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 […]
Hunger, or fasting. For many people, even a conversation about this topic is something so scary that they automatically develop a grandmother complex and start telling you that you have to stop thinking about “losing weight” and that you should eat regularly. But is it really so? In this two-part series, we’ll look at the
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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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In my article on clients and replacements for classic social networks, we mentioned something about how encryption is far from the only guarantor of self-defense against Big Brother. This time, we’ll also look at security and protecting our privacy, but from a slightly different perspective. We’ll explain how you can protect yourself from Big Brother
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Intolerance towards sexual minorities is still present today. But let’s be optimistic. If you are a member of the LGBT community and live in Europe, you have the opportunity to live a pretty good life compared to many other places on the globe. There are countries in the world where homosexuality is dealt with by
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DISCLAIMER: This article is for educational purposes only. We are currently (2022) experiencing a small psychedelic renaissance again after the 1960s, and I would venture to say that the perception of psychedelics in our society has changed since then, as has the perception of meditation – it’s no longer just hippies in flip-flops meditating (and
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You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.” William S. Burroughs Meditation is a very strange phenomenon. It is no longer the privilege of half-naked exots from the Himalayas or hippies (pretending to be half-naked
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In the last article about encrypted communication and clients for big brother apps, we explained what the network effect is, what privacy actually is, and all the different ways we can look at it. We also outlined why, from a security and privacy perspective, I don’t consider Telegram to be as good a technology as
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Young people use Discord and enjoy networking in the communities there. Russians and Yankees use Telegram massively and replicate their memebionts across the world. Elon Musk is constantly producing buzz about Twitter. And so on. There are debates about some kind of “privacy” and “security” around it as well as how many people are using
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I. PHILOSOPHICAL PART In the previous article on memes, we have also touched a bit on the topic of artificial intelligence, which we are going to look at today, besides the analysis of morf metabolism. Whether we like it or not, AI is increasingly being applied to some specific part of human culture. Probably Alexa,
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