the o/s layer.

encryption is nice if you own all the hardware and software before you hit the network (like on an embedded device for example) but then what about the security at the receivers end? even the pro's make mistakes in this area.

so while i try not to give away my data for free, if youre networked, your not 100% secure. im not even sure what other toys eavesdroppers have to get around problems but it sure is an interesting field!

What if professional help is outside their means? Or they have encountered the worst of the medical profession and decided against repeat exposure? Just saying.

All good points, and I was sort of coming at it from the point of view of catching cheaters. ofc cheaters skew the data but theyre ultimately hurting themselves. They wont pass a companies' entrance tests or will soon find themselves unemployed if they cant do the work. Yes its a problem but I see a lot of effort being spent on trying to detect them. Is that effort proportional to the problem?

You cant throw money at the problem and buy your way out of damaging the environment by participating in carbon credit scams. Plus the whole write up feels like a giant opinion piece designed to maintain the status quo. Thats what you want if you're one of the richest in the world right?

Why do we even grade people? Just teach the content and be done with it. Sure if a student wants to assess their knowledge to see how well they can answer questions they can do that for kicks. If industry wants well educated people, they should have supervised entrance quizes or exams, the onus is on them. This obsession with catching cheaters is out of control.

Recall signaled the coming end of networked compute resource usefulness. The writings on the wall. All those fancy shmancy crypto systems developed over decades reduced to nothing. Apart from it having no practical usefulness to the end user and only apparent usefulness to oligarchs and state actors, its offensive the way these schemes are always sold as though they're good for us. Can you call it gaslighting? Mental abuse? I dont know.

Missed an opportunity with the name Twake Dwive.

Thats the first time I've seen that, its a no for me too then. Good to know I'm being targeted though :)

Yeah I was thinking "excuse me? no thanks, you can stick it"

I wish there was a mandatory 4 yr degree for prospective politicians whose syllabus was designed by the UN or something.

> zero day procurement budgets bigger than most company market caps

do you mean they pay companies to put backdoors into products? or you mean they just go hunting for vulnerabilities. maybe both?

ok thank you so much... finally an open source pdf reader thats not acrobat that works (hopefully, still testing). on the issue of pdf forms, my gosh they just should not exist, thats what web pages are for.

free for me but not for thee

yellow text on green background... my eyes!

i agree, the only thing theyre thinking about is how to hold onto power.

yet another nvr (in python). also trying to make a switch for hpm style rocker light switches. these things are devilish. the switch requires a lot of force at a strange angle but i dont want to break it so knowing nothing about mechanical stuff ive had to learn about slip clutches, idling gears, worm gears, ratchet wheels. rack and pinions (ofc. from a hobbyist perspective). i know theres a switchbot and a fingerbot but neither of those will work with that type of switch unless you tape some sort of torque lever onto the light (which i dont want to do). its a rabbit hole :/

micro-edge?, medge, wedge, xedge...

What are they gonna do? Hard to have a convo with your master when youre on your knees...

I like this, thanks for sharing. I recently did some work with a python web server using the basehttpserver and it was amazingly easy. Pythons even got built in tls support, would that be doable in your server? Its not that necessary with reverse proxies but its still nice for hobby projects.

If this was to become an actual law, that could ruin a persons life. what if they depended on the internet infrastructure for their work or profession. They'd literally have to leave Canada.

Won't TOR browser block metadata collection?