Recent content by dazedandlost

As perhaps the leading candidate for the position of resident privacy nutcase, I would like to offer a few generalized thoughts. I don’t know much about mac addresses beyond their specific hardware identifier origin so ... 1) I am totally thrilled when skilled individuals think about privacy...

Speaking just for myself and not trying to convince anyone of anything, I like the atmosphere here. And the tougher the crowd, the better I like it. Up to a point, of course. And I continue to be incredibly grateful to all of the people who have built this wonderfully helpful firmware, addons...

Yet another superb example of why this is such an incredibly helpful place. Thank you!

Here to report a flawless and effortless dirty u/g a few moments ago from 386.3_2 to 386.4. Now to do a clean install to the ax86u (which has been waiting for this), sweep off the cobwebs, and get to running that. Many packets full of thanks to Merlin and all.

Agree completely (as I tried to say), and thank you for your work. I think you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say.

I don't like being tracked. My position on this is probably among the more extreme that you might find. I do not apologise for that. That said, I have no problem at all with what you are suggesting because your suggestion is to track your addons and not to track any specific individual. Also...

Thanks for the link. It seems quite clear that your interpretation is correct. Still, it doesn't seem appropriate to me right now. Maybe I'll change my opinion after I've thought about it for a while.

Yes. I have no doubt that many people will have very strongly held positions about this, as do I. (Un?)Fortunately, I doubt very much that SNB will be seen as the proper place for discussing those positions. So I won't. :)

On rereading what I wrote, I am ashamed at how poorly I expressed what I was trying to say. I apologize. I don’t think I can repair the flaws in it in a reasonable number of words so I would prefer not to make the attempt right now.

I know that not everyone agrees with me but I do not believe either privacy or anonymity are binaries, in which case both statements can be true.

You know what: These are the kinds of comments that I find extremely helpful and thought provoking. Thank you. And thank you to garycnew for the welcome and the pointers to his tutorials, which I have happily placed on my todo (aka the where did I put that anyway) list. I am not a coder but I'm...

Some does, yes certainly, but not all. You make valid points, and I have some understanding of your excellent analogy. I believe I made some valid points as well.

I thought I had. See here: What am I failing to disclose? (Actually, I'm more interested in the generalities than the specifics atm, but these are the ones I would be most concerned about.) I think I may have overemphasized the "sharing" aspect of it simply by mentioning it. While not...

You gentlemen are challenging my thinking and I thank you for that. This is likely true for much of the general context existing at the end points (on the internet or in real life). I don't believe it's necessarily true that privacy must necessarily evaporate between those end points, along the...

If you don't mind my asking, what, if anything, do you do? I am not one who finds the "if you have nothing to hide" line of argument persuasive.