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Re:Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:32PM (#39181252)
I regularly go to Dark.fail[0] to get the latest .onions some sites are using, like the BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion
Just be careful out there. All I have to do is alter one letter for the BBC .onion and I can get phished/scammed/duped. For example, this is an altered .onion for BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7746uqd.onion
Can you spot the alteration?

[0] https://dark.fail/

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. No direct linking in order to protect against DNS leaks from accidental clicking in a clearnet browser.

How does the PGP verif work? I'm not used to it. There exists a tool here[1] but how does it all work?

[1] https://dark.fail/pgp

Re:HP CEO Says Goal Is to Make "Printing a Subscription" on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:08PM (#39136070)
I scooped up a bunch of non-smart HP printers from car boot sales over the years in preparation for this nonsense.
You can determine if they're sloppy and just want the project rushed out the door. Kludgy code is actually fun to read.
Re: on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:48PM (#39046679)
> and click a link to a site like Reddit

I have JS turned off in my main surfing profile and New Reddit performs badly and hides the content, unless you amend the URL to `old.reddit.com` so Reddit is not that accessible. I have JS turned off for privacy & security reasons. Reddit is basically fuck-you'ing those who enjoy their privacy.

NSA are purple team (both red team and blue team), so they do defense aswell as offense. They need to sniff plaintext aswell as protect their own infra and IP with strong crypto standards like AES. The public also benefits from AES, often to the detriment of SIGINT efforts by the NSA, so there are caveats to this, and it's nuanced.
Re:DevDocs on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:41PM (#38972921)
MDN[0] is usually my goto reference for frontend stuff. I know DevDocs has the offline feature, but frankly I can't develop without an Internet connection. I tried it, and failed terribly. Besides MDN, developers need quick access to Google and ChatGPT to go forward, quickly.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

Re:Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017) on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:58PM (#38870838)
Before clicking I presumed this would be a compilation of blogposts about the Wim Hof method[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof

Re:Vintage Computing on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:54PM (#38870794)
Noted.
Re:Tell HN: Don't Enable Ad Personalization on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:28PM (#38834033)
And turn this off in Chrome: chrome://settings/adPrivacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/chrome-...

> but I always struggle to articulate what that would mean, how I should achieve that, what I need to change etc

I recommend bullet journaling, to get stuff on paper/written down first before you take action. Then you can revise past notes to see how much you've progressed. It's worth being very clear about what you want, and have a rough draft of the means to get it.

There's a phrase I always loved: 'What's meant for you won't pass you by'.

Re:Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:40PM (#38675702)
Interesting that when we can't make chips bigger laterally, we go vertical and stack transistors. It's like we discovered high-rise buildings all over again.

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