Well said, there are desperately needed activities and roles at all levels of time commitment and monetary investment.

For anyone looking to actually counter this fascist uprising, I’d recommend finding something and specializing in it. At this stage, selecting the class of “random barely trained person with crappy AR” is probably not the most useful skill tree to be in.

Things that are painfully under explored in descending order of importance and also ascending order of difficulty:

• Logistics and organizing: get time with Food Not Bombs or similar, network at anarchist bookstores, network at targeted protests (usually ICE facilities), build a vetted network of like minded people IRL.
• Counter surveillance: watch court cases, figure out what types of evidence are being presented, learn how to do FOIA requests and the tricks for getting them to be accepted (hide/obfuscate your intent). Are the cops leaning hard on any new technologies? How effective are they at getting convictions?
• SIGINT: buy a $40 RTL-SDR, maybe get a ham license, learn where the bands are and what people are doing on them. If you can code, try automating signal detection, the APIs are straight forward. Learn how to identify police radio transmissions and decode them (hint: unit IDs are not encrypted). Learn how to detect chuds on baofengs. Skill up to systems that can transmit like the ADALM-Pluto or Pluto+ (~$250) and learn to…uh…leverage that capability in creative ways.
• Drone ISR: learn how to build a drone that’s not broadcasting its ID or operator location to the cops unlike DJI. Learn how to encrypt the command and telemetry links (hint: PrivacyLRS). Learn how to downlink encrypted video (hint: OpenHD)
• Long range precision: if you’re already into guns and have access to long distance ranges, learn to shoot at 600m+ beyond the effective range of most rifles. Learn to reload precision rounds correctly. Learn how police perform urban sniper operations (if you see anything about buying replacement window screen material you’re on the right track). Learn how to build camouflage systems (similarly, you’re in the right place if you’re learning to sew).

They’re a good group but they have a rep of being very (only?) beginner focused and extremely avoidant of anything that would get them on anyone’s radar. MISRA might be a mild exception but they’re more ideologically focused in a way many would find annoying. At the moment you won’t really find many legit leftist militias because both the liberals and the right have made it their mission to harass any such org to the greatest extent of their imagination, all while fostering RWNJ militias.

I like his stuff but all of his examples are kinda incoherent. If you’re going to be doing anything in the upper tiers with that kind of gear it’s probably for some sort of purposeful action or to defend some position. If you’re just wandering around at the grocery store in a PC you’re needlessly going to attract attention. If everyone is panicking and going crazy you should be acting like the most average boring person in the world until you have an opening to help fix things.

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Currently Anubis seems to be the standard for slowing down scrapers

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

There are also various poison and tarpit systems which will serve scrapers infinite garbage text or data designed to aggressively corrupt the models they’re training. Basically you can be as aggressive as you want. Your site will get scraped and incorporated into someone’s model at the end of the day, but you can show them down and make it hurt.

It should be noted for the record, if you ever have to use your duress code, do it before you hand the device over, don’t offer it up to them, and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

If you have time, turn the phone back on and you’ll get a “recovery” screen asking to do a factory reset. Select this and let it boot back to the setup screen then turn it off again. It’s now in a state where, if you remembered to shut the fuck up, they’ll have a much harder time proving that you destroyed evidence and didn’t just hand over a device you hadn’t setup yet, as is a somewhat common (good) practice with border crossings.

As with all things you may have to depend on, ideally you should test this flow. Carefully make a backup, verify the backup integrity, then use the duress pin ensuring that everything works the way you expected.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oM0IB-IiM

I think in theory you could do it if you had a separate relay, you might only need one for the entire I2P Lemmy community. The relay would always be exposed to some degree but it’s just a relay so it’s not going to attract too much attention, especially if the operators were smart and didn’t sync spicy communities to the clear net

I always love these AI generated “interesting looking objects”.

What we have here is some plastic, aluminum or pot-metal frame with a piece of obviously fake suede screwed to it with undersized screws so that it’ll rip off at the slightest provocation. It then has some sort of shitty OLED display crammed inside of it for…reasons?

Depends on your goals and your threat model. Tails is kinda 80% “I think a TLA will kick down my door or take my computer at the border physically” or you want to use untrusted hardware and 20% “I want to avoid online tracking”. If you’re worried about online tracking only it might not be the place to start out.

Your daily reminder that much of what they’re doing was started and enabled by Biden.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fbis-crosshairs-socialist-rifle-association

Edit: k so to expand on this because we’re having some difficulty with this concept, they’re likely going to be starting with lists that have existed long before trump 2, possibly even trump 1. Biden could have not created/destroyed (depending on timeline) a lot of that infrastructure but because he was just GOP-lite here we are with leftists being surveiled and concentration camps on the border.

Points 2 and 3 and just innate to the project, not something that can be fixed in a custom ROM. Point 1 is not something any of those projects choose to fix, you need to either root or use a particular ROM to get around that because of how baked into the network stack those limitations are.

Okay Canadian assembly techs: you have an opportunity to do something extremely funny

We really need an open source mobile operating system that isn’t controlled by tech megacorps.

Android is far too compromised by corporate profit motives.

• it helps network operators identify tether traffic and prevents it from being hidden by the systems VPN.

• it facilitates vendor pre installed adware, bloat ware, and malware that can’t be uninstalled

• it facilitates carrier locking to prevent users from switching carriers

“Excellent idea! Let’s create a plan to purify your wife through flame!”

Sorry lol

These https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07STZPX2L

I actually have some experience with this!

I travel a lot and always have an IFAK and a somewhat extensive “boo boo” kit.

The IFAK covers serious trauma, car crashes, GSWs, whatever. Haven’t had to use this thank fuck. Standard stuff though, take your Stop The Bleed. I carry a tourniquet (I like snake staff systems), compressed gauze, pressure dressing, chest seals, trauma scissors, gloves. You can safely reduce this to the tourniquet and the gauze for 90% of use cases though.

The boo boo kit contains more comfort items, stuff to turn a moderately bad day into a mild inconvenience. It has a bunch of stuff but by FAR the most used items are these in order of frequency:

Ibuprofen - carry many doses

Small bandages - 3M Nexcare are the good ones

Moleskin - helps with shoe blisters, friends use it a lot

Deviant ollam folding scissors - for cutting moleskin, hangnails, whatever. TSA doesn’t care about them.

Pseudoephedrine - the behind the counter stuff, NOT phenylephrine from the aisles. This is the good stuff, helps with allergies, mild colds etc.

Also worth noting that from an international perspective there’s still plenty of room for worse pricing. People have been calling for a crash for over a decade now but I’m not seeing it. More likely there may be a very modest correction due to other somewhat unrelated asset bubble stuff but it could just as easily go a number of other directions.

The stock market is currently in fantasy land because rich people are betting on AI replacing you and more importantly have nowhere else to put money that can outperform inflation. If AI stops pumping markets they’ll have to move the money elsewhere, that could mean a stock market crash taking home prices with it but just as easily they could throw it in real estate and start buying up properties so who the fuck knows.

Problem: children are depressed, have nobody to talk to, and want to kill themselves

Solution: pervasive surveillance to make sure they learn that they cannot express themselves in any way, shape, or form, fully preparing them for the digital hellscape we’ve created

Like sure, the chat bots shouldn’t be encouraging people to kill themselves or be used in the first place but this is 100% the worst possible response.

Flock cameras have fairly expensive lipo batteries in them ☝️