“new PR” -> new personal record

Meat Grapes? Why doesn’t it sound like that when I say it.

Well I’ll give you that one. I guess it’s possible the Grinch, having lived nearby for a while, earned that as his nickname or also know as. Still not his job or ethnicity.

The entire song is derogatory. If you sing, “You’re a butthole, Mr. Stinky”, then you haven’t identified who you’re singing about, unless someone is actually named Mr. Stinky.

You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

So likely his name, possibly only his last name.

Re random IPs,

Sure, but my point is there is no such thing as a “truly random” IP address. You receive an IP from your ISP or VPN provider, that provider has a pool of IP addresses. Dynamic means you get one from the pool. Static means you get the one reserved for you, from a similar pool. The security/privacy benefits are nearly zero and not worth highlighting as an advantage.

Re static IP,

https://nordvpn.com/blog/static-ip-vs-dynamic-ip-address/ says,

Costly. Static addresses usually cost more for ISPs and consumers than dynamic IP addresses.

I really appreciate this post since I think many discussions about VPNs are misleading or treat them as a magic solution to all problems.

I think you’ve given a fair outline of what a VPN.

But, being the Internet, I have a few thoughts,

Hiding your IP address: VPNs will replace your IP address with a random IP address assigned by the VPN provider.

I don’t think the word “random” is needed. The IP address a VPN assigns is no more random than the IP address your ISP assigns. I think someone could see random and assume more security, which would be incorrect.

IP addresses are usually static, meaning it never changes, but sometimes your ISP may assign you a dynamic IP address, which will change every few months or so.

Last I knew ISPs still charged for static IP address, so most would be dynamic. Although often times a dynamic IP address is de facto static, since an ISP will never change it.

If you open up ports on your router (for various purposes), it can leave your network vulnerable to certain attacks as long as the attackers know your public IP address.

I think this should be a separate bullet point, since this is clearly security and not privacy. I think as a security point it needs further discussion. Really I imagine this only comes up in peer to peer connection scenarios. I don’t know if the denial of service attacks of old are still relevant.

Encrypting your traffic: VPNs can allow your traffic to be encrypted, so that your ISP or other people connected to the same network can’t see which sites you visit or (in some cases) what data is sent. The reasons why this is important are too long to list, but you can work it out on your own.

I think it’s important to clarify who you are encrypting your traffic from. Generally your traffic is already encrypted. DNS is often not encrypted.

What if my coping mechanism is denial, which means I believe it to be healthy because I’m denying the negative?

Doesn’t that mean you were invited to a Google Meet via phone number? Basically someone “dialed” the wrong number. Just call in and play fart noises, I’m sure someone will figure it out.

I didn’t realize the SP didn’t have a microphone jack. Luckily Nintendo learned from their mistake since they had a headphone jack on the,

• Gameboy Micro
• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo 3DS
• Switch

Andre the Giant died 28 January 1993.

Actor Will Poulter born 28 January 1993.

You guys are getting reincarnated?

Voyager for Lemmy is some seriously gourmet shit.

But seriously the answer is usually that the big company is trying to apply to ALL USERS and usually only pleases a subset or none of those users.

Voyager isn’t for you? That’s fine, Lemmy has a nice API and you can build whatever you like. Lemmy is also open so if that API isn’t nice you can provide suggestions and fixes.

I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it’s a pretty good place to be.

Look at early Twitter or formerly Reddit. A nice API. Tons of fantastic clients. Open source is the best, but even just “open” is a fantastic first step.

It’s not polite, it’s calling him out. Trump will say/lie about anything. At one point Trump said exactly this. He didn’t mean it, he just said some shit.

Bernie is repeating his own words because occasionally Trump says something good without any intent to follow up.

So Bernie is taking him at his word. He knows Trump will never do it, but if he can call the hypocrite out and trick him into agreeing, why not?

To want to talk about 4D Chess? There it is.

Damn. I assumed you could just pay to win. I’m pretty sure white goes first.

Just pick a religion that has respawns, duh.

Along the bottom right you’ll see West P[alm] Beach. That’s where Mar-a-lago is.

Now by 2075 Trump will be dead, as will likely all of his children except the youngest ones like Baron who will be roughly Trump’s current age.

This is also why many “current generation” folks don’t care about climate change. They will not be alive to see it, since people just don’t live that long.

Basically none of those you hope will suffer the consequences of their actions will.

Like, how the fuck is this even a close election?

Accelerationism. That’s how I… understand? interpret? rationalize? it.

If you think things are shit, which is an understandable view depending on the “things”, and you don’t see that changing, you just say “fuck it”. Now if someone calls your candidate “crazy” or “unhinged” you just go, “Of course, that’s what I want”.

Add to that, no one who supports accelerationism thinks it will affect them. A crazy new world will fix their world and only hurt the “bad people”.

And I say all this knowing that it doesn’t really make sense.

We’re also a sit outside house. Luckily October is pretty warm nowadays (wait…)

I have no way to put this gently: I cannot conclusively determine which one is more secure.

That’s the only conclusion I would have trusted. Otherwise you should have been awarded the tech equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

Security (and privacy) is not a zero sum game. That isn’t to say we shouldn’t discuss it. That isn’t to say we can’t point out clear advantages.

In any case, I appreciate the write up.

Link: The Faces of Evil, for the Philips CDi.

Considered one of the worst games ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link:_The_Faces_of_Evil_and_Zelda:_The_Wand_of_Gamelon