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Cake day: August 14th, 2021

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  • I mean it’s not like a VPN is providing major anonymity. We already know all the major providers are tapped. You should treat any VPN like a spy agency.

    If you need anonymity, a free VPN is probably not the best place to look.

    Also they could correlate your network traffic without you logging in. That is not a requirement. No matter what, any VPN is going to give some kind of unique user identifier.






  • I would say it’s not really an age thing. I mean age probably plays a role but ultimately it’s just a hobby that is relatively common and not very exciting to an outsider.

    This is definitely experienced by 20 year olds too. There is definitely a social pressure.

    Based on this, 12% of people in your age bracket play video games, it’s typically a roughly 50/50 split by gender. Not exactly a small amount. I think it’s more that if you date 10 women, one will be a gamer and you’ve just not met that one.





  • Internet>VPN>Tor configuration basically just replaces your current ISP with the VPN provider. If the VPN provider is trustworthy and not compromised, this would conceal Tor usage and add an extra ‘hop’.

    Internet>Tor>VPN adds an extra hop at the end. If the VPN is acquired in a way that your identity is totally concealed, this can add a bit extra security and make the internet more functional because most Tor exit nodes are banned.

    Either way the answer is yes. Also let’s be honest with ourselves, if one adversary has compromised all 3 Tor nodes in a circuit (or 6 in the case of onion services), they compromised your VPN too. If that’s your threat model, you should probably just be using synchronous encryption and a USB stick taped to a pigeon.




  • Grew up poor, no insurance so couldn’t go to the dentist.

    Saw on Reddit to get an electric toothbrush so I got one when I was younger. Brush twice a day with it. Never got cavities with 5 years of no dentist.

    Now I also floss once a day, tongue scrape once a day, mouth wash once a day.

    If you do any one thing, buy an electric toothbrush.

    Flossing is really important. It’s hard to comprehend the gains but since bacteria grow exponentially, removing the small amount between your teeth has outsized benefits.