So to give someone a steam gift card now you have to send it directly to their steam account?

What makes it seem that way? Doesn’t read like AI to me, not a lot of vague fluff, consists of salient points and claims backed by links to relevant sources.

I think that depends on them because they would have to set up some way for people to pay them

Get a 3090

Last time I did a major upgrade was a few years ago, got a new motherboard/cpu/ram because the old stuff was broken in some way that was causing weird problems. Glad I got that and some additional drives bought before all the current craziness. Before that it was a better GPU. So every few years I guess.

I don’t know but I want a browser layer that lies about it and then renders the page in a way that doesn’t send back more information, and I think it would probably work and only be slightly buggy.

Some stuff has to be reported accurately for stuff to work well, like screen size

Ah yes, CSS, the famously serverside technology

I don’t understand why this should be inherently impossible. If you buy a separate device, and use that exclusively for one thing and do not cross-contaminate, that should work to avoid fingerprinting right? And this is all information that your computer is voluntarily providing, and is I assume possible to change independently from the hardware. So why not?

I’ve heard about this sort of technique being used, but an important step I usually hear about isn’t present here, which is to first translate the text to another language before translating it back. Simply asking a LLM to

Rewrite the user’s text so it sounds natural and human-written. "

"Preserve the original meaning exactly.

seems likely to leak things like your word preferences and grammatical quirks, a 7b model isn’t going to be super creative about this and will want to take your lead on things. There needs to be an initial layer of stripping your statement of what makes it unique.

Is there any way to browse the web without being fingerprinted, short of literally using a separate computer

You’ll probably be fine if you post circumvention info then

Why are they explicitly going out of their way to block GrapheneOS despite not many people using it?

I saw no messages for a long time, then saw a couple when I moved the radio to the other side of the room, and a lot more when I brought it with me to a more populated city.

Yeah, I did ultimately realize this, maybe I should have written a bit more in my edit earlier but it’s a bit embarrassing tbh, I had come to some wrong conclusions. I think what I’m going to do is simply stop using Cloudflare for anything that does not have an extra layer of encryption on top of https, or that isn’t just a static, public webpage with no interactivity.

I checked just to be sure (and debugged some problems while I was at it like the certificate having been expired), the certificate is from Let’s Encrypt via certbot.

Here is how to configure Cloudflare for this (I am using the free version):

In the settings under SSL/TLS Overview, in “Configure encryption mode”, select “Custom SSL/TLS” instead of “Automatic SSL/TLS (default)”, and under that select Full:

Full Enable encryption end-to-end. Use this mode when your origin server supports SSL certification but does not use a valid, publicly trusted certificate.

Edit: looking into it more, might have been mistaken about how this works

How can they act as a proxy if they can’t terminate the connection?

Why wouldn’t they be able to? The DNS record points to Cloudflare’s IP, they forward the traffic to your server’s IP. This is a common choice for self hosting setups because it’s a free service and it is a way to avoid pointing a DNS record at your home IP, which you may not want everyone to know. That doesn’t require decrypting the traffic.

How this squares with the ddos protection and caching stuff, I’m not sure, but I know I set up SSL locally, did not give Cloudflare the keys, turned off all the options for them to handle it, and everything seems to work.

I’ll be more specific: if you set up a website on your own server, and use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy. If you do SSL yourself, on your own server, then the traffic is encrypted between the client and your server, and therefore Cloudflare cannot read it, they do not have the encryption keys, even though the traffic is passing through them. If you use Cloudflare’s https solution, Cloudflare provides the keys and decrypts the traffic before passing it on.

The former is the more secure way to do it, but they encourage you to do it the way where they get to read all the traffic, which is pretty shady of them, because if a website has https people assume that means it is end to end encrypted to the website itself, but that assumption is being violated here and a user has no way to know.

If you set up a website with cloudflare, their user interface has a lot of tracking stuff on by default to be injected into it. It also encourages you to use their https service where the traffic is not actually encrypted from the user to your server, but man-in-the-middle’d by cloudflare. But the interface makes it super easy to do and refers to it like a good and normal default option.

So yeah I think they really want your data.

I’d guess that the content and the people would be a bigger factor for someone who isn’t very into technology than understanding the underlying concept and architecture.

I am also worried about that.

There’s a limit to what you can do when the house and senate refuse to impeach a president who is obviously breaking the law constantly, and when the justice department sees itself as the president’s lawyer.

We can acknowledge that additional power granted to the executive branch of the US government cannot be said to be safe, and that limitations on its power must be more blunt in order to be reliable. Use of money that lacks buttons for them to cut people off is potentially one such blunt limitation. I also find the way people have been protesting pretty inspiring, I think it helps.