anonymousnotme

It is my understanding that psychedelics can open up that learning window. I wonder if that could be used to benefit in this case. (I imagine a lot of people might be opposed to having a minor take psychedelics; but if it works, does it matter?)

Tor can also be used and does not cost anything.

Forgot to mention that a sign of underdevelopment is the need for braces. I was borderline needing braces as a kid and I will be getting them as an adult to help fit my tongue in my mouth better. Much better to not need braces (at any age) or major surgery as an adult.

I can't read the article, but if one has a tongue tie there can be serious life-long consequences. Basically if one is tongue tied, one's tongue will rest on the bottom of one's mouth. The mouth does not develop normally. The nasal passage way will be narrow. One will likely breath through one's mouth instead of the nose. This will lead to problems of the nasal passage not developing as it should. For one's health it is import to breath through the nose and not the mouth; read James Nestors book Breath. One will have breathing issues and likely sleep apnea. The tongue is supposed to rest on the root of the mouth and not on the floor of the mouth for it to develop properly. The sleep apnea normally gets worse; likely during midlife the sleep problem will effect job performance... Just from a speech impediment problem, it is worth it. I had a tongue tie release surgery (lingual frenectomy) as an adult. I had a release as a baby, but it only release the very front part so that it was barely enough to breast feed and I had speech problems because it was not fully released. After the surgery as an adult my pronounciation improved according to friends. It feels like my tongue can move as it should move. My mouth and nasal passage way did not develop as it should as a child and I am considering major surgery (MMA, EASE procedure, functional rhinoplasy) to correct; not something that one wants to do if one can correct it early with a lingual frenectomy and oral myofunctional Therapy. That being said, one should have it done by somebody that is competent is airway focused and not somebody trying to make extra money. It is normally paired with myofunctional therapy for about 6 weeks before and after the surgery. On another note, I have tuned into myofunctional podcast run by dental hygenist; they said that the can usually determine whether one is a mouth breather or a nasal breather by the hygene of the mouth...

I don't have to reboot my router or modem. I just have an a script that changes the MAC and releases and renews or rather gets an IP address via DHCP. My ISP is slow at handing out an IP address out as it takes several minutes, but it is automated. When the same operation is done for an IP on the LAN, it is a second or or two to get a new IP address. I figure the main reason to get a new IP address is so that web sites can't track one by IP. If carrier grade NAT is used, then is there a point in changing one's IP? If one does not use any peer to peer, then it seems that carrier grade NAT should lower the cost of one's internet service and that should be preferred. If one needs anonymity for bittorrent or other peer to peer, then shouldn't a VPN or i2p be used? I got the impression that i2p might be slow.

As far as certificate authorities (CAs) build into the browser: One way around this might be that the browsers ship with the CA as required by law, but that one can disable/delete the CA via the UI. I would guess that a law would be passed that says that the browser can't disable/delete certain CAs (perhaps this one also says that). There can be a list of various government CAs that one might want to disable. This does not help if governments can pressure CAs to issue an alernate CA for use in MITM. Does any of the CA transaprency help? What about a way to have people endorse a certficate (i.e. reputation)?

I have been of the personal opinion that email should be end to end encrypted. This would be another reason why. Think about how much personal information is easily exposed by non-encrypted email. It would be like having the 99.9% of the web sites still using http as opposed https. I have seen more than one doctors office have an agreement that they want you to sign so that they can send one unencrypted email. (Most people don't pay much attention to the agreements that they sign and non-technical users likely don't know that their emails can easily be read by several parties.)

I have command line program that I use to give me a list of window titles. If there are too many of certain kind (browser windows...), I close some until I get under a certain threshold. Anyway, I was reading the stuff in the articles and well the text in the terminal turned red after I got that list. Some terminal/shell combinations seem better at recovering than others. Firefox (and other browsers that have a similar problem) should sanitize title data. As other have pointed out, perhaps window managers should filter or not allow control/escape characters in the titles.

Just goes to show how important sanitizing data from unknown sources is.

Should curl, w3m, wget and similar sanitize the data? One can argue that some times you want to pipe the raw data and other times one might not be thinking about the escape sequences and get burned. I would be inclined to say that the tools should filter/escape the dangerous stuff and have a flag like "--raw".

Thank you; good to know that they have that. My assumption would still be that if the intelligence services want access to your private information or communication on the device that they will get it (without it be evident); whether it is a OS zero day or other means. I also read through the link you provided on the anti-interdiction server, it only says laptop. I assume that this has expanded to the phone. (Did not go through the phone order process to find out.) Also, looks like one negotiates via PGP email on what one wants; so that is why I assume that there is no pricing on it.

I thought that I read (not too long after the snowden stuff) that the US government sometimes intercepts parcels of electronic equipment then will tamper with it so that they can spy on the recipient of the equipment. Not sure how librem can prevent that or how one would know. Also, if somebody places an order and US government asks librem to place some spyware on it via a court order (because say that have a phone tap on the individual), would any customers know about it? Now if one can go the factory and pick up it, then that cuts one avenue of attack by the government.

I can second this; I have a few boxes that I have upgraded from 5.7 to 7.3; minimal issues. Upgrades just seem to work. (One warning is some really old versions sized /usr or /usr/local (I think) too small for some of the newer versions, so I had to some clean up by hand to make space because the kernel relinking after each boot takes a decent amount of disk space that those older smaller partition have trouble handling.) One can also do "pkg_add -vnUu" before upgrading to know what will be done (v=verbose, n=don't install, say what will be done, U=update dependencies). One can also use sysclean to help clean up old libraries and shared libraries left behind to get more disk space back. Also, run "pkg_delete -a" to remove unused dependencies.

I was trying to ask if there was something more that the speed test do other than multiple or divide by 8. Is some other overhead that they add in? If not, then their math or testing seem to be off or curl/wget seem to be different than they get via the browser's javascript engine. To me it seems that the speed test number is inflated or higher than what one will even for the same URL off of netflix or cloudflares URLs used in their speed tests.

It definitely looks like testing sites are prioritized. The fastest download speed that I have gotten is maybe 7 MB (bytes) per second; generally it is 2-5 MB per second. The speed test sites generally get 100 Mb per second dowload. In general the best I seem to get is about half the speed of the speed test sites. To me the real speed of the ISP is how fast one can download something one wants, not the result of a test. I would prefer to see results for downloads/uploads from youtube and various CDN networks and popular sites. I would also like to see ISP have a URL that is inside their network to test upload and download so that one can at least isolate what part of the connection might be lagging. Actually, I just used devtools to snag a 25MB file from fast.com. Curl/wget gives a speed of about 3 or 4 MB per second. That does not really seem to match up with fast.com download speed of 70Mb/second. 70/8 is 8.75, which is about double. Is fast.com accurate? Is my math wrong?