If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged

SELF="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
SELF="$(realpath -ms "$SELF")"
exec 200<"$SELF"
flock -n 200 || error "Another instance is running"

Fun Touhou/AVC Fact:
︀︀In the source code for x264 (the encoder for a video format used by ~70% of videos online) there's a secret 9th tuning option designed specifically to optimize the compression process SOLELY for Touhou.
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︀︀(🧵cos i got carried away & this is 5 tweets now lmao)

A typical TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 session looks like this, skipping some details:

1. ClientHello – the browser (or other web client) sends a message with:
Supported TLS versions (for example TLS 1.2, 1.3).A list of cipher suites (combinations of key exchange, encryption, and MAC algorithms).Supported elliptic curves for ECDHE.Various extensions (SNI, ALPN, supported groups, etc.).

[...]

For fingerprinting, the important part is that the ClientHello is visible in cleartext on the network. Even though the actual HTTP traffic is encrypted, the way you propose the TLS connection – the version, order of cipher suites, supported extensions, curve preferences, etc. – leaks the unique fingerprint of your TLS stack.

Different TLS libraries – OpenSSL, BoringSSL, SChannel, Go's crypto/tls, Node's tls module – build different ClientHello messages, even for the same https URL. Modern fingerprinting leans hard on those differences.

How Microsoft's "Global Device Identifier", the persistent Windows fingerprint named in the July 2026 Scattered Spider complaint, is actually generated, stored, and transmitted.