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That was highly entertaining, thanks for sharing. New take on tokenmaxxing as a hobby.

Glad to hear it. Many folks believe Google has been pressured to move towards allowing no packets on the Internet without an attached government ID. Real open source communities ar…

That's pretty crazy with today's expectations though I remember touring a physics lab c. 1990 and they had just gotten a Mac IIfx maxxed out with options for $14K. Which was more t…

Make a commitment to forbid lethal use of this service and I'll subscribe for backup/disaster preparedness. It would be a huge selling point over the competition which is allegedly…

Hopefully nobody in the criminal underworld has figured it out on their own. Do you believe the mitigation would be difficult to engineer? If, say somebody else, publicly disclosed…

For those wondering this gives full system compromise to an authenticated user with permissions to edit the firewall, AIUI. Nasty but I was expecting a remote unauthenticated attac…

I was always fascinated by the visual effects you didn't know were there. The obligatorily twenty minute CG battle at the climax of a Marvel movie bores me but when Ellie hears the…

I haven't heard of this package personally and it's not on my desktops so it must not be pulled in by any of the task- desktop environment metapackages I use. So you probably have …

This is a neat idea! We are way too ossified in some of our interface paradigms while also having thrown out science-based best practices hard-won in the '90's. The scenario you de…

We welcome the Nordics with peace and brotherly love.

Left/right doesn't matter much for a no-logs VPN. Up/Down (authoritarian/libertarian) is what matters there. If he has high allegiance to the extant power structure then promises s…

It's in its awkward teenage years stage now. Pretty soon the AI will tell your father things that are more difficult to disprove and it will be done the same way "news" and Wikiped…

Pay attention to these warning signs. The Prussian System puts tremendous social pressure on many girls. Outcomes can be tragic. Those girls often do well in different schools. Boy…

The potential power here is a quick, invisible bot check that loads the content meant for humans for humans and current news stories about humans opposing the AI Surveillance Polic…

I sure hope nobody is doing this with pacemakers or flight control software. And why does this essay's type style change dozens of times? Who is that helping? It's like a cut and p…

Not sure if he'll succeed but it seems really positive that he feels the business environment there is strong enough to give it a try. Kudos for the implicit thought leadership her…

I had a brief conversation with a family member's provider about this recently. She hadn't considered that fly-by-night SAAS providers often have atrocious infosec and she had thou…

Well if you wanted to compromise F-Droid you could target their build server's ME or a cloud vm's hypervisor. To do a supply-chain attack on Google's SDK would be much more expensi…

People today take the WIMP interface for granted and forget about the pioneers who invented it. It's really sad to see desktop apps adopt hamburger menus and things that make sense…

What a nice writeup! Just curious - what kind of wire do you use to solder on the pins - enameled? I wonder if they offer their customers source to keep the Busybox folks happy?

I was a kid in the 80's and would regularly see $5 interest credits on my meager savings, free ATM, free phone banking (don't laugh) and they even set it up for me that if I went b…

Check out your DNS stats too. Mine are up 500% YoY for no human reason.

Others, note that the new archive name is 'stable-security'. You might need to update your pins if you upgraded from Buster and you're not seeing the update now. I put in a pull re…

Thank you for not selling this to the "industry"!

Who says closed source doesn't have benefits?