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It has pictures of a clay model of a production-looking Scion FR-S as well, so I can assume it has been updated at least as late as 2012.

Story time, I guess.

I went to a small private Christian school back in the late 200X's, and not the type of private school that had gobs of money. For two years, our desktop computers in the computer lab and the English classroom ran Ubuntu Linux (presumably because Windows licenses were >$0). The only students with Linux experience were myself and a friend that I introduced to Linux (who is also now an IT professional).

For a month or two we systematically changed the remote desktop preferences to automatically accept new connections and not to display any messages saying that there is a connection. We tried to never sit at the same computer twice so that we could "adjust" as many computers as possible and to make a secret map of where each computer was by hostname.

If we were in the computer lab and feeling mischievous (always), we'd poll around English classroom hostnames to see if any were in use, or vice versa. We'd "help" people write their papers (very creatively, I might add), speedrun through other students' typing lessons, open a terminal and run "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl", or whatever else we could come up with.

Well, wouldn't you know it, word gets around this is happening and we naturally get called in to the principal's office (because who else?). While expecting the worst, we were told "we know what you're doing, we don't know how to stop you, but we encourage you to stop and use your technical abilities productively instead" and were let off without punishment. We both came out of it with great respect for the administration because they showed us respect we didn't deserve, and we stopped.

There's something in human nature such that when we learn something that we don't like about someone else, we wish to think them even worse, perhaps to feel justified in our own hatred.

I like the way C. S. Lewis wrote it:

> The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, "Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that," or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black.

With growing car theft in the US I've been curious about implanting GPS trackers on my own older enthusiast vehicles. There appears to be many options on Amazon but I can't bring myself to trust any of them. Has anyone here gone down that road before?

Thanks for sharing I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup - I'd never read it before, and it's worth reading the whole thing. It has me reflecting on who my "out group" is.

The list seemingly not just citizens of the United States.

That would be funny (I guess). At any rate, neither email addresses nor phone numbers were part of the leak.

I would suggest not clicking this link on a work device.

This will surely help reintegrate former criminals into society.

> This account will tweet what the President tweets. Let’s see if it gets suspended for violating twitters TOS. Follow along with this social experiment. Report any tweets that violate the rules. Thank you

So the owner of the account just baited people to report posts. I don't see anything newsworthy here.

Exactly - it's not about the money, it's about being taken advantage of.

Is anyone aware of a VPN out there that supports PiHole-like list filtering, so you could get the best of both worlds?

Right now it feels like I have to choose:

- Use my PiHole to block all sorts of content on filtering lists that are useful in cases like blocking unwanted tracking in mobile apps, but my ISP knows everything I access

- Use a VPN, where my ISP doesn't know what I'm doing, but every web service I use can use whatever tracking it wants (except where uBlock is used and such, but you don't get that luxury with, say, Samsung Smart TVs which are notorious for phoning home)