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Can someone explain why this is funny? Is Rust that hard to code in?

It’s shocking to me someone would want to watch this. Harry Potter was never good. Why would someone even want to read a Harry Potter book obtained before 2020??? The TERF stuff didn’t make Harry Potter bad. It always sucked, and people only realized after the TERF stuff.

Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn’t do the test right, gaslighting me with a picture of what I chose (which I didn’t choose) and showing me the correct picture (which I did choose and it claims I didn’t select). It’s fucking bullshit and it’s more corporate control of open source software. For people who have their discussion or issue tracker, I can’t even participate without hardware identifiers likely linked to me some other way and phone numbers. It’s fucking bullshit. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, FUCK YOU!!! I am so tired of this bullshit. I just want to post an issue about a piece of software. You don’t need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit. This is a slippery slope. Fuck them. I really hope more developers just get the fuck off Github. Honestly, if you are developing privacy-oriented software and using github, there’s a mistmatch and it’s bullshit, and I know it’s time consuming and annoying to move, but please do. This is fucking bullshit and it’s not like it’s going to become LESS annoying over time. FUCK THIS.

So for many years, people wanted to use Signal without a phone, a geotracking device, by just registering on Desktop. But it’s impossie: it must be linked to a phonr AND phone number. After years and years pf askinbg, people can now register with… a credit card?!? This is a honeypot. Only a honeypot woukd behave this way and avoid things like Monero, desktop only verification, etc. I am not sure how it works, but if it weren’t a honeypot they woukd be behaving differently.

Is she being ironic or really didn’t actually know? It’s hard to know if attention-economy people do gimmicky things for attention or really are that… uh… unaware of things?

Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser have unique-per-computer persistent IDs on fingerprint.com I have been testing Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser using fingerprint.com. I get unique persistent identifiers that are unique per machine and persist over rebooting sessions. Javascript was on during this test. This could be very dangerous to people using Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser. For example, if someone visits Rainbow Railroad, an organization for leaving repressive countries with hostile LGBT policies, and then watches a video about the organization on YouTube, and then also does something, like create a Discord Server, and use Tor Browser to get around geoblocking but link it to their personal phone number, then a hostile regime buying data from data brokers could possible determine that user is considering using rainbow railroad. Even if this exact example isn’t realistic or plausible (although governments do buy form data brokers), users should be aware that persistent identifiers in Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser allow for continuous tracking of a user using the same machine. I posted this information on privacyguides forum and they deleted my account after, leading me to wonder if the forum is a giant honeypot that curates acceptable privacy discussions and unacceptable private discussions. I honestly wonder if they are infiltrated by the government. They repeatedly delete the posts of other people as well and the whole thing is starting to not sit well with me.

That’s so unfortunate. At least SimpleX probably isn’t a honeypot… :-/

Then this may be happening only with certain distributions or operating systems. It is definitely happening for me, I checked it over and over. "You have visited once." I close Tor Browser, restart, come back to fingerprint.com. "You have visited twice." I also did try this with safer. I did multiple tests. This impacts at least some operating systems or distributions. It may not impact Qubes. I didn't test that, but I am sure it impacts at least some users.

I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!

Other users on privacyguides forums have commented on the exact same problem where threads are just completely deleted, even with valid questions.

I understand: Javascript is not safe. I know that. But most of the internet, except for onions, use javascript and it's nearly impossible to use most of the Internet in web browsers without it. The problem is that if Fingerprint.com can reliable detect differences between users when javascript is on for Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser in certain operating systems, users should be aware. Most people would think Mullvad Browser in "safer" mode would not create a persistent per-computer hash of the browser that can be tracked across sessions.

I don't care if there is a package called gnome-age-verification distributed in my linux distro and would prefer it if it means fewer sites with facial biometric tests. If I have concerns about the age verification, then I should be able to type: sudo dnf remove gnome-age-verification California probably wants it in linux distros so that linux can't be a justification for big tech still demanding Orwellian stuff in every website (ie "but what about the children who use linux? we need to protect them with Persona too!") But where would it stop? The hell version of this would be kernel-level-approved-AI-agent-checks, with an OS required to have an approved AI agent with a validated third party key that reports to the government with required telemetry and the kernel makes sure the OS won't run without the approved AI and then makes illegal any scripts for unapproved kernel code modification. And post-Tornado cash, we know code is unfortunately not protected US speech.

This isn't true. It used to be true, but advanced fingerprinting done is measuring certain metrics that Tor Browser are not always blocking against. On fingerprint.com, it will give you a hash and say how many times you've been there before. For me, it said I had been there once. I closed the browser, came back, and had the same hash and it said I had been there twice. I did this tests multiple times and in multiple ways. Notice how this person didn't post any screen captures of from fingerprint.com showing that they have supposedly visited 1000 times or whatever would be expected if Tor Browser had a fingerprint that was consistent across all users. I posted very clearly the problem, and some people replicated it, and some people couldn't, and the problem may or may not vary across distros. It's also possible some people could be lying. But yes, I tried to post this on privacyguides forum and they made it incredibly hard to post it, then deleted my username, and it was strange, and other people have had strange experiences.

They have different unique hashes per computer, so Tor Browser user on "Computer 1" has a unique hash and Tor Browser user on Computer 2 has a unique hash. I have read Mullvad's documentation on their browser. Please re-read the original post.

All users don't have the same fingerprint. Fingerprint.com is testing other things that Tor isn't covering. So if they are testing canvas and other stuff that Tor protects, and 2 things that aren't protected that give unique identifiers, they still create a unique hash. I did not test this using Tails or Qubes and it may not affect all operating systems.

They have different fingerprints PER COMPUTER without any plugins other than default of No Script. I tested this, it is not the same hash for every computer. It varies per computer and was persistent across sessions.

They did.

I sadly think this is what's happening and even wonder if some forum mods or people there are intelligence. Because why else would this shit keep happening? Privacyguides also has a sketchy origin story if you look far back enough. The really fucked up thing is they are the most well respected guide to privacy and constantly push 3 VPNs, including ProtonVPN after it was blatantly leaking, and it just really makes me wonder... why do they push those 3 VPNs so hard? In theory, they are good VPNs... but what if they are good and also being pushed for a reason? Almost every good independent VPN gets bought out. Half of the VPNs seem to be owned by Kape, AzireVPN got bought out by a US Company. It seems like fewer and fewer VPNs exist that don't have either intelligence connections or links to privacyguides forum. I just don't like it. I don't trust privacyguides anymore.

It feels like it to me. It seems more than just aggressive or vigilant modding.

If you want to do any browsing other than .onions, javascript is required. Tor Browser is supposed to be anti-censorship and anti-tracking and that it isn't really possible for Tor Browser to access 99% of the Internet without javascript. Also, the Tor organization is not telling people that they can be uniquely tracked when not in safer mode, and Mullvad Browser is copying most of Tor Browser but not including Tor routing in it and many people using Mullvad Browser use javascript. It's important that people know this and the fact that I've had such a hard time posting this in different places, and have been met with such suspicion and hostility, is sus and makes me wonder if certain people want these browsers trackable. It's fucking nuts to me that privacyguide's forum deleted multiple posts and my mother fucking username after I posted about this. What else other than it being a controlled operation explains that? And plenty of other people have complained about similar shit!

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You ruined "This PC"! Good thing it's not My Computer at least...

Thanks. Where exactly am I supposed to post this to alert people of the problem?

It's the same fingerprint every time if you use the same computer, and that fingerprint is unique to the computer. I don't know why this is so confusing.

Safest mode blocks any website with javascript and most of the Internet runs on javascript. They also don't warn users that anything other than safest mode now is entirely identifiable based on fingerprinting.

Safest is fine for .onions. For most of the Internet, this won't work. And Mullvad Browser, which is often not used with .onions, copies the main architecture of Tor Browser minus the routing.

Thank for for being the one person who actually did the test and replicated my results. Everyone else just *removed*ed about it and didn't do the test, and some people did the test and claimed they weren't unique without any reliable information. It's a problem, thank you for confirming at least one other person sees what the fuck I am writing about.

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No! Tell me how to impress you!

I agree about the risk of brain drain with fewer people learning to code.

This is a really interesting comment. I’d like to know more about your views on this.

How dare you! I’m nominating you for the Tesseract ban list, where you belong, with the other freaks and scum of Lemmy.

Which part of Asia? It’s a big country. But I’m still interesting in finding out how to do this…

Why is that funny? I hate being so technically illiterate.

Are you inviting me over?

I’m not against this idea… How do we make it happen?

I don’t know if I agree with you because someone still needs to tell an LLM what the project is for it to work and a normal person who has no science or computer science background can’t do that efficiently or check the technical aspects of a project to make sure the AI isn’t doing something incorrectly (and eventually the AI will do something incorrectly usually). I think we need UBI sooner rather than later because so many jobs will be obsolete, but if I’m chatting with an LLM or you are and we say “is the docker container up?” or “you built a page and there’s no clear way to navigate it” or “test for what would be exposed data in the case of a breach” the AI can do that, but a normal person doesn’t even understand any of that stuff to chat with an AI about that. I know it’s awful right now for coders who are getting paid less or are underemployed, but that seems to be more of a UBI problem instead of an LLM problem. There are legitimate environmental fears however, but LLMs and data centers seem to be a cherry on top of egregious environmental policy. Environmental catastrophe is headed this way with or without the cherry and it’s not clear to me if we had good universal public transportation and banned gasoline that somehow data centers would still be an existential human risk.

How could you say such a thing to me? From this day forward, the Internet will know the truth of how vile MyVeryRealName is.

Ubuntu has considered adding AI, but it isn’t that automatic or integrated, or wasn’t when I last checked. Ubuntu also has so much telemetry in it when it comes to communicating with specific ubuntu servers. Omarchy is at least moving quickly… if you don’t mind the occasional privilege escalation vulnerabilities…

The sad thing is many regular people in the USA are such assholes that given the choice between “treat trans people poorly and extreme poverty for most people” or “treat trans people nicely and have affordability and a good economy” many people will choose the platform that fucks themselves over and treat trans people badly… because they are just that religious and stupid.

I’m glad this person’s life was semi-ruined by using big tech. I am tired of normies using horrible platforms and then acting Pikachu-level shocked when they have horrible privacy violations. Tech illiteracy + Big tech exploiting tech illiteracy = profit and constant surveilance and normies are too damn stupid to get it, and every once in a while one of them gets fucked, and then… suddenly… nothing changes yet again and these normies with their acceptance of any TOS, even the shittiest of shit, and making opting out some sort of social misstep, like “What?! You really don’t use WhatsApp?” with an ugly look, means I am glad these assholes occasionally suffer for their ignorance

Where is here?

So it’s memory-safe coding for something that will output JavaScript anyway and it’s really hard and tedious for Claude to change over. I get it now!

I want to be called both. I am so tired of alpha male bullying by random garbage. Can’t you just go on a poorly designed submarine with your alpha bro kind to show off your superiority and let nature take it’s course?

Everyone saw this coming.

How will they try to monetize this eventually? Or is this a tax write-off to allow right wing CEOs to fund right wring programmers? I’m sure this comes back to money and cronyism somehow, but I’m not sure I get it.

So you’re saying atomic fedora linux and just giving an agent lots of access is safer than omarchy?