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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War

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  • Oh look, a hit piece put out by a media company that's owned by a capital investment group that is shorting UIs stock...I wonder what this could be about?!

    Ubiquiti may not be blameless but this article is ridiculous.

    Ubi isn't selling this stuff to the Russians and neither are their vendors. Their vendors, most of them in the article are from overseas, are selling them to middle-men who sell them to another middle-man who then physically gets the equipment into Russian hands where it potentially goes through ANOTHER middle man before its used by Russian troops. There's almost no way to control that and if you read carefully the "legal experts" quoted toward the bottom of the article use some very careful language in order to not tell you this.

    You can't just "shut it down" either, although even the article notes that Ubi is trying. Most of the gear that's getting into Russian military hands for use in the war is stuff that you have probably never used. It's PowerBeam and NanoBeam product that's most often used by WISPs, which makes sense because that's precisely how Russian forces are using it. What the article isn't telling you is that this stuff does NOT need hooked to the Cloud in order to function. In fact it doesn't need Internet access at all and so there's no way for Ubi to know where it's being used or even that it's been powered up!

    Even if Ubi can tell that the equipment is powered on and in use they may not know where it's at with sufficient accuracy or knowledge to do anything about it. The damn thing could be on the Internet via Starlink sitting in Pokrovsk. On December 1st, 2025 was a SL system with Ubi gear attached to it in Pokrovsk being operated by Russia or Ukraine? There's literally no way for Ubi or anyone else to know.

    As for Ubi doing more if you read the whole article you'll find that more than a few of these bad distributors HAVE been caught and shut down across the globe which almost certainly means that Ubi is helping at some level.

    In short the article looks bad but when you start breaking down the individual points it quickly falls apart, especially when the media company behind it has a monetary interest in sinking Ubiquiti's stock.

    @Raptor_007@lemmy.world

  • Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War

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  • Nah, according to the article this is mostly the WISP type stuff, particularly the Power and Nano beam products meant for Long Range Point to Point / Multi Point connections. This isn't routers / switches / etc.

  • why?

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  • Tech Aura. If you have it you understand. If you don't then you watch in awed frustration as the computer that refused to work 10 seconds ago suddenly starts behaving when I.T. touches it. As an aside you know your I.T. are real wizards when stuff starts working just because they walked in the room or answered the phone. :)

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.

    Windows is a closed source and proprietary commercial Operating System. Microsoft is going to do whatever they like with it. If enough people get angry about an issue they may change their mind but that doesn't change the nature of Microsoft's ownership over their products.

    I've been participating in discussion about what Microsoft should and shouldn't do since the late 80s and it pretty much boils down to this: You need to select and use software that works the way you want it to. So if you don't want MS to have your disk encryption key then don't use Windows. If you don't want MS to have access to your documents then don't put them on any system that MS has control over.

    It can be terrible inconvenient to protect your data in this way but this part and parcel of the privacy movement.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • It may seem that way but I'm really not. An encryption key is just data. It's critical security data to be sure but it's still data and like other data you shouldn't share anything that you wouldn't want made public.

    Don't want MS to cough up your data when asked? Then don't give it to them. In regards to your BL key that means storing it another way, such as on a jump drive or printing it out.

    In the end if you have data of any type that you absolutely DO NOT want made public then you need to retain that data locally. If that means leaving the Microsoft or any other ecosystem then that's the price that needs paid for keeping your data under your control.

    This is the foundation of the entire privacy movement.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • The encryption key is data, don't give it to ANYONE. "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead."

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • The word "Gave" is really doing some heavy lifting in that title. Microsoft produced the keys in response to a warrant as required by law.

    If you don't want a company, any company, to produce your data when given a warrant then you can't give the company that data. At all. Ever.

    Not fast food joints, not Uber, not YouTube, not even the grocery store.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • It's easy to do. Mine is a reolink piped through Home Assistant.

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • I hear ya but honestly you wouldn't have the service let alone the devices without it.

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    Bluesky just verified ICE

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  • Too many people thought that Twitters Blue Checkmark meant you were special. That attitude carries over to Bluesky and being verified.

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • Classic Liberal, yes.

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • You are not spending tens of millions annually and thus Microsoft doesn't give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.

  • US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development

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  • I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.

    I dislike having to defend these assholes but the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.

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    TIL: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

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  • I googled a map of US literacy by county. Interesting view.

  • If you could go back in time, what is the one thing you would change about computers or the internet?

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  • just so we can give everything a public address

    Giving everything a public address was the original intent! NAT didn't even exist prior to '94 and it was (and is) a massive kludge.

  • If you could go back in time, what is the one thing you would change about computers or the internet?

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  • I'm interested in what you're thinking with this.

  • Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

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  • I'm cautiously optimistic. This looks like a reasonable use of tech that doesn't seem to have so many of the spyware elements that other glasses (like Meta) have. There's no external camera, no screens (only lenses), and no mention needing an app or internet connection.

    As someone in their target demographic I'm interested to find out what is actually released and would consider purchasing a pair.

  • Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect

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  • Motors used to be BOLTED together, now they are GLUED together.

    50 years ago you were working on brushed motors with relatively sloppy tolerances, less torque, and more electrical consumption. Today's brushless motors are faster, stronger, lighter, more efficient, and designed to higher tolerances.

    It used to take me a half hour to change the clutch slave cylinder on my truck. Now (newer truck) I have to PULL the transmission to do that.

    Very few vehicles in the U.S. have a manual transmission and the prevalence of them is decreasing quickly in all western countries. No matter how much we may prefer manuals it's inarguable that modern automatics get better fuel economy, are easier to operate and are often stronger than their manual equivalent.

    My point here is that often the same advances that make things better make them more difficult to service.

  • What's a good printer for ASA filament?

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  • Thank you for the feedback!