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> how is it better than a VPN

There isn’t one centralized entity with your email address and credit card information on file that can pass it on wittingly or otherwise to interested parties.

> how is it untraceable

It’s not. It tries to be by routing your connection through a random set of relays + exit node (each peeling back one layer of encryption, like an onion), but it hinges on the assumption that those nodes aren’t all operated by the same entity. If the network is dominated by a bad actor (at one point the FBI had a large fraction), your route can land entirely on their nodes, and they can associate the original request with the decrypted request at the exit node. Of course you’re still protected by regular internet security, plus the browsers often take additional measures to make tracing harder, but it’s definitely not a guarantee.

> what makes you think you dont get tagged by 3 letter agencies […]

You absolutely do, lots of mainstream media coverage about this.

Holography is such a beautiful and fascinating gateway to physics, and it’s so rare to see true demonstrations of it. Sadly, most people have no idea what it is because of how carelessly the term is thrown around, just like in this article. At least the author admits it and provides some kind of excuse, even if it’s at the end.

> "MacSecurityBriefing.pdf" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

I think MacOS stopped you from executing unsigned code pretending to be a pdf, which would be a very good thing.

What makes this different from a typical attack on encryption is that this company (probably) knowingly distributed to and worked with criminal enterprises.

But this article is written in a way that suggests that encryption is dangerous - an angle that the CBC has taken before - which makes sense considering that it is a government-owned news outlet in a Five Eyes member state.

I’m concerned about what the OS is doing in accordance with its privacy policy or terms of service. Without having read them (I am only human) I assume the photos in the default location are sent off for analysis to “improve your experience by showing you relevant advertising”. I would be surprised if this above-board surveillance went as far as crawling the filesystem

I would really like to see an integrated camera app that allows me to hide my photos from the OS so that big brother doesn't automatically ingest them

This is an incredibly slow grep as a service. I’m not sure why this is supposed to get anyone excited about Wolfram.

> At it's [sic] origin, it promised enduring new forms of interconnected computing.

Have you read the Bitcoin whitepaper? You should, it’s not that long. This is not what was promised. We were promised a decentralized peer to peer currency with a fixed supply that couldn’t be inflated at the whims of a central bank. We got that. And we sort of also got “new forms of interconnected computing”. We now have new types of zero knowledge proofs which were designed for smart contract verification but are more generally useful. We have things like IPFS allowing you to store data in a decentralized way. There’s helium, a mesh network for IoT devices. We have ENS. Then of course we have an endless supply of sophisticated financial instruments which you probably wouldn’t be able to access otherwise.

Your position is easy to take because it’s sort of the “default” that an uninformed person would believe, and those people will side with you.

CATL is the world’s biggest EV battery manufacturer, and they’re planning to mass produce these batteries in the next few months. This isn’t your run of the mill university research press release.

Probably not. They don’t ship to Canada. Don’t be fooled if you’re able to place an order with a non-US address. I was able to, before getting an email the next day when they realized their mistake.