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anonym29
1y ago
This was a Ukranian national, not a Russian.
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anonym29
1y ago
Italian and Greek airports: the bane of otherwise untouchable slavic cybercriminals since 1994
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1y ago
Transphobic comments from the religious fundamentalist who would prefer porn didn't exist? Color me shocked! What's next, are you going to propose stoning gay people and bringing back slavery because Leviticus told you that's
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anonym29
1y ago
This was a problem before LLMs and it would remain a problem if you could magically make all of them disappear. LLMs are not the root of the problem here.
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anonym29
1y ago
Security theater for marketing purposes. End users have no way of verifying that their cloud backups are encrypted, and Apple is the same company that complied with the NSA's illegal, unconstitutional conspiracy to conduct warrantless
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anonym29
1y ago
>The government does what it wants because it's the government. Mere laws generally don't stand in its way for long. Sounds an awful lot like terrorists.
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1y ago
Apple has a track record of secretly coordinating with the government to violate your privacy and hand over bulk plaintext user data to the NSA for unconstitutional warrantless surveillance, in spite of what their Apple's marketing dep
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1y ago
It doesn't, because laws that compelled sites like pornhub to take down nonconsentual porn already existed before the proposal for age verification. The people pushing the age verification will never admit this to you, often because th
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1y ago
Yes. Learn to code. Write it yourself. Host it yourself. Host it P2P. Do it on federated self-hosted platforms like Bluesky. Make it a web app. Set up a Briar group. Join such groups. Join such platforms. Switch off iOS. Switch to deGoogled
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1y ago
Obviously this is because 77% of all pornhub viewers were underage, and NOT because privacy-infringing age checks create a deterrent effect that reduces all pornography consumption, which totally was NOT the goal all along by the puritanica
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1y ago
You're entitled to believe that, and I'm entitled to keep buying bitcoin. My strategy is working better for me than most other human beings' strategy is working for them. They spend several decades running in a hamster wheel
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1y ago
ICE is a targeted group, though. They may not be a historically marginalized group, a vulnerable group, a protected class, or a group worthy of protection, but they certainly are targeted. When you use proprietary software, you are kissin
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1y ago
Mobile hotspot with a wireguard tunnel wrapping all traffic. Different RF bands (e.g. Starlink). Unauthorized private autonomous mesh networks. I don't care how hard they make it. I am never going to stop uncompromisingly exercising my
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1y ago
My primary for the time being remains GrapheneOS, which, ironically enough, only runs on Pixel hardware for now (though the GOS team is working with an unnamed major Android OEM to produce a handset that meets GOS's strict platform req
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1y ago
99% of all malware with real world consequences is caused by unverified developers, ergo, all unverified developers should be removed from app stores. 99% of all car accidents with real world consequences are caused by licensed human driver
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1y ago
I've got my Linux smartphone running and ready to go. VWYF, folks. I'll take shitty software and poor battery life over digital authoritarianism every single time. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a lit
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1y ago
>that’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals. What? No it's not at all - that exact flow happens tens of millions of times per day every single day. Cloudflare handles a plurality of all global internet traffic and makes extensive
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1y ago
Thank you for sharing. Reading this, I'm reminded of the idea that we should all care about accessibility, because barring death or radical advances in restorative medical technology, we will all rely on accessibility tech in some way
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1y ago
Should European citizens be subject to the laws of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and pals? Either laws in other countries matter in yours (regardless of how different they are from your own) or they don't. Picking and choosing whic
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1y ago
I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law. To suggest that Clearview is "dodging" the (British) law falsely implies t
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1y ago
Sorry to sound like an ad, but I'd hate myself if I didn't take the opportunity to mention Accrescent, which is a big leap forward from an end-user security perspective vs F-Droid: https://accrescent.app/ Of cours
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1y ago
The idea that average people can't handle incremental improvements like a password manager, MFA, full disk encryption, etc is unhealthy infantilization of people who are entirely capable of understanding the concepts, the benefits, the
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1y ago
I'll keep taking bitcoin, gold, land, housing. You can have my worthless paper federal reserve notes - they're all forged. Unlimited supply cap, the issuing entity literally just keeps printing trillions of them. It's monopol
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1y ago
Downsides of centralized server architecture. Sadly, as of time of writing, https://status.signal.org/ has incorrectly been reporting no issues the entire time. Edit: appears reddit and AWS may also be down. Internet down?
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1y ago
I didn't mention being a man, and the key words in that sentence are the ones you omitted.
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1y ago
I don't know how familiar you are with the sheer scope of malware, black markets, data theft, various extortion techniques, but gaining the ability to drop an arbitrary .exe on Xubuntu.org and actually direct enough traffic to it that
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1y ago
other data is less lucrative than the $0 sitting in those static attacker wallets?
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1y ago
The value of your labor is being systemically destroyed through deliberate currency manipulation by the US Federal Reserve, in conjunction with the US Government and US Treasury. You are more than twice as productive as your equivalent 1971
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1y ago
Any idea why a bipedal fleshlight makes them insecure? My head jumps to "could it because they fear that without sex, they have no value?" but that sounds so ridiculous to me. All human life matters, has value, and should be treat
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1y ago
Ransomware existed before cryptocurrency, and BTC is extremely traceable - far more traceable than cash, for instance. The only factor that matters is the adversaries residing in a jurisdiction with a lack of enforcement.
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