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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
anonymity is hard and easily broken by human mistakes, but parents comment is absolutely on point.
the methods and tools you use depend on your threat model, but now is always a good time to begin getting more comfortable and improving your digital hygiene. as parent points out, while privacy (like security) really cant come in a box, tails is a great start.
- Comment on Detailed explanation of an impossible 9-sprite demo on a C64 1 week ago:
🤯 seriously.
- Comment on Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons 1 week ago:
please remember that teslas are rolling spy machines. protect yourself accordingly. for your own privacy, I would never approach a tesla (you know, to gawk at a distance) without adequate protection.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
this machine…
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
that trial balloon is already a-floatin’.
non-citizen permanent resident (aka green card holder) spouting views that the govt dont like? straight to the black hole of ICE detention with you.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
indeed, but so is Tor. not a perfect solution, but its there and it works well for “casual interactions”.
- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 3 weeks ago:
subscribed. thanks!
- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 3 weeks ago:
hero material.
my family contributes $5 monthly to the signal foundation. consider doing the same if you are able.
the entire family uses it personally and for business so its among the best montly contribs we make.
- Comment on Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor. 3 weeks ago:
totally fair, however I think these laws.should be treated as though they might apply and pushed back on appropriately. things have been weird for a while and are getting weirder.
- Comment on Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor. 3 weeks ago:
definitions
(5) “App store” means a publicly available website, software application, or electronic service that distributes apps from third-party developers to users.
requirements
(1) An app store provider shall: (a) at the time an individual who is located in the state creates an account with the app store provider: (i) request age information from the individual; and (ii) verify the individual’s age using commercially available methods that are reasonably designed to ensure accuracy;
I dont see how any anonymously accessible repository legally escapes the account and age verification requirement without some sort of specific carveout.
the wording of the bill seems terrible - their definition of “mobile device” and “mobile operating system” are just plain stupid an could apply to your laptop running almost any OS.
I just did a quick parsing, but did I miss something in the bill that offers legal protection to non-commercial repositories?
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 5 weeks ago:
depending on specs it will be a little power hungry, but a good virtualization platform.
yes, the power supplies are likely redundant and the server will complain if they are not both powered.
it will use a VGA connection, but you should be ale to find cheap VGA monitors or cheap adapters.
RAID controllerfor those drives? how many processors and cores? how much RAM? what OS are you planning on running on it? iDRAC included? (if so, likely idrac6, but still usable)
this hardware is very well supported by linux - I have used these older servers extensively. your boss was right to be excited for you. its a great exploration platform that you will be able to do lots of things with.
fire up a live linux distro and get detailed specs on the box - that will guide what you can play with right away.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
silly rabbit, healthcare is for wealthies! your DNA and medical history is farmed to cure your betters.
now sit down.
- Comment on Defense of the internet (from billionaires) according to Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
and thats ok. some great work has been done making the impractical practical. the article was a good think piece. it did its job.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 1 month ago:
many sites are readable via Firefox and noscript (which you should be running anyway for all sorts of reasons) and/or Firefox reader mode. the atlantic, wapo and many more are like this.
nyt, bloomberg and others use more sophisticated paywalls.
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 3 months ago:
time to return a clearly defective product. boomerang that crap right back at the store/mfcr.
- Comment on On bugs... 4 months ago:
at which point you turn on all symbols/debugging, bloat your binary 10x and submit it …cuz it seems to work sometimes then.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 5 months ago:
without addons to control internet crazy, that word “function” is doing some heavy lifting.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 5 months ago:
it be there! ;-)
awesome job!
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 5 months ago:
peachy keen, friend. peachy keen.