This is anecdotal but, I used to know somebody with schizophrenia. This person regularly took care of their teeth but had pretty bad dental problems. Lots of cavities and gum disease and such. Apparently they were even told by a dentist at one point they just had 'bad bacteria' in their mouth and would likely have tooth problems for the rest of their life.
There's always going to be tradeoffs when you're dealing with online anonymity.
On the far anonymous end you've got 4Chan style anonymity, no permanent or any ID at all. Keeping track of individual people is nearly impossible. Conversations are chaotic and hard to follow. Pretty solid privacy.
I guess the next step up would be per conversation/thread/group whatever ID, you trade a small amount of privacy for improved conversation, privacy is still pretty good, a poor choice in username or username reuse could prove to be privacy risks.
I guess next up from that would be something like forum style usernames, like hn or reddit where it's persistent across the entire platform, but still doesn't have to be linked to anything permanent or 'real'. It increases the privacy risk again because now, your conversation history can be tracked across time. This does make it easier for more permanent connections to be made between users but does make it easier for sensitive details to be leaked depending on the user's behaviour.
Up from there you start getting into IDs that are linked to real world information about a user. This provides some pretty obvious privacy risks.
Ids linked to phone numbers are a strange case of trying to take an ephemeral ID that in todays world can change quite regularly and use it as a source of info for an ID based on real world information.
Also worth explicitly mentioning SSB-style cryptographic “implicit identity”.
Connecting consists of exchanging public keys (which can be global per person, or compartmentalized per contact/conversation).
Rather than a central server relating messages to the right peers, there’s a global feed where you attempt to decrypt everything and the ones which succeed are obviously addressed at you.
The benefit here is that not even a central server operator like Signal can trivially tie messages or chat identities to peers.
I guess this gives you privacy (for the price of 7e9x-ing your compute/bandwidth effort), but only until you loose control of the private key. Then you get deanonymised completely, don't you?
I really love the world of reggae and dancehall. The way riddims are covered and updated and repurposed and remade over and over in different styles by different artists.
It feels natural and organic. Human creativity building on and growing what came before.
The entirety of the remix culture is just something else. People turning something existing into something else, sometimes completely changing it up. For one I loved Burial's Archangel, for its haunting vocals, only to learn later that it's sampled from a (to me) unremarkable r&b song.
Most electric hand tools are usually available for cheaper in a corded variety. The only electric hand tool I haven't seen come corded are impact drivers and most impact drivers I've used will last a day or two using it 8 hours a day even off a 2aH battery.
For me, I like air powered tools because of their power and reliability. They'll almost always have more torque and power than similar electric tools.
Air tools defintely don't have more torque than electric tools, they rely on speed to overcome their shortcomings in torque. The main high torque application in air tools is in impact wrenches, which use very fast hammering action. Modern battery impact wrenches can match the performance of the best air wrenches.
A top of the line M18 fuel impact (a $300 tool, before the $100 battery) is only equivalent with its air analog on the 1/365th of the year shop pressure runs at 90 because the OSHA guy is poking around and it's a heck of a lot bulkier.
When you start getting into 3/4 and 1" it's not even a comparison.
The cordless is nice to have but it's a luxury/convenience tool, not a replacement.
So basically "Why it's ok and you should be happy about Microsoft's hardware controlling the software on your PC".
I'm so unbelievably sick of this 'security by corporation, it's what's best for you so accept it bullshit.' I really am.
No I don't want proprietary internet enabled hardware on my PC monitoring my software, no it does not make me feel safe and secure, actually, go fuck yourself and whatever marketing bullshit you spew to make this desirable for consumers. I'm honestly so fucking done with this kind of shit.
A quick look at the author's credentials should clear any doubt about the motivations behind this article's intentions --- over the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that anyone who works in the "security" industry is almost certainly working against you and your freedom.
Even if that's true right this minute, an unauditable (:/) bit of hardware controlled by Microsoft (!) that can be force-updated by them (!!!) means this can change at any moment.
I liked TPM with my own keys. This just seems a bit 'extra' in all the wrong ways.
Firmware updates can't add network hardware where none currently exists. The block diagrams for Pluton don't give it any mechanism to communicate with the network directly.
Anything evil will likely be brokered through the OS. While this is good in that it's not a persistent backdoor like Intel ME, there's still Microsoft skulduggery to worry about.
I worked with bats years ago. I remember when I went for my pre-exposure rabies shots, the nurse who gave me the shots was very concerned about the work I was going into. Apparently, her first ever patient was a man who ended up dying of rabies. A bat had flown into his tent while he was camping somewhere up north and landed on his head. He had a small bite but never went into the doctors or anything until the rabies symptoms started. By the time he went in to get checked out, it was too late, he ended up dying slowly over a month.
Even the pre-exposure rabies shots are only good for a year or two, at least when I got them. If I'd continued working with bats I would have needed yearly titer shots just to keep my immunity up enough to be safe around bats.
The problem with bats and rabies is, bats can be carriers without showing any symptoms until they're near death. The only way to know for sure if a bat that bites you has rabies or not is to take it in to be tested.
This hit me the other day. I dropped my phone and smashed both the screen and display making it essentially unusable. I needed to get into my email. I had no WiFi but I had access to an older phone with data. Tried to sign in on the other phone. It said I needed to confirm the login on my device, I obviously could not, it gave me an option saying 'can't access phone' so I clicked it, it took me to a page saying too bad sorry no signing in for you and that was it, I was locked out of email until I bought a new phone and set it up.
1. Add OTP to your account ("Google Authenticator", Lastpass, etc).
2. Remove phone number from account.
3. Enjoy not needing a phone ever again to login.
4. Might take a couple of days for (3) to stick, train the algorith by logging in a couple of times using OTP.
Your solution for not needing a phone to log in is to use Google Authenticator which is a phone app that would've been on the smashed phone?
I recently went through this exact scenario: Old phone broke. Bought a new one, restored backup. Guess which app doesn't restore its data from the old phone? Google Authenticator. Lost access to all my TOTP logins.
I've been bit by this before also. It's important to take the one time passcodes that Google provides seriously and keep a couple of them in your wallet.
