Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, June 5, 2017

VPN

Opera now offers VPN, so I wanted to see what the speed penalty was.

For Opera, via its VPN: Ping- 156 ms, Download speed- 19.18 Mbps, Upload speed- 6.08 Mbps.

Firefox, no VPN: Ping- 16 ms, Download speed- 20.68 Mbps, Upload speed- 6.00 Mbps.

I gather than using a VPN means that your ISP can't see what you're doing, which now that net privacy has been gutted by the Republicans (Motto: "Since 1921--Fucking You for Fun and Profit"), might be of some concern.

Also, as Trump stumbles down the road to an authoritarian state, you might want to keep your shit more private.
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3 comments:

B said...

I use PIA VPN, which lets you pay with gift cards from Walmart...that you can buy with cash. They claim they keep no records of their customers.

Best I can do to keep my privacy.

Works on tablets and phones too. No significant degradation of speed.

YMMV.

6/05/2017 9:48 AM
bmq215 said...

Yep, I use PIA as well. Reasonably cheap and a good privacy model with the userbase to back it. The security of a VPN is only as good as the servers it's running on.

6/05/2017 11:02 AM
Tod Germanica said...

Thanks for the test and to B for the tip. Opera is a browser I use on android phone and on Linux Mint Dell xps 13 laptop.
The Opera news 'feed' aggregates sites from the mild left to breitbart/nazi right so everyone can find their own cult, and you can scroll down 'news' endlessly-hypnotic as porn or cat videos.
Not open source, Opera is bleeding edge innovative-but expect lots of hard crashes in my experience.

6/05/2017 1:10 PM

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