It’s political censorship dressed up as protecting children, as usual. The Trump fascists have been deleting all kinds of information from government websites, and internet archives allow people to see what has been censored, including facts about climate change, Black history and economic trends.

Web archives preserve information the US Government has deleted, like reports on the economy, climate change, and Black history. In general they work against censorship of the internet. This is just another case of using “protecting the children” as a cudgel to kill politically inconvenient sources of information.

Nexus criticized the ADL in an open letter earlier this week after the ADL announced an initiative to “monitor” the incoming Mamdani administration for antisemitic bias.

I assume that by “antisemitic bias” they mean being insufficiently fawning towards Israel?

They will ban VPNs for everyone except corporations who can pay a bribe fee for an encryption license. It will only be the little people who will not be allowed to encrypt their communications. And you won’t be able to ignore the law and do it anyway on your phone, because your only options are Google and Apple, and both reserve the right to decide which developers get to distribute their software. (Google will be introducing this restriction next year.) The availability of open operating systems for computers is a situation lawmakers will no doubt want to rectify at some point.

I run DNS blocklists on my network and see no ads on this page. I’d recommend it. For a while I used Pi-hole and now I use Unbound blocklists in OPNsense.

So they took 43 days off, worked one day, took another week off, then plan to take a couple more weeks off? Nice life for some.

Yet. Some exec at Microsoft is thinking “the problem is that PCs aren’t locked down like phones and there’s nothing stopping you from running an alt OS on the desktop yet.” If they can’t force everyone to use their AI crap they’ll lobby the US Government and give Donald Trump some fake award, and before you know it desktop Linux will be a crime just like fixing your own tractor is a crime.

You have to admit it’s a bit inspired to turn right around and accuse the Epstein files of being a distraction from the thing that was a distraction from the Epstein files.

Why would we assume its not consensual?

Mamdani. I wouldn’t be picky but Cuomo made it a deliberate act of disrespect to get his name wrong.

Since they give no indication of how they’re doing it or what information they’re gathering, no one can really explain. It may be some kind of traffic analysis where an AI provides heuristic recognition of probable VPN traffic.

I see they’re promoting something called the Helium network. What’s the relationship between that and Meshtastic? Are they completely different things?

This is common with these sociopaths. Our middle-aged techbro overlords too are hugely ignorant, yet convinced that the only knowledge worth having is what they already know, and the only jobs worth doing are the ones they can do.

I’d use a Kill-a-Watt or similar to check how much power it uses, before deciding whether it’s worth installing anything on it. Also check how much noise it makes, unless you have a separate room for servers. Enterprise servers aren’t always a good fit for home use.

Binary on fingers really comes into its own when you need to order 1023 beers over heavy background noise. Except when there’s a mix-up and you end up with -1 beer.

This is the person who leaked the video of IDF soldiers beating and gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. The Israeli government has been outraged, not by the abusers of the prisoner, but by the whistleblower leaking the video. So they have gone after her with full force while letting the rapey soldiers go free.

The thing about this one is no one seems sure of the source (it appears to be from multiple sources, including infostealer malware and phishing attacks), so you don’t know which passwords to change. To be safe you’d have to do all of them.

Some password managers (e.g. Bitwarden) offer an automatic check for whether your actual passwords have been seen in these hack databases, which is a bit more practical than changing hundreds of passwords just in case.

And of course don’t reuse passwords. If you have access to an email masking service you can not only use a different password for every site, but also a different email address. Then hackers can’t even easily connect that it’s your account on different sites.

A password manager is still a good idea, but you have to not use a hacked one. So only download from official sites and repositories. Run everything you download through VirusTotal and your machine’s antivirus if you have one. If it’s a Windows installer check it is properly signed (Windows should warn you if not). Otherwise (or in addition) check installer signatures with GPG. If there’s no signature, check the SHA256 OR SHA512 hash against the one published on the official site. Never follow a link in an email, but always go directly to the official website instead. Be especially careful with these precautions when downloading something critical like a password manager.

Doing these things will at least reduce your risk of installing compromised software.

Presumably once YouTube finishes rolling out age verification, all these age restricted videos will require logging in to view them and anonymous front end apps will be locked out.

The best possible scenario is that they’re just using it to entice people to pay for a premium subscription and will leave it that way. But the chances are that once they’ve pulled enough people in with the offer of free software, they’ll alter the deal.