One of my great regrets is abandoning my 4-digit slashdot ID (I decided I was wasting too much time there when I should be working LOL)

So now I’m user 27,537

You forgot to wish everyone a Blessed Kirkmas, you insensitive clod

And the breakdown of international cooperation as USA implodes

There’s a commercial on the radio in GTA:VC. A baby is crying and the voiceover says, “This American baby is starving because you bought a cheaper, higher-quality Daihatsu!”

Big props also to Beethoven’s Wig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9sogbkXWA&list=OLAK5uy_ni9dKuJJ7a0WqiazeJLDmzzdP1Kt0AlGM

Giddyup buttercup giddyup buttercup Buttercup won’t get up and get go-ing!

Straight of Our Moose

Please take this PieFed Gold 💴

The overlap between edgelords and racists is significant

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.

The moment I saw “a toast to you”, I knew the song.

And yes, I have been in the audience and raised my beer with the rest of the fans when they played this.

It is a moment that for me is probably a bit like a Catholic recalling Mass in Rome with the Pope Himself holding up the chalice

Turned to a Quark-gluon plasma after I ate that dodgy spicy burrito

Feel the thunder / of the midnight ride

… and the Fates decreed, on that night, their souls must be tried Now you can hear them every All Hallows Eve
Forever. Doomed. To ride

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KcIFMaeF1qc

Same principle as Roadside Picnic

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

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.

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.

all its time buffering.

Could be a zillion reasons for this. Need an actual instance to debug

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Some channels use Ghost instead of Patreon, including one of my favorites Anders Puck

Even though it’s no longer tractable for the casual hobbyist (me) to run a node, Invidious is still usable thanks to absolutely heroic effort by the ~4 organizations still willing and able to invest the crazy infrastructure needed to prevent GOOG from blocking them.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

getting what I pay for

GOOG and all its affiliated advertisers – essentially, every corporation on this planet – now knows not only all your browsing and watching habits, but also that you are a likely good return on investment for more mining, more fine-grained targeting, more scrutiny.