So I have a job that will be getting me out of the US. For most things I’m not to worried, except for my computer. What would be the best way to securely move it and also not potentially worry about damaging it?
It’ll be a given that I have an encrypted off-site (cloud) back up, but I’m torn about removing the drives to hand carry and then shipping the chassis. My only worry about that would be customs stopping me because of carrying hard drives… more specifically 3x M.2, which I’m not as worried about and 4x 2.5” SSDs
Why not keep your data remotely accessible and then go through customs with a blank device? If you're only out for a few days, then download files as you need them. If you're out for weeks or months, transfer a few TBs if need be. If you're worried about internet transfer speeds, encrypt the files, put them on an external hard drive, and mail them to someone at your destination ahead of time.
They can inspect the drives if they want. The key is they can't access anything, as it's encrypted, and they don't have control over your physical person.
When I did it recently the hardware (w encrypted data) went through a checked bag inspection but it didn't really affect anything else. I'm not sure that other countries' security apparatus is going to threaten people to vacuum up their data like the usa, and in leaving the usa you typically don't deal with usa customs inspection
I took it with me directly to avoid paying for a big estate transfer service and import tax that would otherwise be assessed by default on a normal shipment
If the GPU is heavy, consider carrying it seperately. Carry it with an ESD pack
If you have any HDDs, absolutely carry them seperately.
If you're sure the SSD's won't move away in their place,having them on pc shouldn't cause any problems; but keeping them on your personal belongings is the safest option.
Rest of the components should be fairly safe to ship, maybe the case in weird shapes could cause some trouble; but if you have the foam the case came with chances are it's not going to cause much problems.
unless you're moving to the middle of the desert, leave "the computer" (desktop? glass case? server rack? windows? linux? what?) behind and just bring the drives, then buy the other stuff locally.
I've travelled several times with multiple drives, never been stopped. I put them in USB drive enclosures, makes it look "normal" with the bonus of some mechanical protection.
Do you remember a video some tech guy/s did maybe 15 - 20 yrs ago? He raided somewhere between 10 and 20 ssds (they were new at the time) and booted up windows while holding the ssd cables and jumping on a mini trampoline? The drives were clacking together like one of them clapper hand toys/noise makers. Yeah drives should be fine, I'd break the pc down to parts in boxes if I was moving my pc anywhere far or not with me holding the box, video cards and heat syncs are super heavy these days, this isn't (I hope) a trident card
I think the manufacturers data sheet says the NAND chips and associated circuitry can handle 75Gs. You’re not going to damage them without trying really hard.
It's heavy, hanging from a flimsy PCIe slot held in by one screw. It's like having a wrecking ball inside your computer tethered by cotton. It's not for data security, it's to stop it from demolishing the motherboard with one heavy jolt.
When I briefly moved to US end 1990s I put the motherboard and hard drives in hand luggage so I only had to buy the chassis and power supply there. This earned me a wipedown for explosive traces at the control. Asking "this is because of Lockerby, isn't it?" did not help things.
Definitely take the GPU out and heatsink off the CPU, when it gets banged around both of those things because of their mass can fuck up your motherboard. I moved a lot for about a decade of my lifr and had multiple desktops get fucked up.
Hi guys! So a few weeks ago I installed 'WinApps', which allows for running any windows app in Linux...through an RDP viewport. For almost any app, it really feels like its running natively within your Linux DE, and it really is awesome.
Anyway, I think during the app setup, it kinda associated any/all URL links to be opened by Firefox....the one running within Windows! So whenever I click on an URL, it spins up the VM, or if already running, it opens a WINDOWS Firefox. I tried changing the default in my KDE settgins - Default Applications - Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox (the Linux one!). So the behavior now when I click on any URL is....to open a blank Linux Firefox window. It ignores the clicked link and it doesn't open anything else. What can I do to associate the URLs with Firefox?
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. - Fmstrat/winapps
I haven't looked into it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the claims of emf paint are overstated.
Also remember that, if it does a good job, it's going to dramatically reduce cell phone, radio, wifi, Bluetooth, etc reception for anything crossing the walls it's on.
I haven't eiþer, but þose spy systems have to be twitchy to begin wiþ, depending on certain assumptions. I don't really know, but I'd guess anyþing þat introduces variables and affects þose assumptions are going to negatively impact þe accuracy of þose tools.
I don't know if that's true. There is always a fair bit of conductive stuff in walls (wires, pipes, etc) that these sorts of systems already need to be able to handle in order to be interesting. The paints feel like they could easily be snake oil.
If OP really wants to do something about this, grounded chicken wire mesh should do the job, but that's a lot more work.
I can tell you it does work. I'm working in a lab painted with such stuff. No, we are not doing anything nefarious, but we had developments stints into wireless and radio technology, and having a properly shielded room to work in helps avoiding trouble with the neighbors. I don't think they would appreciate getting their wifi jammed when someone here is trying to find a bug in a sender or something like this...
If you make a room's walls and ceiling/floor electrically conductive (with paint or tin foil or wire mesh), you create a faraday cage. And as long as the gaps are small enough (proportional to the wavelength of the signal you want to block), nothing in those frequencies is getting in or out. A Faraday bag for your phone might be cheaper, though.
Absolutely, chicken wire in the walls (if property set up) will do a lot. My point was that I have never run into rigorous third party testing around the paint, so the marketing may make it sound far better than it actually is.
You'd have to check what kind of frequency range it actually protects against, and you'd need a way to test it (no doubt there is some fake emf paint around as well).
You could also wrap your walls in chicken wire and get a pretty decent Faraday cage effect for cheapish.
It'll also break your wifi and phone (if it works).
Unless you are running a spy agency, this is just a waste of effort IMO.
Yeah I have no idea about anti EMF paint... if... that actually worked, that would be notable... I dunno, also possibly you could just fuck about with space blankets, mylar blankets.
They're not that pricey, and worst case scenario, you now have some fairly effective emergency radiative insulation, if you need to bounce a lot of sunlight away from a window, to help keep a room cooler, or invert and wrap around yourself to keep you warmer, or keep internal heat from escaping through a window.
They may have some mild EMF blocking ability, I have no real idea.
And yeah, to a certain extent... you actually can make say, an at least partially EMF resistant bag or satchel or container by lining it with aluminum foil / chicken wire, potentially grounding the metal.
Lets just say I totally don't know anything about how my friend used to shoplift way back in the day.
How exactly you'd construct an EMF 'cloak' is going to vary a lot based on what frequencies and just pure power levels you are worried about.
Making your room or house or a box able to be a black hole for... 5g, wifi, bluetooth... is going to be different than making it a black hole for say... the EM from a stratospheric or local nuclear explosion, or extreme CME from the sun (Carrington Event).
In a pinch, most microwave ovens are at least half decent faraday cages (no dont nuke the stuff in the microwave).
Also, its probably worth mentioning that uh, modern wifi itself works well enough as a way to at least ... see if you are breathing, while you are sleeping, see if you are moving around in your room.
Hopefully I do not need to tell people that smart devices are bad and that you are much more likely to be precisely geolocated in a city not by triangulation of cell towers or even gps, but by which wifi routers, where, sense you.
If you are at all concerned with your privacy of movement, maybe just turn your cellphone off, or at least put in airplane mode, or turn off wifi and gps, when you dont need them.
EMF paint definitely exists, its been used on military planes for decades now. But the emf paint from Aliexpress? Definitely sus.
EMF observation may be technically capable of all of those things, but realistically, anyone who would go to that extreme (of targetting a single households occupants) is equally capable/likely to just barge in, arrest you and slap an ankle monitor and security cameras in your house. So its kinda pointless to worry about it.
I mean, yeah, I was gonna say... EMF paint exists.
It tends to be refferred to as, or as some component of RAM... radar absorbment material.
Yeah, every... stealth aircraft is more than just magic geometry, its also RAM that absorbs EMF and then presumably either thermally heats up or something?
That shit is unimaginably classified.
But yes, you're right that basically any entity capable of wifi sensing your precise movements in a room, is also just gonna knock down your door.
They would be using the wifi sensing to determine that you are actually home, or something like that, as opposed to using a thermal camera or laser acoustics or something like that.
Pointless to 'worry' about it? Yeah probably, if they're already going that far, you are probably already fucked more or less no matter what you do.
Good to be aware that it like... exists, though, in a more general, broad way.
I think aliexpress EMF paint has a good chance of working. All you need is some kind of conductor (usually graphite, that's literally just pencil lead) mixed with some kind of adhesive. I'm not sure how the adhesive doesn't stop electricity flow (maybe there's just so much graphite it doesn't matter), anyways you can buy graphite spray in any electronics hobby store, a paint is just that with a different consistency.
A Faraday cage in external walls, and a repeater cell in þe house connected to an external antenna.
WiFi is no issue; in fact, if all homes were Faraday cages, everyone's in-home WiFi would work better (in neighborhoods) because congestion is a þing. So þe real issue is cellular reception in-house. One solution is to use WiFi calling, which most phones support. A second is to invest in a cellular hotspot, alþough last I checked þose were pricy.
Absolutely; it'd be a waste of money. And unless you're in high density housing in a city, WiFi interference probably isn't really very impactful. I was just sayin'.
There are lots of ways to block those signals. Paint is a dubious method. Look into Faraday cages. Tin or copper ceilings and roofs found in old homes have a tendency to do this. Thick concrete works pretty well too.
Here's the thing - it will block all signals. Say goodbye to cell service. Make sure you have wired connections where you need them.
If you have in mind dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2486001… then yes, sure, might help against that but honestly if your adversary has this kind of setup, you are in trouble. First what kind of information are you preserving that they would not be able to get otherwise, e.g. just watch through windows, mirrors through windows, hacking Webcam on computers, toys, phones, etc?
IMHO that's like .0001% improvement for a lot of effort so unless you already are pretty much entirely offline, live in the woods with your blind closed, they it's a lot of energy for pretty much no change.
RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) coatings have existed for quite awhile. We use them for all kinds of stuff in the military industrial complex. The main question I have is who is doing upkeep to make sure that material/paint is intact and still maintains efficacy. And also how much is that going to cost? This isn't new tech, but it sounds like some company is trying to market it to people afraid of 5G based entirely on the commentary here.
I don't know that it will. The key weapon the US used against Latin America before was economic warfare. Now that an alternate economic bloc exists, it's going to be much harder to subjugate Latin America, and the US simply does not have the means to do this through military force.
mexico is keeping that alternative economic bloc at arms length to avoid incurring the wrath of the us like venezuela did and the likes of el salvador, columbia, bolivia and peru are welcoming us military intervention like the austrians did for the nazis in 1939.
argentina is already in the bloc and they're clawing of every legal avenue to extricate itself and brazil doesn't have the clout to influence the rest of latin america like mexico or argentina or columbia can.
I mean we'll see what happens, but personally I cannot imagine that the US has the capacity to dominate Latin America right now. It's also wroth keeping in mind that the US itself is on a brink of an economic collapse at this point.
that's why they're welcoming american intervention; their economies are tied to the us and the neoliberal gov'ts that the us imposed onto them are reaching out for the us as a bull work to prevent them from losing their grasp entirely.
if china lets venezuela fall into the us' hands like the soviet union let cuba go; then brics' gains in the americas will be reversed and the time frame will fit in before the us declines enough to prevent it.
But the elephant in the room here is that America's own economy is on life support right now. This whole economic integration with the US that you're talking about is predicated on the US boosting Latin American economies. What happens when the US has a 2008 style crash, which seems like the most likely scenario in the near future?
it's not their economies that they're trying to shore up (although there's no doubt they want that as well); it's their control of their nations that matter most to them and the us still has the military strength to do so.
It all comes down to economics in the end. All these governments have to have at least some level of legitimacy to stay in power, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate then we'll see more and more of what's happening in Argentina and Chile with growing public unrest and political instability. Meanwhile, the US ability to provide military strength has also been greatly diminished over the past three years. The US is literally not able to keep up with military production to shore up its proxy war in Ukraine. On top of that, they're propping up Israel, and attempting to confront China. The empire is spread very thin right now.
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What do you run; Opnsense, pfsense, Smoothwall, maybe a WAF like wazuh?
Today was update/audit firewall day. I'm running a standalone instance of pFsense on a Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port - Intel Quad Core - 8GB RAM - 120GB mSATA SSD with unbound, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, ntopng, and heavily filtered. I did bump the swap to 8 GB as I've previously noticed a few 'out of swap' errors under load.
Before I signed off, I ran it through a couple porn sites to see if my adblocking strategy was working. Not one intrusive ad. Sweet!
Also this. On some unremarkable HP office PC that's probably about a decade old. No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house. I've thought about trying a second unbound service with adblocking for me, but haven't gotten around to it.
I run a secondary wifi network with “Ads” in its name, whose vlan doesn’t get forced into pihole DNS. It mostly prevents me from having to hear complaints from others in the house, and they barely ever use it.
I quite like this idea, thanks! If I did this I could adblock all the rest of my network, which might help with blocking ads on things like smart TV's. I could also DMZ that wireless network. I would consider their devices untrusted (not malicious, just not careful), and they wouldn't notice the difference.
No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house
Ahhh the WAF (Wife Aceptance Factor). I made a seperate Vlan for my lady friend so when she comes over to visit, I don't have to reinvent the wheel for her. She can have all the ads and slop she can stomach, just keep it on your seperate branch and we'll both be happy.
Opnsense on dedicated device, several built in filters + several github backed filters for unbounddns.
Haven't tested it heavily, but the times I am on an outside network not using VPN into my network, or using TOR, etc, i am inundated with ads... So i guess successful internally.
outside network not using VPN ........ i am inundated with ads…
I swear I do not know how the regular Joe Schmoe internet user deals with all that clutter. Sometimes I am called by a friend to look at their computer for some issue they are having. It is mind bogglingly frustrating for me.
The thought has crossed my mind on several occasions. If you don't mind me asking and take up your time, how do you integrate f2b with pFsense? I'm running f2b on several VPS I have, and it just downright works. So, my thought was, what would f2b do to enhance pFsense's capabilities, and how would you make that all homogenate?
Been a while since I set it up but as I recall it's a 5-minute from job that runs a command that just dumps the pf block list fail2ban manages into a text file in my public_html directory. Then I just add a feed in pfblocker with the address of the text file and it loads from that feed.
I'll see if I can dig up some info. I started searching, then got busy. So I put the few I had time to find in a selfhosted Readeck instance. I use it for 'read it later' kind of bookmarks.
I run iptables on Debian, on a cheap aliexpress minipc with dual NICs. Been using more or less the same config for about five years. It’s simple, boring, and works great.
One cannot quibble with long term success. Admitidly tho, I am a sucker for a good UI. One of the first things I do when researching a piece of opensource software is to do an image search to see what it looks like. LOL
I love my Protectli. I tried Opnsense. Seemed to be a well put together piece of open source software by people really who care. There's nothing wrong with it. Does what it says on the tin. I guess I just liked the flow of pFsense. They both acomplish the same thing. I am aware of the pro's and the cons of each. pFsense just appealed to me more.
My firewall varies from installation-to-installation, as it's always client-side with a custom DNS provider. Right now, I'm using YaST Firewall on my main machine, iptables on my old ThinkPad, and my other machines are currently between operating systems. In the past, I have also dabbled in ufw, pf, and awall.
In addition to that, I generally use NextDNS (though I also get excellent results with Mullvad DNS).
My policy is simple: reject all incoming connections, except for Torrent and Syncthing.
nftables. Deny all, start adding stuff until þings work.
My firewalls are simple, b/c I run a private VPN and just shut off all traffic except over WG. I've got one exposed VPS reverse proxying services from oþer VPSes over WG.
But: nftables, and only nftables. I'm a big believer in understanding how stuff works, and þe rulesets created by firewalld and ilk are convoluted - complexity adds risk.
Ubiquiti DM pro with its built in suricata. Honeypots, no remote mgmt, ACLs to minimum need, HA networks in isolation. DPI, multiple pi-holes. Phone alerts on intrusion wazuh just for node security compliance. ManageEngine for patches. NTFY alerts on console access.
Opnsense with unbound DNS here. Running on an old PC that got converted to dedicated firewall (with added NIC card for ports). Nothing crazy, just enough to control what communicates out of my network.
I've always wondered about OpenWRT. In my uneducated thinking, running an access point/wifi, firewall, router, etc, all in the same package would create a bottleneck right at the point you wouldn't want it. What has been your experience?
I run IPFire on a PC Engines apu4d4 (pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm). I use dynDNS, WireGuard and set up a DMZ with it. I also have a WiFi card installed und use hostAPD to run that.
I think they stopped producing them because the AMD SOC they used is EOL. I was a big fan of their open platform.
my home server needs to be redone and i'm seeking ideas on how to future proof it. here's some ascii art in a screenshot to help describe how it's currently setup:
description (left to right): - laptops, smartphones, tables, etc connect to an access point configured on a windows 10 virtual machine (vm). the windows10 vm uses pci passthrough on the wireless adapter and this is done to get gigabit wifi speeds since intel's drivers won't allow linux to do this in ap mode; but will allow it just fine if you're using windows. - requests from the wifi clients are passed via dns & ip masquerade to another virtual machine based on pfsense - pfsense serves as the router, firewall, vpn, ad blocking & web hosting and it's also configured to use pci passthrough on the primary network interface to gap internet traffic from the server - the center of the drawing shows how i perform data backups using a wired connection with a hardware switch and i setup the host ubuntu server to manage dhcp on the secondary network interface & the devices that are connect to the switch. the data is stored using rsync and harddrives are setup to use an extremely large lvm made of several different types of hard drives.
i've rebuilt this server multiple times each time i encountered a "gotcha" or a surprise that i had not anticipated and it made some needful component stop working; so i'm seeking advice from Lemmy on how to redesign this to mitigate future surprises.
some of the surprises i've encountered so far are: - the pfsense logs overfilled the root volume of the bsd based vm because logrotate was configured for linux. the image is hardcoded with a single volume so i will need to find a way to borrow some space from the backup volume using nfs and configure the logs to write there instead of locally. - i have no key for the windows10 vm; so i'm forced to clone it's qcow image and manually configure the hotspot each time the 30 day free trial from microsoft expires. I intend to improve upon this creating an ansible job to rotate this virtual machine every 30 days automatically and include powershell based tasks to configure the hotspot in windows automatically - intel limits the speed for linux native internet connection sharing to 100 megabits (already mentioned & fixed above) - the local users home volume overfills when trying to take my google backups (already fixed)
constraints: - don't spend anymore $$$ - gigabyte wifi is A MUST
I have found that a lot of VPN kill switches interfere with other security measures. For instance, I use tailscale on my VPS. I also run a local VPN. If I have the kill switch on the local VPN engaged, it interferes with tailscale and I cannot ssh in to my VPS. So, a not so elegant solution for me is to disengage the local VPN's kill switch for that session, and then re-enable it after I am finished administering my VPS. After which I will do a DNS leak check to make sure everything is as it was. Takes a couple of quick steps, but it seems to work.
I think I have the same protectli as you and it is awesome. Need it for my 2.5gb uplink. I use openwrt on it... Didn't really like opnsense. I am more used to linux than bsd.
I host lots of services and get bombarded by scrapers, scanners, and skids both at home and on my VPSs.
I use ipset for the usual blocklists which I download regularly. I also have tarpits on 22/tcp (endlessh). I pipe the IPs from the endlessh logs into fail2ban which feeds the ipsets. I have ipset blocks and fail2ban on my home firewall and all VPSs and coordinate over mqtt. So any fail2ban trigger > mqtt > every ipset block. Touch my 22/tcp anywhere and you get banned instantly everywhere. The program I use for this is called vallumd and it runs on openwrt.
I also put maltrail everywhere but I'm not totally sure how to interpret and respond to the results. Probably will implement a pipe from maltrail to my mqtt > blocklist setup.
I don't do any network-level adblocking... Might be a future project.
I think I have the same protectli as you and it is awesome
Yes it is. It was a little more than I wanted to spend, and I'm sure I could have gone with a cheaper configuration, but I figured I'd get something with a little ass to it as to not create a bottleneck right at the firewall.
I host lots of services and get bombarded by scrapers, scanners, and skids both at home and on my VPSs. Touch my 22/tcp anywhere and you get banned instantly everywhere.
I too host most of the services I use on a couple of VPS I run. It has always amazed me as to the thickness of the bot layer on the internet. Clearnet experiences something like 2+ zetabytes per 24 hours. Around 50% of that is bot traffic, and they are very sophisticated bots as well. Open port 22 and here they come by the thousands like a feeding frenzy. I went as far as blocking everything with hosts.allow (do first) & hosts.deny (do last). I've set f2b on aggressive mode with only one shot. LOL UFW rocks in the background along with Crowdsec. I probably go overboard with security. LOL
Pfsense guy here, and professionally Palo alto guy. Can someone tl;dr the purpose of blockerng and suricata? I thought I remember the Lawrence systems folks mentioning using it for IPS but with segmentation at home "human" IPS seems more relevant than digital
PfBlockerNG: Used to block ads, malicious content, and manage access based on IP geolocation and domain names. It provides features like DNS-based blocking
Some of the features of both overlap which might not be a bad thing.
Some of it is for fun and testing, learning. Which I used to do. I used to have an old watchdog that I put pfsense on, just don't need it nowadays.
Once i learn how it works and have run through the setup, I move on. Just need to spend my time in other areas, but now I have an understanding of it and can apply that logic or idea to other things and troubleshooting.
This is perfectly valid! I to a lot of tinkering with selfhosting using Docker containers, and I have learned a ton from that. I feel a bit silly that I didn't make the connection with firewalls - just tinkering for fun!
The last stats I remember reading cited some 1.5 million home networks are compromised on a daily basis. Some people, such as myself, run more complex services on their local servers that are perhaps tied into remotes such as VPS. You'll see a lot of selfhosters with rather elaborate firewall defenses set up. I self host a lot of services I use that the 'normal family home' would outsource to public entities. I have a rack in the closet and several VPS, so I need something more than just Windows Firewall, or similar, that I can dial in to my unique environment.
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Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as data fodder to the multibillion-dollar AI therapy i…
Jeff Goldblum's Jurassic Park monologue feels appropriate here.
"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew it you had it. You patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now your selling it!"
Not universally true— with my healthcare network there is a consent form that allows you to decline the use of AI for online appointments, and for in-person they request verbal consent. I make sure to decline every time.
Just wanted to share so that people can check if opting out is possible (for now at least).
My network (my insurance is with an HMO so it’s all centralized with all the physical and mental healthcare providers I have access to) has you click on your appointment in the app or online, and then it opens Zoom.
I have to use Teams for work and the idea of using that for therapy is kind of funny for some reason…
were you talking also about poisoning the training data?
two distinct (but imo highly worthwhile) things
tar pits are a bit like turning the tap off (or to a useless trickle). fortunately it’s well understood how to do it efficiently and it’s difficult to counter.
poisoning is a whole other thing. i’d imagine if nothing comes out of the tap the poison is unlikely to prove effective. there could perhaps be some clever ways to combine poisoning with tarpits in series, but in general they’d be deployed separately or at least in parallel.
bear in mind to meaningfully deploy a tar pit against scrapers you usually need some permissions on the server, it may not help too much for this exact problem in the article (except for some short term fuckery perhaps). poisoning this problem otoh is probably important
were you talking also about poisoning the training data?
two distinct (but imo highly worthwhile) things
tar pits are a bit like turning the tap off (or to a useless trickle). fortunately it's well understood how to do it efficiently and it's difficult to counter.
poisoning is a whole other thing. i'd imagine if nothing comes out of the tap the poison is unlikely to prove effective. there could perhaps be some clever ways to combine poisoning with tarpits in series, but in general they'd be deployed separately or at least in parallel.
bear in mind to meaningfully deploy a tar pit against scrapers you usually need some permissions on the server, it may not help too much for this exact problem in the article (except for some short term fuckery perhaps). poisoning this problem otoh is probably important
Meanwhile the guy who breached a Finnish therapy database and held 33,000 records for ransom just got out of prison after serving around 2 years of a 6 year sentence:
To make matters worse he basically "served" 2 years in hotel. Because that's what Finnish prisons are. He clearly wasn't punished enough. I'm afraid he will go back to his criminal life...
i think that the worse thing about this is that the people committing the same crime are made millionaires and will never receive any sort of comeuppance for it.
Prisons shouldn't be cruel and unusual. If you think Finnish prisons are so good compared to being free in your country... what do you think that says about your country?
I'm already got bit off topic and I'm afraid this will go far away from the topic if I'd answer your question. I rather keep this sub on topic. And also one of the rules of this community is literally: "Try to keep things on topic"
Nah rehabilitative justice doesn't work for financial crimes. This has been shown time and time and time again. Financial criminals are not the result of troubled youth or poverty, these pieces of shit are the privileged cream of the crop who only care about expanding their already unjust wealth. Unlike your run of the mill robber, there's nothing to rehabilitate. They have never lived a hard day in their life yet that's still not enough for them. They deserve to suffer and be made to repay tenfold what they stole from society in back breaking labour, or worse. There's a reason every socialist country makes financial crimes over some threshold punishable by death, something every country needs to implement.
Finland to financial criminals victimizing the entire country:
Finland to the actual victims:
(Hi from Canada where the courts do the same thing and then get all high and mighty about being "progressive" and "rehabilitative" when the victims express their grievances)
You know, as with a lot of these tech advances that impinge upon privacy and put us at risk in the name of profit, the buy-in, the thing they're offering in exchange, IS actually pretty worthwhile. This is extremely useful. It's such a shame that all this cool Star Trek shit that I would have been giddy about as a kid has been realised, but at a sinister and often hidden cost.
Is there any way this can be done on local metal? Would it achieve the same level of accuracy and sophistication of the progress notes? Because if this can be offered to the therapists that wanted it enough in the first place that they either knowingly or unwittingly sacrificed their patient's privacy for it, maybe they can be given an alternative.
I think nothing stands in the way of doing this on local metal, as far as technology goes. Something similar has already been achieved for personal photo sorting, e.g. ente.io/
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The specific application in this instance was that it creates "progress notes". Admittedly, as I have only the information from the article itself, having no background in this field myself, I can only make assumptions what those are like, but as the name implies it's charting a client's progress through therapy and would also imply to me a lot of summarising of information gleaned during sessions. I guess in as much as it also would necessarily have to create a transcript in doing this for you, I guess it also provides that too. This is portrayed as tedious and time consuming work by the creators of the service, who obviously have a vested interest in casting it in such light, but taken at its word, I would say in my opinion the advantage would be in automating some of the tedious and time consuming aspects of the job.
As I suspect you were driving at from the tenor of the question, there's a lot of ways this could go wrong, in particular privacy concerns when this service is offered in the manner that it is here where it's processed outside of the therapist's own clinic by 3rd parties and information is shared with additional parties and used for many purposes with only the flimsy promise of "de-anonymisation" which appears to be hollow. It could also maybe affect how the therapy is conducted, making decisions about how to summarise this information that will influence what decisions a therapist makes and perhaps that therapist might have summarised it differently if doing the notes themselves, then again this all hinges upon how effective it is considered to be. If it can be evaluated and found to be generally good, then it seems tentatively like this could be a pretty helpful tool for a therapist. But in general, my comment was really more directed at what I feel like is a sad state of affairs across the board with recent tech advances including generative AI as applied in any aspect of life or work, that I think is often lost in these conversations where the technology really shows promise or is quite impressive but because of the manner of its development or the surveillance profit model, it's basically tainted and ruined. I feel like I often come across commentary that fails to make the distinction between the negative aspects of how these techs have come about and are monetized and the tech itself where the latter is simply cast as inherently undesirable even when there's clearly reason enough for people to find it appealing in the first place for it to end up in use.
that's plausible. in my opinion a therapist should take the effort to take their own interpretation of what has been said, instead of relying on a machine that digests the system in a uniform way. words of a patient can mean a lot of things, even depending on things like their body language. but I have to admit I'm even more concerned about the privacy consequences which you pointed out. that's like, it simply can't go unabused in my opinion. too tempting. I wouldn't even want to run a business that just stores it without abuse, it's too risky too.
I am currently looking for a privacy respecting alternative for the medication tracking app I currently use. Apple's native health app seems to be decent privacy wise, but it lacks the ability to input my current capsule inventory and set a reminder at a certain amount of pills so I can refill them on time. (I should also note that I have an older phone so I'm running iOS 18.6? I'm not sure if the app has changed on iOS 26.)
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your recommendations. ^-^
I just use the native one. My issue is, I have medications that have to be spaced apart and Apple does not support that. Like pill A can be taken whenever, but pill B has to be taken 4 hours out. You can set them for times that are that far apart, but if you take pill A late, you aren't told to take pill B even later to compensate.
What you need? Sounds like you need reminders. Apple's medication tracking isn't a pill counter. So you either have a 1 or 3 month supply, typically. When you start taking them, you could set a reminder (in the Reminders app or in another app you like) for however many days before telling you to refill. Some of the prescription apps actually will remind you on their own when it's getting to be time to refill.
Perhaps only mildly interesting but I just did an apt show for birdtray on Debian 13 and got this in the second paragraph of the description:
It is a nasty hack -- an external process looking at Thunderbird's insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc -- you'd want to use an extension like firetray instead -- but, it is likely that support for Thunderbird XUL extensions will be dropped soon, possibly by the time you read these words.
Not used to seeing this kind of language in the Debian repos tbh.
Sounds like a developer who's pissed they had to make this hack in the first place, not proud of it, and not the way they'd like to solve the problem. But the external factors they can't control keep putting up road blocks, so this hack was all they could come up with to temporarily solve the issue for themselves.
Yeah, part of the reason I like open-source. The devs don't need to sell you anything, so they can just tell you that what they made is a steaming pile of garbage.
i got my hand slapped for describing a project that i put together for an old-silicon employer in the recent past; i reverted it back just before i left. lol
I do too. But I have this illusion about Debian that everything is perfect, authoritative and dignified, which it is of course and then I am struck by this kind of candid resentment and bitterness in apt like a bolt out of the blue. I just don't what to think any more.
I always go back to Fedora. Different strokes for different folks and I’m definitely not trying to have a “Which distro?!?” conversation. Maybe you have philosophical reasons to hate it. (I do sometimes too.) But that’s my home base.
It’s partly because I learned on WhiteHat/CentOS/RHEL for work. But even today, it’s my stable, baseline distro. They don’t change Gnome or push updates without at least some testing. (I know.) Drivers almost always work. There’s (usually) documentation written by paid professionals. It’s just a good, solid OS that I can make mine without uninstalling shit or worrying it’s unstable.
Debian is perfect for that too, obviously and I’m eternally grateful for Arch’s wiki and community. But for my needs, Fedora strikes a near-perfect balance.
I like Fedora and Debian a lot, but update fatigue drove me crazy with Fedora in particular. I know I don’t HAVE to update everyday, but if they’re available I can’t help myself. I like how calm and still Debian feels in comparison. I’m running mostly Debian 13 now days and I’m going to try holding out the full 2 years before the next version. It’ll be a bit of a marathon as I read about all these new features every 6 months.
Typically with Debian distros, I set security updates to be automatic and I just go in every now and then and update the rest. But I pretty much only use it on servers and Raspberry Pi side projects.
To be clear to people who find this, none of these distros we’re talking about are for massive scale. We’re talking personal stuff, side projects, small businesses, etc. Don’t put Kali Linux on your laptop. It’s made for a specific purpose.
To be clear to people who find this, none of these distros we’re talking about are for massive scale. We’re talking personal stuff, side projects, small businesses, etc. Don’t put Kali Linux on your laptop. It’s made for a specific purpose.
Arista had a mass produced network switches line based on fedora circa 2020; they back ported everything to keep it up to date.
Haha, perfectly valid, thanks for the clarification!
Edit: Just realizing who you are here, and wanted to express my gratitude! Bazzite has been the thing that finally allowed me to feel comfortable ditching Windows on a gaming living room PC, with all my finicky requirements for HDR and a clean controller-driven experience, and it's been a fantastic decision.
"The new Video Player prioritizes a distraction-free viewing experience"
How can you say this while having the controls overlaid onto the video, youtube-style, and cropping the video corners ? admittedly corners are rarely of the utmost importance in any film, or other video file. But just don't touch my corners.
I like the "Power connected status change". Helps to find out if the charger is relly plugged in. Hopefully Papers will receive support for digital signage which evince never did. This is still lacking in GNOME.
Rubio ranted, “This happened because on October 7th these animals, these barbaric animals, conducted this operation ... against innocent people.”
He concluded, “It needs to end. And how does it end? It ends by eliminating the people who did it, by ending them as a threat.”
As vast as the crimes of US imperialism have been in funding, arming and enabling the Gaza genocide, Rubio’s statement marks a new turning point. American imperialism, dropping its veil of promoting “democracy” and “human rights,” has adopted language that would not be out of place in a speech given by Adolf Hitler.
Rubio’s use of this genocidal language was the starting gun for the full-scale Israeli onslaught on Gaza City, as tanks and warplanes moved in, displacing countless thousands at gunpoint over the choked coastal road to Gaza’s south.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inaugurate what Netanyahu called the “concluding moves” in the US-Israeli onslaught on Gaza: the conquest and destruction of Gaza C…
In a congressional hearing in July of last year, a research scholar on antisemitism named Charles Asher Small shared an explosive finding: Funding from the government of Qatar had fueled a 300% spike in antisemitism on university campuses in the United States. Members of Congress responded with rapt interest. “I want everybody to hear this. So universities that took money from Qatar had a 300% increase in antisemitism [compared to] other universities?” said Iowa Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra.9
The statistic about Qatari funding for antisemitism became the highlight of Small’s testimony to Congress. But this precise statistic was never actually recorded in his study.
Small repeated the same claim in a Senate hearing in March of this year. But when contacted for comment about the figure, ISGAP could not point Drop Site to any specific report or finding. One ISGAP study published in 2023 did report that, from 2015-2020, universities that received money from “Middle Eastern” donors had a 300% increase in antisemitic incidents compared to those that do not. But this report is also disputed—and there is no data in it specifically linking Qatari funding to a rise in antisemitic incidents.
Drop Site interviewed over a half-dozen former employees and scholars of ISGAP, many of whom explained that the organization has strayed from the mission of academic study of antisemitism into a hyper-fixation on Qatari funding of U.S. institutions—while ISGAP itself has accepted foreign funding from Israel.
ISGAP is attempting to shape policy in Washington, at a time when the Trump administration is looking to justify a broader crackdown on opposition to the war on Gaza.
Spanish government officials have suggested they could pull their national team out of the 2026 World Cup.
World football's biggest tournament will take place once again next summer in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the first time the competition has been hosted by three different nations.
European champions Spain are the bookmakers' early favourites to win and are on course to book their place at the tournament, having taken two wins from two at the start of qualifying.
But there are now suggestions Luis de la Fuente's side could withdraw from the World Cup in protest if Israel also qualify for the tournament.....
No AVB yellow state on most devices (bootloader relock with custom keys), MicroG (while actually a cool project) Isn't a fully functional implementation (no Chromecast if you enjoy self harm, no U2F, FIDO authentication, etc.), you also can't use safetynet (for banking apps) with unlocked bootloader
This is actually incorrect, on almost all devices that Murena sells the bootloader is locked. I think you are confusing their official builds with their community/volunteer builds
I have bad news for you. From the specs on their site it appears to be a 6.5 inch FHD screen with a mid-range MediaTek processor. Really not much different from all the other mid-range phones offered in their site. For flagship price.
Though to be fair to the project, you don't need to buy a phone from them, you can re-inage an existing device bought elsewhere as long as it's one of their supported models.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought eOS wasn’t trust worthy? I can’t remember why though but I remember reading something about why it wasn’t good to use
My understanding is that it just redirects all the data collection from Google to Murena. Like you’re just trading one corp for another. That’s why some people have an issue with it anyway. Especially since GrapheneOS exists. I take a slightly more nuanced view that a lot of the conveniences modern smartphone users take for granted rely on this type of backend infrastructure. It’s sort of hard to avoid if you value mainstream features. That may be sort of a controversial viewpoint though.
I think that’s what I saw someone say somewhere the point about data being directed to murena, but I suppose it depends on how murena handles data and what privacy policy’s are in place. That’s what I think many people would look at before deciding whether to use it or not
it just redirects all the data collection from Google to Murena
Where did you see that? My understand is that it's only the case if you explicitly create then use a Murena account.
Also trading one corporation against another, in that case if the user genuinely want to (they are not being coerced), would be technically true but... Google is not "one corp". It's one of the largest corporation ever, one of the only two popular mobile OS. It does not mean automatically picking another corporation is better but it's definitely hard to do worst.
Mostly through hearsay on here and Signal groups. I do agree the Murena-bad circlejerk has gone a little too far. I use an iPhone so I don’t have a dog in this race.
I think that's q bit overblown. You have an option to use a Murena account in place of a Google account. I just said no thanks and everything works perfectly fine with no services affected. In terms of security of privacy of the Murena account itself, no idea. Never used one.
I thought eOS wasn’t trust worthy? I can’t remember why though
...seriously? Why do you even repeat it then? The least you can do if you don't want to fuel rumors is to :
either ask a genuine question, rather than suggest the answer
or, IMHO better, actually
take just few minutes to find the claim, one way or another, so that at least people can clarify, either confirming what you found or rather explain why it's no correct.
I bet you are referring to lemmy.ml/post/35472063 simply because it's relevant recent and (sadly) quite popular... but unfortunately you can read my response, incorrect. OP there has their opinion (they clearly don't like Murena and /e/OS and prefer alternatives, perfectly fine) but unfortunately, and that's what honestly piss me off, make claims that are just not true. You can check the details there. Now is it trust worthy or not, that's up to you, just don't imagine that Murena services are mandatory in /e/OS based on that posts because (as others in this thread also confirmed) it is just a lie.
/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.
First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because...
they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services
replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with.... Drumroll please.... Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.
They are For-profit
and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.
... I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.
But a TL;DR:
/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.
If it was cheaper than the competition in the googled Android space and was a foldable, I'd consider buying it.
Just be aggressive with pricing and don't be afraid of working with middlemen, since for example in Slovakia, people are used to shop via the green alien shop, because they can have student discounts, volume-based discounts for businesses, drop boxes, and more things that the manufacturer can't afford to do.
I'll never understand why privacy companies do this: sell a thoroughly mid-range phone for a flagship price. The privacy OS market in my experience is largely either tech nerds with enough cash to splash out on a new/second unnecessary device just so they can play around with trying to get the new OS working for themselves, until it eventually becomes their daily driver, or poor students who got a beat up phone from their friend's cousin's neighbor's ex-girlfriend's roommate and are slapping this alternative OS on it to use as their main with all consequences be damned. Obviously there are people in the middle there, but tjoses eem to be the two primary groups. So the bulk of people you're selling to are those who want a higher end phone primarily, and probably would be willing to pay for it. Instead, they make a mid-range device that has low margins, often in small quantities because they throw in some niche feature that costs a ton to add to the existing design like a hardware kill switch, and then charge flagship phone prices for a mid-range device.
I'm willing to settle for having to buy a google pixel for instance (which is always a 2 year old design by the time it's released), and wait a bit before it's supported, but I'm never interested in a mid-range device. I dont care how much I support your mission, I'll throw a couple hundred at you as a donation before I even consider that. And that's assuming I'm buying the device at mid-range price. It's out of the question that I'd ever pay flagship prices for it.
Let me know when you have something that's closer to a 3 year old flagship and we'll talk, otherwise stop throwing your time and money at making a phone for a market that doesn't exist.
To this day I still can't understand what all the "need" for incredibly high-end phones come from. Gaming? That's the answer I've gotten before, and that just leaves me wondering why anyone would want to game on a phone to begin with. Are there other use cases for a phone that actually requires anything top of the line?
My phone was considered "mid-range spec" when it was released 4 years ago and it is still perfectly capable for anything I would want to use a phone for.
As for pricing - remember that there are other things than pure specs baked into a price. A locked down phone (i.e. no way of unlocking bootloader) riddled with spyware is likely cheaper than it otherwise would be from a company that won't be able to keep monetizing you as a product after your purchase. That's not to say that there is no such thing as a price mismatch, but matching price vs specs does not tell the whole story.
For me? Basic functionality. Even the Pixel 9 Pro is laggy as hell just opening apps like Garmin. God forbid I try to use the browser for anything. And that's a flagship phone.
I know it's the crazy badly designed apps, but I can't change that. What I can change is a phone that can run them.
Also, it's nice to be able to occasionally take a picture that's not completely washed out and looks like it was taken with a pre-OG Razer flip phone. No joke, I have pictures from that old flip phone 120x120 pixel screen!) from 20 years ago that look better than what came off the mid range phones I've tried in the last few years. I'm confident it's just poor implementation of much more capable hardware, but it doesnt change the fact that I can't even expect to use it for the most basic of functions.
Strange, I am rarely experiencing any lag on my four year old mid-range model, browser included. Maybe we have a very different perception of what lag is? Or maybe you have an insane amount of background processes running that bogs down your phone?
Camera is not great, but I always have a good time looking back at pictures taken with it and it is certainly much, much better than what I took 10 years, let alone 20. If your flip phone took better pictures, something is wrong and there could be ways to fix that.
In my relentless pursuit of trying to coax more performance out of my Lemmy instance I read that PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache for read performance. I've got 16 GB of RAM and two hdds in RAID 1. I've PostgreSQL configured to use 12 GB of RAM and I've zram swap set up with 8 GB.
But according to htop PostgreSQL ia using only about 4 GB. My swap gets hardly touched. And read performance is awful. Opening my profile regularly times out. Only when it's worked ones does it load quickly until I don't touch it again for half an hour or so.
Now, my theory is that the zram actually takes available RAM away from the disk cache, thus slowing the whole system down. My googling couldn't bring me the answer because it only showed me how to set up zram in the first place.
Lower the postgre to 8GB and see what happens? Also, hard drives, ssds, or nvme ssds? Recent info suggests it is possible memcaching is actually slower than direct access to nvme ssd
You're probably correct, although I have no experience with zram so can't be sure. But you're absolutely right that PostgreSQL depends heavily on the OS disk cache for optimal performance. Lowering the PostgreSQL setting like Blaster M suggests won't improve performance much, since all that setting does is tell PostgreSQL's algorithms how much memory is likely to be allocated to the OS disk cache. Of course it's best if it's accurate, so you're best off seeing how much memory is actually allocated to disk cache under heavy use before setting it, but it shouldn't massively reduce performance if you don't get it right.
Junta troops detained, tortured, and burned six civilians to death in Sagaing Region’s Kantbalu Township on 12 September, according to a report released by the Kyun Hla Activists’ group.
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"Germany will support such a resolution which simply describes the status quo in international law," the spokesman said, adding that Berlin "has always advocated a two-state solution and is asking for that all the time."
"The chancellor just mentioned two days ago again that Germany does not see that the time has come for the recognition of the Palestinian state," the spokesman added.
Patrona concludes “that authoritarian victimhood rhetoric is far from innocuous. It is much more than simple packaging, form devoid of content; rather, it both anticipates and puts to work anti-democratic, coercive, and illiberal governance and policies, once authoritarian populists are granted executive power post-electorally.”
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The US is moving to reclaim the Bagram airbase from the Taliban after losing it during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced.
“We’re trying to get it back, by the way,” Mr Trump told reporters during a joint press conference with Sir Keir Starmer in Aylesbury on Thursday.
The Bagram base was the largest operated by the US in Afghanistan and is strategically important in countering China’s growing influence in the region.
Mr Trump suggested that he was negotiating with the Taliban to retake ownership, adding: “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back.”
I have never been to the USA and know too little about inner naunces to propose anything. But revolution is always a good way to explain to politicians who the people are, who the politicians are, and how it all works.
Here’s the thing: I’m with you. I agree as an American that the only thing that can stop this train is a wholehearted, full-throated rejection of everything this administration represents. That comes with a couple of issues, though, and the first is that the body politic here is intensely complacent; much too comfortable to be driven to action. The fact of the matter is that disapproval of Trump is the majority view, and even at the beginning of his second term that was still about a dead even split, but not even Trump’s atrocious performance in his first term was enough to galvanize a large portion of the US voter base in the 2024 election, despite it clearly being a critical inflection point. Unfortunately, if it doesn’t affect their life immediately and directly, a large portion of America simply doesn’t give a shit. Overcoming that apathy is likely going to require something large, noticeable, bombastic, demonstrably wrong, and personally painful, and by that point there’s a good chance it’ll be too late. Additionally, any revolution or unrest is likely to be heavily suppressed by the second issue: the US police state and its willingness to use deadly force, regardless of the severity of the situation. Between police forces, riot police, swat teams, the national guard, domestic surveillance, and now the might of the US military turned on its own populace, the Trump administration has all the tools to make any true resistance deeply costly and incredibly painful. Talk of resistance, of revolution, of taking up arms against this fascist takeover is easy, but the feasibility of a clean revolution in the face of the US police, military, and intelligence apparatus is doubtful. More likely we would end up with either civil war or insurgency, fighting an asymmetric campaign against an overwhelming force. We know that the US is vulnerable to such tactics (see: US expeditionary wars in Vietnam and the Middle East), but we also know that those tactics are incredibly costly, and require a populace that is highly motivated by what they perceive to be an existential threat.
The key here, in my opinion, is the military. Historically, he who controls the military, controls the state. The victors of coups and revolutions practically always have the military on their side, and for good reason; very few things are as persuasive as the threat of a bullet. Morale in the US military right now seems to be low, and if we can manage to break the trained obedience to hierarchy, we might just have a chance, but without them, I don’t see a way forward. Even every citizen striking and causing a complete shutdown of the US economy would just be likely to lead to threats being made to and examples being made of them, and getting people onboard for that is unlikely to be feasible from a fundamental level, given that the majority of America lives paycheck to paycheck.
I don’t want to be fatalistic or claim that this can’t be done or that we shouldn’t be doing anything about it; we should, and have a moral obligation to act, but the reality of the situation is that the time to act while avoiding discomfort was last November, and the viable options available to us now are going to hurt, and will likely only get more painful as time goes on. That makes people hesitant to act, and until such a time as they have more to lose from inaction than they do from action, I don’t expect that to change.
Nothing like letting the Taliban know "Oh yeah we are trying to take that back" on public channels so they can get everything nice and reinforced and ready for you and make it as much of a pain in the ass as possible.
I feel I should I comment on the title a bit. It's a genocide. And the 'Our Genocide' part is not a representation of Israeli sentiment, nor what the interviews showed, but a report of a specific group. The last part becomes clear in the video though.
Reporter Matthew Cassel speaks to Israelis in Tel Aviv, to see what they think of the war, famine and genocide happening next door, and the growing international condemnation against it
Rather than act to end Israel's genocide in Gaza, western leaders rally behind a French-Saudi scheme for fictive statehood that entrenches Israeli supremacy and props up the PA
Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat. The Atlanta man, who asked not to be identified, says the post was merely a confirmation that he had purchased the same T-shirt that the accused killer wore (from an Illinois-based online shop).
Social media companies are generally forbidden by law from divulging users’ private communications to the government without a traditional legal process (e.g., court order). But there’s an exception: in perceived emergencies, social media platforms can proactively and “voluntarily” hand over private messages in response to what’s called an “emergency disclosure request” (EDR).
Discord, I am told, did not respond to any EDR here; but when I asked them directly if they’d provided law enforcement with information to traditional legal process, they declined to respond on-record.
The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law.
Full blown Orwellian world. Run for local government and stop this shit.
The largest populated areas are left leaning. If they ae controlled by democratic socialist, we can restrict this shit. Just by pure numbers.
I saw this coming in 1999 when Scott McNealy inadvertantly spilled the beans on what his hateful industry was up to, and I have been extremely cautious about what I've been posting ever since. People have called me a paranoid crackpot for decades. I guess I hate to tell you I told you so...
At the Monday night launch of Sun Microsystems' new Jini technology, CEO Scott McNealy calls consumer privacy a non-issue. The Federal Trade Commission has another view. By Polly Sprenger.
De-google and open source has been my push this year. I'm not the most knowledgeable but I don't trust these companies.
I stopped using social media for almost 20 years. Only anonymous chats like this are used. Everything goes through a VPN and I always think that someone else is reading my stuff.
Ask yourself: can you say or post absolutely everything that falls under free speech - i.e. not calls to violence of civil disturbance? Do you feel like you can safely talk about all subjects without being cancelled or sued?
As soon as you start thinking twice about whether you can say something safely, that's censorship. Censorship isn't someone breathing over your neck saying "Be careful what you say", it's you self-censoring so you don't get into trouble.
not a single person gives a shit about charlie kirk; the whole crackdown is because politicians got a glimpse ofhow people will react when they die and they don't like it.
They don't give a shit about that either. Trump has been trying to goat people into violence and he final got his wish (possibly by his own people). They are seizing on that. That is why he moved the national guard into memphis TN. He wants marshall law to hold power forever.
Since we're making corrections, the word is "goad," not "goat." You try to "goad" people into behavior or choices they wouldn't normally make.
I try not to correct people much anymore if their message is still pretty obvious. I realized that offering too many corrections could cause people to post less, and I didn't want to be the cause of that. But the fact that you were already willing to edit goaded me into suggesting another correction.
Using ICE and the national guard to overthrow the people. Well you always need a secret police force and military to tale over. He just picked the dumbest ones.
Todays news outlets if sent back to 1945: Underrated painter shot in the head by maniacal racist in Berlin. German outrage over frantic celebrations across Europe.
Ken Klippenstein has done amazing work and broke multiple stories.
This is not a smear against discord but a reveal of how the government is operating. If you don't think it is a privacy issue then you don't know what privacy is. Being a fan boy doesn't change what is happening.
Use discord all you want but your point is baseless about the story.
Apologies, I wasn't criticizing the article, or you for sharing it. It's a tricky sentence, especially if English isn't your first language - the "but" changes the subject. Article is definitely privacy related.
What isn't privacy related is my opinion about subtack. I don't mean to derail, so will let anyone reading this look up why ss sucks and make their own decision.
Gotcha. SS has a troubling history. One could argue journalist have a open door policy.
How do you say one is a journalist while another isn't? Today, anyone can be a journalist and a lot of traditional journalist are doing their own thing.
Even credible outlets are changing. The New Your Times was considered top tier but now..... lord have mercy. Billionaires are buying up and interfering with the companies. And then we have private equity firms, the lice found on the flies that eat shit.
Yes, I wonder what journalists ("professional" and otherwise) are supposed to do. Everyone going their own way and splintering off into many little voices doesn't feel like the right answer, but publishers are beholden to investors and can be bought out by billionaires. I suppose there are publishers/agencies that have maintained their integrity like 404 Media, or Al Jazeera.
Maybe this is just the burden of anyone in a democracy: to constantly weigh the quality of the sources of information you're using to form opinions which spawn action.
Getting funding from South Korea might be an option. They probably want the Trump Regime to go away, so that they can carry on business without a toddler doing stupid shit.
If a civil war happens, I suspect the Blue States would get a great deal of foreign support. "Fuck that guy", would be a big part of that. The other part being "I want a reliable business partner." Kinda like how the Confederates were boned internationally when it came to trade. Plus, it would be an easy way to earn favors with whatever institution that displaces Trumpkins.
I used to subscribe to several SS newsletters that switched to Ghost, which is how I found out about it. But I wouldn't have even noticed if they hadn't told me.
You may as well assume that anything done on public social media is being read, searched and filtered in real-time by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Given the trajectory of this administration in persecuting people for their political affiliation, dumping commercial social media should be an imperative for everyone who isn't goose stepping.
That's been the case for 10 years. Unless it's e2ee, it's public record and can be tied to your real name with a minimal amount of paperwork.
Before I comment anything anywhere, I imagine it being read in a court room in a monotone voice. Bip bop dippity dop, the judge in this case is a swell person and I hope they have a lovely day!
Sounds like a CSAM case for a motivated partisan prosecutor.
People break the law, as it is written, way more than they think. Selective enforcement to target political rival groups is very much in the playbook here.
It is less safe to speak in public today than it was 2 years ago, and it is only getting worse. Protecting your privacy also means protecting yourself from mob justice when they decide you're the new target group.
Discord is private social media, and most users think their messages aren't shared with government without a warrant. Of course it's possible in this case Discord didn't even provide the messages "to police", but that the police just subscribe to their commercial data-sharing and enjoy the same real-time access that way.
It was said in a Discord chat. Discord chats are not private, you agree to that in the TOS when you sign up.
There are always people monitoring the chats, voice and video, looking for illegal activities. Something was said in that conversation that their algorithm flagged for human review and that person sent it to law enforcement.
You have zero privacy on any social media. Everything that you write is viewable by the service owner and they actively look for things to report to law enforcement.
Companies pay lip service to your privacy, but at the end of the day they’ll turn you in the instant it suits them. If you want privacy, you use encryption so that your privacy is guaranteed by mathematics.
Sad fact that we live in a world that his death accomplished more then his life. We all knew he was a Trump asset but I never thought it would be like this.
I really do worry tools like whatever the naperville pd using here are going result in a lot of damage and upturned lives once their use becomes more casual, like god knows what's going to happen with the president declaring random political views terrorism
no real court orders were involved, the article mentions a EDR wasn't invoked, no push back from discord over what sounds like some sort of dump or access to all images uploaded to the service
Lol, okay. As the vast majority of people have no clue and no interest in utilizing those tools. No interest in understanding threat vectors and cryptography. Cooked was a bit glibb, but the general "we", I do not see your optimism.
"Privacy is a right"... sure, so is healthcare and shelter... I am sure those policies are going global really soon.
As the vast majority of people have no clue and no interest in utilizing those tools.
I can't agree more. A few family members got really paranoid about their communications being monitored after Trump was elected again, so I offered to show them Signal or Element. Nah, no interest, "too hard". They still text even with the fucking US government itself warning people it's a very insecure medium.
I'm hoping that disinterest changes after a few people get locked up based on social media PMs, but don't have all that much hope.
With words, you dopy twat. You can watch Kirk right now, getting his ass handed to him in debate on youtube. Stop acting like murder is the only option you have.
Americans are weird dude, even their leftists are gun happy and to the rest of us around the world it’s baffling. But they were born and steeped in this lunacy so they don’t see the problem
Yes, so just the capitalist states and mercenaries should have guns. . . before you say "total disarmament," not gonna happen, arms are how the capitalists enforce property domination. It's impossible to abolish class without guns because they're going to forever wield guns to protect their class positions. Thus, under no pretext.
You guys are all talk, if you had guns to oppose tyranny then wtf are you waiting for!? Get to it, Americans are being thrown in gulags and free speech is being surpressed, so grab your guns and get to work ffs!
Words are sufficient only in a system that prioritizes broad wellbeing (as opposed to prioritizing the billionaires), when such a system works well, is healthy, is valued by most, etc.
We don't have it. We have a "every man for himself" and "got mine, fuck you" system.
I hate to say it, if anyone wants something in our system now, they have to take it by fiat and force. The fascists get it. They use the methods that work, it's just that their desired end state is intolerable shit for most. If their end state had freedom and human rights for everyone, most would forgive the methods.
Stop saying fascists, youve all used that word to fucking much and it now means fuck all.
People are still going on holidays, people are still buying houses, people are still getting jobs and paying rent and every thing else people have always done. Youre just spreading nonsense to play your part in the dumb as fuck culture wars. YOU and people like you, are why Trump is a thing. Yes, thats right, YOU. You, who plays the dumb games of culture wars, who calls a person who dont like star wars a fucking nazi. You created this nightmare world were extremism is everywhere.
Ofc you are an enlightened centrist-libtard-to be gefreiter @ einsatzgruppen. Go on, blame the left, suck up the narrative, surely history started yesterday and nothing similar to this ever happened. Grow a fucking brain or follow your leader, either way gtfo
No, the spreading of hate was the talking heads who told you he said things he never said. All the grifters and influencers and main stream news outlets who cherry picked the things he said, to make him look much worse than he is.
Like when he said that people accept that people die so they can have the 2A. You think thats extremism, yet dont ever bother to repeat the rest of what he said, when talking about the shit that society puts up with to have things. Like cars, we accept that 50k people a year will die because we want to drive cars. Its the same argument, but you take it away and all of sudden hes some nutjob claiming kids dying is a good thing.
Take away the 2A and you are at the mercy of a tyrannical government. The price of that safe guard is that some people will die. Exact same thing with cars, and knives, and whatever else. Everything has a cost. EVERYTHING. That was his point. And youd be dumb to disagree with it.
You can argue that we dont need guns, theres nothing wrong with that. But the logic is there.
You don't seem to understand that we are already using words, and it's getting us nowhere. These people understand that we want to use words, and they have weaponized our need for peaceful discussion against us.
Peaceful negotiations only work when both sides are operating in good faith. Not only are the MAGAs not operating in good faith, they view that as an enormous weakness to be exploited. So they tease us along, offering opportunities to negotiate, but they are just distractions, to keep their grift and oppression going longer, and deepening.
Hopefully, we will eventually negotiate our way out of this, but it is looking more and more unlikely by the day. Anyone who has read any history knows that sooner or later, it will almost certainly take some level of violence to unseat the MAGA disease that is afflicting the world.
We should start getting used to that idea now, before we need it for real.
So, dopey twat was being kind? Its fucking scary how radicalised you are. Absolute nutjobs. But hey, at least you didnt wish I would die... I guess youve got that going for you...
You guys are all talk, you just want guns to shoot at stuff cause it’s cool. You keep saying you need guns to stand up to tyrants, well get the fuck to it! What are you waiting for??? Hes literally cancelling free speech and throwing Americans into gulags, what the fuck are you waiting for???
Socialist Democrates whant's to destroy e2ee in sweden to both parties is anti encryption and pro mass surveillance. They are fighting against eachother of "who can introduce most surveillance and police state laws first"
Tjis is really the only thing anyone should pay attention to. Assassinating Peter Theil is a good first step to stopping this surveillance state. He wants to destroy humans to make way for transhumans. The war has begun.
That's what happens when you let billionaires operate unchecked. Billionaires have the ability to operate like an independent nation of one, fucking up the works for real nations who are trying to take care of their people.
Billionaires should either be prohibited, or their expenditures should be tightly regulated. Make them get permission from a regulatory panel before they can spend their money.
"No, you already have a yacht, you don't need another. Just for being shitty enough to request a SECOND yacht, that money will be earmarked to build homeless shelters instead. Anything else?"
Kurds have been Erdoğan'a greatest friends over the years. When Erdoğan called for a referendum in 2010 to abolish the independent judiciary (the infamous "yetmez ama evet" referandum), support from Kurdish nationalists was critical for Erdoğan's victory.
One thing that happened was that the Turkish leader Erdogan, visited Trump during his first administration, and after the meeting, Erdogan's security force attacked people who were legally protesting. A visiting head-of-state's private security came to America and beat-up legal protesters on American soil - and the Trump administration did nothing.
Denmark did not invite the United States to take part in a large-scale international military exercise on Greenland this week, as it had previously, as tensions remain high over President Donald Trump’s intention to acquire the Danish territory.
The exercise, the largest in Greenland’s modern history, comes amid increased interest in the Arctic region and its vast natural resources from other large powers, such as Russia and China.
It included contributions from the militaries of several European NATO allies, according to the Danish military. More than 550 people and soldiers took part, including more than 70 from France, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
It comes as the Arctic region is becoming more of a priority to various superpowers, friend and foe. Greenland is the world's largest island that is not a continent, and beyond its strategic potential, the island is rich in natural resources, home to 25 of the 34 minerals categorized as “critical raw materials” by the European Commission. Some of these minerals include those essential to the production of phones and computer chips.
Anderson emphasized the potential threat of Russia and China to reporters.
“We need Greenland for national security and even international security,” Trump said during an address to Congress in March, pointing to the influence of other global powers in the Arctic, specifically Russia and China. “And I think we’re going to get it one way or the other,” he added. Trump is trying to boost production of computer chips in the United States, which rely on minerals present in Greenland for production
Danish officials have made it clear that Trump’s interest in the region is not welcome.
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General advice from EFF. A bit dated, but much of what I would have advised is here.
Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices
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in reply to ramble81 • • •When I did it recently the hardware (w encrypted data) went through a checked bag inspection but it didn't really affect anything else. I'm not sure that other countries' security apparatus is going to threaten people to vacuum up their data like the usa, and in leaving the usa you typically don't deal with usa customs inspection
I took it with me directly to avoid paying for a big estate transfer service and import tax that would otherwise be assessed by default on a normal shipment
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in reply to ramble81 • • •If the GPU is heavy, consider carrying it seperately. Carry it with an ESD pack
If you have any HDDs, absolutely carry them seperately.
If you're sure the SSD's won't move away in their place,having them on pc shouldn't cause any problems; but keeping them on your personal belongings is the safest option.
Rest of the components should be fairly safe to ship, maybe the case in weird shapes could cause some trouble; but if you have the foam the case came with chances are it's not going to cause much problems.
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in reply to ramble81 • • •Image the drives to cloud storage and ship all of the hardware with insurance (wipe the drives before shipping if you’re worried about data security).
SSDs are incredibly resilient to shock and would be the least likely component to fail from rough shipping. Insurance covers you on everything else.
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in reply to ramble81 • • •Definitely take the GPU out and heatsink off the CPU, when it gets banged around both of those things because of their mass can fuck up your motherboard. I moved a lot for about a decade of my lifr and had multiple desktops get fucked up.
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