That "remove sensitive files from the system" thing sounds ominous. I hope they put them back. For historical records and so on. Yes, I know offline distributed multi-key file validation exists. still ... *puts on tinfoil hat*.

I'm using Linux. I use liferea (LinuxFeedReader). I have about 500 feeds and all my main browsing is sources from RSS. Youtube has RSS with no need to sign in. Download with sponsorblock. All reddit addresses take .rss at the end to give you the feed, for example https://old.reddit.com/r/Histo.... Combine with a userscript to redirect all reddit links to old.reddit. All the main journals have RSS. Elelvier, PNAS, Nature, Science, PLOS one ... ask you favorite AI to compile a list of peer-reviewed and or high quality feeds. Use OPML to import and export your feed lists. OpenRSS, FiveFilters and other such services make RSS feeds for services that don't have them like Instagram and Facebook. FeedBro is a nice Firefox addon as is Want my RSS. Google News comes via RSS. You can filter out sources you don't want to see. Almost all the main news sources have their own RSS feeds too. All Wordpress sites have RSS by default. Google searches can be RSS. Same with duckduckgo and Startpage. The feeds aren't obvious cause they want you to login and get the algo feed. Fuck that. RSS over Tor.

AdBlock for real.

I don't doublt. But at least post links for those who do doubt..

The Cloudflare crawler honeypots serve an endless web of verified facts to the crawlers, so as to not increase mis/dis information. The auto populated page content and links are designed to NOT include facts relevant to the site.

Here's the hash for the ebook for those who torrent.

2EA8E70D842DFC52127E0BE140A1AD042DC5889B

No javascript or ads for me. classic discussion system plus good ublock and noscript cleanup is working fine. Did see some intrusive ads yesterday, and the site did prompt me to allow scripting for html-load or somesuch, but I just ignored it and added some rules.

PubPeer allows search and comments on papers
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Scite auto loads citation numbers and retarction status when you load an article or page with DOI:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Unpaywall shows legal links to blocked articles when you load them, good to use before the shadow libraries.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

All three play together well.

Load the autism and vaccine paper to see.

https://www.thelancet.com/jour...

bittorrent or IPFS would be perfect for this.

Using btfs (bittorrent filesystem) one could load the torrent as a filesystem, even if it huge, but only download the data to be stored locally when it is requested, instead of downloading all the data in the torrent.

This is right ^MOD PARENT UP

If houses are designed with seasonal variation of solar taken into account, then we can collect and store the excess solar heat in large amounts of thermal mass and release it all winter long. And you can get cooling in the summer from air tubes buried below the frost line where even in the desert and in the summer the earth is cool a few feet down and thus cools air being pulled passively into the tubes which are long enough to cool the air before it comes in to the house. Then you won't need A/C even in the desert where it gets very cold and very hot. see ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But this requires a large amount of thermal mass to be enclosed with insulation, usually massive walls as well as an insulated slab floor in order to have enough mass to store heat for an entire winter season.

It's hard to retrofit to do this.

I like the rebuttal that simply says if you take the guy (or machine) in the box /and/ all the rules for translation within the box, and then look at that as a whole system, then "Yes" the system does understand Chinese. The guy alone doesn't embody understanding. Nor does the list of rules. But together they do understand.

Anyway, worth thinking about.

In court when Sunde was asked why he participated in The Pirate Bay.
He said it wasn't for the money.
When asked why he did it then he said it was because "It was interesting"

geek

Ever have that gut feeling of dread when you realize that you don't have a complete backup, or maybe no backup at all?

Remember that feeling?

3 copies of data. At least one "remote".

sdxc card on your person when you go out.
encypted partition on friends computer in another country, and you host their partition.

global distributed.

1) Sync.
Sync is not backup. Your Sync can be infected/encrypted too, because it's connected ... so that you can , you know, sync.

Sync the data in as near to realtime is useful to you.
But realize that sync is not backup, so ...
What if I lose the last 10 mins? The last 10 hours?

2) Backup over the Network.
But *PULL* your backups to the target machine. Do not PUSH them to the target. Why? Push requires write permissions, but PULL only requires read permissions.

Still, this relies on permsissions not being hacked. It is possible that the permissions can be bypassed.

Therefore, have an air-gapped backup too, even if it's just pushing the sdxc card in to the slot before you put it in your pocket and go somewhere else.

Scale up to global distributed backups.

Re:Epson ... olivatta thermal too then