“Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child pornography”

I’m pretty sure if I made up a lie at work I’d get fired. seems to be a requirement for law enforcement

netbird (and pangolin I believe) offer alternatives to getting a static IP address with their wireguard implementation.

so do many others, but I believe those two are the only fully open source solutions

when I tried to make a wise account they wanted a face scan and ID uploads. instant blacklist for me.

I want to expand on your first thought and just say that in my experience the internet as a whole is not a great place for nuanced takes, and I’ve noticed that becoming mirrored in reality over the last decade. Perhaps its been happening for longer.

There’s so much going on, and so many actors trying to influence the masses. I don’t blame anyone for having different conclusions to my own, there’s an almost untrackable amount of sources to draw information (and disinformation) from. I just hope we can get to a point together where we can (again?) discuss nuance without ceding to emotion.

its competent people raising issues and being overruled, ignored, laughed at by people who want to move fast and break things. same as always.

you know what’s funny, is that my noise cancelling headphones started to have serious problems when I ‘upgraded’ to windows 11. it would pick up the noise cancelling mics and decide they were the primary, not my standalone dedicated microphone.

in the process, it would also downgrade the sound quality for some fucking reason. no matter how many ways I disabled them, it would either re-enable them or I’d find a new way to try.

with Linux? just works.

Not a single AI CEO understands cybersecurity. They’ve got soundbytes to make it sound like they know what they’re talking about, but time and again they’re complete nonces.

Though reading that back we might be able to expand the scope to most CEOs.

this feels like a noob trap. if someone needs to send all their traffic through Tor for some reason, just use Tails. don’t mix your regular activity with your Tor activity.

in the same way you mention cell towers being able to triangulate a device, you can also be tracked with WiFi APs if you’re connected to or even just searching for a network.

hence “beyond”… you’re good mate ;)

3,4 and 5. 1 and 2 require you to not have cell service, which is possible for any device.

hey printf. just wanted to drop in and say its been really cool to follow your Linux journey. I don’t have suggestions for you, but please keep it up.

can I ask: what is it about OpenRC that you like? I personally haven’t tried artix yet (for personal use i’m on arch) so I’m not familiar with the differences.

spent some time last week adding metadata to my mp3 music obtained with yt-dlp. used musicbrainz Picard.

I’m actually really surprised how comprehensive that database is, and how easy it was to manually tag the tracks that didn’t get picked up automatically.

something I feel is important to note: they added CSAM to the list of things they were searching for in order to gain access to his phone.

when the phone was clean (due to the wipe), they did not follow up on that charge

if they truly believed this person to be in possession of CSAM, a warrant should’ve been issued by now to follow up on that very serious accusation. instead, they go after the destruction of evidence.

because they have nothing on this man, and it was a fabricated excuse to gain access to his phone.

bringing you joy is its purpose, and that is valid.

LAPD suspending their contract gives me hope that this movement is strong enough.

Protesting, showing up to city council, and generally making officials’ lives uncomfortable is the bare minimum, because it works.

iirc the flock database is searchable by “man wearing x” type queries, so grey-man style clothing would be more beneficial here.

we get none of the cool parts of cyberpunk I swear.

thank you for this

first off: super useful project.

the two biggest things I can think of are contact list imports and exports. I could see myself adding my immediate family manually. more than that and it becomes a chore rather than a setup.

there’s no fucking way