Damn, that’s already after the butlerian jihad

Dangerops, prangent sex

All of the greatest inventions which revolutionized key aspects of our daily lives have begun in aerospace engineering.

Pens that write upside down. Ice cream that doesn’t melt. Cock socks that don’t leak and are easy to clean.

This is why we fund NASA!

I want one!

That’s plain false. With a VPN enabled, the ISP can see data volume and time stamps, and what VPN server you’re connected to. Nothing else.

Your browser, depends on the browser. Chrome, Edge, etc., yeah, they’re watching everything you do. An open-source privacy-focused browser with maximum privacy settings enabled is not watching as much, if anything at all.

And incognito doesn’t hide your fingerprint from search engines or websites. It’s basically worthless for privacy. All it does is clear cookies, caches, and browsing history from the local device.

If you trust your ISP to examine all your web traffic, and if you don’t mind every site you visit knowing your real IP address, and if you’re not worried about hackers and sniffers on public wifi stealing your data, then I suppose you don’t need one.

But if by overrated, you mean they only handle certain aspects of security and aren’t a complete solution by themselves, then I agree. But no one who understands VPNs expects them to be a complete solution by themselves.

Never heard of it, but I looked them up and they use Codeberg, so I like

I already agreed that it’s unfeasible, I don’t know why you’re getting so upset. I literally said your gauss cannon idea is better, chill out.

In come the tankies to justify government censorship because China is doing it

Holy shit, that’s a lot of data. I had no idea they could see what language packs I have installed on my keyboard. I have a pretty unique combination of languages, so that probably makes me really easy to identify across platforms.

Is there an easy way to disable or block fingerprinting?

Some VPN providers offer a setting that makes it harder to analyze traffic patterns. They make every packet the same size and send them at regular intervals along with extra noise. It makes everything look uniform so that AI can’t match your traffic to/from the VPN server with traffic between the VPN server and your web activity.

It might be overkill, and it adds latency and uses extra data. But for maximum paranoia, it’s an option

Private tabs do nothing for the backend, your ISP, browser, search engine, and any sites you visit, can still see everything you do. All private tabs do is they don’t save history or cookies on your frontend.

VPN hides your data from your ISP, but there are still workarounds. Multi-hop can make you harder to triangulate though.

You still need to use a privacy-centric browser and search engine or else the ones you use can still send information about you back to their servers where they can build a profile on you. They won’t have your real IP address as long as you never connect without a VPN, but any little data they collect on you can be collated with the rest to profile you and potentially identify you.

Even with browsers like firefox or waterfox, you still need to enable all of the security settings or else there are gaps that can be exploited. HTTPS-only mode, DNS over HTTPS, anti-tracking extensions, etc…

Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an unseen gap somewhere. But it’s a lot better than using google and microsoft and no vpn.

Yeah that’s why you do multi-stage like conventional jet -> ramjet -> scramjet

But again, yeah if it needs to carry a rocket then it might be unfeasible. We could try your gauss cannon idea, that sounds fun. Like a maglev train, but shaped like those rides from roller coaster tycoon where you could launch people to their deaths. Except instead of crashing, the rocket kicks on mid-flight. It could work.

I thought scramjets were supposed to be really fuel-efficient? Just launch them with your gauss cannon idea so that they don’t need much fuel to get up to speed.

Maybe you’re right about the weight though. I’m not an engineer.

Ah, so the supermajority is official now? Great news.

The knight: “Umm, that’s great, but I still have 5 levels to go before I can wield mithril. Do you have anything in steel?”

Classic planes require an atmosphere to generate lift. There’s an outer limit where that would be a viable mechanism, and on Earth it’s still far below LEO. Still too deep in the gravity well for ion thrusters to be viable. It requires chemical rocket fuels to bridge that gap.

Maybe someday fusion propulsion will break that limitations, but for now the best you can do is reduce the amount of fuel needed by flying to the upper atmosphere and reaching hypersonic speeds before kicking into rocket fuel propulsion.

Then after orbital injection, switching to ion thrusters to move around, and solar sails for exiting orbit into interplanetary/lunar routes.

Could even take a scramjet to the upper layers of the atmosphere before kicking in the chemical propulsion

Weird Al Yankovich is in politics now?