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Recently came across the NymVPN project ( https://nym.com/ ), which makes use of WireGuard like fabric and a blockchain/smart-contracts, that implements a mixnet to obfuscate heade…

Wow, lots of generalisations are being made in the comments. I'm German and have lived in the south-west for most of my life. I hope it goes without saying that Germany is a big co…

Yup, use it regularly in order to jump through networks where a VPN/Wireguard setup is not possible. It can also forward DNS requests and handle local NS operations reasonably well…

Nice! The project also has a 16-bit variant https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos , not clear if it works on 8086 IBM PC, but I'll give it a go. Been looking for a reason to power u…

fully agree!

I really like this, nice work! Only thing missing for me is police sirens with flashing lights chasing me, on coming traffic, and Limp Bizkit and Bush playing in the background.

Thanks!

This is so cool!!! Props to author for the work, and also to ESA for allowing this kind of 'experimenting' :) . Aside, it blew my mind that these cubesats are using sdcards for sto…

Wow, just began reading the article on a mobile device without an adblocker and am shocked to find that I don't follow it... There are so many in line adverts and image links to ot…

Related: https://youtu.be/mzAfich6mow

Maybe fairphone 4? From factory it comes with android 11, but a beta release of /e/OS is now available for it [1]. [1]: https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-e-os-is-available-…

Very cool, but from 2017. I would have loved to see this in person.

Cool!!! Is there maybe something similar for wines and spirits?

I wasn't aware of such a study of quicktests in Germany, thanks for the info! The website works well on my mobile.

https://aeon.co/

For anyone interested in US nuclear strategy, Daniel Ellsberg's "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" is an excellent (terrifying) read.

This looks cool, I haven't signed up so don't know what the challenges are but I'd give it a go. > rule 3: The person coding the highest SCORE in the shortest amount of TIME with t…

Augustus: A Novel, by John Edward Williams

Alternatively, there is either "ket 0" or "ket 1" [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

There is a third option, spoil your ballot. It's invalid then, yes, but it's a statistic that the election/party analysts will track. Up to a certain threshold a spoiled ballot mig…

Wow, I was under the impression that atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) was extremely inefficient. I don't have any numbers but things like [1][2] seem to indicate that AWH is curr…