[FRIAM] DOGEQuest

Fri Mar 28 13:32:43 EDT 2025

On 3/27/25 10:23 AM, glen wrote:
> There are other ways to access .onion sites other than with the Tor 
> browser. But why not use the Tor browser? And run a Tor relay? And 
> donate https://donate.torproject.org/. It seems like an obvious thing 
> to do with the Cheeto Jesus in charge.
Thanks... I do use Tor and donate but don't run a Relay.... a good 
friend is voracious in his appetite for feeding these systems (running 
multiple Tor relays, a few loRaWan nodes, etc.)  I'm a fan but too 
lazy/incompetent to match his investments.
>
> I don't really like the concept of "dark" web or whatever. Anyone who 
> grew up using things like Gopher, usenet, or ftpmail knows it's not 
> "dark", just a different protocol. Hell, anyone who understands 
> browser fingerprinting should reject the "dark" moniker. Maybe it's 
> dark to those who don't know about it. But that's just silly. Quantum 
> Mechanics would then be a "dark" science to most (all?) of us. ... or 
> the information you get when you're a member of the Sea Org is "dark 
> scientology".

I grew up in an era where most security was by "obscurity"...  it was 
quite sad (anecdotes of that era actually hurt my heart). LANL's first 
web-server was a Python script which fielded HTTP requests and 
reformatted Gopher directories into a text-only HTML response.   there 
was also an FTP/WAIS interface but much fewer archives available at 
LANL.  We had a contingent of users in the earliest days who squealed 
loudly as new HTML multimedia resources were added... they were pretty 
sure that it was a waste of bandwidth and nobody really wants any of 
that anyway... "unformatted txt is good enough!"

Ginsparg was, in parallel creating the pre "arXiv" primarily as an FTP 
repository...   he was a bit rogue (reflected by his "xxx.lanl.gov" 
domain name?) and difficult to engage, though I did support his work 
spiritually and practically everywhere I could. LANL management was 
still cringing from the Livermore scandal of the era where an employee 
(or several) had been using LLNL machines to host a porn server.   They 
threatened to shut Ginsparg down over the use of xxx.lanl.gov but 
several of us "in the know" were able to talk them down.

>
> On 3/27/25 8:58 AM, steve smith wrote:
>> Not clear on the construction of your link?  Is it a bit.ly like hash 
>> run by the onion?
>>
>> With a tiny bit of research I now understand that .onion TLD 
>> addressses are only accessible through the TOR browser...  Is .onion 
>> a twilight-web (vs darkweb)?
>>
>> original article?
>>
>> https://www.404media.co/dogequest-site-claims-to-dox-tesla-owners-across-the-u-s/
>>
>> I recommend the following to reluctant/ashamed Tesla Owners: 
>> https://stealmytesla.com/
>>
>> <begin Tangent>
>>
>>     Doxing in general is chilling even when inadvertent or "mild".   
>> In 2020 I was (mildly) shocked to discover that voter-registration 
>> data at the address level is publicly available.   Of the 4 houses on 
>> our lane, every one had one "independent" and the second registration 
>> was split between Donkeys and Elephants.   Unfortunately 
>> "independent" in the other (besides myself) cases almost assuredly 
>> maps onto rabid-liberatarian crypto-conservative 2nd amendment.  
>> Those registered Red/Blue were the women.  And I think any one on the 
>> lane looking this info up would come to the same conclusions. Our 
>> bumper stickers are small but definitely not MAGA.  I hate even 
>> having to be registered.   There seems to be some ambiguity between 
>> "independent" and "unaffiliated"... I think "independent" sometimes 
>> means "Indepenent Party", other times it means "unaffilliated"?   
>> messy, ambiguous?
>>
>>     My daughters both finally went EV about 1.5 years ago. 
>> YungerDotter opted into TSLA for myriad reasons unrelated to being a 
>> Muskophile.   She works in a fairly young/startup techBro company in 
>> Denver where their ModelY doesn't stand out in the parking lot at all 
>> and they live in a semi-MAGA neighborhood of Denver (Parker) where 
>> the neighbors are more likely to give them a thumbs up for their 
>> "choice". Her partner is a project manager for a Raytheon division 
>> doing satellite tasking.  The Model Y is also not out of place in 
>> that parking lot and at least half of his peers are probably rabid 
>> proMusk if not proMAGA or DOGE.   So they aren't acutely worried 
>> about much vandalism/etc at either end of their commute(s) but it has 
>> made them acutely aware of a lot of things they had been able to not 
>> think too much about previously.  They are both counter-aligned with 
>> DOGE/MAGA/MUSK in virtually every way and this is just one more 
>> reminder of the impedance mismatch in their work/home
>>     choices. They both plead Golden Handcuffs.  Dotter is considering 
>> leaving the (clearly questionable) realm of data-center development 
>> to join the Japanese iSpace lunar-robotics company (branch in 
>> Denver).   She's struggling with what that spiritual trade-space 
>> looks like.  Or she could go back to pushing liquor, mortgages, or 
>> managing trust-fund-babies' money for them?
>>
>>     elderDotter went with the bargain Bolt used from Hertz. She fits 
>> right in in Portland, on both ends of her commute and everywhere in 
>> between.   I suspect the depreciation of her sister's TSLA exceeds 
>> the entire purchase price (with incentives) of the Bolt.  If NIH 
>> funding (esp for virology and third-world viruses at that) tanks 
>> (RKjr) she will be very glad not to have taken on a new silly debt 
>> the size of a TSLA.
>>
>>     FWIW, they *both* manage a roughly 60 mile RT commute 4-5 days a 
>> week with Level 1 charging at home only... (couple of bucks per RT)  
>> they need a weekend day to catch up for the slow daily deficit of 
>> charge.   Keeping the battery even more mid-range than the defaults 
>> is also a good strategy for battery life.   I do wish on each of them 
>> a DIY PV/inverter setup strictly for their EV charging for a (near) 
>> carbon-neutral commute...   but I'm not living close enough to effect 
>> this for them directly.
>>
>>     <double-tangent>
>>
>>         My own EV adventure includes my near end-of-life Volt PHEV. I 
>> bought it at 166k (in 2017) with a failing traction battery and put 
>> in (non-trivial) a 95k used battery which after about 60k miles is 
>> now struggling (I'm able to manage it with various techniques which I 
>> would not wish on anyone else) but no longer can get the EV-only 
>> trips I used to...  I pretty much have to burn .1-.3 gallons of 
>> petrol with every RT to LA, Espanola, Pojoaque.   As the weather 
>> warms, this may get better.   I picked up Ford's bargain version with 
>> low miles a few weeks ago and it will displace the otherwise happy 
>> Prius I bought for Mary a couple of years ago.  It also (by design 
>> limits) wants to burn a tiny bit of gas for most RTs from home... 
>> most notably the 2500' climb to Los Alamos.   The Ford battery is 
>> just over 1/2 the capacity of the Volt (when new) but at half the 
>> mileage, it performs nearly as well.   Both vehicles are showing a 
>> roughly 70mpg equivalent over their lifetimes, but
>>         my idiosyncratic use is constantly raising that average...
>>
>>         I'm looking for a homeless person (to gift it to) with 
>> regular access to a 110 outlet as the HVAC, entertainment system, and 
>> bucket seats are still good enough to live in, and the EV range would 
>> allow for a few miles of daily excursion or occasional relocation.
>>
>>         Unfortunately my Hypershell exo isn't able to fully make up 
>> for my recovery limitations or I'd be "jogging" to Pojoaque for 
>> groceries with a backpack? 2 hr round trip with only about 5lbs of 
>> tech overburden (maybe 8 if you include good sturdy shoes and helmet 
>> if I start running too fast).   With my HMD and a brain interface 
>> helmet I could maybe be reading/responding to FriAM while the Exo FSD 
>> feature navigates me to/from the market... maybe even knows the route 
>> inside the store so all I have to do is reach out and pluck my 
>> groceries on command.   If I had a humanoid robot, I wouldn't have to 
>> go at all and if I shifted to HUEL or SOYLENT could skip that visit 
>> at all.. Just a 50lb bag of nutrients delivered monthly?
>>
>>         What is the line where I become it's meat-puppet or am 
>> deprecated entirely?   From what I see of the homeless and DOGE/MAGA 
>> aspirations, the homeless folks are in line for deprecation before me 
>> but after immigrants.
>>
>>     </endTangent>
>>
>> </endTangent>
>>
>>
>> On 3/27/25 8:01 AM, glen wrote:
>>> I finally found the site I learned about from 404 Media:
>>>
>>> http://dogeqstqzn2yjns2d6ccns7aa52tglno63ay2uv2orfvd7e23khcsxid.onion/
>>>
>>> I admit it's a bit chilling.
>>>
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