It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you. – The Aghori Vimalananda (Svoboda, R.E., 1993. Aghora III: The Law of Karma. C.I.M.O.T.I.) Another pseudo-spiritual phrase? Perhaps. However, some words are not just spoken, but lived. I understood the authenticity of this sentence when I […]
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“I don’t care about politicians. The only thing I care about is what’s being controlled in the country so that I can comply and not get arrested or fined. Fuck politicians,” said my host Christos from Airbnb in Athens as he explained to me how pissed off he was that, due to new regulations, he
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WARNING: This guide does not apply to people in the EU who own iPhone 15 Pro and above. If you are one of these device owners, it will be sufficient if you update your software to iOS 18.1 and set up your phone according to the “Last Step — Activating Apple Intelligence” section of the
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Disclaimer — all the tools mentioned in this article will be useful mainly for people in Central Europe, especially in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In my previous blogs, you may have read something here and there about internet privacy. I explained a little bit about cookies, browser fingerprinting, I compared different VPN services or
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Privacy is a big issue that is present in everyone’s lives, and it naturally tends to pop into our heads, especially when we’re just browsing the internet. It’s not surprising at all. Internet privacy is no longer just a matter of “open door in the toilet”, it is a matter of the “open door in
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Under no circumstances does one even have to pull one’s head out of one’s own morbidly plump buttock to fail to notice the beauty of the entropy of emerging and fading beliefs that drive forward, like an engine, all that one dares to call “will,” “decision,” “preference,” or whatever other euphemisms one might use. And
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Illegal Dog is out. It’s only out in electronic form for now, but it’s out. Written in two weeks, but edited for over a year. I realize the book isn’t for everyone. It will bore, frustrate, annoy and even anger. But it doesn’t matter; the book itself was not written to be liked, but to
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In our last article, we took a look at Signal and Telegram, two giants in the encrypted communications industry, and compared some of their features as well as their security and privacy levels. Among other things, we also sort of sketched out two other messengers that are poised to become the number one in secure
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A VPN, aka Virtual Private Network, is a tool that allows users to securely access the internet and protect their personal information. It creates a secure, encrypted “tunnel” between the user’s device and the Internet through which all Internet traffic flows. VPNs are necessary for everyone’s privacy because they help protect us from a number
In the last episode of The Wall Against Big Brother, we explained how browser fingerprinting, cookies, local/sessionStorage, and other tracking tricks that lurk on the Internet work. In this section, however, we’ll focus on protecting our privacy. Specifically, with the help of browser extensions. To disable or not to disable JavaScript is a very crucial
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