I knew about metadata but this was new to me

The different sensitivities of the photosites creates a type of imperceptible image watermark. Although unintentional, it acts like a fingerprint, unique to your camera’s sensor, which is imprinted onto every photo you take. Much like snowflakes, no two imaging sensors are alike.

In the digital image forensics community, this sensor fingerprint is known as "photo response non-uniformity". And it's "difficult to remove even when one tries", says Jessica Fridrich of Binghamton University in New York state. It's inherent to the sensor, as opposed to measures, such as photo metadata, that are "intentionally implemented", she explains.

This is good to know too. I always suspected that printers had something like this.

When considering these privacy issues, we might draw parallels with another technology. Many colour printers add secret tracking dots to documents: virtually invisible yellow dots that reveal a printer's serial number, as well as the date and time a document was printed

I have heard that the Thinkpad X200 is a good laptop for people who want to install libreboot and disable the Intel Management Engine.

This is another article about the IME. It lists libreboot compatible computers

Despite all Intel's efforts to make the Management Engine inescapable, software developers have had some success with preventing it from loading code. For instance, the Libreboot project disables the Management Engine by removing all the code that the Management Engine is supposed to load on some Thinkpad computers manufactured in 2008, including the R400, T400, T400s, T500, W500, X200, X200s, and X200T.

Also, many Intel computers manufactured in 2006 have the ancestor of the Management Engine which is disabled from the start, such as the Lenovo Thinkpads X60, X60s, X60 Tablet and T60, and many more.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom

I only remember hearing it once, when I was asked it. I was very confused about how to respond lol

It’s an interesting question.

I think the percentage of asian-on-asian violent crime is low partially because asians are commiting less violence in general compared to other races.

Table 12 shows the ratios of offenders to population, and also the ratios of victims to population.

From page 13:

Based on victims’ perceptions of the offenders, the offender-to-population ratio shows that the percentage of violent incidents involving black offenders (22%) was 1.8 times the percentage of black persons (12%) in the population. In contrast, the percentage of violent incidents involving white (50%) or Hispanic (14%) offenders was about four-fifths (0.8 times) the percentage of whites (62%) or Hispanics (17%) in the population, and the percentage involving Asian offenders (2.5%) was about two-fifths (0.4 times) the percentage of Asians in the population (6%).

On page 12 it says the percentage of violent incidents involving asian victims is less than their population.

The victim-to-population ratio varied by race. The percentage of violent incidents involving white (66%) or black (11%) victims was similar to the population percentages of white (62%) or black (12%) persons. About 14% of violent incidents involved Hispanic victims, which was about four-fifths (0.8 times) the representation of Hispanics in the population (17%). Similarly, a smaller percentage of violent incidents involved Asian victims (4%) than the representation of Asians in the population (6%).

The table on page 12 says that the asian population is 6.3%. Aside from asians commiting less violence, I also think that partially because they are a small minority, they are more likely to have interactions with people of other races in daily life and / or live in an area where the population is mostly non-asian. Therefore, there is more potential for violence from someone of another race.

From what I understand, there is tension between the asians and blacks partly because asian stores are seen as siphoning off money from black communities.

But also, for some economically motivated criminals, asians are perceived as being a good/easy target. https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=BMwMtl_gQvA

The funny thing about the narrative that Trump has sparked a wave of white racial hatred against asians is that for reasons you mentioned, among others, it seems like most white supremacists like asians. Actually many of them seem to like asians more than they like most white people, at least the ones I see online anyways.

Donenfeld identified numerous problems with Macy's code, but rather than object to the port's release, Donenfeld decided to fix the issues. He collaborated with FreeBSD developer Kyle Evans and with Matt Dunwoodie, an OpenBSD developer who had worked on WireGuard for that operating system. The three replaced almost all of Macy's code in a mad week-long sprint.

A good response.

This went over very poorly with Netgate, which sponsored Macy's work. Netgate had already taken Macy's beta code from a FreeBSD 13 release candidate and placed it into production in pfSense's 2.5.0 release. The forklift upgrade performed by Donenfeld and collaborators—along with Donenfeld's sharp characterization of Macy's code—presented the company with a serious PR problem.

Not a great response.

This combative response from Netgate raised increased scrutiny from many sources, which uncovered surprising elements of Macy's own past. He and his wife Nicole had been arrested in 2008 after two years spent attempting to illegally evict tenants from a small San Francisco apartment building the pair had bought.

I don't really care about that, seems like 4Chan level bickering at that point. I care more about the poor code pushed out.

Finally I'm back :D

Glad to see it's back.

Thanks, nice site!

It is now re-enabled.

Unfortunately that feature is out above my ability to complete on my own, but I do like the idea of it. I'll add it to the list regardless.

rms should be removed from the Freetardist Software Foundation. And preferrably the FSF itself, I absolutely hate it.

Is disabling signup intended? If no, re-enable it please. Further more, I want anonymous account that can post without login.

He should not be removed from FSF as far as law permits him. I want to see what he will/can do. Complete Hurd works please! :D

Should be able to. If it doesn't, drop me a line and I can at least look into. May not be immediate but I have a to-do list of stuff I work on even if some things are super old on it, haha.

Cool, thank you very much. Then I can enable IP spoofing again without running into issues again.

It may be, I see no specific setting for it on my end. There are some config settings available to whitelist certain IPs, which I have to use so Tor Onion, I2P, Loki network users don't get rate limited since they share the same IP of the network connection they're using...

I can individually whitelist accounts which does: "Whitelisting will allow this user to bypass IP bans and some flood protections. Additionally, their IP addresses will no longer be stored." So I've gone ahead and done that for you, but no sort of global "X posts per 1 hour" type of rule to be set.

IPs are merged automatically on a cronjob schedule anyway for everyone so whitelisting really only prevents you from getting stopped by the spam filter that has no configurable settings anywhere.

Interesting, I didn't know the proper terminology for this feature.

And of course, LibreSSL is dead in Linux, so were all screwed, I guess.

(also, yes, LibreSSL also has security vulnerabilities, but way less than OpenSSL.)

Okay, sure, not many things support WebP images even after a decade of its existence, and that the storage savings are marginal compared to removing trackers/ads/scripts, but I think you messed up baseline and progressive JPEG definitions. This might be a misunderstanding, though.

Anyway, progressive loading actually makes JPEG load the full image, just with decreased quality, unlike baseline JPEG, which loads half of the image. Here is a comparison I have made.

(note: I halved those images using dd:

dd bs=[c/2] count=1 if=if.jpg of=of.jpg

where [c/2] is the number of bytes in the image, halved and rounded up.)

no updates in arch linux yet but somehow it's already been patched in debian stable ... :^)

If it was supported by everything, I wouldn't care. But it's now a decade old and still not supported by anything installed on my system designed to actually view images.

Also, since the storage gains from webp are kinda marginal - there are even situations when a jpg will be way smaller than a webp, it just adds to the grudge. If it at least delivered on the promises, people would maybe care to support it. But the way it is, a decade after its introduction, it's just a nuisance.

Also, cutting out trackers, ads and the scripts enabling them you could save way more traffic, than by shaving off a kilobyte or two per picture. Last I checked webp doesn't even support progressive loading. That's the feature that loads jpgs line by line on a slow connection, so you might decide to cancel after seeing half the picture.

I think it's more of a global thing. I get three submissions per hour (independent of where I post), after that: https://i.imgur.com/MQ89QxW.png

Thought it's to prevent spam.

Wait, this happens?

Send me a PM with details if you can and I'll review it further as able.

Am I the only one who does not care about WebP images? I mean, IrfanView requires a plugin to read and save WebP images, but it's not really a problem, and Paint.NET natively supports WebP images since 4.2.5. But those software are only for Windows, so I might have an issue with WebP when I'll switch to Linux, I don't know.

On a technological level I might agree, but other than that it's just a different experience. Voat didn't limit me to three posts per subverse per hour, like Ramble does. And Voat had some privileges attached to the Internet points you could collect. Above 100 points or so, all restrictions were lifted and beyond that it didn't matter, anymore.

This was a measure against bots and shills. Not sure if it accomplished anything. But since the original Voat is now dead, everything will be better, so there's that.

At least [RAMBLE] is not Clownflared, doesn't require JavaScript, doesn't limit you to one post per day. You know, it's just better than the now defunct Voat.co.