I’ve never used AirVPN, but I’ve used Mullvad for a few years and I rarely ever have any issues with it. I won’t deny that I have few complaints, but the complaints that I do have are quite minimal. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Mullvad based on my own experience.

• Artist: The Beatles
• Album: Revolver
• Song: Tomorrow Never Knows

Make it work, then make it better.

I really like this one. It’s borderline a mantra.

As a counter to perfectionism:

If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing poorly. [source: a reddit user]

Metaverse in my ass.

Very clever use case!

As of 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z, Starlink is now complying with Brazil’s X ban [1].

As of 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z, Starlink is now complying with Brazil’s X ban [1].

LibreOffice Draw?

Not really as those are public things.

Would you mind citing an example of exactly what you are referring to? I feel like I’m presuming a lot of things in your statements here.

Dhcp is more of a issue.

I don’t know if it’s “more”, or “less” of an issue, but all these things are worthy of concern.

That would certainly also be worthy of concern.

have the machine pretend you’re in UTC.

That is a possible solution, though not exactly the most convenient, imo. That is, if I understand you correctly that you are talking about setting the OS timezone to be UTC.

could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone

This is the first thing I thought of upon reading the title

It’s also in the post body.

Any given time zone there are going to be millions if not billions of people.

One more bit of identifying information is still one more bit of identifying information.

Git also “leaks” your system username and hostname IIRC by default which might be your real name.

This is only part of a fallback if a username and email is not provided [1].

A fake name and email would pretty much be sufficient to make any “leaked” time zone information irrelevant.

Perhaps only within the context where one is fine with being completely unidentifiable. But this doesn’t consider the circumstance where a user does want their username to be known, but simply don’t want it to be personally identifiable.

UTC seems like it’s just “HEY LOOK AT ME! I’M TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING!”

This is a fair argument. Ideally, imo, recording dates for commits would be an optional QoL setting rather than a mandatory one. Better yet, if Git simply recorded UTC by default, this would be much less of an issue overall.

if you sleep like most people, could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone.

I mentioned this in my post.

It’s better to be “Jimmy Robinson in Houston Texas” than “John Smith in UTC-0”

That decision is contextually dependent.

How do you mean?

Fair point. I think “leak” is likely the wrong term to use here. “Exposes” is probably a better one. I’ll update the post promptly.

I’m cringing at the date format “1-20-21”.

I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB like 2 months ago.

if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.

Laughs in case that still has a bump.

If you have the layout memorized, then what’s physically shown on the keys doesn’t really matter ­— usually switching the keyboard layout in the OS is pretty easy.