khabaal's comments

Its not open, if you open the box of pandora just a little...

This is exactly, what came to my mind after adoring the beautiful first and following pictures. The whole setup looks very adorable, with the plants inside the bedroom area and i guess it could be very plesant to stay there for holiday.

But i guess the winters will be horribly cold without anything that could be called decent insulation. And the whole weight of the roof (and maybe snow) is on that little wooden fence. And its better not going to get windy, because as as you can see in https://i.imgur.com/i3o9MBj.mp4 the bars are mostly just hooked into the top of the fence. As someone who learned basic structural engineering, this is giving me shivers. The roof can hold itself pretty nicely like an archway,... but if you get lots and lots of wind from the side, my guts say that it might evolve into a big problem.

This is not correct anymore since dns over tls. Well most routers do not support this yet, but its possible within your distro.

> redirecting to ads on an unknown domain

I can cleary see that, in states like iran or china, getting redirected to somewhere you did not chose to go is really problematic, but getting redirected to ads by your own provider, does this happen in your country?

In germany, i guess, this would be quite illegal for a provider to do and be considered as attacking the ingetrity of the dns system for personal gain.

>If you connect to something fronted by CloudFlare your ISP can see you connecting to CF, if they provide your DNS then they can see what you're connecting to that's fronted by CF. A subtle yet important distinction.

Well, most of the time, you would connect to ips that are not fronted by CF servers, so theres nothing to gain there.

So, the dns server of my provider against Cloudflare DNS it is. That seems to be a good idea for people in unfree countries like iran.

But since my provider knows every ip i connect to, they already have everything they need in the first place, even if i dont use their dns.

So handing over the dns requests to a third party seems to be a rather not so smart move to me.

edit: oh, and the cloudflare dns servers are located within the 5 eyes states? nice...

Its especially chilling, because in germany, we dont have the food of the poisonous tree doctrine. So even if the police searches those places illegaly, if they find something else while conducting the search, lets say small amount of drugs, they will prosecute you for that.

Well, it would have been to hillarious if there was, but it was transferred about an hour ago. :D

Isnt the author, well, supposed to keep his private key private? It was quite easy to create a text file with that 1b0be2162cedb2744d016943bb14e71de6af95a63af3790d6b41b1e719dc5c66 key and "geth account import key.txt" into a ethereum wallet to get a seemingly valid account. Please tell me that i am missing something very important here.

As a person from germany and as many of you might not know, the "daily stormer" is directly connotated to "Der Stürmer" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%C3%BCrmer].

That newspaper with its very popular antisemitic caricatures was one of the main sources of radicalization in germany.

Think about it this way: You get a product, its free to use. The Company running the service is telling you, they wont share your data ever. You get reliant to the product, everyone uses it. Then they start sharing your data.

Here in Germany, saying that, after being accuired by facebook, you wont exchange any data with facebook, was a huge sales pitch because people started to get really worried about data privacy.

Even people like my mother, who normally has no idea about whats going on, were worried back then but then calmed down by that statement. And the media, where this had quickly became an issue, stopped reporting, because everything seemed to turn out fine.

But now, they broke that promise and altered their product, which now results in those accusations of misdirection of the users and the public. They made that statement, people everywhere became reliant to whatsapp and now everything stated before turned out to be a lie.

They did not. Opt-Out is not asking for consent. And even if you Opt-Out, WhatsApp will submit your data to facebook for analytic purposes.

The real problem here was quoted as "misdirection of the [whatsapp] users and the public" because WhatsApp stated that there wont be any data exchange between them and facebook, when they were accuired two years ago.

I would not entrust my data to telegram either. Enrolling your own crypto protocol [MTProto] is, in my opinion, something which you should not do.

They also have a nice privacy policy, which is worth looking at: https://telegram.org/privacy

I am very skeptical about this, because when tattoo ink fades, it accumulates inside the lymphatic system, it is not flushed out of the body.

Black ink, for example, colors the lymph nodes within the area of the tatoo completely black. Black ink is made out of soot which often contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a carzinogen.

So if they say their product is "designed to break down after a year" and "By using smaller molecules, we’ve encapsulated them inside this spherical structure that’s big enough that your immune system doesn’t take it away. But when you remove it, it essentially eats away one of the components and the dye molecules are flushed out", i really wonder if this could quickly develop into a real health problem.

Smaller molecules really sound like nano particles and since tattoo dye is not flushed out of your body, i tend to assume those nano particles will accumulate inside the lymphatic system. And what about that "spherical structure" stuff, what is it made of? And that "removal solution" they talk about on their website, the symbol next to it looks like its also tattoed into the skin.

My first thought on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfM7dvFto0

The whole question sounds wrong from the beginning. It is not 'the internet', which is being addictive but certain services, who use the internet to provide their service.

I do not think that it is questionable, that, for example, facebook or online games like world of warcraft have a huge potential to be addictive, but this is not a problem of the internet itself.

You would not blame drug addiction to transport infrastructure, calling for its regulation, just because it is involved in bringing the addicted and their dealers together.

Correct, i also first thought that the image was somehow floating in the air. The fact that there is a box around it makes this much less interesting.

This is exactly whats going on, the NSA tried to get their selectors inside the BND snooping program and were partly succesful with this.

And when the BND noticed that a few thousand of these selectors were succesfully installed, they informed the german chancellery who miracly done... nothing at all to protect us against industrial spionage.

And they dont care about all the other stuff the US is committing from germany, like conducting their drone wars which make germany a legal war target.

As a german who works for a german university, i would like to point out that studying is actually not totally free.

Here at the University of applied sciences in Münster, you would have to pay a total 235€ every six month, consisting of a social contribution of 85.44€ and a student body contribution of 145.75€, for which you will get a ticket for free travel by bus or by train inside North Rhine-Westphalia for the whole six month. Some people in here just register because of that ticket. :D

To study in germany, you normally just need to prove that you have a specific amount of money to survive, pay for a flat, food and health insurance. And thats it.

As the website stated, we need skilled immigrants, because with a birth rate of just 1.3 childs per woman, the germans are slowly dying out, not to mention that our society is getting older and older like the one in japan. Attracting foreign students with a nearly free college is a great and very cheap way of getting highly skilled workers, its makes perfect sense.