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- A reputable anonymizing VPN service
- Linux
- Firefox (or compatible) web browser
- HTTPS-Only Mode
- Noscript
- User-Agent Switcher

These are some easy things that will keep you safe in the age where you shouldn't trust *anything* your device connects to online.

New and Improved!
Choose your flavour, cURL or wget!

#curl
```
curl -o- #https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ajaxStardust/674b5d86f1f4386e72937a607e263608/raw/install.sh | bash
```
(Octothorpe placed, in hopes that st nick soon would eliminate any unwanted html anchors as hyperlink. i.e. remove it)
**Note:** it will place the app in your file system, at the location (if able without sudo):
/var/www/html/mydocs/11011101/

#wget
```
wget -qO- #https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ajaxStardust/674b5d86f1f4386e72937a607e263608/raw/install.sh | bash
```
Seriously. Anyone. please do check it out. I'm curious if it's working on anyone's system other than mine. It's as easy as running that curl command, just like you were installing #nvm for example. Nothing is easier than that. Except getting pregnant.

github.com/ajaxStardust/AnnieD

GitHubGitHub - ajaxStardust/AnnieDeBrowsa: Any Dir BrowserAny Dir Browser. Contribute to ajaxStardust/AnnieDeBrowsa development by creating an account on GitHub.

One of my favorite interview questions is “What happens when you hit enter in the address bar of your browser?” It’s a great question that reveals how full stack someone is and whether they understand latency, protocols, architecture, and implementation details/boundaries.

I’d hire someone in an instant if they used this as the basis of their answer:

youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw?si=Bril-E

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Should you ever run across an article that says you don't need a VPN because most every website use HTTPS, be aware that you can not see the encryption, or the lack of it, in mobile apps. Thus, things like this happen - Apple did not bother to upgrade their own software from HTTP to HTTPS.

9to5mac.com/2025/03/18/apples-
Apple’s Passwords app was vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months after launch
#vpn #http #https #encryption

9to5Mac · Apple's Passwords app was vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months after launch - 9to5MacIn iOS 18, Apple spun off its Keychain password management tool—previously only tucked away in Settings—into a standalone app called...

How browsers REALLY load Web pages

When browsers load a Web page and its subresources, A LOT happens under the hood. They need to take into account render/parsing blocking resources, use a preload scanner, listen to resource hints (like preload/preconnect), loading modifiers (async/defer/module), fetchpriority, responsive images, and much more. […]

📺 fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2025 - How browsers REALLY load Web pages
#video#web#browser
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@torproject same with #obfs4 bridges: there is no option to say like ports=80,443 or similar, which makes it cumbersome to get said bridges.

And trying to get places to #DontBlockTor that criminalize the use of #Tor is foolish at best.

New releases

• Kitten (rolling release)
• @small-tech/https version 5.3.2
• Auto Encrypt version 4.1.3

OCSP support has been reinstated in the server so existing sites with Let’s Encrypt certificates provisioned prior to the removal of the OCSP stapling requirement will not fail to load in Firefox.

Kitten servers in production will automatically update to this version in a few hours. You can also sign in to the Kitten settings page on your server and do a manual update to update Kitten immediately.

Thanks to @stefan and @s1r83r for bringing this to my attention. (mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113969540)

Aral’s fediverse serverAral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)@s1r83r@pataterie.ca @stefan@gardenstate.social Thanks for the heads up, folks. So, here’s what’s happened: 1. Let’s Encrypt removed OCSP support and starting rejecting certificate requests that require OCSP stapling (a privacy feature that Kitten inherited from my Auto Encrypt module) for new server requests and will reject certificate renewal requests starting in May. 2. So I went ahead and removed the OCSP stapling requirement from the certificate requests Auto Encrypt makes to Let’s Encrypt. 3. I also removed OCSP support from the server. Makes sense, right? Sure does, until you consider what happens to servers with already-provisioned Let’s Encrypt certificates that have certificates that require OCSP stapling. (kitten.small-web.org’s certificate got renewed four days ago, before I’d released the updates.) *Doh!* 🤦‍♂️ Seems Safari and Chrom(ium) are fine with letting it pass. However, Firefox, (and correctly too, I might add), refuses to load the site. So I’m off to update Auto Encrypt to re-enable OCSP support with a note to disable it in May (by which time all certificates will have renewed anyway without the stapling requirement) and then issue new builds of @small-web/https and Kitten. Kitten servers should automatically upgrade and start working in Firefox in several hours. And you can also manually update them if you want to before then after I’ve announced the releases. Thanks again for letting me know. :kitten:💕 #Kitten #SmallWeb #AutoEncrypt #LetsEncrypt #TLS #SSL #HTTPS #OCSP