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I understand the concerns of privacy, but working in academia means that you give up some of the privacy.

Yes people will have your real name and they will know what college you work at and if some crazy person decides that they want to stalk you on campus because you're woke or part of the deep state turning the frogs gay with chemicals they'll be able to easily do that.

You're gonna have 100s of strangers in your classes during the year. You're going to tell them exactly when you're going to be in your office for office hours.

If you are unable to handle that I doubt academia is for you.

Academia is about furthering human knowledge especially a PhD. There are sacrifices involved; your privacy is probably one of them.

Part of being an academic is being available to discuss your publications. Your full name will not only be flying around the internet but recorded permanently in libraries and journals.

Science is about collaboration, and standing behind the work you do, publicly. You will find it extremely difficult or impossible to get your PhD without being known to the academic community.

I think you won't find many anonymous scientific papers held in high regard.

You need to get your ISP to help troubleshoot the issue with your router. If the Steam Deck works fine on other networks that's a very strong sign that it's not the Deck that's the issue.

Most public libraries have WiFi or computers that you can use in a pinch, leverage those as much as possible. You are paying for those services via taxes, they are yours.

The issueI have with the "always unique" plan is that if they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you. Imagine a TOTP where the keys were leaked so the adversary can determine the entire set of possible codes.

If everyone's fingerprints always match each other's, then you have plausible deniability.

The idea with anti-fingerprinting is the idea that no matter who you are or what your setup is, the fingerprint is created, it matches many, many other browsers

Imagine a sea of people in Guy Fawkes masks.

If your fingerprint is unique, that means you can't be confused for someone else.

That is literally the opposite of anti-fingerprinting.

You want to look like 1000's of other people, so they can't prove it was you that visited a particular site and use that information against you.

But this user plans to leave ping running all the time to check that their own Internet connection is working.

Either way, at any given time there's tons of traffic leaving your network, it just means that software is active, not that a human is active. On top of that, Cloudflare probably isn't selling the fact that an ICMP ping was received at their DNS server directly to spammers quickly enough for them to act and put an email at the top of your inbox, assuming that spam isn't caught by a spam filter first.

If the other traffic is already correlated to your IP, then what additional info does an ICMP echo leak?

ICMP doesn't reveal any personal details. As opposed to say when you visit with the web browser where you can be fingerprinted, and perhaps have that tied to the rest of your browsing history or real world identity.

they can steal your fucking house if you don't follow their rules

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os

Let's say there is a user lmicroservice. I'm on a UI team. I don't get to tell the user service team what, or when, to implement any features.

I'm tasked with making a page displaying all the users who have a birthday this month.

User API service can only search by user id, email, display name, or nickname.

Now instead of just querying the goddamn database, a one line fucking SQL statement, I have to deal with the user team, getting them to first off even admit that my use case is valid, convince them to work on the feature, coordinate with them to make sure the query works, sorts the data the way I need, etc, et. al, blah blah blah.

They already have the next 3 sprints full so I'm sitting on my ass for the next month before I can test.

Meanwhile they decide they're gonna implement a super generic thing, and so despite me working on code that we talked about using an interface we talked about, they implement something else so i have to throw out half my work anyway.

Then when I finally start using it I find, oh, it doesn't support a sort, only returns 100 results max with no pagination, so if there's 200 this month with a birthday fuck the 2nd hundred they don't show up because they're implementing bare minimum and the rest is slated for another sprint.

And it was then, your Honor, I grabbed the lead dev for the user microservice and tossed him off the 9th story of the building.

/sarcasm

In other news Exteter University is holding it's 24th annual "Hulk Hogan RULES Day"...