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[–] [email protected] 6 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

They will pick whatever group they think will suddenly put as many idiots as possible under their control when they say "GROUP A IS BAD".

Most of them don't care they are trans, they only care that they can take advantage of the oppression of a minority group in order to consolidate control over people so that they can oppress more people.

When everyone alive and dead is either oppressed or under your control, you become god. This is the goal, but they don't care about the process to get there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I can't share it all here for reasons I can't detail.

I may do a second write up at some point for public distribution and if so, I will share it with you here.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I purchased a Tp-Link Archer C7 router at a thrift store for 5 dollars. Brought it home and flashed a specific revision of open-wrt to its firmware, and then ran an update file on top of that firmware revision to turn it into a pineapple router.

Had no idea if it would work when I was doing this.

Works great, the 5 bucks was totally worth it, and now I can use it to test hardening on my mobile devices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It may depend on when you purchased, but my win11 pro USB I purchased still has the ability to skip the MS account creation with OOBE /bypassnro.

I think they made the timing you had to run this and reboot trickier though because too soon into the setup or too late and it will not work.

You also have to straight up yank the Ethernet cable at some point.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I am trying to get people I know personally to stop posting and reading and instead begin to focus on the very basics of actual organization, in the form of simply being able to communicate effectively and securely.

I have collected and written up information for them with the consideration that they are non-technical, pertaining to secure and private communications primarily, but also many more potentially useful emergency-scenario information and data which I will not speak about here.

The package I have started giving to my friends contains information such as:

  • How to communicate securely using something like Simplex or I2P
  • How to correctly configure and use a VPN
  • How to flash a security distribution of Linux such as TailsOS to a flash drive and how to boot to it from a computer
  • How to securely encrypt data to a device using an encryption software with hidden volume features such as VeraCrypt
  • A litany of manuals for all kinds of useful information you can use in emergencies, which I will not detail here
  • Files containing the data required to build potentially useful items in emergencies given access to the correct hardware which I will not detail here

I firmly believe that the majority of Americans will not do anything until someone is actually showing up at their door, coming after them in the street, or destroying the regularities of their personal day to day life, so my intention is to distribute materials which they can turn to when the fear sets into them well enough that they are scared to talk about such things openly.

It is clear to me that most of my American friends at least, at this point, still only feel superficial fear and outrage. The other day I asked them "If you had to vandalize a public space with a piece of art, what would you draw or paint? Let's say it is the side of a bank".

One said "tits", one said "flowers", one said "a fox".

Even in a fantasy, they would not express fear or outrage in a public setting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's not detailed enough to really know what they meant, but for example and if I recall correctly, Android on a phone can get rootkitted in such a way that resetting the phone will not remove what was installed. This is because Android has a "System" partition and a "User" partition. When you "reset" a phone, it only wipes the user partition in most cases, so any malware installed to the system side would be untouched.

This is why you have to be real careful if you should purchase an Android phone second hand from a private seller.

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

I have had pretty good luck with airvpn, but the ultimate is mullvad as I understand it, though relatively speaking it is much more expensive than airvpn.

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

I have heard that phrase before, but I am unsure what it denotes specifically.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Is he sure because it seems like every law, government controlled service, benefit, and right has stopped functioning as a direct result of this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point I feel like Canada could only join if:

  1. Canada did a lot of work to meet the regulations as set forth by the EU.
  2. Canada had successfully rerouted the majority of it's trade to EU members.

If Canada were to try to join the EU at this time, something tells me the US government would call that an "attack" of some kind, and would hurt Canada with tariffs greater than what was just threatened, or something worse than tariffs.

If Canada started trading the majority of its oil and gas to the EU, this would create big fucking problems for the US, which would again, cause the US to create problems for Canada. Furthermore, this would probably kneecap Russian gas sales to the EU, so Russia would also suddenly be working it's ass off to prevent such a thing at all costs.

I suppose it is possible, but there is an enormous amount of work that would need to be implemented, so I don't expect it would happen any time soon.

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

I've been listening to this entire album on loop lately.

Del was very ahead of his time with the material, which is horrifying since the album describes a completely dystopic future.

An excerpt from "Turbulence" from the album:

Fuck Earth, I want to live on Mars so I'm closer to the stars

And farther away from dumb civilization with no mental stimulation

They changed the constitution for your red white and blue friends

Exterminate the nuisance, no one listens to what you said

The online is touching your head

With brainwashing, with propaganda about your fearless leader

Who got two hundred bodyguards so you can't touch him either

Bodies disappear, obviously of fear

Lobbyists can't get near shit

Everybody's spirits are under control

Computers run with the soul

Elitists defeat us, they live by the beaches

Bubble-dome over the hemisphere, so you can't enter here

We live in the dumps with mutant rodents

With blood red eyes, saliva drips for opponents

Scratch your ID chip of 'cause everybody own it

I envision turbulence and murder since it's an everyday occurrence

I envision turbulence and murder since it's an everyday occurrence

I envision turbulence and murder since it's an everyday occurrence

I envision turbulence and murder since it's an everyday occurrence

They only teach high-tech in private portables

That float above commoners, they'd soon as bomb it first

Advanced safety features, from contact with creatures

Who either slave their lives away in outdated factories

Or may be bounty hunters in a land of apathy

I'm Butch Cassidy, style wild, uncontained

I steal computer disk files, drink water from drains

Metal detectors check ya, with reflectors in every sector

While I drink electric nectar

No one believes in specters and spooks

They just lecture the youth about having respect and couth

Toward the US, and you guessed it

The rest get imprisoned or incisions in their medulla

No president, we have a ruler

"You are to be inside by 9 o'clock or we will shoot ya"

Missile launchers haunt ya in your nightmares

It ain't quite fair, little tykes ain't prepared

They've got your wife naked bare in the subway

For some thug play, neo-punks with cerebral pumps

For enhanced recognition of politicians and witches

Senior citizens are disposed against their wishes

Aliens landed and said our planet wasn't worth invadin'

'cause all the natural resources are fadin'

 

I thought I would link this in case anyone was not aware that such a community has already existed for some time, and now will likely be more useful than ever.

If anyone has suggestions for Canadian made goods, please head over and support one another.

[email protected]

I have also added a link to this community in the sidebar.

 

Hey everyone, I hope you are well.

I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C7 from a thrift store for 4 dollars and converted it into a pineapple router using a firmware build that someone made based on Open-WRT for testing and educational purposes, and it it has raised a few other thoughts and interests.

I have two questions.

  1. Is anyone aware of a software available through F-Droid or otherwise which can be used to turn a phone into a temporary access point serving FTP for file sharing purposes? I think it would be handy to be able to share files to several people in proximity and I would imagine turning a phone into a mobile FTP AP would be something that has been done. If anyone is aware of any such project, I would be highly interested.

  2. For running such a thing whether it be through a phone or a router, is anyone aware of a mobile power source which can fit in a backpack easily and power a 12 volt 1.5 amp router for ~10 hours?

I would love to be able to have the ability to basically have a backpack that acts as a mobile NAS that serves FTP/SFTP.

Thanks.

 

For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO's, and a lot of entertainment media.

 

Hi Everyone!

I noticed that the previous mod had deleted their account, so I reached out to /u/dessalines to let him know I would be glad to take over and look after the community as there were no other moderators here.

I intend to leave the rules as is, but will gladly enact changes on behalf of what most people here want if it is felt it is needed.

If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

Thank you!

 
 
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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Today I am moving not only myself, but my parents to Linux!

For me this is a long time coming. I discovered and started dabbling with Linux when I was 13 or so and somehow got an image of Backtrack 5 running on a Macbook Pro without virtualization (I'm still not entirely certain how I managed it) as I was always interested in IT/Security.

Eventually I went to school for IT and I've been working in tangents of the industry ever since, though few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

I have been running Debian on my personal laptop for a couple years now and I have had very few problems outside of breaking my sources.list the other day when I echo'd into it with > instead of >>.

I have a friend who recently fully switched over to Arch as well, and now more than ever I have found that all my friends, including those who are non-technical, are interested in learning about or moving to Linux, so I have decided now would be a good time to be an example for them.

I have made my parents aware of the ongoing and worsening problems with Windows and that their version of the OS will be out of support soon and today I'll be putting them on Mint. I don't expect any problems as I already had them using Open Office and other such applications since they didn't want to buy licensing for MS Office years ago. Furthermore their computer has no special hardware/software otherwise, it's basically just a Micro-ITX email machine that they sometimes use for printing.

I have enjoyed using Debian on my laptop so I intend to install Debian 12 to my desktop system, though I expect some complications as it has some hardware I have not had to configure on Linux before. Specifically It has an NVIDIA EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA and an NZXT Kraken Liquid CPU cooler.

I am aware that Debian has full documentation on how to go about installing and setting up the drivers for an RTX card, but if anyone has done this, I would certainly appreciate any anecdotal advice regarding the matter as well as anything I might want to know about making sure the cooler is functioning.

If anyone wants to offer advice but needs to know more about the hardware, I have the following specifically:

  • PSU - Cooler Master V750 Gold V2, 750 Watt, White
  • Motherboard - ATX ASUS PRIME z390-A
  • Case - White NZXT H510 Elite for ATX form factor, Tempered Glass, Integrated RGB lighting
  • CPU Cooling - NZXT Kraken X53 240mm AIO RGB CPU Liquid cooler, Rotating infinity mirror design, improved pump
  • GPU - EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA
  • RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32 GB (2x16GB) DDR4, White
  • Storage - Two 2 TB Seagate Firecuda M.2 NVME's
  • Peripherals include a focusrite Scarlett audio interface, Wired Logitech mouse and keyboard, Logitech C920 HD Pro Camera

Thanks for any advice, and I just wanted to offer a thanks to this community at large as I have read and learned some very neat things since I joined Lemmy.

EDIT:

I have successfully installed Mint for the parents! It went off mostly without a hitch. I found that Brother provides Linux drivers/utility scripts for their printers on a per-model basis so I was glad to see they really were at my side haha. Unfortunately, while the printer is detected and prints, even after installing the scanner driver for the model, I can't seem to get the device to be detected as a scanner in either the simple scan utility or in xsane, so I will be troubleshooting that in the coming days. Otherwise I am very pleased with it.

EDIT 2:

I return to you all from my fresh Debian system!

The system, applications, and most configs have all been set now, it is mainly my files remaining for transfer.

So far this has been the smoothest installation of a Linux OS I have ever done. After adding the repo's the Nvidia drivers installed like a dream. As I have 3 displays there was a little bit of fun in setting the proper display configuration for pre-login positioning, but those fixes were really quite straightforward.

It is about 5 AM so I am going to bed and continue onward into a brighter future tomorrow, but I wanted to thank you all again and provide the somewhat obligatory neofetch screenshot before I left.

https://files.catbox.moe/v8j8we.png

EDIT 3:

A final edit to this, but the parents like Mint so much that they also had me install it to their laptop haha.

So glad to see that the state of Linux as a technology is now such that people in their very late 60's who are almost entirely non-technical can not only use a Linux system as a daily driver on more than one computer, but enjoy using it :)

 

Seems like a terrible idea to me.

You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.

 
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