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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."-R B Fuller

  • Florida Governor Says Public Is ‘Right to Be Concerned’ About Flock Cameras

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  • tech company data collection is an entirely separate issue

    This is a really important point I wish more people appreciated.

    It's not a matter of one is worse so the other is not bad.

    After the Nazi occupation, France, the Netherlands, and reconstructed Germany itself all either removed sensitive data from state databases, or dismantled & federated the databases themselves. The State needs information about the population in order to be useful.

    Much like with private companies, the State should be given the minimum power/info necessary to do its job. Many of the hoops that make it less efficient, also make it less easy to abuse.

  • The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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  • Now?

    I remember using netgroups and UUCP in the early 90's to piece together files from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica

    Back then there were fewer financially/data-predatory websites, mostly because we didn't have payment methods on the Internet yet (we were just getting websites as opposed to news and gopher), and it wasn't yet practical for companies to scrape your data.

    So instead we were inundated with viruses. Like every few weeks, somehow, a virus would eat your frickin' files. It was more simply malicious, not even greedy. Not going to try and argue which is worse.

  • Is Donald Trump’s bid to brand Democrats as ‘radical’ communists working?

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  • Undeveloped land

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  • Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE

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  • New word added to dictionary, thank you Internet Person

  • Bye, Bye GitHub

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  • Best time was the day Microsoft acquired it.

    Second best time is today.

  • How often do you watch porn?

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  • "Watch" is entirely too passive a verb

  • Will Trump's latest beef plan make your hamburger cheaper? Not much, experts say

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  • Even more so because of the breakdown of globalization and supply chains

  • Doug Wilson Wants The Bible To Determine Tax Rates

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  • I can definitely maybe do this!

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  • Still doesn't help with things like understanding routing and subnet masks and frame sizes and jfc how does any of this work

  • I can definitely maybe do this!

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  • I would ping her, but I have no handler in the event of NACK

  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • Point is that when graphene gets the distress code, it makes it really clear that it's wiping the phone.

    That's the Stupid Part

  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • No. If you make and distribute security-related software, you should consider the safety of your user.

    Your threat model absolutely should include this exact scenario. And you should know enough to understand and implement principles like plausible deniability and repudiation.

  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • If he hadn’t used duress and had just refused, he’d have been fine. Graphene is secure

    Graphene devs fucked over this guy. They should apologize

    When Graphene is serious, the duress passcode will QUIETLY wipe your phone and leave it looking normal, preferably with normal-looking innocuous photos, media, etc.

    This is what happens when devs aren't really thinking about the real world use case.

  • RFK Jr. Resignation Calls Grow as Two People Die From Measles

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  • Would pay to watch

  • RFK Jr. Resignation Calls Grow as Two People Die From Measles

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  • 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,...

  • RFK Jr. Resignation Calls Grow as Two People Die From Measles

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  • pro-science organizing group

    Got excited when I read this. Yes yes yes where do I join and let me give you money are we fielding a Presidential candidate??

  • What's the most silly, petty, funny virus you've created?

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  • Not me. I was the (new inexperienced) PHB.

    We had brought on a crazy-expensive, crazy-smart, workaholic but somewhat sophomoric contractor named Bruce.

    He was not shy about stupid requirements ("Make it look like it's doing something while it works? Okay, I'll have it print dots. Fuck-all to do with how many records it's actually updated, but sure, it can print dots that you can waste time staring at."). He was not shy about contract requirements ("Fucking Cleveland? Then I want more hourly and a fucking Jacuzzi")

    One fine day my manager had had enough of his sarcasm and backtalk and just fired him in the middle of a handover meeting. No warning to me. Whole project got slapped.

    Bruce had approximately 20 minutes to gather his shit and leave the building.

    About an hour after he did, every screen in the building was replaced with an image from Calvin & Hobbes -- of Hobbes being tossed out of the front door. Management threw a hissy, myself & 2 other technical managers were pressed into emergency security service to hunt down whatever nefarious thing the Bruce Worm was doing.

    Turned out to be nothing -- just replaced the screen backgrounds, one time, that's it. They decided not to press charges.

    If you're out there, Bruce, you're still a legend to me man.

  • Elon Musk won't face election bribery charges in Wisconsin, state prosecutor says

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  • He’s smart, ok?

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