* [Reddit](#reddit) — Miscellaneous cool Reddit threads and comments.
# Gaming
* Minecraft
* [XP Farm Guide](https://imgur.com/a/gkNzm?gallery) — Basics on how to turn a spawner dungeon into an automated mob grinder.
* [Negative Space](https://imgur.com/a/yqlkc#0) — A building design guide.
* [My Guide to Building Modularly, and the Power of Cubes!](https://imgur.com/a/K1Vyk)
* Pokémon
* [**Pokémon X/Y Guide** Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/1ov1s5/pok%C3%A9mon_xy_guide_megathread/) — Collection of all sorts of in-depth guides.
* Zelda
* [**Breath of the Wild** Data Compendium](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QiaqiORIK0BVTRjO-PtHKyAL5nTT8QushYDIWozNwoo/edit) — Way more numbers than you ever wanted about weapons, attacks, defense, HP and so-on.
# Introversion
* [The Pros and Cons of being an Introvert](https://thebranchingmind.com/2017/09/03/the-pros-and-cons-of-being-an-introvert/)
# Network Security
* Operational Security (OpSec) — *The first rule of OpSec is you don't talk about your OpSec.*
* [Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks](https://www.grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sophisticated_Attacks)
* [Secure Secure Shell](https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html) — SSH hardening tips & tricks.
* [15 reasons NOT to start using PGP](http://secushare.org/PGP) — It's harder to use *optional* encryption over *insecure* e-mail when there are better alternatives.
* [OpenPGP Best Practices](https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices) — If you *must* use PGP.
* [What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive](https://theintercept.com/2016/01/12/sean-penn-el-chapo-opsec/) — El Chapo post-mortem on OpSec failure.
* [**Ed Snowden** Taught Me to Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You.](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/)
* [NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours](http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/)
* Post-mortems and Tales
* [Reflections on Trusting Trust](http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack) — The **Ken Thompson Hack** - Can you trust your C compiler? Linker? Kernel? Hardware?
* [Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger](https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Pwning-a-Spammer-s-Keylogger/)
* [Everything Is Broken](https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1)
* [Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing](https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html) (2011)
* [Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions](https://robertheaton.com/2014/12/08/fun-with-your-friends-facebook-and-tinder-session-tokens/)
* [Snapchat Protocol Reverse Engineering & Security Audit](http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/)
* Cryptography
* [You are dangerously bad at cryptography](https://www.happybearsoftware.com/you-are-dangerously-bad-at-cryptography.html)
* [Myths about `/dev/urandom`](https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/)
* Tor Project & Onion Routing
* [Tor Project](https://www.torproject.org/)
* [Combining Tor with a VPN](https://www.deepdotweb.com/jolly-rogers-security-guide-for-beginners/combining-tor-with-a-vpn/)
* Tutorials
* [Secure Salted Password Hashing - How to do it Properly](https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm)
* [How to use DM-Crypt to Create an Encrypted Volume on Ubuntu](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-dm-crypt-to-create-an-encrypted-volume-on-an-ubuntu-vps)
* [If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear - 30 Examples](https://foodforthethinkers.com/2014/04/25/if-you-are-doing-nothing-wrong-you-have-plenty-to-fear-30-examples/)
* The Chilling Effect
* [Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/)
* NSA Sharing their Warez
* [NSA Tools for Spying on Foreign Terrorists Used by **DEA** to Bust Americans for Drugs](https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1jqmnu/nsa_tools_for_spying_on_foreign_terrorists_used/)
* OpSec
* [PRISM Break - Opt out of global surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora](https://prism-break.org/en/) — Comprehensive guide to open source tools and best practices.
* [NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours](http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/)
* [Get your loved ones off Facebook](http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/)
* [Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security](http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html)
* [We're Deprecating HTTP and It's Going to be Okay](https://konklone.com/post/were-deprecating-http-and-its-going-to-be-okay) — HTTPS Everywhere!
* [Having Lost the Debate on Backdooring Encryption, Intelligence Community Plans to Wait Until Next Terrorist Attack](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150916/15570332276/having-lost-debate-backdooring-encryption-intelligence-community-plans-to-wait-until-next-terrorist-attack.shtml)
* [More Stories of People Arrested for Making Joke Threats on Social Networks](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100923/01464111127/more-stories-of-people-arrested-for-making-joke-threats-on-social-networks.shtml)
# Philosophy
* [Breaking into the Simulated Universe](https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/Edge20161030)
* [What Does It Mean to Die?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die) — Concerning what it means to die: A New Yorker article explores some of the real-world effects of the work of philosophers.
* YouTube Videos:
* [Alan Watts - Life is NOT a Journey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk) — we think of life as a pilgrimage, a journey to the end, the next big goal. Go to college, get married, have kids, retire. But we miss the point the whole way along: it was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
* [Alan Watts - Law of Attraction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_yGDn6BVQ)
## DP/DR
> Depersonalization is a state in which you perceive yourself from a third person
> perspective as a character in a dream. It is hard to cure because it is
> literally true. Your mind is just not supposed to remember that it is the
For me, a lot of the questions raised while experiencing DP/DR are philosophical
in nature so I categorize these links as a sub-genre of [Philosophy](#philosophy).
* [Depersonalization/Derealization on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder)
* [/r/dpdr](https://www.reddit.com/r/dpdr)
* YouTube Videos:
* [Jim Carrey - What It All Means](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTblbYqQQag)
* [Alan Watts - Happiness is NOT the Meaning of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsdoJ9x8IBs) — If you had the magic power to dream anything you wanted to dream -- be a superhero, have every kind of pleasure -- you would eventually dream where you are now. Of playing that you weren't God.
* [Alan Watts Proves You Don't Exist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNKOUhx-7qk)
* [Alan Watts - Are you ready to 'wake up'?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzeCv_WFnY)
* [Voting lines between Democrats and Republicans on many key issues](https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6pc5qu/democrats_propose_rules_to_break_up_broadband/dkon8t4/) — and they say both sides are the same. Republicans and Democrats voted polar opposites (-100%...+100%) on many key controversial issues like Net Neutrality, economy/jobs, "war on terror", civil rights, family planning and environmentalism.
This topic has some overlap with my [NSA](#nsa) category; check those links too.
* [Privacy in General](https://www.billdietrich.me/Privacy.html) — "Why should I care about privacy ? I have nothing to hide. I'm not a criminal." — Privacy matters because there are criminals and corporations out there trying to rip you off.
* [If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear - 30 Examples](https://foodforthethinkers.com/2014/04/25/if-you-are-doing-nothing-wrong-you-have-plenty-to-fear-30-examples/)
# Short Stories
* [There Will Come Soft Rains by Bradbury](http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online/originals/soft_rains.htm) — A chilling tale of a smart home in a post-apocalyptic future.
* [The Last Question by Isaac Asimov](http://multivax.com/last_question.html) — A short story about the heat death of the universe. *How can entropy be reversed?*
* [The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov](http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/) — A short story about an afterlife of never-ending consciousness.
* [I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility](https://qntm.org/responsibility) — A short story about a supercomputer that simulates the universe a little *too* perfectly. *"Well, we can't exactly turn it off."*
* [The Egg by Andy Weir](http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html) — A story about the space in between lives. [Excellent YouTube adaptation.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehRggplMieM)
* [Ragged Trousered Philosopher](http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal) — A conversation with God on a train.
* [The Machine](http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1) — A webcomic about teleporters and whether they murder & re-materialize their users.
* [25 Lives](https://s2b2.livejournal.com/142934.html) — A touching webcomic about reincarnation.
* [Surprise psychology on *What is the most cynical thing you honestly believe?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/19hfj3/what_is_the_most_cynical_thing_you_honestly/c8o44w2/)
* [You had ONE job](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2dsyys/you_had_one_job/) — Placeholder texts in production.
* [rugtoad comments on 'What do insanely poor people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?'](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2sbi17/what_do_insanely_poor_people_buy_that_ordinary/cno0g4b/)
* [What are the things you simply DON'T FUCK WITH?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2t1qwh/what_are_the_things_you_simply_dont_fuck_with/) — Chemistry.
* [More scary chemicals that you don't fuck with](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4ioqd5/what_do_you_never_fuck_with/d3028rn?context=4)
* [10 years from now I am a scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider. AMA.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z4d5/10_years_from_now_i_am_a_scientist_working_at_the/) — Humor.
* [You just won a 656 Million Dollar Lottery. What do you do now?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba4bf/) — In case that ever happens.