groet

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[–] groet 13 points 1 month ago

And the brain didn't even know it was naming itself.

The ancient Egyptians removed the brain before mummification because they considerd it to be basically useless. Later associations between motor control of muscles and the brain were discovered but it wasn't until the development of modern neuroscience that the brain was considered to be the seat of awareness, self and intelligence.

[–] groet 13 points 1 month ago

Client isolation doesn't help. That is just the access point not routing traffic between connected devices. The problem with WiFi is it is a radio signal. Everybody in range can receive 100% of all communication on that network. Just by being in range the attacker can do passive sniffing. No wiretap needed like with cabled networks.

WiFi is encryoed if it uses a password. So any public WiFi without a password can be sniffed by literally every device in range (no need to connect to the WiFi for sniffing). On public WiFi with a password, the radio signal is encrypted but everybody knows the encryption key. So everybody connected to the WiFi can still sniff the traffic of everybody else.

That encryption is only on the WiFi level, so encrypted radio signals, not on the actually traffic level (like TLS/HTTPS etc).

[–] groet 3 points 1 month ago

Und der Patient der Symptome 10 Jahre mit globuli bekämpft und dann an einer vorbeugbaren Krankheit stirbt? Klar kein (gescheider) Arzt behandelt akut gefährliche Krankheiten mit globuli aber wenn durch Verzicht auf funktionierende Medizin später ein schlimmeres Krankheitsbild auftritt, liegt dies auch in der Verantwortung des Arztes.

[–] groet 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The post office knows who you are sending letters to. They have to know because they have to deliver it. They do not know the content of the letter. They also dont know if the letter will be passed along by the receiver to a different destination.

Your ISP knows you are sending traffic to a VPN but not where they are sending it to. The VPN knows where you are sending traffic to but not the content of that traffic. So if you browse a website that only serves pirated content, then they knows you are consuming pirated media but not which media.

If the law requires the VPN to report any and all traffic to blacklisted sights then a "no logs policy" would breach that law.

However to make this law work, Italy would have to ban all VPNs and http proxy services outside of Italy. Italy would have to force pretty mutch the whole world to follow this law for it to work.

What happens if you run a tiny server on AWS in the USA to proxy your private traffic. Unless AWS USA is watching all traffic to see if it complies with Italian law there is no way to enforce it.

[–] groet 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A coastline may be infinitely long (coastline paradox) but the area of the ocean is not infinitely large.

Just think about it this way: go close to the coastline while still being 100% certain you are on land. No matter how precise (and therefore long) you measure the coastline, the area of the ocean can never be larger than the area inside of your 100% on land line.

[–] groet 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This man is an absolute hero. Timbuktu was the cultural capital of west Afrika during the middle ages and housed many scholars and writers.

Its similar to a "library of Alexandria" type of collection of knowledge. Only that the manuscripts were spread over many families instead of a single location.

In 2012 during malis civil war, Al-Qaeda captured Timbuktu and started burning manuscripts. Dr. Haidara as curator of one of Timbuktus most important libraries organised the evacuation of the manuscripts by distributing then to civilians who would smuggle them out disguised as personal belongings.

4200 books burned.

350000 saved!

[–] groet 9 points 2 months ago

It consumes the resource of "purified, available water" which is consumed as it is no longer purified or unavailable (if evaporated). The same way nothing ever "consumes" energy, it just makes it unusable.

[–] groet 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But only if they are artificially bred. If hunted wild, it has an incredibly positive impact. They are a invasive species and are harmful to any ecosystem they were introduced to.

[–] groet 28 points 2 months ago

.LAN is not an official top level domain. So I assume this is either your home network or work network? In any case your problem has nothing to do with the .LAN doman.

Maybe you have "https everywhere" activated. If so, Firefox will always default to https unless you specify http in the URL. Again, unrelated to .LAN.

For the certificate: what do you mean "when available"? A self signed cert is a self signed cert. There is no "available" or not. You can import the certificate into the Firefox trust store so Firefox will trust that one specific cert but any other self signed cert will cause an error. That is expected and save behaviour (and unrelated to .LAN).

[–] groet 74 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No, why would it? It will run code in the context of the current user which is absolutely enough to start a new process that will run in the background, download more code from a attacker server and allow remote access. The attacker will only have as much permissions as the user executing the code but that is enough to steal their files, run a keyloggers, steal their sessions for other websites etc.

They can try to escalate to the admin user, but when targeting private victims, all the data that is worth stealing is available to the user and does not require admin privs.

[–] groet 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Almost all predator animals have a territory and they will fight for that territory to keep others out. Chimpanzees and other great apes have clan wars over territory. And they have social hierarchies where some get more food than others.

There is a 100% chance early humans were fighting each other long before the invention of agriculture.

[–] groet 12 points 2 months ago

They actually do. To avoid infinite loops. If a URL redirects to the identical URL for more than ~5 times most browsers will refuse to load and show an error instead.

That's why sites like this will generate new URLs with the same content.

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