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‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing
  • Uh, one side is unrelenting about suppressing everyone else's rights, and has demonstrated that they're willing to take control by force and violence if they don't get 'their ideals'. If you're on that side, you're an asshole, and being 'painted' as an asshole is the least that you deserve.

    Please stop for a moment, step outside your yourself, and ask... "Am I the baddie?"

  • Why VPN tunnels are safer than opening a port on my router?
  • To add to this, self-hosting is also best when you minimize everything - limited service, with limited functionality, on dedicated hardware that doesn't share access to your internal network or storage. Folks who use point-and-click apps to install a half dozen unauthenticated docker containers, all open to the internet, running on the same PC they store the only copy of their family photos and music/movie collection on... make me crazy.

  • Flipper Zero initial thoughts
  • I use it for managing the RFID keyfobs for my building. I can keep copies of each apartment's fobs -- which makes it trivially easy to disable lost fobs by using the 'delete' fob, followed by the lost fob (or all of the fobs for a specific resident), then re-enable new ones.

    I've also played with the NFC toys, but the built-in capabilities are rather limited. I was able to copy a RFID hotel room key (a room which I was staying in) by cracking keys with the F0 itself, which just shows how terribly weak these things are.

    I haven't been able to use the SubGHz module to do anything particularly interesting aside from cloning a remote control for a fan and an LED light.

    It's a neat toy, and it absolutely exposes how trivially easy it is to break access control systems.

  • Canada needs a new political party... What is its platform?
    1. Electoral reform, at all levels. Start with municipal governments by offering tax dollars to help with the transition and to educate citizens. Once a municipality has successfully held their first election under the new system, they get some more money to continue their education plans, then move up to provincial, federal, etc.

    2. Boost healthcare. The state of all healthcare systems is shameful. Bonus transfer payments for strengthening the healthcare system with higher wages and benefits, lower wait times, more equal access to care, and fewer people without family doctors.

    3. Get serious on the environment. Nothing else matters once you can't drink the water and breathe the air. Stop subsidizing carbon, collect carbon taxes, and direct the collected money back to individuals. Big rebates for energy efficiency projects, electric cars & charging.

    4. Kickstart housing. It's not rocket surgery that cities and suburbs need higher density housing, with accessible public transit nearby.

    That's just off the top of my head...

  • Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one
  • My electric car was manufactured ONCE. It's powered by 99% green power (hydroelectric). It burns no gas/diesel, requires no oil changes. I intend on keeping it for 15+ years (my last vehicle got to 16 years before the electrical system fried).

    It is better by literally every measure short of walking everywhere.

  • Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
  • Just download Signal. Cross platform, verifably E2E, and verifiably no data collected by Open Whisper (as per their submission in a lawsuit). Also, one of the authors/architects of Signal occasionally trolls the companies that provide mobile spyware.

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    AnonFiles shut down...

    I guess we just can't have nice things.

    The dumb part was relying on ads. There are privacy-focused crypto tokens out there.

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