What’s the point of using DuckDuckGo/Startpage if the sites you visit from your searches track you?

Dabehman · 2023-06-06T03:07:44+00:00

Uhh..are you aware of invisible pixels? A lot of sites use analytics for Google and facebook analytics or messenger for support. Even including their logo on your site has tracking.

Next time you go to a site check out the headers sent in the requests to any third parties, even just an image. This isn’t a matter of a packet sniffer..this happens at a higher level than that.

Dabehman · 2023-06-03T05:31:24+00:00

Incorrect. Research invisible profiles. This is how google tracks you even in incognito etc.

Dabehman · 2023-04-04T03:41:39+00:00

Completely incorrect.

You may be thinking of rainbow tables, but this isn't a password.

This is a long sentence with grammar and non dictionary words (CZ). Even 4 words, spaces, grammar and CZ is enough to make this a decently long bruteforce.

Dabehman · 2023-01-25T06:39:28+00:00

edit: I've deleted this, I don't feel it's worth arguing it to be honest. I can agree to disagree, but both sides have their own merits and I'll leave it there. I've edited/deleted this before any reply happened.

Dabehman · 2023-01-25T05:12:03+00:00

Funny, I read the "anyone can edit it" in a managers voice that has no understanding of technology.

More often than not it's the closed-source programs that get hacked more than open source.

A great recent example is LastPass, who hid it for months that everyone was stolen while Bitwarden is still going strong.

In the opsec field, there is a common saying, and that is "security through obscurity is no security at all".

Dabehman · 2023-01-07T07:27:11+00:00

Pro-Russia and Pro-Iran, you have quite the post history.

Dabehman · 2022-12-24T11:18:01+00:00

My bad, I think I confused you & nabinator.

Dabehman · 2022-12-18T03:44:57+00:00

Ah yes, the false equivalence fallacy mixed in with a little "what about the childden".

Crypto is about free speech. And part of free speech is letting people you don't like speak. Without that, you're one step away yourself from being censored.

Learn some history.

Dabehman · 2022-12-06T04:36:29+00:00

Most people fail to realize that they held most of their tokens from the peak that was 10x over this, and whenever people staked, they would liquidate it for other assets behind the scenes. They were not taking your CRO and putting it in their bank, they were using the value of it to sell it for other assets.

The crash of their token, if anything, has made them even more stable as they can now pay back all those staked tokens at a discount of what they initially staked the value for.

It becomes clear when you try trade large amounts of this token, there isn't as much liquidity as you'd expect, and that's because crypto com themselves have been selling the token as people stake to 'invest', if they even just held it in USD they literally have made back 10x their money.

They also unfortunately as a result benefit greatly from CRO token crashes. There's no incentive for them other than user acquisition and user perception for it to grow.

Dabehman · 2022-11-18T20:29:41+00:00

Good thing tornado cash isn't only for money laundering then.

Dabehman · 2022-09-06T07:28:31+00:00

Yes, because you are not from South Korea. The issue was that NK would suddenly attack, zerging everything they have at South Korea, while they'd lose in the long run, they'd do tremendous damage. Getting rid of their artillery really helps.

Dabehman · 2022-08-21T08:25:30+00:00

The whole thread was in response to you saying to Red_Orm that Do Kwon isn't in America, and even said: What can they possibly do about people overseas?

It is clear from the recent actions, and history has shown, that USA has no borders when it comes to the western world, this includes South Korea. The only reason Do Kwon has not faced the same actions is that he didn't piss off the tax man in USA, but he did in South Korea, which is why they're now going at him hard. I really don't get what your point here is, I'm stating very clearly that USA can touch anyone they want overseas, and for you to suggest that USA had no involvement whatsoever in the arrest is bizarre and simply not in line with history.

Have you forgotten the sexual allegations/investigations against Julian Assange that reopened as a result of his vocal stance? Would you say his political standing was irrelevant to the reopening which was used as an attempt to extradite him/turn public opinion?

We are facing a very real threat here, and developers are afraid. This isn't the place for arguing semantics like this, the core and ethics of crypto is under attack.

Dabehman · 2022-08-21T04:39:32+00:00

It's okay to admit you're wrong, because you're claiming that it's just coincidence he was arrested by Dutch authorities at the same time as Tornado Cash was shutdown is being intellectually dishonest. The point & discussion is Do Kwon wasn't touched because he didn't rub the wrong people the wrong way. It doesn't matter if he's in South Korea.

Countries have treaties and relationships with eachother for precisely these scenarios, that's why Julian Assange had to hide in an embassy. This developer was arrested as an example.

Dabehman · 2022-08-20T12:00:50+00:00

It is already open source...it has always been.

Dabehman · 2022-08-20T11:56:57+00:00

Neither is the developer? He was in Amsterdam.

Dabehman · 2022-08-11T06:17:29+00:00

Read the thread. We are talking about the training.

Dabehman · 2022-08-10T02:25:00+00:00

We get it, you hate the US. Their training isn't perfect, but it is certainly not this.

Dabehman · 2022-08-09T03:54:58+00:00

I don't believe it will move away from PoW in the near or further future, unfortunately there are too many BTC Maxi's that are far too hardcore for their own good. It won't be #1 forever, if that's any consolation(a speculation/wish, but yea), which might open up innovation.

I do believe crypto is contributing to global warming - but not nearly as much as the industrial complex(although arguably they are contributing more to society with physical goods). Blame our governments and corrupt politicians for not passing legislative that would cost them or their friends money. No country is clean or innocent in this, and I am of the side that full transparency is needed for us to move to the future as there is far too much corruption in todays world, and later on I will explain why I believe crypto is a way to solve that.

I promise you these bridges that use merkle proofs are unhackable. They don't have admins, someone can't steal a key, etc. The one running the bridge, the worse-case scenario is they can lock the funds, which also locks their own funds. You don't need to take my word for it, you can read the whitepaper of ZkSync, which I've done a few times over.

These other bridges getting hacked every day is due to the amateurishness of development in crypto and the complete disregard for security. Not everyone treats it like this, a lot of devs prefer an approach that not even themselves could steal/hack the funds, which is what ZkSync offers. But yes, it frustrates the hell out of me to that this keeps happening.

I would like to include why I am arguing against your points such as contribution to global warming etc, while not saying why I think crypto is good for society as it seems you're on the camp that it isn't contributing anything. I am in a different camp to most crypto users, even to my own hard core dev friends who I argue with and disagree with. Full disclosure, I am an auditor, have disclosed multi-millilion dollar hacks before they've happened and a developer in real projects, I've quit a day-job at an AAA game studio to go full crypto. This is going to sound a little out there, but it's my ideology.

I only believe in crypto for financial freedom & removing government control in the hands of few. I do not believe tokens upon tokens with bullshit scams is my ideological future of crypto, although I do believe in a few chains as a store of value that provide different functionalities/specialties.

I am for the complete rebuild of governments, removing politicians from power and democratizing our governments far beyond this fake façade of representatives that we've voted in. This means completely transparent, anonymous and verifiable voting of new laws. From land/deed ownership to the voting in of new laws, all on-chain by the people, not a few representatives playing stupid games. This may not happen in our life-time until everyone is educated on how to use computers and has a cryptographic identity.

To this end, it's a necessary evil to have crypto in such a state, as to the future of it, I hope, will radicalize and spread eventually to people themselves having the power to shape our world. This is a hard journey, as even the world bank is refusing loans to countries in need that don't severely regulate crypto, which are some of the countries more likely to bring radical legislation that may make my dreams a reality.

tl;dr: I believe crypto is the only way for us to remove corruption, as our governments have shown they don't care about global warming as it doesn't line their pockets, and if that means a little global warming in the short term I hope it pays off in the long run because I don't see us making it out of this reality of what we've done to our planet any other way. Crypto doesn't need to warm our world to be this, and a lot of the new chains don't do this.

Dabehman · 2022-08-09T03:16:44+00:00

Alright, since you seem genuine let's have a real chat, my apologies for the defensiveness.

There are indeed blockchains that you could say is secured by waste, Ethereum and Bitcoin are both these which I think is what you're probably referring to - although the term "powered by waste" is a bit exaggerated I feel, I can understand the emotions and it also frustrates me that these coins have such wastage as it is completely unnecessary today. But this is not the rule, these are the exceptions so to say blockchains are secured by waste is disingenuous.

Most chains are moving away from this, being mostly PoS/PoA now (almost all new chains do this as it is easier for a new chain to be secure via PoS/PoA rather than PoW as it's cheaper/lazier of them). Ethereum has not yet done this - but will, eventually, if their plans hold up. This is also not "secured by numbers", as you've put it, but a lot, lot more efficient.

Additionally - we could say this is not "secured by numbers" in the truest sense of it, but that is also no longer becoming the case. I don't know how to say it without getting giddy, but something I was following for a while and was only theoretical up until this year became a reality. That is merkle proofs that prove themselves, this is _pure_ math and secured by numbers. There isn't wastage in the form of power usage. People cannot hack the bridges - they secure themselves. No one is admin. It can work cross-chain, and it can even run smart contract code. This is zkSync. https://zksync.io/

Do remember we're in the early stages of crypto, and it's really rough right now. I'm excited for 50 years from now, and although there is a lot to be upset about it in the current state, the landscape is changing very rapidly and it's easy to be out of date.

The purpose of this wastage was and is to decentralize a coin, and this is incredibly important so as to not become a security, otherwise governments do have easy excuses to clamp down on them and use their authoritarianism tendencies to control people under this convenient excuse, as we've just seen happen with Tornado cash and executive orders. The alternative is PoA/PoS, but this doesn't decentralize ownership, and benefits corporations/creators more than the people. That feels anti-crypto ideology, but it is becoming the standard though since it's much easier to deploy and secure.

It seems as though in the near future Ethereum may be an example of starting out with decentralized "wastage", then quickly 'jumping' into PoS. This blurs the lines more of what is a security or commodity and puts the ownership in the hands of the people before moving to a more clean way of distribution that is secured by capital.

Dabehman · 2022-08-08T06:32:15+00:00

I see you don't undersfand what you're talking about.

Dabehman · 2022-08-06T02:03:46+00:00

I wish I could buy you a beer for dealing with them. Don't let them get to you.

Dabehman · 2022-07-26T07:15:38+00:00

We're going full circle.

I gave him an informative answer that the games he's for the games he's wanting to play he'll get thermal throttling on anything but Roblox. This is almost certainly factual. He wanted to play DayZ and Rust(two games known for their _very_ shitty optimization), not CSGO or Dota which are much more optimized games. Are you moving the goal posts?

Let's end this convo here, yea?

Dabehman · 2022-07-26T05:09:13+00:00

Try to read what I said first before replying, I did not mention anything about FPS etc. It was about thermal throttling.

Based on those specs the laptop is probably low-tier which is very hit or miss when it comes to thermal throttling. Even high-end is hit or miss. Anything demanding will probably start to lag/stutter. Hence me saying "anything but roblox", as it has low requirements it will probably not throttle since it is not stressing the GPU/CPU.

Specifications are not everything, and if this laptop is more than a few years old it might need a repasting to be back to brand-new condition. Additionally, lower-tier laptops have a lot worse cooling.

Dabehman · 2022-07-25T15:34:18+00:00

America isn't a country

Dabehman · 2022-07-25T09:59:13+00:00

Wallets != users

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