nitrohorse Ⓐ @andreas@nitro.horse
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Dammit, I fell for it 😆 IP address is 127.0.0.1. Should’ve thought of decoding the DNS stamp first. https://dnscrypt.info/stamps/
TIL about LibreSpeed, a FOSS, self-hosted HTML5 speedtest. You can test against NixNet and Snopyta servers.
- Web: https://librespeed.org
- Android: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dosse.speedtest
- CLI: https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest-cli
Glad to see ChatSecure (iOS XMPP client) getting some love. https://testflight.apple.com/join/psrh8VB6
Hmm, Keybase has a bot for sending/receiving SMS: https://keybase.io/smsbot
More on Keybase bots: https://keybase.io/blog/bots
I wonder if this bot can receive SMS short codes for account verification 🤔
2) They replaced "We do NOT record your IP address, browser data, or operating system" with the vague phrase, "We do NOT collect any personally identifiable information (PII).
3) They removed "We do NOT share your search data with governments."
Wow. Apparently the *Boba Fett minifig* from https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/10123_Cloud_City goes for $300+ on BrickLink due to the rarity of the arm/hip/leg prints 😳
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=sw0107
> DoorDash has no mention of its massive data breach on its homepage. There's nothing on its Twitter or Facebook page, either.
> What's also weird is DoorDash's robots file (https://www.doordash.com/robots.txt) hides "/securitynotice" from Google, so people can't even search it.
- https://nitter.net/zackwhittaker/status/1177620079074332672
Nice. So Equifax's data breach claim page has Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google trackers.
Uncharted 4 - Cake by the Ocean (DNCE) 😂
https://victorsullys.tumblr.com/post/144503267199/kristaferanka-uncleclustersthirdbrain
Mullvad’s desktop client (v2019.5) now integrates with Shadowsocks 😮
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/6/17/shadowsocks-integrated-new-app-version-20195
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html
> One of these changes is to move away from the blocking version of the Web Request API towards a new API... this change is meant to give developers a way to create safer and more performant ad blockers...we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules.
This is really helpful: a shell script to test the performance of the most popular DNS resolvers from your location. By https://cleanbrowsing.org
Very cool. In iOS 13 Apple will track where apps request background location.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-ios-13-location-privacy
"...when I disabled uBlock Origin, [https://www.thedailybeast.com] reported connections to 132 distinct base domains, and 200 MB for one single 12-short-paragraph article." - gorhill, creator of uBlock Origin
https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1133756937638744066
Learn more: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md#ublock-origin
A near-complete minifig-scale rendition of #Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (~400k bricks, built in 2012) 😵
More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/88574960@N02/8508642261/in/set-72157632858317817
Interview with the creator, Alice Finch: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2013/02/26/alice-finch-builds-massive-lego-hogwarts-from-400000-bricks
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