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The “tungsten micro-cube shrapnel” is evergreen for whatever reason, first time I heard it mentioned was probably >15 years ago. I’ve always assumed some stuff is reported ahead of actual testing for various reasons (gauging public reaction? Spying on how information disseminated?) and some is just getting iterated on, inherently has poor results, or just happens to be the latest prototypes on hand when they resume mass physical violence.
The first time I visited that site there was a “hipster hitler” webcomic at the top. No joke.
Yeah it is not the end of the world, not much is. Humans didn’t even have endoscopy until the past couple hundred years. We’ll just always hope that the human labor saved by computerization was worth offloading, bugs aside if all goes well it should be more standard and there won’t be anything missed/delayed as a result. Outcomes materially affecting individuals are most sympathetic but there can be lost innovations from having fewer people exposed to inner working of a practice and potentially doing something no computer or human has before. Maybe endoscopy was worth it, I’m not an expert.
Luckily the text is itself machine generated. The title was probably the prompt. That “It’s not about x but y” convention is a dead ringer for them usually.
His right arm (left in the photo) and shoulder especially running up into the neck smudge make this a very unconvincing photo.
Could be a still from a video, I’m suspicious about them calling it a “photo”, since it’s either edited or from a compressed video.
Truly anonymous networking looks like this:
If they start restricting VPN technologies, look into the tlsfragment/V2Ray/shadowsocks proxy software out there for the first hop.
Any VPN/Proxy is paid for with Monero via Tor. The network traffic is encrypted to one of the proxy servers with symmetric keys, installed by writing terabytes of data to them via SSH and then uploading a script which pulls the key from some random bytes throughout those terabytes. NSA isn’t logging every byte out of terabytes, just start/end & intermittent packets.
I’ve never found a link to it again but I use something known to me as ts (tombstone, I think?) and it is a virtual driver which I add on the self-hosted proxies/VPNs that effectively forces everything to the pagefile, which is encrypted on a ramdisk volume. They have to be unlocked via KVM though.
You can’t just instruct ISPs to block all VPN-like traffic, making a total ban impossible to enforce
I wholeheartedly believe they can and likely will before humanity’s brush with capitalism is over. They would just filter traffic from residential network endpoints more heavily than corporate/business users and start culling “illegitimate” business users. Then gradually close the loop on other methods of evading censorship. I do have a background contributing bug fixes to one of the big anti-censorship P2P networks out there.
Careful out there! Wifi network names (SSIDs) can be geolocated thanks to BeaconDB and other mass data collection. The more names from your device’s list of nearby networks someone else knows, the more accurately they can potentially be. Some firms just sell the Wifi network lists from consumer devices, some including the IP address the device used to report that list at the time too which is crazy.
The original one is pretty much nonfunctional for anything resembling “currency”, but there are improved versions of the “truly decentralized” tokens on distributed ledger. Monero is the only one with real utility nowadays, the others are just for speculation or useless.
State-issued/single-miner tokens are actually probably pretty useful. Can provide total transparency on the volume of currency, totally prevents counterfeiting, and can be integrated with other national systems (lending, welfare, taxation, reversals/anti-fraud, maybe even removing money from the political process if some state wanted to take it that far, the ultimate statistics collection vehicle too if invoices or summaries in standard formats were embedded in the notes on each transaction for central planners). The privacy protection afforded by Monero & similar projects could even be supported for a reasonable amount of total monetary value per month, like cash allows, for each individuals’ wallet, to prevent privacy abuses where it’s not warranted.
Very bizarre that the article didn’t touch on it.
The comment didn’t explain it entirely but I figured all these domains pointed to a hosted content management system somewhere. Then that domain either expired or it was CNAMEs the whole way down to some “cloud” providers’ default generated DNS (eg nvidia-hosted-cms.azurewebsites.net). Or they all used the same CMS which had an exploit developed for it.
Happened to EA’s Steam competitor before: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ea-fixes-origin-game-platform-to-prevent-account-takeovers/
I don’t know if anything Kennedy said can be used to defend our system, which ultimately killed him because the gangsters running it felt their bottom line being threatened. But yeah even conceding the premise to him, it’s not impressive that the West amassed such a fortune over centuries of colonizing the planet that they could terrorize people with arms escalation, manage to pay their skilled workers for a few decades, and bribe ones from the rest of the world to migrate.
Went right out and grabbed Classics again, unheard since 04 Jul 2014
For the HLS that Starship is allegedly supporting, it’s a pretty big miss since the timeline from the bidding process. I remember as of 2020 they were supposed to be doing an uncrewed lunar landing in Q1 2024. So far they’ve missed all the milestones and haven’t actually completed one yet (HLS test launch Q2 2022, Q4 2022 Propellant transfer test, Q2 2023 Long duration flight test, Q3 2023 Critical design review, Q2 2024 Design certification review, Q1 2025 HLS Launch)
They haven’t even tested it with cargo, right? I’d love to see them try with the 100T of cargo they’re hoping for (because then they only need like 15 Starships launches to fuel one in orbit to go to the moon…) Can’t recover the 2nd stage, just plummets back and explodes when it doesn’t explode on the way up.
I would run the tunnel from the local travel router (just another GL iNet one I guess) to your US wireguard server, and make sure nothing can route anywhere if that tunnel drops!
Disconnecting the antennas is undetectable remotely, but the card will still sometimes pick up signals I think. Maybe a non-conductive faraday cage/bag/material can be wrapped/taped around it to make the odds very low.
Removing the card entirely can theoretically trigger a TPM holding eg BitLocker keys to reset and make the drive unable to be decrypted without the recovery key. Save your recovery key within the OS if it’ll let you. If you can’t, from my research it doesn’t seem like TPMs generally reset over Wi-Fi cards going missing.
I’d remove the Wi-Fi card. Then use a travel router to bridge any Wi-Fi network you need to use and connect to the laptop via Ethernet.
WiFi databases are a pain in the ass. For me the path of least resistance was leaving the laptop in the US with a KVM (PiKVM) to control it I had to use a home automation finger robot to access the power button in case of a hard reset being required and left an emergency way back in over an LTE. I’d had 8 hours of video calls in (then) 5 years working there so wasn’t worried about any of that. My microphone for meetings was Droidcam, I was in a position to install that on the laptop, and route to it “locally” over the same wireguard setup from my phone as I used to access the PiKVM.
Sounds like your laptop is not very locked down, if you can attach any old USB device to it. If I were reattempting this today I’d probably go with the travel router as mentioned. Maybe if there’s an open USB Wi-Fi card we can hack it to always show a fake Wi-Fi list + real nearby networks added manually.
Nah never, and I vape ~3g of bud every day and eat at least 2.5g of the previous day’s.
Alcohol is so much worse. Not even with concentrates… Weed is not shrooms, LSD, or DMT…
My friend always got bad panic attacks when he used weed and had to lie down, later we learned he has a family history of schizophrenia.
Yeah here’s Wired covering it in 2009, alluding to 2006 reporting on dense inert metal explosives (DIME):