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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • No; I think these bills are terrible and should be resisted. But the outrage about (what is effectively) a database on your pc to store information that itself doesn’t do anything is ridiculous.

    If abyone wants or needs to implement a system like that (could be for work,for example), that’s perfectly fine. What isn’t fine is the existence of the laws in the first place, and they shouldn’t be resisted with (just) technology.




  • I don’t think you understand.

    If you spoof your resolution and window size to the degree that it’s undetectable you effectively have to render it in that resolution.

    Guess how websites make it so that they work on any resolution? They use relative units and whatnot that make it work that way, and all that is detectable one way or another. So you’d have to spoof it all in order to resist fingerprinting - and that is either going to break the rendering, or it’s going to effectively render that website at that resolution, making it a bad experience for regular users either way.

    I do wish this was an option for more “normal” browsers, and that they resisted fingerprinting better in some other ways, but you have to make serious compromises to make it work fully.









  • My point is that institutions like that simply should not exist. They are effectively lobbying groups (if it’s nonprofit / non-governmental organization) or propaganda machines (if established by the people in power).

    Neither has any place in democracy.

    We don’t need “purpose built” think tanks; we need people with actual experience, with jobs, etc. giving in their 10 cents of expertise when required.

    And they should be required only when the governmening bodies are implementing things they have been actually voted in to do. We shouldn’t havr good-for-nothing “government employees” fearing to be out of job creating busywork for themselves that only perpetuates and creates layers upon layers of useless bureaucracy that nakes the average person’s lives worse.



  • Ahh okay. Well then the issue becomes actually having this DNS server with all the records you need, and serving it to the correct clients - for example you’ll need a different set of records for your LAN and for your VPN.

    Although come to think of it since my DNS records are already kinds scripted I could probably fairly easily just script different URLs based on the DNS server I want to serve them from… Maybe worth a try.


  • I agree it’s a stupid hack, but there are good reasons to use public addresses in your local environment too: for example you’ll need it for any roaming device like a laptop or a phone. It also vastly simplifies certificate management where you can just use sour existing publicly valid certs to access your services.

    The only proper solution would probably be ipv6, but that’s not trivial either.