I don’t really care either but I think immediately calling it “not news” is maybe a little much.

Why are you using ngrok to host an instance? 🙈

Why is the image hosted at i.redd.it?

I keep wondering why images aren’t loading and it’s because they’re hosted by Reddit? I blocked them ages ago but why are we using Reddit’s CDN for Lemmy posts’ images?

I use this website quite a bit but there are tons (just search for “what’s my IP address”). This is another good one for testing IPv6 connectivity problems.

The simple explanation is that on IPv4 it’s 99% probable that it’s the case that everyone on your home network appears as the same IP address on the internet. With IPv6 it’s possible but highly discouraged, each device would have its own IPv6 address (though it might still be obvious they’re related).

So yeah, it really does seem like they’re hating on your home network.

Or ip address?

Makes sense since their shit hole servers only support IPv4. You were all probably NAT’d to the same IPv4 address.

Even worse, don’t use the suggested Samba, NFS without a tunnel either! You should probably have the default ports blocked at the router.

Surprised no one just said Samba or NFS over a tunnel (Tailscale, WireGuard, etc).

Or by “sharing” do you mean keeping files synced between the two for replication?

I came here to say MDMA too! I’m a Millennial but it was far my most favorite drug c. 2010.

Do people really buy produce wrapped in so much plastic? Personally I go out of my way to avoid it.

This drives me crazy living in the Los Angeles area too, but I’ve discovered it comes from Mexico. For example, Taquería “Los Hermanos” would be a taquería (taco shop) called The Brothers.

Honestly it doesn’t bother me so much while traveling in Mexico and seeing it in Spanish but it definitely looks totally wrong in English.

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.

What a bunch of fucking trolls. Same goes with China.