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Cake day: 2023年7月29日

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  • I think he’s over blowing the 5 dollar wrench method.

    Unless you live in a place where human rights are disregarded like every possible moment, they’d probably only resort to torturing you to gain access if they believe you are somehow connected or have ancillary evidence that points to you. IE that darkweb dude they tortured in Turkey to gain access to his encrypted laptop containing incriminating evidence.

    Otherwise they’ll just do a preemptive raid hoping that it leads to new information.

    Like right now border patrol has been forcing foreigners to show data on their mobile devices to see if you have any roasted vance memes so they can turn you away. But in many cases, it has been done because they already had you flagged as posting or sharing roasted vance memes online.

    Of course you could also always be in a craphole country where they’ll torture you anyway, regardless if they have any reason to believe you are connected to something, but simply due to the fact that you opted to use FDE or any practical security scheme.




  • It takes a little more effort to setup, but the alternative to syncing a local keystore db like KeePassXC would be vaultwarden, which is a self hosted open source Bitwarden server that gives you all the features of Bitwarden and has full compatibility with all the clients.

    Spinning it up is actually very easy, you just have to decide if you want to integrate SSL via a reverse proxy setup or just use the builtin webserver for HTTPS.


  • They technically already did this with Android which all ship custom kernels and closed source driver blobs.

    Of which Google successfully lobbied the government to keep foreign competition out, which has lead to the soft death of AOSP as everyone else has forked into a new OS or accepts google’s terms to use their gapps suite.

    Best thing about Linus is that he immediately tells these megacorps to f off every time they make a PR with even a remotely questionable purpose.

    If they really want to achieve something technical without scrutiny, there’s FreeBSD right there. Implement it and make a future PR if it actually improves something.

    Otherwise, critical choices within the Linux kernel will affect everyone, and could very easily lead to abuse without any proper moderation.

    Google already has a hit order out on JPEGXL simply because they know that AVIF will save them on cloud storage cost, so they’ve effectively banned it from the browser space since they own Chrome and have enough leverage over Firefox.






  • This actually reminded me of an actual instance of this I discovered for a family member.

    Their 2.4Ghz devices would just randomly drop connections at seemingly random times, and changing the router didn’t fix anything.

    So I fired up bettercap to take a look, and lo and behold it was a GE “smart” oven that would spam advertise its SSID with beacon frames on an interval and would block traffic because all the other devices would see a busy channel.

    The funniest thing is said family member specifically decided against using the oven wifi feature because he already knew it was not going to be useful or even reliable, but he had no idea the wifi feature was left on which was causing all the packet drops.

    Upon further investigation, we realized he actually did turn it off, but because the tap button was basically at elbow height, it was super easy to accidentally bump and flick back on.

    Conclusion is that some GE ovens double as a crappy WiFi jammer lmao.









  • Biden threw a couple billion dollars of that climate change money to GM to develop an EV car, which anyone working in GM or even living in Michigan will tell you is not gonna happen lmao. All while banning foreign Chinese EVs from competing because of “safety” and “market protections”.

    Biden was a downgrade from Obama, and people already called Obama a coconut for his rather insane war crime history and ICE enforcement.

    Stop glazing that geriatric fool’s failure to permanently dispose of Trump. He cheated you all out of a fair primary and spent his time in office throwing pennies worth of improvements in the aftermath of Trump’s first term.

    Even ignoring Kamala’s horrendous campaign, he is the primary reason why Trump is currently in office again.