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2018-08-13 at 4:24 AM UTC in Marmite and honey on toastmarmite is fucking disgusting on its own, combined with honey I'm sure it only gets worse.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-12 at 7:21 PM UTC in I'm not ready to be a father.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-08 at 6:42 PM UTC in Leaving Niggas in Space foreverI'm gonna be a dad to a kid that isn't mine. I don't have time to post on childish websites, I have 18 years of literal cuckholding I gotta get ready for!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-10 at 10:54 PM UTC in The nature of addiction
Originally posted by EllariaSand Calling addiction a disease is a cop out
No, it's an accurate description of the condition. Denying responsibility for addiction may be a cop out, but that's not the same thing as correctly saying it's a disease.Besides if it actually were a disease there would be a ton more people collecting SSDI because they’re addicts….
This is atrocious logic. SSDI is not the authority on what constitutes disease, nor does it count disease as a necessary requirement for collecting it. E.g. people unable to walk due to spinal injury do not have a disease but are entitled to an SSDI benefit.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-09 at 2:49 AM UTC in Generation Z has no morals and it scares meThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-08 at 5:35 PM UTC in Helpful shit that might help you niggas. List it here.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-08 at 6:35 PM UTC in "scare quotes" "are" an "excellent" "device" that makes your "writing" "better"??get?? ??on?? ??my?? ??level?? (((scrub)))The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-06 at 10:28 AM UTC in Site Feature: PGP KeysYou know what's a good idea? PGP signing/encryption. Not only is it useful to you because it allows you to be sure neither I nor anyone else is snooping on your PMs or fraudulently editing your posts, but it's also beneficial to us as a society to have infrastructure in place for secure communication. By the nature of key exchange waiting until you need secure communication is waiting too long, if you wait to establish a secure communication channel until your medium is compromised then it will be impossible to do secure key exchange afterwards.
For the moment I've added the feature of allowing users to add their PGP public key to their user profile where other users can record it and subsequently use it to verify signed content and send encrypted private messages. Actual encryption/decryptions/verification/signing needs to be done by you as there are good reasons why you don't want to trust my code to do that kind of thing. Right now the only thing that NiS does is facilitate key exchange by allowing you to list your public key on your user profile.
As such, using PGP crypto will require a little setup. The appropriate software to use differs by platform, there are a number of implementations available which are all interoperable but I'll list the the most popular ones here:
Windows
Gpg4win
Download: https://gpg4win.org/download.html
Getting Started: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/02/21/pgp-tutorial-for-windows-kleopatra-gpg4win/
OSX
GPG Suite
Download: https://gpgtools.org/
Getting Started: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/02/20/pgp-tutorial-os-x/
Linux
GPG (common package names are "gpg" and "gnupg")
Download: Your distro's package manager
Getting Started: https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html
A super quick rundown of the ideas involved:
"signing" is the process of adding information to a piece of content that anyone can read such that others who know your public key can verify that it has not been tampered with. This prevents tampering but does not prevent anyone from reading the message. Signing your posts on the public boards is probably what you want to do: everyone can read your posts but I or the CIA or hackers or whoever can't edit your post without it subsequently failing verification.
"encryption" is the process of taking a message destined for one or a few known recipients and making it unreadable to anyone except those recipients. This is what you want to do when using PMs as the forces that be will be unable to either manipulate or read your message.
Signing is a process done with your private key, verification is done by others with your public key to ensure you're actually the author of the message. Encryption is a process done with your recipient's public key, the recipient decrypts your message with their secret key.
As always I want to point out what this process means in terms of trust and what kind of evil things I'm able to do. When you exchange keys over NiS you need to be convinced that the public key you list is the key that others receive, and likewise that the keys you collect from other posters are really their keys. I can "man in the middle" the exchange to some extent, accepting your public key but then distributing my own key to others and this would allow me to eavesdrop on you. I'm working on a way to help detect if this kind of thing is happening (essentially a list of all keys which you can download to verify your own key is faithfully transmitted and detect if anyone else's key as changed). You can still do key exchange through channels outside of NiS and there's nothing wrong with that, I'm simply putting this option out there for ease of use or for those who think the service is trustworthy today but may be compromised in the future (which is the use-case I'm usually thinking about).
It's not a very sophisticated system and there are plenty of sharp corners in remaining in the user experience. Going forward I'll be looking at things like making signing more cosmetically palpable (hiding signature/encryption headers/footers until a user initiates verification), potentially something like automatic signing/verification and encryption/decryption but to be even remotely secure it would have to be implemented though userscripts or browser extensions. But the central thing I'd urge is to generate a key and record other people's keys now, keeping a record of public keys in a place I can't manipulate them (on your computer) is a big step to limiting the amount of useful information I can be compelled to turn over.
P.S. I only tested the key submission form with keys my tools produced and wasn't able to find any clear format specification for keyfiles, if your software is producing output and you're not able to submit it on your profile page let me know.
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2018-08-07 at 5:28 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
Originally posted by -SpectraL Hard to believe, but technological advancements will soon allow the government to read your actual thoughts, just like you'd scan a debit card. They will have scanners everywhere, in the streets, in the pubs, in the bathrooms, at your place of employment, in your car, in your own home, and they will be able to detect thought patterns remotely. It's all coming down the pipe. Another 20 or 30 years and we'll be there. After all, your thoughts are basically nothing more than electrical and chemical reactions, so all that is required is a device/system which is sensitive enough to "read", measure and interpret them.
"wrong"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-06 at 7:57 AM UTC in Helpful shit that might help you niggas. List it here.
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2018-08-07 at 5:40 PM UTC in Alex Jones/Infowars has been deleted from youtube
Originally posted by benny vader 1 - but what have you done about it ???
Nothing, which is about as much as anyone else has done about it or is able to do about it. I guess I block youtube ads so there's that.
Also alex jones is free to register a NiS account and post his lunacy here if he wants, that way I can call him a sensationalist cunt who preys on impressionable conspiracy theorists and doomsdayers directly.
So I guess I'm doing more about it than the rest of you little bitches. Suck on that YELLOW GHOST2 - your just jelly alex have an betaier voice than you.
Honestly if I try my hardest to ignore the shit he actually says the timbre of his voice is pretty good/distinctive when he's not screaming about gay frogs or whatever. But it's kinda like a pretty face on a obese girl, one good quality does not redeem the rest.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-07 at 8:46 PM UTC in Zanick-tier poll : Does any1 really considers fonaplants to be a spammer ???
Originally posted by DietPiano Benny!!
Where is your spam spirit??
There are not many of us left who still support free-spam. With scron and bling gone, the days until all spammers are gone is imminent.
Then all semi-spammers
Then microspammers..
Spam is a slippery slope, so grab a can and slurp up!!
While I'm glad they're done, I'll always fondly remember the days of horrible VB5 mod tools where it was so slow to delete spam bot posts that scron's front page flush actually improved the quality of the site by pushing legitimate threads up past the spam. It was like the wild west: horrible to live but not so bad to remember.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-07 at 6:24 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-07 at 2:52 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention"average face" using eigenfaces doesn't even make sense.
"AI company" claiming to detect criminality is almost certainly doing some CNN sophistry. Show me the paper and I'll show you what methodological error and shitty publishing standards look like.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-01 at 5 AM UTC in Who here ISN'T a nihilist, and what do you believe in?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-04 at 1:22 AM UTC in "Pregnancy test says yes."plot twist: Enter is the one who's pregnantThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-04 at 2:59 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionRolf was the man, I miss that nigga. I talked to him on steam for a while, you could tell how drunk he was by how far he'd let his gimmick slip.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-31 at 5:29 AM UTC in Lanny is...I did and do prefer cooking. I can't hand sew very well, I can mend a seam or patch a hole although it's not very pretty. I used to be decent with a sewing machine although I haven't used one in a number of years.
It's not the 50s anymore, guys can take home ec and cooking is a waaaaayyyy more useful skill than woodwork.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-03 at 6:07 AM UTC in Paradox of determinism.Also can we please stop using the single letter gay pseudo-math talk? It's not helpful at all.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-03 at 5:59 AM UTC in atlas tuggedkek, I forgot about that word enhancement.
I read Anthem and Fountainhead but not atlas tugged.
I liked Anthem as an edgy teenager but it's hard not to view Rand's writing as almost comical these days. You have to squint at her fiction pretty hard to try and find an actual philosophical thesis, like her books are just about mary sues who everyone hates because they're jealous or something? Not that her attempts at direct argumentation are super coherent but at least you know what she's trying to say rather than figure out which character monologues are supposed to be making a point and which are just (shaky) characterization.
You pointed out some issues with the actual prose, I just remember Fountainhead having all these awkward anthropomorphic descriptions of buildings and people getting described like architecture. I was fucking sick of reading about the "angles" of Roark's face or how buildings "stretched", or "hugged" things.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
