That’s truly as lightweight as you’re going to get. Cool little script.

If you like Heimdall you could run it without Docker. It’s a PHP app, you could run nginx and it would be pretty lightweight.

I used to have pi-hole setup and a housemate complained that he could no longer click on Google ads 🙄

If anything it will make things load faster as you’re blocking a massive steaming pile of ads, trackers, etc

It seems you completely misinterpreted the intention of the article (willingly or ignorantly).

At Skiff, we take an authoritative position that PGP is no longer useful, long outdated by better encryption protocols, encumbered by unneeded complexity, and hard to use even from the start.

Except for “no longer useful” the rest is pretty much unanimously agreed upon within the community.

Seems suss. Can you find that app installed on your system and verify if it is a legit system app?

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Specifically for attempting to bypass certificate pinning you’re solidly in the realm of reverse engineering. I haven’t attempting it myself but I have read the efforts of others over the years and the process was quite evolved and ever changing. If you are interested in going down this rabbit hole you may use these links as starting points but be prepared to adapt them.

https://felipe-herranz.medium.com/uncertify-a-tool-for-recompiling-android-apps-bypassing-different-certificate-pinning-techniques-de3d30ded2c6

https://gist.github.com/approovm/e550374428065ff1ecafca6a0488d384

https://frida.re/

https://codeshare.frida.re/browse

Best of luck.

Well if the original comment said it makes it less likely to get doxxed I would have agreed. But that’s not what the comment said. I was replying to what was actually said which is when I pointed out that privacy and anonymity are not the same thing (in the context of being immune to doxxing). If you were anonymous on the internet then you would be immune to getting doxxed (however unrealistic that circumstance may be).

From one of your devices can you check what DNS server they are using? It sounds like the router is setting itself as the DNS server. This would mean all your devices would list your router’s IP address and the DNS server. This is a different setting than the DNS server that your router is using.

If that’s the case you tell your router to tell your devices to set the DNS server to the IP address of your AdGuard Home device. Alternatively, you can manually set the DNS server on your devices.

Yeah, unfortunately it’s a huge barrier if you’re wanting to see why your devices are phoning home and the data being sent. It makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for most people to bypass.

sure, done

You just brought back an old memory. I used to use WordWeb dictionary and apparently it’s still around. According to the app listing it doesn’t collect any data and my memory of it was fully offline anyway. I haven’t verified anything myself but may be worth checking out. AFAIK they have apps on every platform.

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WordWeb (every platform)

Relying on obscurity is not the same thing as “total immunity”.

No, not at all. The request never hits the cache. The certificate is stored within the app and all internet communication is specifically pinned to said certificate. It doesn’t even ask your certificate store.

Of course this is not a good thing. But to entirely prevent being “placed” at the scene of a crime you would never be able to carry a cell phone, drive a car, or even walk/cycle with your face visible. You’d have to leave and enter your house taking special care not to be seen by any cameras, etc

The point he was making is that if you want to entirely prevent any of these problems, the steps you have to tale are extreme otherwise you’re always leaving open a potential security hole.

Being private and being anonymous are not exactly the same.

There are some cases where this would not work by the way. It’s called certificate pinning and it’s basically when an application comes with the trusted certificate for a host built-in. Even if you were to override it with a root certificate in the certificate store, the app simply wouldn’t use it.

I haven’t read the paper but an event is just any interaction between particles. Just literally anything happening. I wouldn’t be trying to learn much from this write up though and highly suggest looking into some better sources of information.

Since the second law of infodynamics is a cosmological necessity, and appears to apply everywhere in the same way, it could be concluded that this indicates that the entire universe appears to be a simulated construct or a giant computer.

This is such a huge leap to make. It’s nearly equivalent to saying due to the fact that your coffee gets colder over time you can conclude that the entire universe is a simulation.

A super complex universe like ours, if it were a simulation, would require a built-in data optimization and compression in order to reduce the computational power and the data storage requirements to run the simulation.

According to? Presumably if you can simulate an entire universe you have at least orders of magnitude more computational capacity than this universe. But apparently not too much more because you would “require” compression in order to fit all that data?

Just a few things that stood out to me as wtf moments.

EDIT: I forgot the best quote in the page:

We know the universe is expanding without the loss or gain of heat, which requires the total entropy of the universe to be constant.

Not even remotely true. It’s commonly accepted that the entropy of the universe is constantly increasing and it’s got nothing to do with the the universe as a whole being unable to lose or gain heat (from an outside source). Entropy increases because what’s inside, as a whole, is moving towards a state of equilibrium.

Information is quantifiable in physics. PBS Spacetime has some videos on information theory if you’re interested. A very simple example could be the spin of a particle (say it’s either up or down). That represents one “bit” of information because it only gives you a binary response - the same as in a computer. We don’t have any great models once you get to the size of biology but in theory you can layer it up all the way from the smallest of subatomic particles and “measure” the information of anything.