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Kindness , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Privacy in VLC - App stores were a mistake

C-I-A Confidentiality, Integrity, Accessibility. They don't need the keys for C or A. Only one option remains. To modify the code and pass it off as code VLC wrote or signed off on.

Likely to install malware and re-sign. Brazen identity theft.

Maybe I'm wrong, they could use VLC's private keys to gobble encrypted communications too.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Privacy in VLC - App stores were a mistake

Probably beating a dead horse, so... sorry, but look into the Gab fiasco or FreeTusky.

F-Droid does 'censor' or moderate their app repository. However, they do not control which sources or repos you may install from.

If there's an app you want that f-droid doesn't stock, see if the app has a private repo, like Bitwarden, or is in another repo, like IzzyOnDroid.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Memes in Nuclear Power

If you like hauling hundreds of tons of waste up and down an elevator? Maybe. Who does maintenance every so often at the bottom of the shaft?

Kindness , 3 months ago to 196 in Science rule

Exactly.

Also, slaves, I mean servants are all virtually identical, right? Not like you can get attached to people who are just servants.

And god's divine plan for all of those people goes out the door as soon as Satan is like, "Is this one person really faithful though? If I take all the things you granted him, will he still love you?"

But a good representation if god existed, we'd all be toys. God would've planned all this from the start with his omnipotence when he set all the pieces in motion like an enormous rube goldberg mess to torture people for no reason. Create evil indeed.

Kindness , 3 months ago to 196 in Science rule

Ouch. Job was a trip and a half.

My, what a benevolent god is god to bet with the life of his most loyal worshiper. A bet he looses... against Satan? And then god goes down and brags about his achievements to cow his tortured worshiper?

That actually fits with the days of Olympus quite well actually.

Kindness , 3 months ago to 196 in Science rule

Never mind the biblical bit where god says he creates evil, you'll never convince the religious with facts and logic. They've got to feel it or realize it themselves.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Memes in Nuclear Power

It would work. Much like every other sweeping of something under the rug, hiding it elsewhere for it to be a problem later always works for the person throwing it away.

After all, why would we ever wish to extract the remaining U238 from the spent fuel? We utilised a full 4%, let's call that square and throw the rest down a hole. Perish the thought we'll ever need to dig near this massive radioactive hole. Or that an undiscovered cycle of nature causes it to come back to bite us. Just throw it down there with the rest of the resources we never want to safely explore, and who cares if there's something valuable within it's sphere of radioactivity.

Apologies for the sarcasm. I consider the idea both wasteful and foolish.

I'm a fan of both Thorium and Molten-Salt Reactors.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Memes in Nuclear Power

nuclear waste is so incredibly dense

Yes and no. Most current fuels are Uranium or Plutonium. Both between 19 and 20 g/cm^3^. For reference, liquid water is approximately 1 g/cm^3^. Unspent fuel is a similar weight to gold.

"Spent" U238 is usually around 96% U238. If we consider the remainder a rounding error and assume all 60 tonnes is 60 million kg of U238. That will give us a very rough estimate of 3,000 m^3^.

Also worthy of noting are other wastes that comes from mining and refining.

There is much waste already. The "spent" waste is too radioactive to safely re-refine until later.

Kindness , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Privacy in Are hardware security keys worth it? If so, which to pick?

You should always back up your OTP secrets, but I agree Yubikeys are a good choice. You can get USB A for $25. I think the Yubikey 5 grants you app access for an additional $25 or more? Pass.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Memes in Nuclear Power

when there actually is a huge amount of waste

Over 60,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel are stored across Europe (excluding Russia and Slovakia), most of
which in France (Table 1). Within the EU, France accounts for 25 percent of the current spent nuclear fuel,
followed by Germany (15 percent) and the United Kingdom (14 percent). Spent nuclear fuel is considered
high-level waste. Though present in comparably small volumes, it makes up the vast bulk of radioactivity.

~ 2019 https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/

Last "brilliant" plan I heard was dumping it in a hole deep enough we'd never need, nor be able to recover it.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Memes in Nuclear Power

It's common in pseudo-social media sites. Take commentless downvores as a badge of honour. Take fallacious-comment downvores as a hot badge of honour.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Antiwork in Redditor explains that reddit's moderators can't understand how rich people's wealth operates because it is too complicated for poor people

TDLR: "He's only getting paid 300K USD! 800K was last year's bonus. The remaining 192 million is what he's being promised if the stock hits certain numbers."

Pedant decries mild click bait that conflates salary with planned compensation.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Cryptocurrency?

I wasn't going to reply because this conversation will likely no longer go in a positive or productive direction, but I'm quite peeved and decided to allow myself the gratification of issuing corrections.

you’re saying a buzz word without understanding the trade offs in designs

I understand quite well, and I resent you for not only assuming me to be an uninformed commentator, but for also having the audacity to state it as if it were fact.

POW doesn’t have to imply higher energy cost for more transactions

But it does imply it for every major coin on the market today, and said coin owners seem quite content with how things are, Only the fooled are interested in investing in another new block chain, which will likely turn into a scam as soon as someone realises the money they can steal.

What the world could be is not a rebuttal to its current state. Further it's quite disingenuous to tell people problems aren't problems because of what could be.

Please have a pleasant evening. Good night.

Kindness , 3 months ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Cryptocurrency?

I like what you're saying, but I see it differently.

Which is balanced by decreased value of additional coins, so less interested miners should drop out.

What people should do is not what people will do. Because of the hype, people are still investing into ever more expensive rigs and consuming ever more electricity competing in races they have no chance in until they realize they can compete in other races.

should primarily be excess green energy.

Yeah, it should, but it isn't. Personally I'd prefer excess energy drive electricity prices down, rather than demand increasing reliance on more stable and constant sources.

Kindness , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Privacy in Thoughts on Cryptocurrency?

talking about blatantly illegal transactions, like trafficking or drug deals, but if that’s not part of someone’s threat model

I am talking about anything that might become a skeleton in your closet, when political winds change. If you:

• donate to anyone religious, vocally non-religious, political, controversial, extreme, or critical of government.
• are American and can be linked 3.5 degrees of Kevin Bacon to any Russian.
• purchase cakes from bigoted religious Christians.
• bought merchandise of controversial figures
• donated to the guy who taught his pug to Seig Heil and plan to visit Germany.
• transfer money to protesters.
• contribute to public defence funds.
• purchase "suspicious" amounts of nearly random chemicals for reasons you don't care to explain.
• purchase novels with Russian or Chinese themes and undertones.
• do anything your governing body or enforcement division disapproves of.

The likely-hood of you becoming a big enough thorne for governments is small, but they are ultimately the key holder to your privacy. That should be your threat model.

if I choose to run for office

De-anonymizing crypto users is not illegal. Posting it is illegal, but finding out what you purchased for a smear campaign? Totally fine in most western countries. Advanced persistent threats would be that future's threat model. It is not hard for large political organizations to hire teenage nosy geeks to dig up OSINT dirt. Your level of risk tolerance is your choice. If it's too much hassle, it's too much hassle.

That said, the largest governments in the world have signed a cooperative agreement to share and process data they are currently collecting, regardless of the legality of collecting it.

Purchasing privacy coin, using TOR(Yes, in caps. They don't get to set the rules on acronyms.), doing anything "out of the ordinary" will likely warrant investigation into your affairs. Once they have that data, their track record of protecting it is not so good. "The Pentagon", "ANAO", and this one doesn't even mention why the UK suddenly needs a new task force with Russian advanced persistent threats "on the horizon".

Everybody else: If you just don't want your neighbors to know you have a fetish, knock yourself out with lightning and have the package gift-wrapped.