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I got “removed” from adsense around 2005. There had better not be ads on my vids.

They’re doing it to cover the losses on the same AI investments that spiked RAM prices.

That flag. Ugh.

There was a time when by facebook wall was plastered with AI slop articles, and all of them had flags chucked in like this.

There is zero adware in Android (AOSP). Unfortunately manufacturers tend to install Gooogle Play Services, which compromises the whole device.

NTP, DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SSH

• NTP just tells you time. No confidential data here.
• DHCP and SNMP dont go over the internet. A VPN won’t save you from this.
• FTP is dead. Not even web browsers support it anymore.
• SSH is already encrypted. In some cases, it can literally be used as a VPN.

Wireshark is useless on WPA3. Although hotel wifi typically doesn’t use it.

SNI is encrypted with ECH.

I disabled plaintext SMTP on my mail server years ago. Requiring TLS actually reduced spam by 99%. No reputable mail server will use plaintext.

Almost nothing uses plain HTTP. The only thing I typically see is my phone’s internet connectivity check, which simply returns an HTTP 204 (No content). It’s practically a ping.

HTTPS + DoH is enough because all of these problems are solved.

You’re routing all your traffic through a single inspection point. They too can scrape anything that isn’t HTTPS. They can list every site you visit without DoH.

Corporations are just as unaccountable as ISPs and governments.

In Oceania, “overseas” and “foreign nation” are interchangeable.

I ran a residential proxy once. Someone abused it and the police came.

I don’t think anything can monitor or mess with your local web traffic once you have encrypted DNS.

VPNs don’t add any privacy over HTTPS+DoH. Installing CA certs and whatnot is insane.

Stop getting your opsec advice from influencers on youtube. It’s snake oil.

I’m using bcache, and I’m using btrfs as the filesystem on top of it. I’m not sure that the way I’ve done it is considered best practice anymore. The discourse online is a mess because the landscape keeps evolving.

evilpiepirate.org/git/…/bcache.txt

2 of my 4x 4TB spinning drives are portable. 2 in mirrored raid, and on-site backup, and an off-site backup. If you don’t have it on 3 drives across two sites, you don’t have it. 5400RPM is fine as long as you allocate some of that NVMe as a cache for it. Keep all high-transaction stuff like databases, thumbnail caches and indexes on the NVMe drive. Going to 7200RPM just increases power consumption and noise, and reduces reliability.

The other specs seems fine, but I personally upgrade my desktop then take the old CPU, RAM and motherboard to use for my server.

Immich and Nextcloud run fine on my 2015 Core i5 with 16GB RAM.

Something makes me think the officers intended to “find” CSAM on his phone. Like sprinkling crack, or a planter gun.

Absolutely the right move to nuke it.

The indictment alleges that Tunick knowingly deleted the phone’s digital contents

My hot take: the officer wiped the phone. With their own hands. They’re just stupid.

This is being pushed as a driver update. Drivers run in ring 0. LG could be snooping on you at a very low level here.

Your average electric Porsche consumes more than 200kW.

It’s basically rounding error when you lug 10,000 of them.

My 6th gen iPad is the only Apple product I own. It’s also the only device that refuses to connect to my WiFi. I was going to make it a wall panel, but it’s shit.

My wife bought the $100 digital wall calendar from KMart and it hooked up to my CalDav server. I was surprised that it showed zero dark patterns. No vendor lock-in. No ads. No spying.

Science is now illegal for all except military.