Perhaps! But I like it (slightly) more than scattered across the floor, which is definitely more true to the old days! The dust covers are kind of nice too.
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Perhaps! But I like it (slightly) more than scattered across the floor, which is definitely more true to the old days! The dust covers are kind of nice too.
A cartoon drawing of a Sasquatch crossing a busy city street.
Back in 2021, while we were all still working from home, I started noodling around on this idea for a cartoon series pitch called “Theodore von Barnyard”. It was about a young Sasquatch who, after breaking in to a cabin in the woods and watching waaaay too many DVDs…
In the end the machines will win.
Cyber Tension has graciously granted the Courageous Diamonds a chance to meet us in the ring. This is only the second team we've decided deserve a chance, so we're fresh and ready to send them back to the 8-bit era. Adventure Awaits, Diamonds, Welcome to the Machine.
#UFWNightfall - Tonight 8pm SLT
UFW Nightfall starts at 8pm SLT! Tonight's offering sees Red Umbra tangle with Yuki Usagi!
Dusty Roda throws down against the crooning Rocco Knight!
And finally our Main Event sees The Courageous Diamonds attempt to wrangle the UFW Tag Team Titles from Cyber Tension!
Happy birthday!
LOL, thank you ;)
It mostly depends what you want from it. If you want the extra layer of obfuscation, it provides that. But it's not a substitute for safe practices - stay alert, watch for scams, don't click random links, etc. If you need to be deeply hidden, though, a VPN isn't sufficient. I'm not an expert there.
It's to connect you to someone else's network. It will mask your IP address, yes, you will appear to originate from the VPN provider's network. Nothing is foolproof though.
It encrypts the connection, but most of the data was already encrypted. It mostly prevents your ISP from knowing what you do, but Nord still does. I used Nord for a while, they're okay. The product is not a bad thing if you need it. But the marketing is over the top and stretches the fear side.
Some. If you want to mask your IP address, it does that. If you need to attach to another network (usually for corp stuff), that's what it's for. It does SOME obfuscation. It adds more encryption if you have unencrypted data (which is not much anymore). But if you expect it to hide you.. not so much
It is, and it isn't. The encryption is real. The scenarios they describe are feasible. But most internet traffic these days is already encrypted from the browser onwards, so intercepting it is already unhelpful. The VPN is (often) just encrypting already-encrypted data. Nord seems OK, I've used them
I never followed up on this, but the TTL latches worked. After I broke the only NOR gate I had by accidentally removing it instead of the latch, and had to order those too...
Thank you for that... unfortunately that's not one I have answers for today. I've heard good things about Brave but that's the best I have for you.
I'm not saying don't use a VPN if you understand your use case or enjoy some of the side benefits. Go for it. I'm just kind of annoyed by the way they are marketed right now as some kind of magic bullet that hides everything you do and protects you from the bad guys.
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When you use a VPN, your ISP can't really tell what else you connect to. But they know you connected to a specific VPN. And that VPN can theoretically know everything you connected to. So all you've really done is bump the data collection one level.
Most VPN connections do employ some level of encryption, yes. Absolutely. But, not too much of your existing data was still unencrypted. Certainly all your web traffic was already encrypted. Name lookups is probably the only common case off the top of my head that this might help.
So your IP can't be used to geolocate you, since your traffic runs through the VPN. But it doesn't need to. Web browser and many phone apps have a simple query that a target can use "Where is user?", and that information is relayed through as per normal.
I don't know who needs to know this... but...
A VPN is not a privacy application. It doesn't hide your location data, specifically. It doesn't encrypt your data, specifically. All it does is route your traffic through a single server somewhere else.
Let me explain. Or don't, this is the internet.
A purple button badge on squidwards shirt that says "I'm not ignoring you I'm just really busy and if I don't use my few free hours for myself instead of responding to everyone I will straight up lose my sanity"
That's the pic I started following you over :)
(Er: for software, to be clear)
My buddy is a Uni professor. A good half or more of his students cheat, many with AI (and many others by just copying the one someone else did with AI). He catches them just by asking them to explain what the code does.
But yeah. What's the point of cheating into a degree? How long will you last?
ooh, okay. I can't join that one, this is the whole pic ;)
I am assuming that's not Personal Financial Planner. ;) What's PFP?
Fill the bath with nickles and see if you can get toonies ;)
Vermont H.330 S.297 are electronic voting statues that were recently introduced.
I feel the following XKCD is probably the best response. A CS prof in college helped his state with election security as a volunteer. The comic is accurate.
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Happy Hearts and Hooves Day Concerned ;)
ATTENTION ARTISTS AND ANY ASPIRING PIXEL ARTISTS!!!
Aseprite is on sale on Steam!! It's a Pixel art program for art/animating and I highly recommend! (I have almost 700 hours in it!) It's $13 and a one time payment for an excellent program!!
