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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, people live in authoritarian countries and it feels very normal. I grew up in PRC (for the first decade of my life, at least), and I didn't feel like there was any danger. Sure, school is so weird with national anthems, they do those ceremonies where they put the "red scarf" for like 1st graders (see: Young Pioneers of China) but like, it just feels normal. I didn't even care about the "Patriotism" thing, I jusr hate school yard gatherings (same with the auditorium gathering in the US).

I mean, when I came to the US. I notice they do the pledge thing and like, it just felt normal.

I thought: Every countries does this? Right? I've been to two countries already, and Patriotism (aka nationlism, but I was taught its "Patriotism") is just a normal thing, right?

But then I go on Reddit and Europeans say they don't have obsessive nationalism.

Like... most people have lives in monarchies throught history, across the world. You can't talk shit about the monarch, or they chop your head off. It's been the norm for most of civilization. People through history just accepted the monarchy as the norm. People before the french revolution would never though that most monarchies would fall, they just accepted monarchism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I don't watch Star Trek, and only know stuff through pop culture / memes.

I'd IMMEDIATELY BAN TELEPORTERS.

Becuase they are MASS MURDER MACHINES

I'd find its inventor(s) and put them on trial for crimes against humanity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

WTF

So cops really are just highschool bullies that really want that bullying experience...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I hate gestures

"Oh is that a speck of dust on my screen, let me wipe it real quick"

[EMAIL DELETED]

"NOOOOOO 😭"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Oh no, I're received funding (welfare) from the governemnt, guess I'm a CIA asset now... 🤷‍♂️

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Okay I'm not sure if this is offtopic but, I feel like this kinda fit here:

About Cellular triangulation...

There is a way to sort of communicate "off grid"

AFIAK, portable Ham Radio / Two-Way radios don't have a "IMEI", while their signals can be tracked, its more difficult than cell triangulation, since there's no IMEI.

So... you just don't transmit from home, and find a different place to transmit from every time (and avoid getting recorded by CCTV while you are traveling / transmitting.

So here's an Encrypted Communication method that's "Off Grid":

Rattlegram is an app on iOS/Android that alllows converting a string of text to audio and play it over your phone’s speaker

Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS) is an Open Source app that can encrypt text.

  1. Use SSE to encrypt text (both the sender and receipient need to share a password over a secure channel beforehand)
  2. Copy-Paste the Ciphertext to Rattlegram (Rattlegram will convert the ciphertext into an audio)
  3. Play the audio over the radio
  4. On the other end, use Rattlegram to turn the audio back to the ciphertext
  5. Use SSE to decrypt.

Or replace SSE with OpenPGP, but the problem with PGP messages, is that they are much longer and you need to send multiple Rattlegram transmissions to send the entire ciphertext, basically its more time consuming. You want to finish your transmissions as soon as possible.

You probably want an airgapped device that have the aforementioned apps pre-installed.

Voila! Off-Grid Encrypted communications.

(Encryption is illegal over Ham Radio in many jurisdictions btw. I will neither confirm nor deny that I have tested sending an encrypted transmission 😏)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A "dumb phone" these days is really just an android phone with more user restrictions and less security, but all the same spyware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ham radio time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The purpose of your burner phone is primarily to document events.

If that's your only goal, just get an actual camera.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we just have Morgan Freeman as president?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thats not even funny...

It'd be better if it was Obama instead of Biden 😏

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Two Color Option:

 

Example: Traffic Speed. Everyone always exceed the speed limit on highways. Why do we still have the limit? Like, either enforce it, or remove it. This stuff doesn't make sense at all.

 

Context: Google "Philly Plane Crash"

Just happened like a hour ago

Condolences to the victims 😓

 

Obviously, with a state adversary, you'd be fucked.

But how about, if I want to prevent a douchbag sibling or roommate from replacing the bootloader of an encrypted laptop, with a malicious version they got from some dark web site as a "prank"? Assuming you can't just lock the device in a safe.

With phones, they all have verified boot.

But with Windows + Veracrypt, an attacker can just replace the Veracrypt Bootloader.

Is there an alternative? Or do I just have to use Bitlocker? (again, non-state adversaries)

 

I'll start.

Laws:

Aggravated Digital Piracy. Downloading probably thousands dollars worth of content. yaRrr 🏴‍☠️ (btw, check out: [email protected] it's blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

I flew a drone without FAA LAANC approval, and beyond "line of sight" rules. (I checked air radar online, there were zero flights near me at such low altitudes that I was flying my drone, so zero safety issues)

I sent a string of encrypted text over Ham Radio bands as a "proof of concept" for a off-grid comucation method. (Rattlegram is an app on Android and iOS, that can convert text to audio; Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) is an open source encryption app that can encrypt a string of plaintext into a string of ciphertext (this app is called "Paranoia Text Encryption" on iOS), you can copy-paste this ciphertext into Rattlegram and sent it over Ham Radio, then reverse the process on the other end. Voila, encrypted off-grid communications) Encryption over Ham Radio is illegal, but whatever lmfao, fuck the FCC.

A lot of jaywalking, because I was feeling suicidal and didn't care. Never got a fine lol.

School rules:

Probably the most common is the no-phone rule. (don't worry, my education was fine, didn't miss anything important)

My high-school (in the USA) made you wear a tie, I often don't until staff tells me to, then proptly take it off when they are out of sight. (It's so fucking unfortable) Idk why they even have dress codes when my school was so "ghetto" af.

Workplace:

That no-phone rule again 🙃

Oh, I used a pen and wrote marxist shit on the bathroom walls at my workplace (I'm not even a marxist, I just wanna fuck shit up). Never got caught. Statute of limitations probably expired by now, can't even sue me if they now found out who did it.

Websites: A lot of Terms of Service. A lot of community rules in forums.

What rules have you broken? 👀

 

After the Proton CEO twitter scandal, I'm thinking of getting a domain that I own. But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn't that just linking all your account together. Even if you create a separate email address for every account, they all still identify to your domain and the surveillance corporations can link your accounts together to your identity. So I'm not sure about having own domain name...

🤔

And its hard to even pick a name that sound good when you say it like Pro-ton-mail is easy to pronounce, I can't think of some good domain name like that to choose.

 

Especially for personal accounts.

I get why a corporation would require it for employees...

But I hate it when Apple, Samsung, etc. are forcing you to have 2fa, especially by requiring a phone number.

Side note: Bitwarden will be requiring email verification codes starting in February 2025, for those who haven't enabled 2fa yet (see my Post in YSK). Most people store their email credentials in their password vault... so a lot of people are gonna get locked out of their bitwarden vaults. I kinda hate it, especially on such sort notice (less than 10 days).

 

Why YSK: Because if you are like most people, you also store your email's password in your Bitwarden Vault and not bother remembering it, causing you to potentially get locked out (since you wouldn't be able to log in to your email to get the verification code, because your email's password is in the vault itself 👀)

(Imagine leaving your key in your house, lol)

Source: https://bitwarden.com/help/new-device-verification/

Excerpt:

To keep your account safe and secure, in February 2025, Bitwarden will require additional verification for users who do not use two-step login. After entering your Bitwarden master password, you will be prompted to enter a one-time verification code sent to your account email to complete the login process when logging in from a device you have not logged in to previously. For example, if you are logging in to a mobile app or a browser extension that you have used before, you will not receive this prompt.

Good thing I noticed, otherwise I might've had a bad time next month 😖

Edit: Updated title to clarify that people who have 2FA are not affected.

 

Many EU countries have a "VAT" and like feel like this is kinda targeting poor people. Like, for the rich, this is insignificant, for poorer people, a (example) 20% tax would be a huge burden. Why do they do this?

🤔

 

I only speak cantonese at home, for most of contact with society, it was English, when in the US, or during the few early years of my life in China, it was Mandarin. (But now it's just English, since its the US)

And my parents are... not very nice parents...

Emotionally abusive for my entire life, and, during the early years of my life, used "corporal punishment", but only stopped because I got older and can defend myself.

But still constantly being emotionally abusive.

And deny that my (diagnosed) depression exists, while accusing me of "faking" it. While simultaneously threatening to hospitalize me.

Also my (older) brother (who also speaks cantonese at home) is a major douchbag, very abusive to me, especially when I was younger.

grandparents are passive agressive

Like, I kinda just hate Cantonese. I mean, almost every interaction in Cantonese is with an abusive person. And with how closely related Mandarin is to Cantonese, I kinda hate Mandarin too. There's just so much conservative culture that's attached to Chinese languages, everytime I hear someone talk in Chinese, especially Cantonese, I kinda feel fear, I feel like my parents are nearby and are yelling at me.

I mean, with English interactions, there's like half good half bad interactions

With cantonese, its like almost 100% bad interactions

So like... 🤷‍♂️

 

Like I don't get it, he owns 9% of the shares, doesn't he still need like 42% of other shareholders to vote in in as CEO? So isn't he still subject to the will of the other shareholders? 🤔

(Disclaimer: I have no idea how this works, which is why I'm asking)

 

Like do cats know that humans are bigger and therefore they don't try, or do they actually like us?

And does a human yawning look like a tiger opening their mouth, or do they know that the human won't eat them?

🤔

(sorry if this question was weird 😅)

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