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sobchak

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  • Fascist paramilitary invaders start unconstitutionally raiding houses door-to-door in the USA. We no longer have rights in America. Welcome to the home of the oppressed. (Minneapolis, MN - 1/11/26)

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  • Conservatives are likely to turn you in if you do something the state deems illegal. Which is probably going to be a lot of things soon, but even now, things like abortions and using bathrooms in some parts of the country.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • Yeah, I'm guessing it's so if you "hide" the network, it will still connect to it. Anyone can scan these advertisements, then go to wigle.net and likely get a good idea of where you live/work.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • Modern phones rotate random MAC addresses. For WiFi, capturing SSID probes can be enough to track somebody though (some phones also have some mitigation for that too, like not probing for an SSID after it hasn't been seen for some amount of time). Even when turned off, many phones, including iPhones, turn into BLE beacons similar to AirTags, which can be used to track you.

  • AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them

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  • I once saw an old lecture where the guy working on Yahoo spam filters noticed that spammers would create accounts to mark their own spam messages as not spam (in an attempt to trick the spam filters; I guess a kind of a Sybil attack), and because the way the SPAM filtering models were created and used, it made the SPAM filtering more effective. It's possible that wider variety of "poisoned" data can actually help improve models.

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

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  • Same I've switched from VSCodium back to AstroNVIM recently.

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • I'm curious how the model of just selling your application that's GPL'd usually works out. I don't see it done often. The only one that comes to mind is OSMAnd. There's also other interesting models for funding public goods like threshold pledge systems, assurance contracts, ransom model, wall street performer protocol, etc.

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • I pray Tailwind dies. React too. And JavaScript/TypeScript while we're at it.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • Mozilla changed their privacy policy and terms of use about a year ago in ways that show they cannot be trusted. I think Librewolf offers more privacy/security features than Firefox can with plugins (disabling some canvas features that are used for fingerprinting for example). I think Firefox has some advertising/tracking crap enabled by default too (PPA API?). IDK, I just don't trust them anymore with their policy changes. Mullvad Browser is even more "hardened," but less convenient than Librewolf.

  • Two nodes with different antenna gains?

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  • I don't know much about radios, so I may be wrong, but I think I've heard that having a transmitter close to a receiver can "desensitize" the receiver. Since both are TX/RX, I think this could cause problems. With Lora being digital and intermittent, IDK though.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • China is now the world leader in science by most metrics (largest proportion of the top 1% most cited papers, most publications to prestigious journals, etc). It makes sense, with their high population and their government willing to fund research. I'm guessing their culture is much less anti-intellectual than the West too, especially the US.

  • Bard performs song of disruption

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  • Nvidia

  • The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees

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  • If everyone floods that market, they'll be minimum wage jobs. The media always starts promoting various industries when the rich want to weaken labor power in that sector.

  • Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together

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  • It's possible to probabilistically determine when an SSH connection is being used like a VPN, then block that traffic. If they go full Great Firewall.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • The ultra-wealthy are shooting for stuff like The Network State and corporation-governed city-states.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • I think the wealthy will get US/corporate-friendly far-right governments in place in many of these countries before countries are able to isolate the US without collapsing their own economy. Seems to be the way things are going at least (far-right politics gaining support nearly everywhere).

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • At the moment, it looks less like a regime change, and more like puppetting the same regime. It looks like the Maduro opposition in Venezuela doesn't have support of the generals, so we're just bribing/coercing the rest of the Maduro regime.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • I've known people that have done that. They were very poor, and never stayed very long at their jobs, so nothing ever happened. As a mass organized thing, it could be an effective means of civil disobedience (Thoreau famously refused to pay taxes).

  • U.S. will ‘soon’ annex Greenland, wife of top Trump aide implies

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  • An EU embargo of the US (including banning "services" like tech) would likely crash the US economy (probably the EU economy too). I think the EU will just allow the US to do whatever it wants though, with the wealthy just bribing all the important politicians and ramping up propaganda to promote far-right ideology.