Notices by Solderpunk (solderpunk), page 12
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Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2017 20:18:33 PDT 
Solderpunk
Hyper busy and stressed most of the time these days, but in my rare snippets of downtime I am really enjoying reading about old #PDP machines. I know my 8-bit microcomputer history pretty well, but it's fun to push my horizons back a little further. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2017 02:44:37 PDT
Solderpunk
Can't find the FAQ page about it I'm sure I've seen before, but here's a recently complaint and response: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Debian-wiki-blocked-on-VPN-td4109964.html Apparently the underlying software doesn't allow limiting IP addresses to read-only access, only blocking them outright. :/ -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2017 02:36:37 PDT
Solderpunk
They also block Private Internet Access' VPN endpoints, the American ones at least. It's a huge pain in the ass for me. When I used Google I used to rely on their cached copies to view the wiki, but now I've switched to DuckDuckGo who don't have cached copies, so I'm forced to decloak. It's not an ideal situation. They have a "sorry not sorry" page up about it somewhere... -
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Constance Variable (lambadalambda)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2017 00:24:28 PDT 
Constance Variable
@hakui The best thing in life: To crush your noodles, to see them seasoned before you, and to hear the lamentations of the people on GS. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 21:29:53 PDT
Solderpunk
Hey now, Jeph's changed Faye's last line! When this comic first went up yesterday she told Jeremy her three favourite fonts and told him not to use Comic Sans because it was "wicked played out". Must have received some backlash from the typography geeks! -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 18:22:45 PDT
Solderpunk
Muggsy is adorable! Thanks for sharing! =^_^= -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 21:23:57 PDT
Solderpunk
I feel like this used to be true and I wondered the very same thing, but at some point it started just working with CyanogenMod, and still just works for me on LineageOS. In fact, I think it's gotten easier over time, I used to have to explicitly create some kind of local-only "profile" for these things and the phone almost didn't seem to quite believe I wanted it, but now it seems to just be the default. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 21:21:35 PDT
Solderpunk
@lnxw48a1 @strypey I feel like their security today probably is better than average, but I admit I have no really solid basis for that. Regardless of whether it is or not, I *do* strongly believe that the level of security will inevitably decline over time. How good it is now just shifts the probable date of the Great Disclosure back or forward by some years. What's that line from Fight Club? "On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 21:15:31 PDT
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@lnxw48a1 @strype Man, I *wish* the web was archaic. You could trust the archaic web. Now it's all JavaScript this and HTML5 that, it's just one step away from downloading and executing random binaries. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 21:08:13 PDT
Solderpunk
@strypey It really terrifies me that the FB database will in all likelihood never be destroyed, it will just pass from owner to owner, and for less and less money as it gets older and more out of date once people leave FB and new data stops flowing in. The people who own it will become less and less rich and less and less technically competent as time passes, so it will become increasingly less well protected and more and more vulnerable to being stolen or leaked. It seems entirely possible to me that in 10 or 20 or 30 years you'll be able to download absolutely everything that ever happened on FB, public or private, from whatever has replaced BitTorrent by then (IPFS?). -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 21:03:56 PDT
Solderpunk
Sure, @strypey is totally right that deactivating and not using your account limits the inflow of new data, which is good. You can do other things, too (e.g. I use /etc/hosts to resolve ads.ak.facebook.com and creative.ak.facebook.com to 127.0.0.1 so they result in 404s). I don't discourage any of this.
I think FB declining the way MySpace and Friendster did is inevitable. One day Gmail will decline the way Hotmail did, and GitHub will decline the way Sourceforge did, etc, etc. It's the way of the internet. But I'm actually kind of scared of it happening with FB, because when it happens, they won't go "Oh well, fun's over, better securely delete all this user data". Instead they'll just sell that data to the highest bidder, which could be an even more ethically dubious agency. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 17:39:49 PDT
Solderpunk
Assuming "deleted account" means "all data associated with your count securely deleted from all Facebook machines", then there is a real difference in outcome, in that the data associated with a suspended and disused account is subject to retroactive analysis by all future developments in FB's marketing tech, whereas a deleted account is not.
I'm not sure such a "deleted account" is possible with FB, anyway. They might claim it can be done, but it's impossible to verify, and they have a commercial incentive *not* to do it, so... -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 11:35:02 PDT 
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
♻ Jeff Jarmoc @jjarmoc: In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters. ¶ via @HackerFantastic on #Twitter !security -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2017 01:35:40 PDT
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That Mountain Topper is a really cute little unit! If I ever got a license I think QRP is one of the things I'd find most interesting, it appeals to my minimalist streak. -
Solderpunk (solderpunk)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2017 18:20:08 PDT
Solderpunk
I've never understood why hotel internet is so appallingly bad. Weirder still, in my experience, the more fancy/expensive the hotel, the worse the wifi.
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