pudcollar @ pudcollar @lemmy.ml

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The presidential appointees who struck down Roe V Wade now get an opportunity to let a powerful man off the hook. I don't see Trump facing the music in his lifetime.

I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell

"Latinum lasts longer than lust."

I wonder if it has much to do with the USAF being a relatively new service with a proportional cultural impact, coming into being as a service in 1947. Up until then, combat aviation was subordinate to the Army and Navy. This would point to a preponderance of Army/Navy WWII vets among the show's consultants and audience.

Being privacy-conscious can protect your information from being passively collected by mainly corporate entities that track your buying habits, life events, and health.

If you think you're being actively targeted for surveillance, then you need security that is proportional to the resources that the people who are spying on you have. In the case of say, the NSA, they could have a backdoor in a various location in your hardware or software stack. If you have privacy tools like tor, they're liable to target you and collect your data just for that. Most android/IOS phones are thoroughly bugged and tracked, to the point where if the battery is still attached and the phone is switched off you can still be tracked. If the NSA does collect your data, there's a 99% chance no human will look at your data unless they have a reason to search for you.

If you are being spied on, odds are you won't catch it. You might be able to isolate abnormal outbound network traffic if you're really good about tracking that kind of thing on your network. Your phone could connect to a fake Stingray cell station and you wouldn't know.

If you're being stalked by a person with less resources than the NSA, it becomes a lot easier and common-sense privacy protections can help you keep a low enough profile.

It's also worth noting that if private companies get a hold of your data, they'll sell it to any government or private organization who'll pay them. There's scant regulation about what they can't collect and what they can't do with it.

I think the simplest rule of thumb is if you have something sensitive, don't say it near an android or ios phone and don't put it on a computer that's plugged into the internet. Criminals have their own OPSEC, as do people in the intelligence industry, and usually the answer is an "air gap".

I'm typing on a mac keyboard on Debian. USB one with the numpad. It's fantastic if you're into that.

The last time I tried to pair the magic mouse 2 though, no joy. I'd be wary of the bluetooth keyboard.

"Earner" doesn't sound like the right word for people who make their money by owning things instead of working.

I've been riding one pretty hard for my job for half a decade. It's pretty nice actually, I like the 2-axis touch scrolling. I wish it had a middle click, it's way too expensive, and last time I tried to get it working with Linux it was a fucking nightmare.

Soulseek is good for downloading albums and discographies, soundiiz, qobuz-dl and deemix-gui are good for that and also playlists of whatever. It's also a good way to get FLACs. I download genre mixes, pitchfork's top albums, it's a good way to get 80gb of music in a night. It's taken me 3 months to get that much off Soulseek. Sometimes you want to try out artists without downloading their whole discography.

Nicotine+ is OK, I upload about a tb a month on there and occasionally I find a missing track I can't find on Deezer, Qobuz or Bandcamp. Turns out other people aren't just imperfect versions of you.

2023 was absolutely the year I dove back into music piracy. I started with downloading youtube playlists but the real game changer was soundiiz, which allowed me to import text, m3u, csv, spotify, xspf playlists into qobuz and deezer so i can download whole playlists of FLAC with qobuz-dl and deemix-gui. My collection went from 20,000 to 100,000, downloading playlists from qobuz and deezer, xspf playlists from my remaining lossy music. I used streamripper on a few web radio stations just to get a list of songs to pull down this way. I only bought music for years and years, but that got me a narrow type of collection.

Footage without sound from an organization nobody knows.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Ftheres-a-huge-covid-surge-right-now-you-probably-didnt-notice%2F

Paywall bypassed

y'all not ya'll

Free my boy John Turscak!

There was a programmer at my job, he put out the vibe of being a gung-ho guy and got promoted to team lead. The moment he had a scrap of power he started publicly berating the other devs, randomly, over nothing, leaving me wondering who he'd snap on on a given day. One day I got the message to shut off his access to the build server, which meant he was fired. It took way too long but it was delicious when it happened and my work satisfaction skyrocketed. An asshole can change a whole job.

Communists describing liberals.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

To bring this back around to the NSA, they're prevented by law to do data collection on American citizens who fall outside the exceptions like this FISA bill. The one loophole is that private companies have much more leeway in whose private information they can collect, and NSA can use American tax dollars to buy your personal information that's illegal for them to collect themselves. Now NSA is a military intelligence organization and they're not supposed to toss their intercepts over to US law enforcement like the FBI, but they do.