Unless I’m mistaken, this mostly depends on software/os you install.

A RPI with OpenWRT will be secured in exactly the same way as a router with OpenWRT and a laptop with OpenWRT. (At least I think so, I vaguely remember hearing about some Intel CPU vulnerabilities, but I don’t think there’s anything remote).

Power draw will be the main problem, along with more limited range because of the strength of the WiFi card.

I’m kind of interested how will it go, especially further development and their issue handling.

It doesn’t do anything I need, though.

I’m used to just sitting to pee, exactly for this reason, but there’s a rare case where I give up and pee standing, i.e when I’m already dressed and it’s way easier, where I used to risk it and pee standing.

I stopped doing that even in those rare cases when we’ve gotten the blood/horror bathroom mat, something like this, but not branded and from what I presume is the original source (Aliexpress).

It’s horrifying when you see the mess you’re making, even if you really try not to.

Some of this may come as news to a lot of the machine learning community

Does it? I only have pretty basic knowledge in the ML field, from like two courses during my Masters in gamedev around 8 years ago, and I though that it’s a basic fact of most of the ML algorithms, that simply throwing more data at it won’t get it “smarter”, as in from the basic understanding of how ML works, it’s pretty apparent that you can’t get anything like an AGI with the current algorithms.

You’re basically just approximating a function (which is my understanding of what ML does) of what’s the next word based on previous senteces, your dataset. It kind of makes sense it would converge into absolute mediocrity (not even mediocity, because a lot of data in the datasets is very probably wrong), and not be able to come up with new things.

But, we’ve never really learned about transformers, since that tech wasn’t yet part of our syllabus, so I might be wrong/overly simplyfing things.

First time I’m seeing this, and I have to say I admire their dedication to the joke.

Zombo.com is a single-serving site created in 1999…

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The site was initially a Flash animation, but as of 5 January 2021, it switched to HTML5 due to the discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player.

This is the time to bring out a mask and start vandalizing.

Might be difficult in the UK though, with so much camera’s around. I’ve always wondered how feasible would it be, assuming you get lucky and don’t get caught during the act, to make sure that you can’t be found by cameras alone.

A good mask, desposable clothes, hat to hide your hair, and make sure to change somewhere with multiple entrances into a larger area without cameras? In this hypothtical scenario, I guess the most difficult thing would be to have a place where to change without it being connectable to you, i.e not a tunnel where they can check people entering and leaving and look for who’s only leaving.

It would have to be a pretty large area that’s populated and traversed by a lot of people, has as much entrances and exits as possible but also has places where you can discreetly change. I’m guessing something like a park, or a forest. Maybe a train, assuming it doesn’t have cameras on board. If it’s long distance/lot of stops, enumerating people who get in and out would be extremely tedious, plus it does have a place to discretely change. Bonus points for having a burner phone with you the whole time, that you then leave on the train/throw out at a random stop.

A in-depth enough investigation could probably track you down, but the more entrances and exits/people traveling through, the higher chance an investigation into a minor vandalism would give up. But making it work for some more serious act, where a very in-depth investigation will take place, will probbly be almost impossible. But that’s not what I’m interrested in anyway.

I’m sure there are anarchist zines about this kind of thing, it looks like it might be usefull pretty soon.

I hope this will bacfire heavily and shuts down their tourist industry.

I’ve had a few people around me who were to US, or planned to go. All of them has lost all desire to do so. I can’t imagine why would anyone who doesn’t have to (i.e for work, and even then I’d really reconsider it) volunteraly go to US at this point, for a vacation of all things.

What the fuck. There were only few reasons why I wanted to maybe someday visit the US (Burning Man and Defcon), but fuck that. I’m glad I don’t have to travel there for work, and if I had to, I’d rather find a new job.

I hope employers in the EU will be reasonable and not send their people to this hell-hole, and that a lot of events will consider moving to Europe, especially things like Defcon. I can’t imagine how would any abroad attendee of Defcon be willing to go through this.

Each visitor would also be required to submit what CBP calls “High Value Data Elements”. According to the notice:

The high value data fields include:

a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;

b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;

c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;

d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);

e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;

f. Family member dates of birth;

g. Family member places of birth;

h. Family member residencies;

i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;

k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

If you aren’t already using it, https://vencord.dev/ is a good Discord client mod that lets you get rid of some of the annoying features.

Might be against ToS, but so far I don’t think people had any issues with it.

Another option (that I use when I don’t need voice) is having your own Matrix server with Discord bridge. With double puppeting it can bridge both servers and DMs, and post in your name (without needing a bot on the server).

As far as I know you can do double puppeting with Matrix discord bridges, or whatever it is called.

As in “the bridge posts using your account, and not a bot”. I have it set up on my own Matrix server, and I have servers and DMs bridged without issues.

Also, setting up a server with the ansible project is super easy, it’s one of those rare cases where the ansible is robust, easy to use and actually doesn’t break.

I have no experience with React, so I couldn’t tell. Thanks for the info, I’ll keep it in mind.

I think I’ve seen it mentioned that in case RSC isn’t used, it might be vulnerable but it’s not really confirmed, but you’re right that it probably doesn’t warrant shutting down the server.

I don’t really need it that much, though, so I’ll just wait for the update, take a scour through logs and use it as a learning opportunity for forensics, and skip the reinstall.

Well, Element seems to still be running at the unupdated version even after update, so I’m just shutting the server down.

I’m bummed that it took me 5 days to learn about it, does anyone have some tips how to get early warnings for techs you’re using? I’m guessing there’s a way with npm.

Also, anyone has some tips how to properly compromise-check your server? I’m guessing there are logs to check for compromise, and audit your startup scripts for persistence? Any tools that could help with that?

Fuck, Element for Matrix is apparently build on React, and I was updating like 4 days ago after few months.

Well, time to update again, I hope it’s fine. Never really learned how to properly compromise-check your server.

First time I’m seeing Uiua, and I like it. It’s kind of cute, even though I know I’ll probably never use it.

However, seeing one of their goals being “code that is as short as possible while remaining readable” is kind of ironic, given how it looks and reads. But I don’t mind, it’s still pretty adorable.

It looks like it’s hell to learn and write. It’s possible that once you learn all the glyphs (which IMO adds unneccessary complexity that goes against their goal of being readable), it might be easier to parse. I’m probably not the target audience, though.

Isn’t that the fork where their selling point was “non-woke Godot” that has been mostly just a laughing stock for the community? Or am I mistaking it for something else? Not implying that it’s still the case, it has been a long time since I saw it.

Last time I checked, (which was probably a year ago or so), they were mostly just pulling upstream changes without much development, aside from replacing some keywords. I’m curious, do you know what did they change or add? Honest question, haven’t followed any of their development.

Gotod will definitely be a better choice all-together, but I’d also recommend looking into some of the smaller fantasy consoles like TIC-80 (or PICO-8, but that one’s not free), if that’s something that’d interest you.

It’s fun to work with, and it’s as lightweight as it can get. It does lock you into a particular style, and you probably don’t want to do 3D with it (not that it’s impossible, just needlessly hard).

It does have some limitations in place, which might not be for everyone, but the point is to experiment with smaller projects and have fun, with a small set of features. It will definitely teach you a lot, but it might be a little bit harder to get into, compared to other full-featured modern editors like Godot. If that’s something you’re interested in, I highly recommend it, it’s my favorite engine for side projects and game-jams.

Here’s how it looks in action: )

Element

This is my most used app on my phone. It does comes with a little extensive setup, because you need to have your own Matrix server, but thanks to the amazing Matrix Ansible Project, which is one of those rare docker/ansible projects that actually work and are very robustly set-up, deploying a server took me like an hour max, incuding bridge setup and getting hosting (for around 8$ a month on Hetzner).

I replaced Messenger, Discord, WhatsApp and Telegram apps with this, by setting up bridges in Matrix. The setup was relatively simple, the ansible is well documented and I mostly had to just add lile two config lines into the ansible. So far I haven’t had much issues and I’ve been using it for the past few years.

There might be better clients than Element, haven’t really looked into it. It’s not frictionless and it took some getting used to, but not having a ton of spyware appson my phone is worth it.

NewPipe

I don’t really use YT that often on my phone, so I can’t vouch for how often it breaks, but I use FreeTube on Desktop and having a YT client that can subscribe creators without an account, can turn off all the recommended distractions, has an adblock, can play with screen off and the like is amazing.

Judging by my experience with Freetube, you do have to update it regularly since YT is actively fighting it, but so far every time I needed to watch a video on my phone, I could just update NewPipe and it worked.

Someone once posted here in a comment an app they are working on that is an K2K (keyboard to keyboard) encrypted keyboard app for android

I don’t remember how it worked and only skimmed the repo, since I didn’t think I’d need it, but given recent developments it might be good to have.

Does anyone remember what it was?

IIRC the idea was that you have a separate input box, and encryption keys saved in the keyboard app, and it just does I assume PGP before pasting the text into the app your inputing into. I’m curious how it did key exchange and how usable it was, but I lost the link and couldn’t find it.

People whose thread model requires high stakes and serious encryption are probably using PGP with hardware keychain, with Tails or something similar on a live USB.

Adding a high-profile law like this will probably just cause them to increase their op-sec and make it even harder to actually get any evidence where it really matters, while having a huge PR cost and abuse potential. But it’s very probably not about catching criminals anyway.

Also, it’s kinda funny that they moved from SS to AA :D