From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
Admin of orcas.enjoying.yachts and web dev of nearly 2 decades.
Funny how this ties nicely into Meta’s lobbying for age verification and how it’s suddenly a conversation we keep seeing crop up. The pattern recognition tools in my brain see nothing but constant red flags these days.
They flooded the web with bots, advertisers are backing out because of it, and now both Spez and Zuck are panicking.
I want to do this but I don’t think I can convince my wife to switch back to Android. Any other Apple stuff I own is the last I buy though. From now on, it’s Linux and possibly a Framework laptop in the future, but I’m open minded.
My Samsung TV is not on the WiFi and I have AdGuard running network-wide because of shit like this.
Proton handed over the info to the Swiss government under a specific law. The Swiss government then turned around and readily handed over that info to the FBI without telling Proton that’s what was going to happen.
It doesn’t make anyone innocent here. Just adding that for clarity because this headline I keep seeing is not correct.
My car is from 2015 with no working app connectivity. So good luck tracking that.
They’ll track me through my phone instead. okay_meme.jpg
When this hits every user and not just the underaged users (and it absolutely will), I’m fucking done with any platform using it. I’ve already got a Matrix server up that I’m trying to get friends to.
Having the guest WiFi off the VPN is smart. I hadn’t thought of that.
I’ll be honest, I only just learned about MLO. Basically what I know is that it automatically switches bands based on needs, and iirc it can use multiple at once. I’ve found that our WiFi speeds on all devices have been faster, and devices that support WiFi 6 and 7 are super fast. I still run the standard 2.4 and 5ghz to swap over to, but the additional MLO SSID has been fun to experiment with. No specific use cases. Just have a lot of streaming and gaming devices that need the bandwidth.
I used to run a WRT54G back in the day with the hacked firmware on it, and this new router feels like a modern throwback to that. I love having control again. I’ve got a bunch of devices using the MLO WiFi feature and it’s stupid fast.
What VPN do you use? I have Mullvad configured on it, but some websites don’t like it, so I have to be careful with it blocking important stuff on work computers.
I just got rid of an eero router from my home and switched to a glinet Flint 3e. No more cloud connectivity and AWS connections, plus this new router is like 100x faster. The Ring doorbell camera is next. I’m stripping my home of any and all of this spyware dog shit.
Lie about all of it.
Dating back to the first Android phone, the G1. I was installing custom ROMs on that first, and then when I eventually got a Nexus 5, I started to de-Google.
I’m on an iPhone now because I had a string of bad luck with how shit most Android phones are, but I’m still privacy and security-minded:
I use Mullvad daily. Never turn it off.
Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.
A few years ago I was a titled member of a local activist group that was considered “militant” by local police. It was a Black-lead group (I’m white myself) that spoke out and fought against police corruption, had a low-frequency radio station, and some other cool socialist shit. Anyway, I learned in a roundabout way that the local police would come by my house weekly to keep tabs on when I was home and when I wasn’t. I’m pretty sure they did this with every member. I’ll admit it was kind of flattering, seeing as I don’t consider myself even remotely important, but also fun because it wasted some cops’ time.
I don’t think people fully realize that the tons of funding these pig farms get is enough to allow them to arbitrarily put surveillance on everyday folks without even breaking a sweat. Some of the FOIA requests I’ve heard about from people in my local activist circles are wild. FBI vans, country-wide surveillance tracking using ATM cameras, wild shit!
The tl;dr - yes, even you can be under some sort of surveillance. Even if it’s just that the cops have seen your face more than once at various marches.
If this is the eye-scanning orb bullshit, stay far, far away.
All the details point to Palantir from what I’ve read. There is this sudden massive surveillance and censorship push everywhere we look. I’m convinced they are trying to funnel people into a position where they have zero privacy (and eventually payment system) protections. We’re going to see new tech pop up. A Palantir VPN; a Palantir payment processor; some new crypto banking system. They’re forcing us all into a world where Elon Musk’s stupid “Everything Platform” idea is a reality so that we are beholden to a single entity that possesses all of the keys.
Lol mine was too insignificant to make the cut.
Yeah, you get immediate feedback, vs a scenario where you have to manually check the “facts” it provides in order to ensure it’s not hallucinating. I’ve had Copilot straight up hallucinate functions on me and I knew that they were bullshit instantly.
I iterate with it a ton and feed it back errors it makes, or things like type mismatches. It fixes them instantly and understands the issue almost every single time.
That’s the trick. Iterate often and always give it new instructions if it does something stupid. Basically be as verbose as needed and give it tons of context, desired standards, pitfalls to avoid, whatever. It helps a ton.
My struggle is that I want off of iOS, but I’ve also been watching the walls close in on devices that can have their bootloader unlocked. I used to be heavily into Android tinkering (I still own a Nexus 5 and a white G1–still in its box), but left because iOS was easier for my partner to adapt to and easier for us to share various things.