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  • You’re barking up the wrong tree and fucking up your life by doing this.

    Split the streaming/gaming duty to a different device that can be operated in the way the user expects.

    Wherever you disconnect shutdown signals from will be relied upon by something down the road and you’ll end up with a weird messed up broken update when that happens.


  • Single party consent for recording in public (or in places a person could be reasonably expected to be recorded) is the norm everywhere I’m aware of.

    A private conversation would be one where you could claim that a person is expected to read a privacy policy to people but of course that would be preempted by the recording party following actual laws governing recording and would never be expected.




  • That’s only true for some environments.

    E: this is the first time I’ve read that blog post since it was published (or at least a long time ago) and there’s now a comment specifically referencing the actual behavior I observed in the wild when I tried to sub other things in for “normal” uses of dd:

    Nobody says: 2016-12-30 at 15:17

    cat /dev/cdrom > myfile.iso

    Works

    cat myfile.iso > /dev/cdrom

    Won’t – dd allows you do handle writes in various block sizes, so if a device can’t handle a one-byte write, cat could well end up writing your byte followed by zeros (and because of where the pointer now is, do it again for the next byte).

    Still, all your other points stand – nice piece.

    While that comment was written seventy years ago, in this age of people with questionable intent, capability and integrity rewriting system tools in rust there’s no better time to linger thoughtfully over cp or cat or any number of other commands that begin with the letter “c” before grabbing the ol’ reliable footgun whose fifty years of script backwards compatibility ensure that no one can get their dd replacement accepted in normal use until it behaves as expected.


  • Secure erase just drops the ssd controllers table of where logical blocks are in the physical memory and trims the disk. Which is good and you should do.

    That means a person would have to address the memory directly with flying leads or a bed of nails or something. Or have special software that makes the controller tell them what’s on each physical block and then put that data together into a bunch of files.

    If that worries you, do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/<disk> before you secure erase.

    Then everything on the drive will be random static before the secure erase drops the block table and trims, so even if someone uses magic power to read the block contents directly they just get to see static.

    That has the benefit of speeding up the drive by resetting read fatigue at the expense of one layer of writes which is always worth it.



  • I also do not believe the effectiveness of the flotillas will be in their quantity of delivered aid or successful landings, however I see the value of raising the Red Cross/Crescent and sailing towards a war zone with the declared intent and cargo in preparation to disperse aid to force the idf to stop you.

    That action (and it is action) makes clear to any observer that the intent of the zionists is genocide.

    I’m not familiar with the person you’re posting about but military detention by the idf is not the same as being arrested and I’m not sure what you can possibly be trying to accomplish rhetorically by equating the two.


  • Am I mistaken or are you the same person who asked if you were the asshole for not planning to attend your fathers funeral after being given an explicit invitation and request to attend because you might see people you don’t like?

    If so, consider making amends before tricking your parents into a public place so you can ask them how they want to handle their deaths with a little less chance of your own discomfort.

    If possible, enroll in a program of therapy. What you’re experiencing isn’t abnormal, but the way you’re responding to it definitely is. I want you to be healthy and have access to the resources you need during the experience of managing loved ones lives.



  • Idk about that either. In the real or the abstract.

    I think right now the companies that host the services demonetize people and if I remember right the responsibility for content is a part of the communications decency act in the us. There’s an ongoing fight on weather to get rid of the section that gives immunity to the carrier of a message intended to originally make bell telephone not responsible for when you yell slurs at someone through the receiver.

    One interpretation of that section is that the platform isn’t responsible for the content on it and they like it that way and tbh that’s why they demonetize people because it gives them the chance to avoid people interpreting it the other way, that platforms are responsible for the content on them which would be all well and good except for the fact that it would apply to cox cable and l3 and everyone who carried your hypothetical slur ridden twitter post to the twitter server and also to you for wickedly using tls to obfuscate your hateful language from those innocent companies and usher us into ultimate surveillance hell world.

    but none of what I wrote matters because the dead man and newspaper in the op are both on the island of England which is inhabited entirely by degenerates whomst the communications decency act doesn’t apply to.






  • Make sure you also have dnssec set up.

    Even with doh set up, your computer reaches out to a dns server and trusts that server is what it claims to be. There are reasons and history that explain this behavior but there are also attacks that take advantage of it. Dnssec performs cryptographic identity verification to make sure you are asking the real dns server where Pornhub.com is as opposed to some on the wire or in the cloud interlocutor that might direct you to a website that looks alike or just sends you somewhere else entirely.

    Please read the following in the voice of Glenda the good witch from the wizard of oz, or SpongeBob, or some other character who is on your side and would never say something mean to hurt your feelings, because I am on your side and would never say something mean with the intention of hurting your feelings:

    A person who benefits from this kind of explanation would be best served by mullvad over any other vpn because it is much harder to misconfigure mullvad in a way that undoes your privacy goals.


  • DNS over https. It transmits your dns requests over https encrypted using tls so that the device handling them over the wire can’t inspect them.

    When you type pornhub.com into your browsers address bar your computer doesn’t fucking know what that is so it asks the dns server what it is. Because of history and reasons it asks in plaintext. So your isp can see that a dns request was placed to some dns server for pornhub.com. Your isp could also edit or intercept that request. Isp means whatever WiFi you’re connected to as well. Assuming the isp allows your dns request and the servers response through, your browser will most likely connect to pornhub using https. In that case the isp won’t be able to record that you looked up shrek slime butts sheet cake sitting videos but they will know that you visited pornhub.

    Doh prevents that situation.

    I don’t know how you set up doh on your system because I don’t know what you’re running or how your dns is configured. I recommend you learn how to set this up yourself and verify that it’s working correctly so you can ensure your own security.

    You also need dnssec, as noted above.



  • Here’s an alternative view, one that perhaps you haven’t heard:

    You are living in a world that has become less stable or secure every day. A world with rampant inflation no matter how it’s measured. Guarantees of survival from government have been eroding away steadily and with the advent of llms those same guarantees from private business are already gone.

    Family is a safety net you still have access to. Property and possessions held by family empower this safety net.

    Consider having a serious and painful conversation with your dying loved ones regarding how to preserve the family and ensure that wealth paid for by the lifeblood and sweat of its members remain in control of the family for as long as is possible and further the needs of the members of the family when disposed of or used.