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throwaway742··on Is there a wider internet outage today?
hardwired APs > mesh
throwaway742··on An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner
Kinda makes me wonder if it was a mistake or a pretext.
throwaway742··on Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)
Didn't they safely shut it down?
throwaway742··on Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time
Why not VPN?
throwaway742··on Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
They just ask most people if they are a citizen and if they look white enough CBP waives them past. If they don't CBP pulls them into secondary where they have a sniffer dog that alerts on their car allowing them to search the car and it's occupants at which point they will check their ID and run it through their system.

Personally I refused to answer, set the parking brake, turned the car off, and removed the key. They told me to go to secondary and I just didn't say anything and kept looking forward. Eventually enough traffic backed up behind me on the freeway they just waived me through to get traffic moving again. I know the courts have found it to be legal, but I don't care. I'm not going to comply. If no one complied they wouldn't be able to get away with this shit. Unfortunately most people don't care.

throwaway742··on Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
Yes and if you refuse they confiscate the device.
throwaway742··on Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
Odd because I have been detained at CBP checkpoints inside the US without any sort of reasonable suspicion.
throwaway742··on Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub
I see. I use firewalls to control which devices can access which others. To each their own.
throwaway742··on Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood
>Ukraine’s air force claimed

>Ukraine Says

Surely Ukraine, being in the middle of a war, would have no incentive to lie for propaganda purposes. As the other commenter pointed out they were arrested way earlier and the reason was because they sold secrets to China not because of any failure of the project.

throwaway742··on Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub
Same. Wireguard is so easy to set up I don't see why I would need anything else.
throwaway742··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Interesting tidbit about Facebook's security team.

https://imgur.com/a/hcrv6We

throwaway742··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
What if I told you there is a higher percent of our African American population incarcerated than the percent China's Uighur population that is incarcerated?
throwaway742··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Is it really oversight when our elected leaders are afraid of the people they are supposed to oversee?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7EHai-cRM

throwaway742··on Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage
I pay for my VPN with cryptocurrency.
throwaway742··on AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)
You and me too sibling. We really lost something.
throwaway742··on Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test
It also resulted in the rise of gangsters like Al Capone.
throwaway742··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
My last TV was a TCL and I just removed the WiFi card from it. Still not as good as an actual dumb TV, but it met my needs.
throwaway742··on My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
I miss XP sometimes too, but this is madness.
throwaway742··on My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
10/10
throwaway742··on Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died
TFW sheep backed securities crash your entire economy.
throwaway742··on The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
This. I believe there are even smart management systems that can disable certain circuits when others are active e.g. if the hot tub, or dryer are on it turns off power the EV charger. IIRC they aren't cheap, but they also aren't 40k.
throwaway742··on PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
There is no initial permission. Anyone with your info can pull money out of your account. A stop payment just blocks a specific person from doing it again.
throwaway742··on PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
Yeah all that is needed to do an ACH pull is a name, account number, and routing number. There is no real security.
throwaway742··on The Undeniable Street View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPZ7uRwwcE
throwaway742··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
They'd probably outsource it. REAL ID by Meta or something horribly dystopian like that
throwaway742··on The Undeniable Street View
Yes it was quite common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ

throwaway742··on Judge decides against Internet Archive
I miss him. He really did his best to live up the the hacker ethos. Information wants to be free.
throwaway742··on The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
Well yeah you live in a first world country. This is America.
throwaway742··on Java 20 / JDK 20: General Availability
HolyC
throwaway742··on Credit Suisse’s takeover causes turmoil in a $275B bond market
Thanks.
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