My area in Los Angeles used to have several rail lines nearby along with pedestrian tunnels (called “sub-ways” at the time) all over the place. I like looking at old photos from those times and marvel at how much more pedestrian friendly it all used to be.

I think I’ve seen research supporting this but of course I can’t remember where.

Sorry but that’s totally wrong.

The entire point is that if it’s unique it can be considered a fingerprint — in fact the entire reason it’s called “fingerprint” is that in theory it’s unique like a real fingerprint.

If it’s common then it’s unreliable as a fingerprint because it’s no longer unique. Therefore whether it’s unique or not is the entire point and relevant to the topic.

I imagine it’s somewhere between what both of you are saying.

I imagine “randomized” means a random common “fingerprint” (with parameters like user agent, language, etc) rather than just a unique set of randomized parameters (say, time zone in US but language set to Farsi which would be unique to an extent).

From their domain that I’ve already blocked with DNS? Or are you talking about first-party scripts calling Google (which I’ve also seen though much more rare)?

In any case I block those too.

Right, that’s why I mentioned all the blocking at the DNS and browser extension level — most fingerprinting is being done by third-parties — I generally don’t see first parties fingerprinting but if they do it’s likely a website I chose to be on rather than some shady <script> from God knows where.

I’ve studied Spanish (I’m basically fluent), a bit of Japanese on my own in high school along with a bunch of random false starts in other languages like German (and a stint learning Esperanto).

It wasn’t until my 30’s when I started learning Mandarin that my brain was like “holy shit, this is different!”

I tend to prefer Asian languages because they make more sense to me — all the conjugating and irregularities in European languages just make me crazy.

My thinking is that most of the fingerprinting is happening by third parties, and where it’s the website operators themselves I’m not super concerned about being fingerprinted.

I’m here with multi-hop VPN with the first two hops staying in-country and the rest all random + a shit load of DNS blocking lists and browser extensions + blocking Google. I use different VPN providers too. I’m also introducing variable delays to my traffic to make NetFilter data less helpful.

Wouldn’t it be simpler than that and just be that the application is running from RAM?

Though I suppose if we’re talking about Linux you could move root to a disk in RAM.

I used to incredibly close. We could very comfortably — I’d almost say like friends except the fact they did actually parent and never allowed us to walk all over them.

It’s kind of sad now, I don’t talk to my parents often anymore. We live a few states apart.

My wife I walked around our area in Los Angeles this year and many areas were completely full of trick or treating. Strangely though some of the most expensive neighborhoods had zero Halloween decorations and no activity.

I know Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish (and used to play around in Esperanto). I always loved learning languages but it wasn’t until later in life living in Los Angeles and speaking/hearing Spanish daily and then traveling to Mexico with my wife (who’s from there) that I really started feeling the benefits.

Knowing another language really opens doors in so many ways even if sometimes it’s only in small “insignificant” ways.

The first time I felt California was home was walking into a convenience store and being greeted in Spanish and carrying on the conversation like it was nothing.

Traveling to Mexico and being able to converse and learn all about another culture while being completely immersed in it is a powerful experience.

I don’t feel superior or better than others but when I talk to my monolingual friends and family back home I do feel a bit sad that they can’t understand or take part in some of those experiences.

If you see me in public I’m usually chaining a bunch of tunnels together in some odd way to get around the poorly configured WiFi and actually secure my traffic.

Most everything I eat honestly (vegan btw) but red lentil pasta is a great way to clear yourself out.