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spc50 wrote

Totally true.

Outlaw country = the trailer park and mucky farms. Rap is urban asses fault, I mean asphalt at 130F and projects and hoods.

Different wrappers on the same social dysfunction.

Often poverty as major underlying cause. Mental health like 80% of time in play. Drugs and alcohol are almost always an arm length away. Abuse soon follows.

I am okay with both forms of music. So long as it isn't horror and gore just for shock value. So long as it isn't artist just trying to be a bad ass cause of their scary past.

I like music that tells stories. Prefer true stories. Doesn't need to be their own story.

Not into degenerate, demeaning, etc. Some old stuff that I tolerate like that. Gil Scott Heron back in 1970s had a choice track about trannies parading around New York City. Today he'd get endless terror because of. Back then it was edgy but fine. Not mainstream airplay, nor was much of his large body of work.

WAP? Sure that's a good thing and saves on the KY. But that's some filthy ghetto stuff and no place should be for it on the public radio waves. Include in that big chunk of rap, and big chunk of outlaw country.

Toss in metalcore too and the endless satan signaling, blood worship, etc.

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spc50 wrote

Reply to comment by StreetMix in Parler is a honeypot. by MrBlack

Facebook routinely asks for ID.

They also hunt and track you all over the net. Reason there why you should block Facebook's domains entirely on your network and only do logged in socializing there via Tor (ideally on a different device used just for that filth).

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spc50 wrote

I am a big fan of Jello Biafra's spoken word albums.

Back when issues were real and people decent about the struggles against the imposing force of government.

Recent times Biafra has fallen out of sanity and went on Nazi rant about Trump. War of words against his former bandmates. Etc.

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boobs wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by smartypants in Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

i personally dont trust apple enough to think they'd continue to do this in a competent fashion. apple has the worst track record with security than any other tech company.

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Rambler wrote

Get your vaccine next to the limited time clearance Masung 72" TV's and then quench your thirst with an ice cold glass of diabetes.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

What is the Sybil attack? Is this a term that is well defined with Tor?

It's defined as:

In a Sybil attack, the attacker subverts the reputation system of a network service by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence.

Basically running a large number of network nodes (relays, exits) to analyze traffic and stuff.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

TL;DR: it takes little effort to use ungoogled-chromium, searX has average results, DDG might be hiding something.


I don't think you need to put any effort to use ungoogled-chromium - it's literally just a drop-in replacement for Goolag Hrom and Chromium.

Actually, never mind, you do need to put a bit of additional effort if you want to install more add-ons than you had before when transfering your user data from Hrom to ungoogled-chromium. But it's not a lot, really: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

And about searX having good results... no, I don't think so. I think searX results are average because

  1. search engines block searX instances,
  2. even if they're not blocked, the results are weak, even when you choose big providers/violators such as Google, Bing, Yahoo,
  3. even if the results are not weak, they are mixed in weird ways, such as a full page with only one search engine.

I think the third problem is especially serious because searX has (or at least used to have) a bug where the results don't go beyond the first page. Of course, it depends on the instance you use, settings, and time of usage, but still.

And yeah, we might not know everything about DDG, but unless it turns out DuckDuckGo has been bought by Macroshaft (or some other big corpo), I'll continue using it. And if that thing happens, I'll just privately host a searX instance because both Mojeek and Wiby.me suck, unfortunately.

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spc50 wrote (edited )

I'd scour the offers out there for cheap dedicated servers (if your budget allows the luxury). There are a number of companies offering ARM platform which will work just fine for most uses. Some of those can be had for $10-20 a month. Downside is you aren't going to do lots of nested virtualization on those. Maybe Docker.

I'd find cheapest ARM offerings and use them for single task sort of chores.

There is older generation gear piled up all over and it can be cheap rental. Straight Intel and AMD gear. Can slice and dice your server up real good and do everything.

Like here (no clue about their general reliability or private customer tolerance): https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart/dedicated-servers/

There dedicated servers start at $20 a month.

Other companies out there like OVH which host a lot of sketch on their big fat network, but may be a sign up issue.

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Toxicant OP wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Sample Chips by Toxicant

Future reference of filament I've already bought. Instead of trying to remember how it looks or prints I can pull one of these out if I am looking at buying it again.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Fappening did NOT BREAK apples 100% perfect cloud cryptography, it brute guessed famous peoples phones via their phone numbers to start, plus a dictionary attack.

Not even APPLE EMPLOYEES or ENGINEERS can ever ever EVER see your private photos stored in Apple's Cloud for iOS, without a password.

This was proven in federal court cases by FBI.

The reason is simple a password, or access to cypto hardware key on Phone are needed.

The Fappening of Apple was because the REMOTE login to Apple icloud allowed thousands of guesses per second per IP, instead of one guess per second, and all the so-called hacked people had 5 digit or 5 letter or less passwords and a simple dictionary attack was used.

The Fappening can happen again, but not a risk from apple engineers, it requires a person to store entire phone backup as a giant dmg on icloud (like before) and request a full restore to a new ios device or virtual device (like before in first Fappening)... but also still a PASSWORD or access to original hardware, but now the password is barely once per second with a cuttoff per day of XXX guesses.

Apple iCloud is the most secure cloud in the History of Technology!

That said, I do not nor ever have used Apples iCloud and rip iCloud out forcefully out of laptops to prevent accidental app usage. If you open a word processor document, and paste a bitcoin wallet password momentarily in a open text window WITHOUT SAVING, the 2021 macs will shadow copy it in case power goes out, to a fucking goddamned evil iCloud unless you rip out this so-called MOSSAD feature.

Apple iCloud has never been hacked and is 256 bit unhackable and always has been. 128 bit for most other nations of Apple iCloud... no comment for Chinese Apple iCloud.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

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smartypants wrote

Reply to comment by spc50 in privacy conscious VPS? by burnerben

forget cloud, forget VPS. Always rent a discrete private little server on a rack, with a dedicated IP, with all of machine for your use, and test to make sure you are not "virtualized" and being lied to using low level tools.

this just happened this week with OpenVZ template for Debian 10 - and from the official source allegedly - meaning many providers were backdoored).

TRUE! shocking and true !

Vulnerability in Plesk SolusVM Debian 10 template - "debianuser" backdoor/default user:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/169685/vulnerability-in-solusvm-debian-10-template-debianuser-backdoor-default-user

From that :

Please check your servers for a debianuser user. If so, you're probably best off wiping the whole thing and restoring from backups.

Thousands of VPNs now hacked by the NSA paying a engineer cash to make a "mistake" in Plesk SolusVM Debian 10

Other hacks harder to find than that though. That was comically easy to explain away as a mistake.

Apples' subverted SSL source code is far more evil nation-state sabotage of code by the NSA paying apple engineer to delete a couple key lines of source code.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by spc50 in privacy conscious VPS? by burnerben

The spying I am discussing is

  • the bluetooth probe of nearby devices deep in firmware
  • the Wifi antennae name probe of nearby wifi devices deep in firmware
  • the Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) of your location within 15 feet, to locate video cameras the next day.
  • the microphone transcribing speech to text legally without court order and streaming text of all people whispering near your phone
  • the remote spy query of all urls you might have used that phone for, and list of cookies , but only a fool uses a burner phone for anything except feeding it money (required to go online on alcatel to do this and other burners)

A burner phone should always be used for one single purpose , for one or two sites maximum. One being google mail setup, not google mail use.
If feeling adventurous... you might use the voicemail feature of your burner phone to reveal your phone number to your colocation host of your server, after all, you already gave them the google email tied to that burner anyways. use different burner for domain registrations. use different email too.

google requires a SMS every 90 days from suspicious people.

Some say I am suspicious.

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spc50 wrote

Reply to comment by smartypants in privacy conscious VPS? by burnerben

"... SMS, or if waiting for new funds to appear on burner phone... KEEP IT OFF!!! Turning it on too long starts a mammoth remote series of Google Android complete firmware/OS/baseband updates to downgrade your phone/spydevice. NEVER USE the burner except to keep gmail alive..."

They still make flip phones.

I get the Android convenience of phone + browser to check the email address.

That Droid should ideally have some sort of firewall / blocking app installed. To regulate its chit chatting with the world.

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