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Is the GPS two way or one way? I had the impression that the GPS signals went from satellite to earth, but the receivers did not send a signal to the GPS satellite. I thought onstar connected the cellular network. If I have the wrong information and somebody has more specifics about this, I would really like to know. From reading the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar Looks like the cellular network is used. Is the cellular antenna and the GPS antenna the same or are there two physical antenna? If so, then I assume one can just disconnect it. Since according to the article it says 4g. Normally cellular providers discontinue old network, 2G and 3G network have been taken down in recent years. Does anybody know when 4g network will be removed/disabled? I did find: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c8-general-discussion/4... https://www.silveradosierra.com/threads/disable-on-star.7196... If the 4g network is taken down at some point, then whatever functionality that uses it will be disabled as well. So, one would think that perhaps that part of the system should be able to be replaced. If so, can't one just remove that part of the system? It is probably hard to remove, because if it is easy, then theft system is not as good.

One more thought, in California one can request a copy of one's data and also request that it be deleted. Has anybody in CA requested a copy of all the data that has been collected? How much data per month or day does it collected? Has anybody requested that their data be deleted? Would this make it difficult the manufacturer to train the driving assistance AI if enough people requested that their data be deleted?

I have have lanner tech router that I installed a as internet gateway. I have been very happy with it. Works well, lower power, small has multiple ports. Can use SSD for storage.

https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances/x86-de...

One must install the OS; whether that is OpenWRT, OpenBSD or whatever OS. This means that one needs to be quite familiar with the OS install. So, one probably needs to be a technical person. The one I got had x64 intel based CPU, so it should run just about any linux or BSD distribution. The one that I got has a serial port for the console (no VGA, HDMI, display port etc).

It is my understanding that psychedelics can open up that learning window. I wonder if that could be used to benefit in this case. (I imagine a lot of people might be opposed to having a minor take psychedelics; but if it works, does it matter?)

Tor can also be used and does not cost anything.

Forgot to mention that a sign of underdevelopment is the need for braces. I was borderline needing braces as a kid and I will be getting them as an adult to help fit my tongue in my mouth better. Much better to not need braces (at any age) or major surgery as an adult.

I can't read the article, but if one has a tongue tie there can be serious life-long consequences. Basically if one is tongue tied, one's tongue will rest on the bottom of one's mouth. The mouth does not develop normally. The nasal passage way will be narrow. One will likely breath through one's mouth instead of the nose. This will lead to problems of the nasal passage not developing as it should. For one's health it is import to breath through the nose and not the mouth; read James Nestors book Breath. One will have breathing issues and likely sleep apnea. The tongue is supposed to rest on the root of the mouth and not on the floor of the mouth for it to develop properly. The sleep apnea normally gets worse; likely during midlife the sleep problem will effect job performance... Just from a speech impediment problem, it is worth it. I had a tongue tie release surgery (lingual frenectomy) as an adult. I had a release as a baby, but it only release the very front part so that it was barely enough to breast feed and I had speech problems because it was not fully released. After the surgery as an adult my pronounciation improved according to friends. It feels like my tongue can move as it should move. My mouth and nasal passage way did not develop as it should as a child and I am considering major surgery (MMA, EASE procedure, functional rhinoplasy) to correct; not something that one wants to do if one can correct it early with a lingual frenectomy and oral myofunctional Therapy. That being said, one should have it done by somebody that is competent is airway focused and not somebody trying to make extra money. It is normally paired with myofunctional therapy for about 6 weeks before and after the surgery. On another note, I have tuned into myofunctional podcast run by dental hygenist; they said that the can usually determine whether one is a mouth breather or a nasal breather by the hygene of the mouth...

I don't have to reboot my router or modem. I just have an a script that changes the MAC and releases and renews or rather gets an IP address via DHCP. My ISP is slow at handing out an IP address out as it takes several minutes, but it is automated. When the same operation is done for an IP on the LAN, it is a second or or two to get a new IP address. I figure the main reason to get a new IP address is so that web sites can't track one by IP. If carrier grade NAT is used, then is there a point in changing one's IP? If one does not use any peer to peer, then it seems that carrier grade NAT should lower the cost of one's internet service and that should be preferred. If one needs anonymity for bittorrent or other peer to peer, then shouldn't a VPN or i2p be used? I got the impression that i2p might be slow.

As far as certificate authorities (CAs) build into the browser: One way around this might be that the browsers ship with the CA as required by law, but that one can disable/delete the CA via the UI. I would guess that a law would be passed that says that the browser can't disable/delete certain CAs (perhaps this one also says that). There can be a list of various government CAs that one might want to disable. This does not help if governments can pressure CAs to issue an alernate CA for use in MITM. Does any of the CA transaprency help? What about a way to have people endorse a certficate (i.e. reputation)?

I have been of the personal opinion that email should be end to end encrypted. This would be another reason why. Think about how much personal information is easily exposed by non-encrypted email. It would be like having the 99.9% of the web sites still using http as opposed https. I have seen more than one doctors office have an agreement that they want you to sign so that they can send one unencrypted email. (Most people don't pay much attention to the agreements that they sign and non-technical users likely don't know that their emails can easily be read by several parties.)

I have command line program that I use to give me a list of window titles. If there are too many of certain kind (browser windows...), I close some until I get under a certain threshold. Anyway, I was reading the stuff in the articles and well the text in the terminal turned red after I got that list. Some terminal/shell combinations seem better at recovering than others. Firefox (and other browsers that have a similar problem) should sanitize title data. As other have pointed out, perhaps window managers should filter or not allow control/escape characters in the titles.

Just goes to show how important sanitizing data from unknown sources is.

Should curl, w3m, wget and similar sanitize the data? One can argue that some times you want to pipe the raw data and other times one might not be thinking about the escape sequences and get burned. I would be inclined to say that the tools should filter/escape the dangerous stuff and have a flag like "--raw".

Thank you; good to know that they have that. My assumption would still be that if the intelligence services want access to your private information or communication on the device that they will get it (without it be evident); whether it is a OS zero day or other means. I also read through the link you provided on the anti-interdiction server, it only says laptop. I assume that this has expanded to the phone. (Did not go through the phone order process to find out.) Also, looks like one negotiates via PGP email on what one wants; so that is why I assume that there is no pricing on it.

I thought that I read (not too long after the snowden stuff) that the US government sometimes intercepts parcels of electronic equipment then will tamper with it so that they can spy on the recipient of the equipment. Not sure how librem can prevent that or how one would know. Also, if somebody places an order and US government asks librem to place some spyware on it via a court order (because say that have a phone tap on the individual), would any customers know about it? Now if one can go the factory and pick up it, then that cuts one avenue of attack by the government.

I can second this; I have a few boxes that I have upgraded from 5.7 to 7.3; minimal issues. Upgrades just seem to work. (One warning is some really old versions sized /usr or /usr/local (I think) too small for some of the newer versions, so I had to some clean up by hand to make space because the kernel relinking after each boot takes a decent amount of disk space that those older smaller partition have trouble handling.) One can also do "pkg_add -vnUu" before upgrading to know what will be done (v=verbose, n=don't install, say what will be done, U=update dependencies). One can also use sysclean to help clean up old libraries and shared libraries left behind to get more disk space back. Also, run "pkg_delete -a" to remove unused dependencies.

I was trying to ask if there was something more that the speed test do other than multiple or divide by 8. Is some other overhead that they add in? If not, then their math or testing seem to be off or curl/wget seem to be different than they get via the browser's javascript engine. To me it seems that the speed test number is inflated or higher than what one will even for the same URL off of netflix or cloudflares URLs used in their speed tests.

It definitely looks like testing sites are prioritized. The fastest download speed that I have gotten is maybe 7 MB (bytes) per second; generally it is 2-5 MB per second. The speed test sites generally get 100 Mb per second dowload. In general the best I seem to get is about half the speed of the speed test sites. To me the real speed of the ISP is how fast one can download something one wants, not the result of a test. I would prefer to see results for downloads/uploads from youtube and various CDN networks and popular sites. I would also like to see ISP have a URL that is inside their network to test upload and download so that one can at least isolate what part of the connection might be lagging. Actually, I just used devtools to snag a 25MB file from fast.com. Curl/wget gives a speed of about 3 or 4 MB per second. That does not really seem to match up with fast.com download speed of 70Mb/second. 70/8 is 8.75, which is about double. Is fast.com accurate? Is my math wrong?

This seems bad from a privacy point of view. Imagine, one person owns a home and rents a few of the rooms. That person has to gather private information from the renters. Then PG&E gets the private information. This just plainly seems prejudiced. Why should somebody with more income pay more? Should milk cost more because one has a higher income? Also, how exactly does PG&E verify the income. What if one does not know one's income? If one has zero income or next to zero income for 11 months, then one make some transactions for tax purposes, and one goes form poverty to a much higher tax bracket; does one pay 11 months at poverty level and one month at rich person level? Also, what exactly is defined as income? Is it W2 income, adjusted gross income. This seems wrong looking from every leve. There is no reason for PG&E to gather this. If the state wants to, it can subsidize poor people when they pay their taxes. Perhaps one can put the amount paid to PG&E into the tax form. This just seems like way more work than it should be. I also want to know if I can install battery, solar and wind and just say F' this? Crap like this makes me want to move to another state.

That seems silly. I certainly don't think of archive.org as having adult content. If they do, perhaps the easy thing to do is to have archive.org and adult.archive.org that way it is easy to distinguish for people and entities that want to know/filter. Also, what is adult content to one person is nothing of consequence to the next person. So, yes I disagree with the censoring like that; glag you found a ISP that is not censoring. Also, one can use a VPN or tor; so they are not stopping one unless they also disable VPN and tor traffic.

I was thinking about that very thing is keeping up with patches. I suspect that tor is probably a couple of months behind firefox and then mullvad will probably be a month or two behind tor. It is easier to check between tor browser and mullvad browser because they both use git. firefox uses mercurial, so is probably harder.

Just to play devil's advocate. The video does not show an actual collision. Also, how do we know the video of the bent propeller was from the same drone soon after the Russian jet got close and dumped the fuel? I can't tell whether the background of the clouds and so forth is identical or close enough to the same background to know whether it is old stock video or not. How can one tell? The drone needs to be enhanced to show the actual collision; a camera from underneath probably is not going to show the collision.

Unless I am missing something, these drones seem very weak in regards to combat with a typical jet fighter. I assume that the drone is slow , so pretty much any jet fighter can catch up to it. I assume that it can't go to such a high elevation that a typical fighter can go to the same elevation. So, seems like pretty much any fighter jet could take it out; whether that be with ordinanace, dumping of fuel or an "accidental" collision. Perhaps the US needs to escort the drone with a fighter jet or 2 to protect it or at least modify the drone to show an actual collision. (Not sure whether Russia would care whether the actual collision could be captured. I suspect that they will keep doing this to drones in the area. Curious what is capture by the drone that can't be captured from satellite. Perhaps radio waves.

I am curious whether even with a bent propellor the drone could have gotten farther away from the conflict zone to be easier to recover by the US. Perhaps, they felt it was risky because it would have to go over or near populated areas. I would think Russia is likely to recover the drone, which seems like a loss.

I think that this is the real problem is that one needs to do one's own diagnoses and treatment; this will probably take a year or two to learn the ins and outs. I would pay good money for somebody that can be a good guide to finding the real root cause or causes.

I see your 2 allergist here. Had consult Dr. Choy, did not result in finding anything useful. I wonder if turbinate inflamation can be caused by something that would not show in those skins tests. Do you feel that Dr. Gupta is better than Dr. Choy?

Agree on treating allergies first, no reason for turbinate reduction if it is caused by allergy. I have not had luck find someone good at treating allergies. Do you have suggestions? (SF bay area)

Agree. Some of the problems can start from childhood. Like mouth breathing and being tongue tied can leed to abnormal growth and supposedly cause the face to be taller and more narrow, which supposedly is a sign of narrow air ways. I am also looking at some of this. What have your found in terms of good resources? I am paricularily interested in allergy and the turbinates and finding a good ENT because looks septoplasty is needed. My belief is that enlarged turbinates (were not enlarged enought to cause issues 2 years back) are due more likely to environmental cause and or allergy. I asked my current set of ENTs how to look at enviroment as cause and they give me a dumbfounded look. (Tried several different anti-inflamatory drugs for turbinates that don't make much of difference.) I also have read in a few places that certain foods can cause enlarged turbinates. Part of the problem is that some times root cause can't truly be found until one tries a solution on a hunch and it works out. I have seen Kasey Li and he did not seem to like te drug enduced endoscopy (I thought it would be a great thing to do). It would be nice to have camera(s) or similar in the air way when one naturally sleep to find what is pinching off. He said the endoscopy will knock one out, but not necessarily put one in the same state as when one sleeps so that might lead to mis-diagnoses. Also, a lot of the surgeries will not be paid for by insurance unless one's AHI is higher than 15 on both back and sides. So, if one needs surgery for UARS (generally will not cause AHI to go that high), then one would need to pay out of pocket. Anyway, good resources with doctors that can look at the full picture are really needed and I really have not found a doctor that is able to look at the big picture and guide one to fixing it the real issue; they all seem to only focus on their narrow area of expertise. So any big surgery like EASE, MMA, etc is a big risk and the recover is not short, costs a lot and still might not fix the issue.

In regards to alternate nostril breathing:

The instruction just say to inhale and exhale, which a person might interpret as a partial breath. I was taught that the inhale and exhale for alternate nostril breathing should completely fill the lungs and completely empty the lungs. Don't try to force too much out or force too much in; just be comfortable. The instructions should also state that the flow of air coming into or out of the nose should be steady throught the entire inhale or exhale. It should not start at 100 CFM and as it gets full or empty change to 25 CFM; try to keep it constant.

Also, when starting alternate nostril breathing; one should balance the flow between the left and right nostril. Then do the alternate nostril breathing for 10 cycles. To balance: if the right nostril is more clogged/slower than the left, then breath in throught right and out through the left until it clears and is the same as the left. Do the opposite if the left is more clogged. Note some times, this will not clear/balance out. In those cases, a nasal saline solution works nicely. Also, oxygen advantage nostril unblocking exercise can be used.

Had this tab open, should have responded several days ago, not sure that this will help anybody now. Michael Singer's Books have been very helpful to me so far. The whole problem seems to be one's ego and how to deal with it.

https://untetheredsoul.com/untethered-soul

https://untetheredsoul.com/living-untethered

I also found eckhart Toll's book "A New Earth" are also helpful:

https://eckharttolle.com/books/

I found "A New Earth" better/more details than "Power of Now" probably because it was written later and I read it later.

I only see blank page; however, this seems similar to BOLT score. However, there is something called the bolt score. Here is how to measure and where I learned about it (oxygen advantage book):

https://oxygenadvantage.com/measure-bolt/

I admit I had no clue what it was about, but I was wondering what was significant about the age restricted video. I watched part of the video and it was interested what was said in the news conference in December and it also seems to point to the invasion could in a couple of months. His substack article is:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

One can use yt-dlp, version 2023-02-17, to download. Where should one upload it to? Freenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet)?

I looked at that video, seems like that should work real good for resistance training fitness. If James Grage is only doing resistance band training, it would definitely seem to be able to get one quite strong as he is a rather massive guy. I also looked at other videos there, he definitely seems knowledgable and already picked up several good tips. He points out that his joints feel much better compared to when he weight lifted... Traveling with several resistance bands should be quite easy... I think for lats, one would need a pull up bar or similar. It would be nice if he had comprehensive book on the subject.

I went to:

https://www.nostr.how/

Then went to:

https://www.nostr.how/get-started

It has a link near the bottom for client comparision:

https://www.nostr.how/clients/comparison

The return code for that page is 404.

I think lying is not ethical, but is it a lying to have an online persona that has a different name that one's legal name? I think not. One can have a legal name and a common law name that are different. As long as one does not claim one's online persona/name is one's legal name and one is not harming other people, I see no issue. If the intent of having the legal name and online name be different is to obscure one's real identitity because one is doing something illegal online, then that is clearly not ethical. If one is not harming anybody, then there should be no issue with having an online persona/name that has a different name than one's legal name and should be considered ethical. A tougher question might be whether one is doing something illegal and uses an online name that is not one's legal name. For example, say one is subject to seizures and cannabis greatly reduces the occurance from say 100 per month to less than 2 per month. Cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug and illegal at the national level. So, joining a dicussion on the net about seizures and cannabis with a persona whose name is different from one's legal name would be common. I also think this is ethical. One is not harming somebody else and is in fact making oneself more healthy (opposite of harm).