1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (458+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Planning a trip? This Surfshark VPN subscription can'help you avoid regional price hikes. Grab your 3-year subscription for $67. 20 (reg. $430) with code VPN20 for an extra…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (529+ words) Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It's an Alibaba-tier knockoff of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has an American flag with the wrong number of stripes on it....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (87+ words) If you want a multi-year privacy tool that can cover a bunch of devices in one go, Ad Guard VPN's five-year plan is $34. 97....

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (382+ words) There'are a lot'of things you can do to make it harder to trace who you are online. But, like the criminal in a shitty prime-time cop show, we always leave behind a little something of ourselves. It's the price we…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (428+ words) Ad Guard routes your traffic through a proprietary security protocol that the company built in-house rather than the generic options most providers use. That protocol was built around speed as much as security, so the connection stays fast even with…...

1+ week, 58+ min ago  (442+ words) Internet Archive provides more'detail'on the images and the archive: When they introduced the images at its launch, Internet Archive'shared'some fun ways to use it: Trying typing in the word "telephone' and enjoy what images appear? Curious about how death has…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (482+ words) At some point, most people stop paying for cloud storage and start entering a long-term financial relationship with it. Monthly fees pile up. Storage fills up. Another "your account is almost full" notification appears. Everyone just accepts this as modern…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (9+ words) Reciprocard is a search engine for reciprocal library cards....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (268+ words) The only detection method that reliably identifies VPN protocol signatures is deep packet inspection, which analyzes traffic at the network level, not system- or app-level. China's Great Firewall and Russia's TSPU system deploy DPI via ISPs, but a website operator…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (422+ words) Long Lost Personal'is an archive'devoted to preserving vintage personal ads from'decades past. Curated from old newspapers and alternative weeklies, the project collects tiny fragments of human longing, awkwardness, humor, and hope. Take a stroll into the past, where everything was…...