Putin, in a conversation with Macron, discussed the situation surrounding Ukraine and reminded that the conflict is a direct consequence of the West's policies.
Or they could charge you. When I bought a used Ford the dealer wanted me to pay a $100 fee to change the door keypad code, something I did myself in about 2 minutes.
I used to work for AAA which has a program called GIG (Get It Going) where you can rent a Prius in the Bay Area much like a Lime scooter. They had to stay connected and EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND someone would take one up to hike in the mountains or drive down the coast, lose connection and it would instantly go into lockdown mode. They would have to call for us to tow a dead car they couldn’t even open to get their things out of.
So hey, a bear or crackhead might do the killing for you if you get a WiFi car
Cybersecurity professional here, I'd read up on Kia's responsible disclosure policy, to avoid any potential trouble, and for guidelines on how to disclose it to them and handle this ethically.
Unfortunately they don't do bug bounties, which is too bad.
Edit: I wouldn't listen to people telling you to lock the car, exploit it in other ways or disclosing it to the media first. That is unethical at best and illegal at worst.
This 100% needs to be reported. First to KIA, then to the media after whatever time is required to pass for responsible disclosure in your country/region.
Nissan does this too. I leased a new Kicks when they came out and HATED it. Seats were terrible, car was underpowered, and some jackass decided to program the cvt to "shift" because Nissan got complaints that the car was stuck in gear. Just learn how a CVT works.
Anyways, 4 years later, I still get emails about monthly maintenance work, tow alarms, and tracking updates. I never asked for them to begin with and I guess I'm stuck with it as a VW guy now.
Statement by Bob Vylan: "Not the First. Not the Last. Today, a good many people would have you believe a punk band is the number one threat to world peace. Last week it was a Palestine pressure group, the week before that it was another band. We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force' against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza. We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction. The government doesn't want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity? To ask why they aren't doing more to stop the killing? To feed the starving? The more time they talk about Bob Vylan, the less time they spend. Answering for their criminal inaction. We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up, too. Free Palestine."
L'intelligenza artificiale Grok è pure diventata un sondaggista per l'occasione. 😂
Secondo la sua intelligenza artificiale, Grok, la nuova formazione potrebbe assestarsi intorno al 5-10%, rompendo così il granitico bipolarismo americano.
L’annuncio segue un sondaggio lanciato dal miliardario il 4 luglio, in cui il 65% degli americani si è detto favorevole alla nascita di una nuova formazione politica
True, I ended up listening to some tracks and bought two of their albums. Their response to being dropped from their agency and the attempts to smear them was awesome. Even if the "news" outlets want to focus on the video of the chant at the show. It means they have to show the footage with all the Palestine flags and the banner on the stage behind the group. Still isn't those outlets admitting that the genocide is happening. But still keeps Palestine in the "news" in even a small way. For their efforts to keep Palestine talked about at their own threat to gigs and being dropped from their agency. I hope that their music is listened to by more people than would have known about them otherwise.
"The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence. The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves…The team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen."
British state media is absolute trash. Everything that comes out of it should be considered false before proven otherwise by a reputable source.
Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik […] is a Russian politician who has served as head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) since 2017. He holds the position in acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022. Pasechnik had previously held office as the LPR's Minister of State Security from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to his political career, Pasechnik served in the Security Service of Ukraine until the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, which he supported.
If any salty Nazi cheerleaders want to complain that this isn't a news source, you're wrong. This is an active military correspondent's blog giving a timeline for events which are not debatable. Better luck next time.
There are some good people there. Being in the USA, I do seek US news, so I'm there. Lemmygrad has one too but serves as a catchall, like the other.
Listen, I'm probably a decade or two older than the average Lemmy user, and it wasn't until the last year, give or take a few months, that I was able to suspend disbelief, first, come to believe a fair amount later, and take a whole lot from either instance with a few kilos of salt. Governments propagandize, fact of life. I first came here to dispute, too, and was provided links from Western media that allowed me to suspend disbelief and seek more information. I don't have an issue with honest dis/believers. I would be extremely hypocritical if I did. But it's pretty gross that the people who pay for these unnecessary wars with blood and money refuse to even suspend disbelief and seek real answers, and I'm not even better than that, because it took me over three decades to develop empathy for Palestine (because I found Internet forum of users who gave factual, documented information, like .ml does), and another couple of decades to believe about Ukraine - Russia.
The thing is, when I first went on .world some of those exact same people were loud disbelievers about Palestine, too. Now the whole instance just about is. Will they come around about Ukraine too? Hopefully, before the situation* is as ~~due~~ dire as Palestine. They're developing an ambivalent attitude about China, will they about Russia? I don't know.
The attempt to staple the Ukraine issue to Palestine was cynical from the start, comparing a response to 10 years of US-funded terror bombing + pillaging against DPR & LPR to the latest offensive in a war of extermination the Israelis are devoted to for the existence of their settler state and the interest of the US ruling class that enables it. The equivocation being made there runs along with the narrative of the orgs that try to paint the AoR as divided & endangering Palestinians, such as Al Jazeera and much of the western alternative media
They boil down the differences of the conflicts & the combatants to "people talk about Ukraine too much and Palestine not enough" - and this rarely includes any actual critique of the media outlets & NGOs that funnel money to Nazi mercenaries in broad daylight despite masquerading as media critique
They are not going to learn, because they are only listening when they are tuned into the western intellectual apparatus. 100% of the moderation decisions on these sites are modeled after "anti-disinformation" rules that were crafted by the NATOid security racket, and it's undeniable because there is not a single thing they disagree on until they get deplatformed like the RedStream guy in Germany lmao
Well I wasn't trying to connect them, just showing how my attitude changed with each and thinking if mine can, others can, but I hope this situation in Ukraine doesn't drag out that long. I suppose it depends on how long my compatriots are willing to sit and fret while convincing themselves the incremental sacrifices now cost less than the bigger, more sudden sacrifices later but we'll see, if there's not a global MAD until then.
I take the whole nuclear conflagration thing a lot less seriously than I should these days. It's drummed up a lot by the antiwar left in the imperial core countries, along with the psychological health of veterans, and the national debt. I just can't take the atomic clock seriously knowing it's used to pressure against nuclear proliferation that is more likely to restrain the USA than anything.
But yeah personally I think the simplest path for a lot of people is save up money and move out of the increasingly risky US system rather than pouring money into the US housing market (which is unfortunately the same direction the social democrat wage struggle heads). It's personally fraught and generationally insane, I wouldn't condemn a child to the US so uhhh yeah I just left lol
Working on a thing about this I will tag you when I post it. It relates to the current discourse about the labor aristocracy: worker politics in the imperial core are just about gaining faster access to the housing market 90% of the time without any regard for immigrants, the under- & unemployed, and without any considerstion at all of the global periphery. When there are reverse transplants from the core to the periphery (instead of petit boug in the periphery making enough money to come to the US) it's done in a way where people exploit currency exchange rates to live without working the rest of their lives. (So becoming more bourgeois is almost always a retirement goal for core workers)
So this will be a guide for how not to be a shitty expat and actually integrate
I would love to read something like this, just as a curiosity. I fully intend to stick around and fight beside my comrades that can't or won't leave. But of course I have no kids and don't plan to.
How to deal with the proletarianization of the US is an intimidating subject that communists basically have to tread into completely alone, it's hard work, there is no alt media or quirked up social science journal that can chart the course. Putting the escape hatch issue to bed should be a lot easier than that
That sounds great! Giving back is important to me, whether time, energy, money, food, or some combination. Not exactly sure what that looks like as I age, but I'm sure it will sort.
The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach [real media literacy] to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.
The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”
Nice ty RAND will post a lot of junk in between the full scale admissions of fucking up a proxy war or being vastly behind in refueling capacity to go to war with China directly, I often miss this kind of thing
That thread is really something. Like every picture of Ukrainian soldiers has some fascist symbol or other, but they still say there's no Nazis in Ukraine.
Georgian Legion chief Mamuka Mamulashvili has nonetheless justified this conduct, openly boasting that his soldiers “tie [POWs’] hands and feet sometimes” before killing them, and “not a single [Russian] will be taken prisoner.” The New York Times probe strongly suggests this strategy is not confined to the Legion. Multiple Chosen Company fighters testified to witnessing sadistic executions of POWs, and their fellow soldiers proudly bragging about carrying them out. A US veteran posted to the unit claimed they were flatly told by their recruiter:
“[It] was OK to kill POWs if they didn’t surrender in the strictest Geneva Convention standards.”
Because I live in Vietnam, moron. Why do you live in the Fourth Reich? Russia would be a good choice for most of you. There are plenty of cities to buy a cheap condo in, and your kids would actually be able to afford their own house. More importantly, there isn't the same tension between homeowner workers and non-homeowner workers created by the 1st world financial system
You don't even consider anything like that, though, it's about making yourself feel good. You are likely too jingoistic to learn a new language anyways 😂 you'd have to consider the people worth speaking to!
Well I may end up staying and hopefully helping set things to right. But nothing says I can't end my days on long visits to worthy places I've always wanted to experience, if things go well!
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe; Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography
ibidem-Sachbuch. ein Imprint von Jessica Haunschild u. Christian Schön GbR
Netanyahu the entire likud party and zionism in general is an ethno nationalist far right fascist political ideology currently engaging in extreme war criminality including genocide……. So. also “ashkenazi” jews are just Eastern Europeans wearing Yarmulkes 🤡
I had an account with the same name on the Lemm.ee server that was about 5-6 months old but the hosting just shut down out of nowhere.
Yeah, I’m a highly educated anti fascist. My grandmother sent me to religious schools because she is a racist and…. well it’s kind of a long story, but also to brainwash me into being a mindless drone to serve imperialist capitalism and believe in fairy tales but it kind of backfired on her.
Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators.
Oh yes, they have and more, they are one of the most powerfull security and AI company with a ton of services. Perfectly capable to remove the plug of any service and web. Sadly with similar privacy concerns as Google.
they can already block VPN traffic (unless you use their VPN)
their whole business model is based on them being a man in the middle that decrypts ssl and analyses the packets plainly
about a third of the worldwide websites are using cloudflare so they have a pretry good birds eye view on behaviour of any machine, datacenter or ip range that will be visiting a lot of websites, which in turn will trivially whether it is normal user behaviour or a crawler.
they can already block VPN traffic unless it goes through their VPN
Yeah that's how most VPNs work.
their whole business model is based on them being a man in the middle that decrypts ssl and analyses the requests plainly
Okay? Analyze all you want. They can't stop bots on any of the other sites they regulate either.
about a third of the worldwide websites are using cloudflare so they have a pretry good birds eye view on behaviour of any machine that will be visiting a lot of websites
Great. Bots intentionally change up their behavior and identifying information as to be undetected.
The owner sets the level. If they set strict level, all bots are blocked.
They do care. VC funding happens because the result is profitable. If it is less profitable, there will be less funding because of higher investment risk.
I don't know what you don't understand. These bots are not labeling themselves as bots. They are camouflaging themselves to look like any other type of traffic.
VC funding happens because the result is profitable.
No, VC funding happens because investors are duped into thinking the result is profitable.
I'm not and your tone is completely unnecessary so maybe dial it back a bit.
Yes, VC funding can be profitable. It's also often not. Like any other investment. Corporations will absolutely lie and blow smoke up their ass if they think it can get them more money.
They can’t stop bots on any of the other sites they regulate either.
Why not? They are doing edge caching, they can literally just block the connection from visiting the site just like they do with their DDoS mitigation.
block which connection? Again, these AI companies know people don't want them crawling their sites and they do everything they can to be invisible. This has been an issue for years at this point.
Not the first time that, with all my privacy measures on, instead of an page, I see the page from Cloudflare analyzing if I am a bot, before it let me access the page I wanted. Invisible in the web is only a bad joke. Anybody is visible in the moment he goes online, irrelevant if he use VPN, TOR or whatever, this times have passed. Believing it is as hilarious as in the Movie Independence day infecting with an Virus an Alien Mothership, using an crappy Laptop (I have laughed a lot with this scene).
Yes, TOR never was secure against secret services and goverments, les nowadays with AI and massive server power from these. Don't forget who developed the TOR network and from whom are the servers used. Drug Barons since time turned to use pen and paper for their orders and communication, because the web and even the Dark Web isn't really private anymore (traffic analysis, exploiting software vulnerabilities, monitoring exit nodes, using Honeypot nodes......)
Naturally the Darkweb has nothing to do with the TOR network, But even if you access it using the TOR network, they find you if they want, as you can see.
Based on the headline this is not about blocking ai scrappers but by making them pay to do it.
Based on the discussion below which moved that goalpost the most likely answer is by making it cheaper to scrape “legally” then it costs to mimic millions of individual residential browsers with human users.
I don't know how many aces cloudflare has up its sleep to detect secret ai but they definitely have the tools to make it pretty costly and difficult. There is also a broadband impact difference between a few capitalist megapigs scrapping secretly versus loads of global basement dwellers and smaller companies scrapping worry free.
How about you just read up on Cloudflare Turnstile instead of acting like you know anything? Here are some notable methods: - Residential IP requirements - TLS Fingerprinting - Canvas Fingerprinting
It's still possible to get around these but it's not easy. You either must have as good network engineers on staff as Cloudflare or pay some third party service to unlock it for you. All Cloudflare needs to do is keep their prices lower than the third party services.
This idea that you could have Cloudflare help by telling off AI crawlers sounds nice, but how long until it becomes a premium feature that requires loads of money to operate because AI companies lobby them to make it inaccessible to the masses? Or something equally as bad happens?
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
He was an amateur radio operator who picked up some encrypted signals from a nearby air force base.
Rather than admit they were just encrypted transmissions the USAF created a program that convinced this man that aliens were real and he was being pursued by the government, including sending Men in Black to harass him and hiring a woman to believe everything he said.
He died in a mental hospital, estranged from his family and suffering from paranoid delusions.
The story of Paul Bennewitz is an unthinkable one, and yet it is a true story. It involves the US government conspiring to destroy an American citizen in order to discredit and silence him. This post…
Our new officially-supported repository allows users of the F-Droid client to install the browser and receive automatic updates without requiring Google Play.
I don't use Brave, still with the more insecure Android Firefox variant (Firefox for Android is subpar in security), but I am glad Brave do want to expand here and for many users it is for sure the best option. No need to insult, whether you agree or not with them. If it is open, it is open and everything else should be secondary and for individual to choose on their own. Go Brave! Hope many more come too.
I have used FF based browsers for a long time and still do. I recently saw this from the GrapheneOS developers, which kinda freaks me out and has me considering switching to a Chromium based browser:
Chromium-based browsers like Vanadium provide the strongest sandbox implementation, leagues ahead of the alternatives. It is much harder to escape from the sandbox and it provides much more than acting as a barrier to compromising the rest of the OS. Site isolation enforces security boundaries around each site using the sandbox by placing each site into an isolated sandbox... Browsers without site isolation are very vulnerable to attacks like Spectre...
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.
EDIT: I really hope Ladybird turns out to be amazing.
Feel free to freak out. That doesn't worry me at all. I guess you prefer getting tracked and monetized over having a little weaker security in hypothetical problem areas...
You know, I've worked with, and helped people with issues on primarily Windows, but also Mac and Linux, since the 90s, and I can't remember one single time, where the problem were bases on this kind of vulnerability. So please, do live in a hypothetical world - I'll stick with what works and keeps me from being monetized.
Same here. I prefer to avoid Chromium-based browsers whenever I can. A lot of them are better than Chrome, and I do like to mess with them from time to time to stay aware of features and test things. But Firefox on my phone has access to uBlock Origin and all my other extensions, after activating the hidden debug menu/dev mode that you turn on in a similar way as activating Dev Mode for the Android OS. I only mention that last part because it seems a lot of FF Android users don't know about it and allows for installing xpi files just like you can with desktop. Freaking game changing for me. It really sucks that the main-line Chromium-based browsers don't support extensions, even in the limited options way FF used to before allowing more to officially work (even without the debug menu/dev mode trick.
For those that might want the instructions for the hidden debug menu/dev mode. Some extensions still might not work correctly as they might not play nice with the UI/layout of the Android version. I would imagine that some of these might be things like the third-party tab-tree extensions for example.
Open Firefox App
Go to the settings menu.
Enable Developer Settings: You need to tap on the Firefox logo five times. This action will unlock an additional debug menu.
Find “Install extension with a file” option in Settings
Look for the option to install an extension from your own storage. And pick the xpi file. Also will just work using the extensions page on the FF site.
We should challenge some of those superlatives that projects such as GrapheneOS can coin from time to time. Those projects are not abstract master entities, they have people behind of it and they are not authorities in all subject matters. They are correct about Gecko browsers insecurities on Android however it may be questionable the use of the term "leagues ahead" in this comparative. I use GrapheneOS and Vanadium but I don't believe that using some Gecko hardened browser would be so terrible like it sound. Specially if you are not a focused target. For example, I keep Tor as a secondary browser for some specific tasks on my phone.
People could perhaps start helping more the Servo project. They really need some help and for those that program in Rust or want to learn it this could be a very good place to devote your attention.
Funniest thing is, I read this after learning Chrome had a zero-day exploit, Brave might not even have the patch yet 😆
To be fair, on sites like privacytests.org Brave seems to pass more tests than default Firefox, but these tests don't take extensions into accounts. Extensions wouldn't add much to Brave since it's a chromium browser, but Firerox should have better results with ublock alone...and then there are forks and ways to harden Firefox on top of that.
And of course it's not taken into account how sus Brave is, if I remember right Brave search has already been caught spying on its users (and used word play to pretend it was open-source) and then there's also the crypto scam. Passing most of the security/privacy tests won't help if the browser is spying and exploiting you.
On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.
uBlock Origin is not just an “ad blocker“, it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature. Developed by Raymond Hill.
I am in this path too, but not for everyone. The Firefox (and variants) in Android is ok for normal browsing but would not log into highly sensitive sites nor is recommendable for many users that are not careful with settings and updates. Brave (and others privacy friendly ones), with its flaws, it is better in that arena, so recommended for them.
Also, we may not like it, but if we criticize company attempts to become financial viable, we are doing at disservice to our FOSS community. We should just point what you don't like from Brave and let our audiences decide for themselves.
Well, I use IronFox. It's essentially a fork of the now-discontinued, Firefox-based Mull browser. It's a privacy and security oriented browser. It's not on F-Droid, afaik, but it's on the Accrescent store
You do realize that there are 1 million times more scams conducted using government controlled currencies, why are you not raging against the USD scam?
You are basing your crypto opinions on mainstream trash info. Crypto requires deep research to actually understand and you will be using it within 10 years regardless of your current opinion.
That was funny... If you want to debate this, then please stop exaggerating like "a million times more"...
Thank you for handing me another reason for people never to use crypto regularly. As you say, it requires deep research to understand... My current currency requires a basic understanding, that's it. And no, I'll not be using it - you are delusional, and need help. My guess is, that you have invested a lot of money in crypto, and now you feel stupid because it is lost - and you try to get others onboard to minimize your own losses... 😉
The point is anytime a revolutionary technology comes around most people are scared because they have no clue. Just like when the internet came politicians were going nuts because they had no clue and were scared.
You have no clue how fiat currency works and will continue to have no clue about crypto until intelligent people figure out how even the clueless can use it. Then you will just use it because the alternative will be horrible.
I was telling people about Bitcoin back in 2011, it worked out pretty well. 😉
The dream has already come true and is getting better by the year. Sorry you completely missed out, hopefully you look outside of the box the elites have crafted for you.
You truly are funny. You are duped, and claim that everyone else is... 😀 Unlike you, I know how money works, and I know witch one serves me the best.
But as I said (and you seem unable to accept that), please keep up wagging your tail at crypto. You should be happy that you have it all to yourself - even when you loose it all...
PS. How many crypto scams are there? How many crypto-companies has taken everything from it's customers? Now please tell me, how many DKK-scams are there, and how many people have lost everything due to having DKK-cash?
I do not care what you use or prefer. That is the whole point of competing currency. But you do not get to tell me what currency I have to use. The violence based era of the fiat scam is coming to a close.
How many dollar scams are there, how many dollars have been taken from customers?
Nice try to avoid answering the question that exposes your childish argument about crypto being safer than hard cash. 😀
Oh, you told me what I have to use, and are so childlike cocky that you believe that you know the future. That's hilarious. But I guess that explains why you lack any kind of common sense here.
Hopefully we can send all the cryptobros to prison along with the rest of the elites trying to drive society into a wall, before this ridiculous and calamitous change comes to pass.
Cryptographic money people seek to privatize governance.
A return to serfdom and kingdoms.
This is not the be allowed.
People who try to dismantle and corner a foundation of society so they can keep it for themselves and beyond to reach of the consensus, are thieves and should be treated as such.
Of course it can be worse, are you so bereft of imagination, so drowned in ideology that you cannot imagine another megalomaniac sniffs his own delusions of gradeur and ride them straight to hell ?
How many more examples from history does there need to be before it will get in the thick skulls of the dollar-sign-eyes that this always ends in catastrophe ?
We don't have too many tries left before actual stable governance crumbles for good and we have a couple dozen centuries of unchecked warlordism.
"Private governance cannot be any worse than current governance"
You have no imagination
"maybe we will get less mass murder known as war."
Are you such an ignorant buffoon that you think current government is not controlled by dollar signs?
The state is just a tool of the banks and the military industrial complex, all they do is lie in order to conduct mass murder.
You are a fool. Crypto is our opportunity to put power and control back into the people's hands by ripping control over currency from banking and corporate interests.
You think that current government is not controlled by dollar signs? The state is just a tool of the banks and the military industrial complex, all they do is lie in order to conduct mass murder.
Crypto is our opportunity to put power and control back into the people's hands by ripping control over currency from banking and corporate interests.
The government prints currency, it is a tool to it. Of course the slimeball politicians are just as dollar-sign obssessed as all of the "business community" for they have become one and the same as money has been allowed to be converted directly into political power.
But "money" should hold NO influence whatsoever a properly functioning government. Business should never be allowed to infiltrate it's putrid tentacles into governance because it will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS do the same thing, change the order of things to empower itself. If allowed it will suck the bone marrow right out of every newborn infant.
If you think crypto currency, which is the handing over of the money printers to unaccountable private powers and their never-ending shenanigans, is any kind of opportunity, then you have been fooled.
But let me tell you how, since you are obviously been turned into one of their proselytizers.
Like any addict, you have been allowed a little sip of unearned value from the speculative value. And now your entire moral system has been corrupted, like the employee of a multi-level marketing scam, into seeking more converts, to keep the marginal price pressure on "your precious" as high as possible.
Getting others to sink their life's savings into the crypto currency anti-social disease is for you a way to grow your value. But if you are here, doing the work of the rank-and-file, you should be aware of what happens to MLM victims when then are not at the top of the pyramid.
Increasing the bitcoin value, effectively hands over more and more unearned economic power to speculative early adopters. Who have invested into a technology with no merits and a contagious mental illness with the false promise of escaping the system.
There is no escape, there is not another Earth to escape to. The power of money under a private money regime, just means that it will care even less about you, as an individual than before, which is probably hard to even imagine.
The people most pushing behind crypto, are the naive libertarians, the one they think they can make their big money and escape to their bunkers with it scott free. They are the people that have been breaking society on purpose, creating crises so they can sell us the cure and be our saviours. They are the people who have infected the body-politic with their narcissistic nihilism, their hopeless, futureless nightmare of a life and have been allowed to fester in the name of freedom.
"Private governance cannot be any worse than current governance" This has been the prophecy they have worked all my life to come about. It is a religious belief that nothing can be done unless it is profitable and done for profit. This kind of diseased thinking will make a few people rich beyond measure while leaving the rest of humanity destitute and then outright dead.
So do keep spreading your "good news" far and wide if you like but know that what you are spreading is just the latest of the pestilences of the modern era. Palantir thanks you for your service.
A functioning society must distinguish between governance and capital — between the stewardship of the public and the motives of profit. When these become one and the same, democracy dies not with a bang, but in the language of venture capital decks and algorithmic markets.
Currency is not simply a medium of exchange; it is a public trust, the circulatory system of a body politic. To surrender its issuance and control to private, unaccountable interests — be they corporations, anonymous developers, or speculative early adopters — is to strip society of one of its last remaining instruments of collective sovereignty.
Crypto is not a revolution. It is a coup d'état in slow motion.
Decentralization is the sacred chant of the blockchain faithful — but what is decentralized is not necessarily democratized. To spread control across nodes and servers does not spread justice, responsibility, or empathy.
Cryptocurrency is not neutral. Its very structure rewards the earliest, richest, most computationally resourced — and calls this “fairness.” It buries inequality in the code itself, hiding plutocracy under the banner of “consensus.”
The crypto evangelist, addicted to speculative gains, becomes a missionary of self-interest. The chain-letter economics of this new digital order create converts not by vision, but by the promise of unearned value and imagined escape. III. The Corporate-State Convergence
Yes, governments are compromised. They have been infiltrated by the dollar, bought by the lobbyist, colonized by the corporation. But the answer to corrupted governance is not to abolish governance — it is to reclaim it.
Crypto offers no resistance to this convergence. It accelerates it. It hands over power from flawed but at least nominally public institutions to venture-backed technocrats, data merchants, and ideological profiteers.
To abandon the state without building democratic alternatives is not liberation, it is abdication.
Like all pyramid schemes, the promise of crypto lies not in what it is, but in what it might become — if others believe, if others buy in, if others come after you.
The blockchain isn't a chain of freedom. It is a ledger of dreams sold and lives ruined, a speculative suicide pact dressed in libertarian robes. It is the digital cousin of the payday loan, the unregulated casino at the end of capitalism.
And yet the faithful continue to preach, because their salvation depends on your belief. The higher the adoption, the higher the price. The higher the price, the closer they are to an exit.
The dream of "opting out", of escaping fiat, taxes, nations, systems, is not just naive, it is delusional. There is no “outside” to the world we have made. The consequences of economic systems ripple globally, shaping policy, resource extraction, and ecological collapse alike.
Those who seek exile in crypto-fortresses or digital bunkers are not building freedom. They are seceding from solidarity, retreating into nihilistic techno-feudalism.
There is no Earth 2.0. There is no safe haven from collapse when collapse is a planetary system failure.
We do not reject innovation. We reject the perversion of innovation into a religion of capital accumulation and anti-social escape.
We do not romanticize the state. We demand a democratized public, a radically transparent and accountable governance, shielded from the ever-expanding reach of the market.
We do not reject decentralization. We reject decentralized despotism, where opaque code replaces public law, and anonymous whales replace accountable representatives.
We do not fear the future. We fear a future owned, not governed, by the architects of financial abstraction and speculative cruelty.
We do not need new currencies. We need new values.
"The people who have infected the body-politic with their narcissistic nihilism, their hopeless, futureless nightmare of a life… have been allowed to fester in the name of freedom."
Let the festering end.
Let us build systems worthy of the future, not just profitable in the present.
Let us not be fooled again.
Signed, Interdimensionalmeme (And those who have had enough)
This is delusional. The real solution is money that cannot be corrupted by some politician's or banker's decree.
Open source technology and cryptography gives us this ability. Now the playing field is leveled, ordinary people can hold and transact real value without some crook reaching into their pocket.
Money has no intrinsic value, it's a dynamic relation between all other humans who would accept it. Even a gold bar will vary in what it can really buy based on the health of the society around you. And that's just transaction, which is not where wealth is. Land and physical property, and the ability to leverage their use is the mediator of wealth. The people without, will never ever be on a level playing field. How can you be born owing your life to infinite rent and interest and think you're on a level playing field ? You reach for this utopia, thinking this time you'll be the one collecting ? This time you can be the landlord without having to pay taxes. But at the end of the day, if the people around you are miserable, are you better off ?
And all of that is assuming it even would work as advertised, which it won't, nobody is waiting 10 minute to clear a payment.
This technology is a scam sold by the people trying to shit-up everything so that they can get their best pick out of the rubble.
Money is a tool to store energy and use it at a desired time. Fiat is a banker scam which steals from everyone and funnels profits to the elites. The reason for so meany people's misery is the current system, it is designed to siphon everyone's productivity without anyone noticing. Only highly intelligent and aware people can see this scam. Most think this system is designed to help them when the opposite is true and all objective metrics show it.
You have no understanding of the technology. Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin and it has instant secure transactions there is no need to wait for any clearing.
I was telling people about Bitcoin back in 2011 and most of them laughed, now I am telling people about Bitcoin Cash and some still laugh, but they will not be laughing for long.
Now you have some knowledge which 99.99% of the population will be wishing they were informed about in 5 years from now. If you have a half a gram of humility you will do some research into Bitcoin Cash and then load up on some. 😉
That is a lot a "should". Unfortunately that is not how the world works. So the solution is money that cannot be corrupted by scumbags in government or business. Hence cryptocurrency.
This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that's compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid's official repository.
Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it's still not showing up.
This was a busy month, with ~80 pull requests merged, as we're trying to get all the breaking changes we can added before the 1.0 release.
The release is still several months away, as even after finishing up the rest of the 1.0 milestone issues, we still have to add this new functionality to Lemmy-UI and Jerboa, and do extensive testing.
Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:
Added multi-communities (One of the most requested features).
Added a new rate limiting library.
Refactored the API structs and library for better usage in Rust projects.
Improved the migration diff checker.
Using an external library for checking invisible characters.
Votes are now removed when banning + removing data.
Added a GDPR style data export.
Storing upvote / downvote totals you gave to each user, and a setting to display that history next to their name.
Added ability to make a note for a user.
Added an RSS feed for modlogs.
Added an API action to get liked / disliked content.
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
I've been keeping an eye on the multicommunity issue and that getting merged was a nice notification.
Thinking of further use cases, maybe a multicommunity could be used as an "Instance curated" option in addition to All/Local/etc. Because frontpages of topic-specific and regional instances seem to all be dominated by us politics.
Essentially multi-communities are a federated item very similar to communities, that federated users can subscribe to. They have an id, a creator, name, description, and a list of communities. If you subscribe to it, your instance will pick up any changes to it. You can then get a list of posts filtered by that multi-community.
Reddit has a very useful feature called a "Multireddit" (more recently "custom feed"). A multireddit is a subreddit that combines different subreddits into one (and you can choose a name, a descrip...
Essentially multi-communities are a federated item very similar to communities, that federated users can subscribe to. They have an id, a creator, name, description, and a list of communities. If you subscribe to it, your instance will pick up any changes to it. You can then get a list of posts filtered by that multi-community.
Reddit has a very useful feature called a "Multireddit" (more recently "custom feed"). A multireddit is a subreddit that combines different subreddits into one (and you can choose a name, a descrip...
Are "shared communities" between instances in the pipeline or would that cause too much headache?
For example having a shared WorldNews community between lemmy.ml and lemmy.zip, maybe with a possibility to seperate them if mods have beef in the future. Or seperate moderator teams.
Currently there are many duplicate communities between instances. Now this is important for defederation, but causes a lot of fragmentation. Maybe having admins opt in to share a community with other instances could help this while possibly keeping control over moderation of what their own instance can see.
Its basically a collection of communities, so you can browse multiple related communities at the same time. Piefed already implements this under a different name:
Ya we have to deal with so many vote bots, dead account voters, and vote spying tools now from some instances, that it's genuinely going to be one of the biggest challenges on the fediverse in the future.
If some special interests set up shop on the fediverse, and upvote their content with a lot of fake accounts, or downvote others views they don't want popularized, without a way to combat it while still preserving overall vote privacy, we'll be in bad shape.
-precio justo - empresa fiable, no venden tus datos - la mejor opción si necesitas varios dominios o alias con varias bandejas de entrada - servicio de calendario - aplicación móvil multiplataforma, escritorio para Linux mantenido -Me encanta el modo offline -Privacidad -utiliza y apoya el software libre
Tuta garantiza la privacidad de tus datos de forma gratuita y sin publicidad. El cifrado quantum resistente hace de Tuta la mejor solución tecnológica segura para proteger tu privacidad.
Tuta es un servicio de correo electrónico seguro con sede en Alemania. Lo que diferencia a Tutanota es su enfoque centrado en la privacidad. Esto significa que no tienen acceso a tus datos, y su servicio es uno de los más discretos de comunicación por correo electrónico. Con una interfaz limpia y sencilla, libre de distracciones inútiles, Tuta es una opción válida para quienes buscan seguridad con privacidad. Es sencillo, funciona, ¡es Tuta! Recupera tus datos, con el correo electrónico, el calendario y la agenda de contactos, encriptados, de Tuta.
Tuta garantiza la privacidad de tus datos de forma gratuita y sin publicidad. El cifrado quantum resistente hace de Tuta la mejor solución tecnológica segura para proteger tu privacidad.
It's pretty obvious that when a server goes offline the total number of posts will go down, but it's not a helpful metric. Comparing the posts per day, rather than total number of posts on different days, would give a better idea of the effect.
The number of posts per day is a useful metric to measure activity, but the total number of posts, or specifically the reduction in the total number of posts, indicates lost posts. Luckily, thanks to federation, many of the posts live on on other servers, but it's still a huge loss of data,
I was registered on Lemm.ee. Now I'm registered on piefed.social. So, technically not Lemmy anymore. I do suspect a lot us moved to piefed. That was the general buzz. I genuinely don't know if the posts and comments of Piefed don't track on Lemmy. I'm sure the ones amongst piefed users in piefed instances don't though. That alone could justify a substantial part of that drop. But I'm still here interacting with Lemmy.
Lemmy uses ActivityPub, so people can use all sorts of software to interact with Lemmy. I happen to be using Hubzilla, for example. In statistics, I would be counted as a Hubzilla user, not a Lemmy user.
Seems like poor metrics. Need an average across time. Also, if that's the case even with that and with how easy it is for ordinary people to get an account on another server, does that mean we dumped a ton of bots?
A video purporting to showing last week's Israeli strike on Iran's Evin Prison has been shared around the world and relayed by major broadcasters and media outlets.
Modern cult groups are no longer limited to campuses. They operate like mini cartels, with ranks, rituals, weapons, and territories. Some even double as criminal gangs, engaging in armed robbery, drug trafficking, and election violence.
Israel's Knesset House Committee voted to advance the impeachment of prominent Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh on Monday, over comments he made earlier this year which were perceived as being pro-Palestinian and against the war on Gaza.
TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) – Syria is not demanding that Israel return parts of the Golan Heights that it illegally occupied in 1967, media sources said on Monday.
I recently switched to Nobara and I'm currently trying to get everything to work. I'll be a bit spammy here looking for help, I hope that's ok.
Today I would like to install my retail version of Unreal Tournament 2004 that came on a DVD. I got the installer for the native Linux version to run and copied over the latest patch. But when I try to run the game i get ./ut2004-bin-linux-amd64: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I tried to install libstdc++ through dnf and got
Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.i686" is already installed.
In /root/lib I habe a libstdc++.so.6
Does ".so.5" mean I need version 5. How do I get the version Unreal Tournament 2004 wants?
Or would it be easier to use the Windows version through Wine?
What I mean is, you create a link from "libxyz.wanted.so" to "libxyz.present.so", so when the game is looking for the libxyz.wanted.so file, it actually reads the libxyz.present.so file. You do this with the symbolic links and ln -s, but check the order of the parameters, as I always get those with long the first time around.
Every time I'm getting close to abandoning Windows on my gaming rig I stumble in here and change my mind. I do run Linux on some other machines though.
Basically the only sticking point IMO would be whether the specific games you enjoy tend to have problems (often due to draconian DRM or anti cheat systems)
I have those reasons. Multiple games, and several other work-related software requirements. And related to this post I literally have the physical media for UT2004 sitting on my desk because I recently reinstalled it. Like I said, I'm still running Linux on multiple machines but I'm not yet comfortable cutting the cord.
My job is only 10% IT but I'm going to be having to deal with this more soon. I have at least a dozen PCs I'm going to have to make decisions about before Win10 EOL. Maybe I'll be more confident soon after switching over more PCs. Or less. We'll see, it will go one way or the other.
That helped. Thank you very much! Crashes everytime I try to switch to fullscreen though, I'll play around with it for a bit, hopefully I'll figure it out.
You’re much better off either running it in a container that provides the ancient libraries it needs or running the Windows version through Proton. Otherwise, my understanding is that if you were to theoretically provide it everything it needed, you’d basically be downgrading your distro to a version from 2004.
With the help of this forum post and a bit of persistence I managed to get it to work and I wanted to share how with future generations and/or my future self.
First Problem: libstdc++.so.5 dnf does not have libstdc++5 but apt does. Solution: I installed Mint on a Virtual Machine ran sudo apt install libstdc++5 and then copied the library to my real machine into the system directory of UT2004. The game now starts. I know there must be a better way to solve this.
Second Problem: Game starts in a tiny window stuck in the top left corner Alt+Enter switches it to a real window that makes the game useable, but setting a proper resolution and trying to make it fullscreen again crashes the game. Solution: Open /home/user/.ut2004/System/UT2004.ini, go to the [SDLDrv.SDLClient] section and set all lines with viewport to the desired resolution.
Third Problem: No sound UT2004 uses the obsolete OSS sound system. Solution: Run the game under a compatibility wrapper. Debian and derivatives have aoss available. Fedora and derivatives have padsp. Thus run the game with padsp "./ut2004-bin-linux-amd64" and the sound works.
Open Linux Kernel Modules Installed by Default Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization).
The article is interesting in that it talks about pushing towards open versions of kernel modules, instead of legacy ones, and of much broader scope that the literal 2 lines you chose as title.
Because the open module is only for Turing or later GPUs, or Ada, and the open module is available for those since 2022 so it's not that big of a news.
That doesn't mean it's good they're deprecating cards to do it. They were still selling GT1030s new until relatively recently, and the GTX1080 is a perfectly workable card.
If you think open versions are cool, how about them just open-sourcing the Maxwell & Pascal drivers? Oh, that's right, they won't because the "special sauce" is in the driver, not the card BIOS like it is for the Turing & up families.
my 750 ti works. nouveau can't increase the clock speed to the operating clock on boot, on boot the display on that card shows random data with colorful pixels, and nvtop does not see it either, but it works.
NVK doesn't support older cards though last time I checked. Pretty funny how I ended up with a stack of paperweights because NVidia dropped support and Nouveau/NVK can't get their shit together and instead of focusing on existing hardware they rather keep chasing the "latest and greatest".
(Perhaps asking silly questions in order to understand, I've never totally understood the nvidia driver numbers and what they mean, i just kinda installed some and they seem to work and i just forgot about them, i can run the modest games i like)
So just for clarity the 580 drivers will support my 980Ti right? How long will those be supported for? Will there come a time that i will not be able to properly use this card with linux and run (modest games) games on it?
The 980Ti as stated by the Dirk's comment use Maxwell architecture, I'm not able to find any end of support date on the site, so I'm not sure when they will drop support.
Will there come a time that i will not be able to properly use this card with linux and run (modest games) games on it?
Unfortunately you don't need to wait to see this happens, because it's already happening right now, indeed dx12 games have a lot of problems running on this older cards on linux, and I myself experienced this with my 1060 first with cyberpunk 2077 and after that with resident evil 2 remastered.
As even stated by doitsujin (dxvk creator):
Low D3D12 performance on Nvidia Pascal (and older) GPUs is expected and likely won't improve much. The hardware has a bunch of limitations that make it very hard to extract good performance. Turing fares better, but only AMD actually runs reasonably well right now.
System: Arch linux 5.9.13, gtx 1070 (455.46.02), Ryzen 9, latest git build of DXVK and vkd3d-proton, wine staging 6.0rc2. vulkaninfo.txt When i run mentioned games on windows i get stable 60fps wit...
Ah thanks for the reply. That is a shame about DX12, i must have not tried any of these cos i've found all games i pick run great (i mostly play 2D non intensive indie games). I did play some Death Stranding and was very surprised by how well it ran!
I'll go for AMD if i can next time (i've been doing well getting hand me downs from friends who love getting the latest stuff for themselves!)
I know it's a generation later but the 1660ti I bought secondhand just before the pandemic is also working like a beast. If I had a lot of disposable income maybe I would've upgraded but it's performing so good that I'd rather spend the 1500+ bucks on a different project like a NAS for jellyfin.
I was just thinking, I wish a trillion dollar company would figure out a way to turn a few billion dollars worth of usable hardware into e-waste today.
Hopefully people dumping these cards drives down the used prices.
When you send a screenshot (even if height/width only is cropped) , the screenshot's width and height can be used to find the iPhone model of someone or narrowed down.
The most unique sized iPhone on the market right now is the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, as no other phone has the same width and height. So if you send a screenshot people will 100% know your exact phone. The regular iPhone 16 is common with the rest of the other phones and not unique.
If you send a screenshot from a iPhone XR, people can know if you using an iPhone 11 or iPhone XR since they have the same dimension which narrows down alot of options. (828x1792)
You can use this site here to view a list of all the dimensions. Click the iPhone's tab and sort the physical width or height.
If you don't want to expose your phone model, crop both width and height of each screenshot randomly. I would suggest cropping out the top of the phone as it shows your time if you care about that. Some sites like X have random inaccurate dimensions in uploaded screenshots, which is different from the original raw screenshot.
I haven't really checked with android phones, but it's probably the same thing.
Privacy isn't necessarily about risk for everyone. For some it's more about their individual right to privacy, and to uphold that right they need to be aware of ways in which it may be breached. So this is probably not practical information for most people (I certainly don't care) but it's useful to share nonetheless.
It's bad op-sec and general privacy. What if you don't want anybody knowing you use a old burner phone? Some people even hide there timezone even though millions of people have the same one, RFP hides your timezone aswell. People don't share there birthday even though they aren't the only person with it even without the year. It's about connecting the dots with multiple pieces of information, and this is one of them.
How specific is your threat model that information about which phone you use can be used to track you? And if it is, why are you sharing screenshots in the first place
Why can't you share screenshots? It's just general bad op-sec, obviously your phone model alone can't be used against you, but it can be used to connect the dots with other information. People send screenshots all the time, and you can still share a screenshot of something while having privacy.
Some people share screenshots without knowing they are also giving other data included, like there phone model or something close to it. Even if metadata is stripped
If you go to a website your phone reports its model number to that website. If it doesn’t then that website can (and often does) use javascript to figure out what model it is with, among other things, viewport size.
Unless you have taken the time to turn it off, your phones model is embedded in the metadata of the screenshot you took.
Before anyone takes action based on this post, consider critically weather your device and usage pattern merit concealing your phone model from people or other entities.
It doesn't know your device model but it knows you're using an iPhone, but yes it can use the width of the viewport size to narrow down just like a screenshot but It does not matter as much if you have a more common sized iPhone rather than having a iPhone 16 Pro Max which is completely unique. Most likely there are other alternative browsers that spoof the viewport size for iOS, like letter boxing in Firefox.
I just talked about screenshots as they are shared all the time and some people might not want other people to know what type of phone they are currently using, just general privacy.
For iOS devices, the model is not included in the metadata of a screenshot
I didn’t know they fixed metadata on screenshots, good looking out!
I distinctly remember a time when most phones would pass their model in the headers. That may have passed though!
I gotta ask: where would you put “awareness of screenshot size uniqueness” on a continuum from insane schizo shit to reasonable private person?
I guess if there was a security flaw in your device then a screenshot could tell an attacker that you have the flawed device but there’s other, more subtle, ways a person could do that which don’t require that they acquire a screenshot somehow.
And I guess there is some platonic ideal of a private person who wants to share a screenshot, a literal pixel perfect copy of what’s on the screen on their device, but would also like to conceal the specific model from the person they’re sending the contents of their screen to.
It just seems like the kind of information cognizance of which would be useful in a vanishingly small number of scenarios.
If you are into that could be interesting to learn about metadata, e.g EXIF data, and how anything can be used for fingerprinting. What's interesting IMHO is to pragmatically know how valuable a specific piece of data or metadata is useful for fingerprinting, namely how identifying it truly is. For example knowing if a file comes from Android or iOS is too generic to be useful whereas timestamp with geolocation data segments the potential space a lot more.
A good example to "play" with could be coveryourtracks.eff.org/ which does highlight the idea of "bits of identifying information" namely :
"A “bit” is a basic unit of information for computers. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values, often represented as "1" or "0", for example. In your results from Cover Your Tracks, some metrics may be listed as “1” or “0”, or “true” or “false”, indicating whether a setting is enabled or disabled. While each individual metric’s details may seem like a small amount of information, when combined with your browser’s other metrics, they can uniquely identify your browser. Your results are measured in “bits of identifying information,” which is a combined summary of all these metrics."
Point being, not all behaviors, conscious or not, explicit or not, lead to the same amount of bits. Some are VERY valuable, others are basically pointless. Knowing the difference means not spending a lot of energy fighting without making a difference.
Despite winning an election in the most Jewish city in America, repeatedly speaking about the need to combat antisemitism during his campaign, and cross-endorsing Jewish candidate Brad Lander, pro-Israel politicians and pundits claim that Mamdani’s win makes Jewish New Yorkers feel unsafe because he has refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada”, a slogan that encourages international support for the Palestinian cause.
Mamdani has never actually used the phrase himself.
Responding to a slew of inaccurate statements from an anti-Palestinian caller on The Brian Lehrer Show, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said that New York Jews were “alarmed” by Mamdani’s positions, “particularly references to global jihad.”
Lehrer pushed back on Gillibrand’s assertion, asking the Senator whether she had any proof that Mamdani supported violence. “Again Brian, I don’t have all the data and information, and I’ve never sat down with Mr. Mamdani,” she responded. “So I’ve asked to have that meeting.”
Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY) baselessly claimed that Mamdani has called for violence against Jewish people in the past.
Current New York Mayor Eric Adams told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Mamdani was antisemitic because he praised Hamas. When Tapper questioned the claim, Adams told him that he would be able to find proof by doing a “little research.”
Despite his decisive primary victory and impressive campaign, many Democratic lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading baseless lies and smears in the process.
GAZA CITY—The Israeli military bombarded Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday with airstrikes and artillery, killing at least 80 since dawn.
In northern Gaza, at least four schools that shelter hundreds of families were bombed, in addition to homes and other civilian areas. In Deir al-Balah, the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital complex was also struck.
One of the worst attacks came when Israeli warplanes bombed al-Baqa, a seafront cafe, reportedly killing more than 30. Perched on the water and popular for its internet access, the cafe was frequented by families as well as journalists. Among those killed was Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Ismail Abu Hatab. Another journalist, Bayan Abu Sultan, was injured.
Maher Banat was an eyewitness who arrived on the scene soon after the strike. “I was nearby, and I heard the bombing. We thought maybe they hit a tent or something else. We were shocked to find a calamity, a massacre,” he told Drop Site. “This place, Baqa cafe, is known for entertainment only, it’s on the sea. People come and sit and talk….someone wants to come and relax. It’s not a place for any military operations or the resistance, as you can see. This was a criminal act.”
The outdoor cafe became a scene of carnage: all broken concrete and shredded wood, bodies strewn on the ground, plastic chairs torn apart, and blood soaked on the floor. A large crater in the ground in the cafe showed the missile impact. At al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, fresh corpses in body bags were lined up outside.
I think it's important to not let these people become mere statistics. These oppressors are doing much more than merely killing people; they are snuffing out their present, robbing them of their futures, killing out their potential.
There are many brilliant and kind minds in Palestine that will never come to flourish because of the actions of the oppressors. Any possible advancement or contribution into this world--gone, ripped from this world, ripped from us. Every act of oppression made by these self-designated "peace-makers", is a desecration of the past, present, and future.
My cousins were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza. I write to honour their memory - and show the world who they were before they were turned into images of death
Video discussing some of the people that were killed. A photojournalist, female boxer, an old man, a few little girls (one of which was having a small birthday party where she was being gifted a teddy bear)--the usual targets.
I've heard this was done by an F16 missile strike. The Israeli pilot, the IDF, the Israeli government, the Israeli state-- they massacred 37 innocents in this terrorist attack, killing all but two that were in this cafe.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.
As you might have noticed, the frequency of "This Week in KDE Apps" has not been very consistent lately.
Interestingly, the same mentioned article from Android Police sells it as a "privacy win". I've tried to read it as a positive spin, and I seriously don't understand what these guys have been smoking.
In a glass half full perspective, it won't send all your data to Google's servers. The part they are not saying is that the data even remotely related to your query is going to be sent to Google anyway. They are claiming they will delete the data after 72 hours, which I believe they will for now, but knowing them, there's probably going to be a sneaky policy update in a couple of years.
I completely agree, I guess what they call "privacy win" is that this feature can now work without storing data on Google (highlighted by me):
Based on Google's email, it seems the company will allow Gemini to access messages, WhatsApp, and control device system settings without requiring that you enable the Gemini Apps Activity setting for your account. This setting saves your Gemini history to your Google account, potentially allowing for better personalization.
Previously, if you had this setting disabled for your Google account, you weren't able to use the Messages, Phone, Utilities, or WhatsApp extensions in Gemini (via 9to5Google). Once this change rolls out to your account, you will be able to access these features without having to save your Gemini history on Google's servers.
When they say
potentially allowing for better personalization
they sound like the companies trying to sell you these features without mentioning the privacy implications of said features. :/
They got that idea "ask for forgiveness not permission" pushed to them by capitalist extremists for too long. I despise that concept in any context, whether justifying rape or violating privacy or anything else. But I even see it in TV shows these days portrayed as normal. Gross 🤮
They know what it is. But they think it's optional, because us plebs don't deserve a choice. They think they run our world because we use their platforms.
If you don't want this stuff on your phone, lemme point you to:
GrapheneOS (Pixels only, has Most Security at Tinfoil Hat level while also providing compatibility for Google Play (optional, sandboxed) and SafetyNet)
CalyxOS (Pixels, Some Moto G 5G, Fairphone 5, 4, SHIFTphone 8, less Security than GrapheneOS but has Security)
LineageOS (Many older devices, runs unlocked boot so least Security but still can run sans google)
If we are on an old pixel (eg pixel 4) is it more or less secure to switch to graphene? Neither Google nor graphene are doing updates for that model anymore
I've thought of getting an 8 to put graphene on but the recent news from the project about Google making it harder on them has me pausing since I don't fully understand what is affected.
I don't want Gemeni anywhere near my messages and phone content.
You can put graphene on a 4. It won't be supported but will be more secure. Still not recommended by me or grapheneos. They say that the reason they support pixels is due to the security, not the aosp support, and that they will continue to develop grapheneos. Android 16 is the first new build with the changes and grapheneos is testing it now iirc. I would personally recommend seeing how 16 goes (possibly post after the update hits stable asking for user feedback) and decide based on that. You should probably get something new as the complete lack of security updates is quite bad but that could help you decide whether to go with graphene. Personally, I am on grapheneos and am not worried about it.
I was considering a switch but due to recent policy changes at Google, I'm now concerned about long-term (or even short-term) support for GrapheneOS and other custom ROMs:
Google has released a statement claiming AOSP is not being discontinued. This should be taken with a grain of salt, especially considering that they made similar public statements recently followed by discontinuing significant parts of AOSP on June 10.
I don't know anything about tech. I don't want to contribute anything to AI, but I'm afraid I'm going to brick my pixel if I install any of this. Here's a question. If I let them steal my info, does that hurt other people, or just me?
Depends. Do you want the possibility of an AI model being able to fork over some private details in your convos? The potential for someone that doesn't like what you believe in to subpoena google for this data?
As for bricking, it won't, and the whole process is on the website, using a chrome-based browser and usb cable (it detects which pixel you have and does all the hard stuff) but you do have to back up your stuff as it will erase when it gets graphened.
There's a lineagoOS fork that comes prepackages with microG as well, helping to keep google services style stuff working (maps links etc) without using any actual google services. It's my daily driver, would recommend!
YMMV - some stuff still flat out doesn't work if it's too reliant on google services. Graphene is definitely better in that regard, if you have a pixel.
Great, well bye bye Pixel 6a, about time anyways I guess. I knew it was only a matter of time before they did something to make these devices completely unbearable, "AI" bullshit has done it.
Well the chip is still capable of using some "AI cores" and you can install AI app on it but by default it's gone. I would assume that there is some algorithme in Android that have been setup using Machine Learning and that you could market as AI since everything that is automated or made by computer gets the label AI as it's the new buzzword of Silicon Valley and technology but I wouldn't call them AI myself.
I will definitely give it a shot, I've loaded an alternate OS on a phone before but it was more about customization then. Hopefully there will continue to be options like this for people who prefer to use their own brain and don't mind pressing buttons instead of giving voice commands. I don't want to talk to inanimate objects I talk to myself enough.
Well GrapheneOS is a a robust mobile OS built for security. It brings amazing privacy out-of-the-box and control features. You really own your phone! Not Google, not Big Techs and Government, YOU.
I will definitely give it a whirl, I also need to eventually switch my desktop to Linux as I'm still in W10, I used a lot of audio plugins (VST) that had no Linux versions but now I'm mostly hardware based. I just worry that there comes a time when it's nigh on impossible to install an alternate OS on a phone but I suppose there will always be people trying to find a way.
Honestly I think that AlternativeOS will always be possible, the main issue is how compatible it will be with everyday apps that people rely on. We've started to see some compatibility issue with Play Integrity on GrapheneOS, with Revolut (has been fixed) and Alternate AppStore such as AuroraStore having some apps refusing to launch if not installed from PlayStore itself.
On the Linux side of thing you could see how your plugins performs on a VM and or see how Ardour plays with your hardware.
Yes. Revolut prevented new users to login in a specific version of their app (the newer). Users that were already logged in could update the app without issue and users could use an older APK of Revolut to sign in. However the PlayIntegrity process that was banning their GrapheneOS users have been resolved and now the harden OS is whitelisted from Revolut.
At least that's what I have followed/understood from the whole thing but I am not a Revolut user.
There's more to it. It wasn't Play Integrity blocking Graphene per se, but the fact that Revolut checked the build ID string, which was uniquely identifiable as Graphene for any build. This was then made more generic, so the block doesn't work for now, but the workaround could break any moment and be made impossible by Revolut enforcing "strong" level of Play Integrity. Such bullshit.
RE: Audio stuff I switched to bitwig long before I switched to Linux. Having familiarity with a DAW that ran natively was awesome; I also had a lot of plugins that ran as windows only VSTs. Yabridge + Wine was the answer.
You do have to downgrade wine to an older version (but this also helps you learn some Linux stuff) and works fairly well. I can even run omnisphere through yabridge (I do have a wild desktop tho so maybe not. the best point of comparison).
Mint is the first distro I used and most everything was really easy for getting audio stuff up and running quickly. I'm now using Garuda which I mostly like; there are issues that I'm still trying to work out.
Thanks, interestingly Garuda was at the top of my list but maybe I'll just stick to Mint and not be fancy. Bitwig always interested me and if I decided to go back to a DAW I'm definitely taking a second look because I have a tracker background from way back and the modularity and easy hardware integration look great. I'm not too concerned about the plugins so much as the hardware now, there is no official support for the Black Lion audio interface I bought but I'm assured it should work fine under ALSA and as I'm currently only needing it to record a stereo pair it should be fine. The plugins I use now are mainly compressors and EQs for some final mixing and "mastering" and there seems to be a decent amount of choices now for native plugins in those areas but I do have some favs I might need to bring over so I will check Yabridge. Look forward to getting my hands dirty again, hacking windows has just becoming getting rid of nuisances instead of customizing my computing experience.
If you'd be interested in a tracker-like DAW, Renoise has a native Linux version.
For more traditional DAWS, Bitwig and Reaper are the two best Linux native options. Reaper is quite cheap, and also offers a trial version that just nags you like winrar.
I mean I like Garuda, but I would say it has taken a bit more to set up. I think if you're running AMD you'll be fine, it just depends on how much tinkering you want to do. Honestly the biggest reason I switched was that I had moved to Debian and games were not working too well for me - gaming has been much smoother but my desktop environment is a bit glitchy and buggy (likely due to my nvidia / Intel stuff)
Bitwig has better support on debian-ish distros, which mint kinda is (at least it is able to download and run .deb files).
Bitwig has been my favorite DAW since I began using it more in 2019, and as my only DAW fully but EoY '19; I enjoy all the flexibility I have with modules and the like.
I am unfamiliar with the Black Lion audio interface from what I'm reading it looks like they have class compliant interfaces so it should work with pipewire.
Ubuntu studio with the audio suite may be a good way to go too.
Depends on the total use case tho. I'm a newbie too in Linux but am happy to answer what I can
Only non-carrier-locked Google Pixel phones. They have been talking about potential partnership with other OEM but it's not easy with Google ToS for Android OEM manufacturer to support other OS officially. Also they have paranoid-level security model and beside a few company like Google, Apple and maybe Samsung few devices would meet their requierments... And you know, Samsung introduced Knox to prevent their users to flash other firmware or mod their hardware and the other one, Apple, is the company that killed the FOSS Cydia Store...
Phone carriers don't want people "churning" (leaving their network for another) so they enforce the phone's locking, especially if you buy the phone from the cell carrier, as they often advertise free phone or cheap phone on a payment plan, and use that to enforce people staying on their network.
I'm not a huge phone user to begin with so thats fine as long as I can change some colors here and there, I prefer less fancy tbh for instance I like the i386-dark theme here.
That is a misleading claim right here, don't blindly trust everything you read online. The core team of the project explained it very well why it's not as dramatic as people made it seems too. It's not an ideal position and Google is definitely going in a direction that doesn't not benefit AOSP but no Android16 is comming to GrapheneOS and future version also should.
Many companies and individuals are trying to mislead people about the future of GrapheneOS to promote their insecure products and services. GrapheneOS is not going anywhere. We've made it clear we're shipping Android 16 soon and that the supported devices will remain supported.
Did they explicitly say anywhere that future versions should be coming as well? I only see them mentioning Android 16, and devices still being "supported", but that could also mean improvements in Android 16.
GrapheneOS will continue supporting the current devices we support until their end-of-life dates. We'll also add support for new Pixels as long as they meet our requirements. We've tried to make that clear, but recent posts about changes to AOSP have been widely misrepresented. Prior to Android 16, Pixels had first class support in the Android Open Source Project as the official reference devices. This was never one of our requirements and no other device provides it.
From my understanding yes but maybe not in this thread
These projects suffer from the same issues with how Google share new Android versions. This is not a solution. Also if you have a Pixel I would personnaly use a secure locked bootloader OS rather than an unsecure unlocked bootloader. I tend to privilege /e/OS on Fairphone and LineageOS on phone that have already dropped support.
I really really want to but I can't for another year because I'm still paying off my pixel. It's still carrier locked and I can't unlock it till it's paid off.
It's rough...I still have another 13 months I think. But to the article, I don't have the options in my phone that they're talking about. Do you? Or has it just not rolled out to me yet?
Fair. I think I had previously uninstalled Gemini when I first got my phone so maybe that's why the app isn't present? But the way that they are talking about it in the article, since Gemini seems to be replacing Assistant, maybe new settings will appear for me to mess around with...
I could be wrong, but I have a suspicion that you still won't be able to once it's paid off. I've run into the issue a few times in the past when buying an "unlocked" Pixel from Amazon that was carrier unlocked, but the bootloader was still not unlockable. A "carrier unlocked" phone allows you to use the phone on any carrier, but doesn't always guarantee an unlockable bootloader.
Thanks for the report, I just got basically forced to install the new 16 update after a week of swiping it away so I'll have to get going on that, I'm so tired of digging through the settings after every update to check every one to turn off all the tracking, suggestions, etc. If those even do anything. Whack a mole.
We use Chromebooks at my work (along with the whole Google suite), and we are bound by the rules of HIPAA. Without a way to opt out of this AI crap, I increasingly worry about what all of this means for our clients' privacy. Especially with this administration, with RFK deadset on targeting people with disabilities.
This makes me so happy I'm using Graphine OS. Also the entire idea that there "not storing my history" I don't trust them. They have already been sued multiple times over keeping ingogneto data.
I believe most people who care about privacy don't trust Gemini or Google in general. So it's not an issue if you already not using Gemini app. It can be uninstalled (at least for now) even without going alternative ROM way
I went outside my comfort zone and installed Lineage on my old Pixel, only to find out I couldn't get wi-fi calling, so I reverted to my Google OS. Oh no. Any options other than Lineage or a new phone? This 6 year old phone works great except for the lack of updates, and except for the upcoming Gemini updates 🙁 I'm struggling.
Edit: Ubuntu Touch, anybody?
Edit 2: Looks like VoLTE isn't supported on Ubuntu, either. Any idea why?
I believe I'm too old with my 3a. I've been considering getting a used 5, 6, 7, or 8 off ebay but I worry that support will run out. Any idea if that's true?
That's what I expected, but had hoped there would be additional legacy support. Google previously only supported Pixels for 3 years, right? They may be more competitive with Apple now, but that's still only 6-7 years. In that case, if I buy an old Pixel on ebay it's not likely to have much of a run left.
My issues with Lineage are related, although they obviously try to give legacy support (perhaps without the ability to make full security updates), but we still run into functionality issues like my lack of wi-fi calling. I don't think that is so much about the age of the phone as it is due to tech/frequency updates that are non-compatible with some older devices, and proprietary opaqueness in the Google code. I wish Lineage would at least list this issue on their wiki, phone by phone, as that would make it easier for me to decide on my next step.
I hear a tiny dev team made some VoLTE progress in the Linux world, but I am way over my head in trying to understand exactly what's going on. I think they've got an Ubuntu Touch device working with VoLTE for the first time? Does it work in the US? Does it have Wi-fi calling? I have many questions but need to keep reading. (I know VoLTE is different from VoWiFi, but I see them used interchangeably at times.)
I don't believe they support the 3a. I'm really vintage.
Any idea how long support will last for the 8? I feel a little burned by the lack of support for the 3a, though I understand that a) 6 years for a phone is a good run in this wasteful world, and b) wifi calling on the 3a hasn't been dropped by choice, but is actually a complicated issue that small #s of devs are still working on.
Great link, thank you. I'm so used to desperately trying to make this old 3a work that I didn't realize they'd listed out support expectations for more recent models.
VoLTE isn't yet supported in Linux because no one has yet completed writing an open source implementation. Unfortunately, phone manufacturers, chip manufacturers, and cell carriers all hold these cards very close to their chests, so drivers have to be written from scratch by reverse engineering the protocols, which are encrypted on top of being completely nebulous. Support is coming, eventually, but it takes an extraordinary amount of time and effort to do this, which nobody has time to do.
Gemini now has a second set of toggles buried in its settings menu. You can go to Profile → Apps inside the Gemini app and manually disable access to Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, or Utilities. But these are turned on by default, even if you’ve disabled tracking in the past.
So I just went to the app in my neighbor's phone, and it asked me to switch. I said no, and it won't let me do anything else. So will this need to be done next week?
Only for Google Pixel phones. The install process is right there. You just need a chromium-based browser (chrome, edge, vivaldi, opera, brave, etc.), an Unlocked Pixel, and the usb cable.
Also, back up your stuff. Flash Unlocking your phone to install a different OS erases everything on it (for security reasons).
very low on id say pixel 7 and up its a web installer so all you need is to back up all inlmportant files photos videos ids etc and plug your phone into a computer or another phone running graphene os and follow the guide
I had the same concern so I actually just bought a used newer pixel and started a fresh install of Graphene. It took me several weeks to learn how it works and migrate my accounts and switch to FOSS apps wherever I could.
I did care before COVID, and the chromebooks were the safe option. Some sites had desktop computers available, but those had no antivirus and we logged into the admin account with full permissions.
Alright, is there some super-populated center for enthusiast nerds who make Androids less 1984 and shit? Like, the fdroid sub or something? I’m still on the ol’ Tim Cooker but when this thing croaks I’m switching teams. I don’t need Google getting sloppy seconds, though.
I mean, feels like everyone has a phone these days. Surely some niche sect of Internet nerds has a cutting edge solution for this shit.
Is it just GrapheneOS with FDroid apps? What about Google Play Store apps, can I use those without getting fucked? Can I retain nearly every stock feature on an Android without selling my soul to Google? Which Android phone should I buy if I want things to run smoothly with the modifications I need to make? (Are those new touch flip-phones on the menu? Are they more durable now? I fantasize about DS emulation, and slapping my phone together to hang up on people. I just remember hearing all about the highly scratch-able screens and hinge problems.)
GrapheneOS puts Play Services in a sandbox so it's no longer rooted. You can restrict what parts of your filesystem each app has access to very strictly.
For now people still send me emails on Gmail, so I still have Gmail installed, but very limited permissions.
It's a huge improvement.
You can also start sessions that entirely shut down Play Services so you're living entirely with FOSS products.
I'm not quite there yet because I still use maps and drive and photos. Gonna figure out replacements, unfortunately nobody else has the traffic and live rerouting that Google maps does, even if you are willing to pay.
If you've got a pixel, highly recommend. If you have a different relatively recent phone check out lineage or e/os.
Random aside, I switched from Android to iOS a year ago. I miss Android already.
The UI is more convoluted an clunky than iOS from years ago, just as uncustomizable, and performs shockly bad on heavy webpages on a brand new 16+. It's got no freaking RAM, no sd card slot. Some free FOSS apps are nonexistant or paid only.
Security and OOTB privacy is better and app support is generally better, but that's about it? I'd probably keep an iPhone around to bank on when I eventually switch...
Weird, I have the opposite experience. After an S3 Mini and a Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro, my gf let me try her iPhone 8 for a bit and I was amazed by how smooth it was running. I've bought a 11 Pro in early 2020 and have been using it ever since. Still works like on the day I've bought it, no slowdowns, smooth as hell. I did do a battery swap after the fourth year though.
I wouldn't mind trying a Pixel with GrapheneOS though. But all Pixels are so large compared to the iPhone Pro lineup.
My last Android phone was a Razer Phone 2, SD845 circa 2018. Basically stock Android 9.
And it was smooth as butter. It had a 120hz screen while my iPhone 16 is stuck at 60, and I can feel it. And it flew through some heavy web apps I use while the iPhone chugs and jumps around, even though the new SoC should objectively blow away even modern Android devices.
It wasn't always this way; iOS used to be (subjectively) so much faster that it's not even funny, at least back when I had an iPhone 6S(?). Maybe there was an inflection point? Or maybe it's only the case with "close to stock" Android stuff that isn't loaded with bloat.
Maybe it's the regular vs Pro lineup. I never had any experience with the regular lineup. I've bought my wife a 14 Pro, and the experience there is the same as on mine.
But they are expensive as heck. I only got the 16 Plus because its a carrier loss leader, heh.
And wouldn't fix some of my other quibbles with iOS's inflexibility. My ancient jailbroken iPhone 4 was more customizable than now, and Apple is still slowly, poorly implementing features I had a decade ago. It's mind boggling, and jailbreaking isn't a good option anymore.
When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.
This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can't stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.
Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).
It doesn't seem that way. After reading through the article a couple of times, it looks like the "no" they are referring to is regarding data recording of one's actual use of the assistant. And since I don't use the assistant and have completely disabled it, the shouldn't be any data to record.
Though I do have to admit that I may be completely off base in my interpretation.
I haven't read a single positive comment here, which is to be expected in this community. But to be honest I kind of like the idea of an AI assistant that keeps track of my schedule, knows about my friends and what I am doing. Of cause I would not use gemini and am happy that i dont have to care about it with e/OS. But something that helps me keep track of things and can help me with stuff seems interesting. I'm interested to hear reviews of it
I hear you, it's the same reason why I still have google maps in my e/OS phone, to see my history and give me more restaurants I can try.
But the compromise in my case and what everyone in this thread also knows is that the data you share will not only be yours.
I think no one here is against a powerful AI assistant that will help is with personal stuff and keeping track of everything, but having to share all your life with someone else is a huge fuck no. They would know way more than even your life partner.
If there was something mostly offline that we could use I think we'd be all up for it.
Graphene, Lineage, Calayx OS are all there. Pick one and never worry about this no control over your phone thing. Personally only used graphene OS but I heard the others are similar.
Privacy =/= Security. Windows XP might have good privacy (I would argue Windows 2000 is better for that, as it doesn't have Product Activation), but security is nonexistant in 2025 in either case. For malware, it's free real estate.
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in reply to ThePantser • • •On some websites, you can get the VIN with just the plate number.
Of course, the VIN is also displayed on the exterior of most cars anyway
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in reply to ThePantser • • •I bought a used ev6 and the previous owner profile was still on there.
Had to send info including proof of purchase and ID to have that old account removed.
This was from an actual Kia dealer that made it a certified pre-owned as well. I don't understand why they didn't have the old account removed.
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in reply to ashenone • • •I used to work for AAA which has a program called GIG (Get It Going) where you can rent a Prius in the Bay Area much like a Lime scooter. They had to stay connected and EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND someone would take one up to hike in the mountains or drive down the coast, lose connection and it would instantly go into lockdown mode. They would have to call for us to tow a dead car they couldn’t even open to get their things out of.
So hey, a bear or crackhead might do the killing for you if you get a WiFi car
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in reply to kcweller • • •Keep it locked once the passenger is out. Maybe then they care.
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in reply to kcweller • • •Cybersecurity professional here, I'd read up on Kia's responsible disclosure policy, to avoid any potential trouble, and for guidelines on how to disclose it to them and handle this ethically.
kia.com/eu/vulnerability-discl…
Unfortunately they don't do bug bounties, which is too bad.
Edit: I wouldn't listen to people telling you to lock the car, exploit it in other ways or disclosing it to the media first. That is unethical at best and illegal at worst.
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in reply to kcweller • • •Nissan does this too. I leased a new Kicks when they came out and HATED it. Seats were terrible, car was underpowered, and some jackass decided to program the cvt to "shift" because Nissan got complaints that the car was stuck in gear. Just learn how a CVT works.
Anyways, 4 years later, I still get emails about monthly maintenance work, tow alarms, and tracking updates. I never asked for them to begin with and I guess I'm stuck with it as a VW guy now.
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