chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]

Only time I ever got buy-in with non-techies was in uni when some friends and I brought the fast as fuck uni fiber speeds to the town bordering campus. On campus was 1Gbps, but the town was a mix of 4 different copper line providers with max speeds of 25Mbps/5Mbps. This was early days for some of that stuff, circa 2011.

I tried in 2019, somebody who had two ~10yo pages with two separate accounts as admins and the invites to the page staff or whatever just never arrived. Eventually support sent us a link to a page with a much older stylesheet, no headers or titles, where the name of the FB page we were trying to transfer was a single checkbox item with an “OK” button… Felt like their equivalent of those menus in Windows that still uses '95 icons and styles. There was some long random string in it like a password reset link and it returned a 500 error when revisited.

Something weird about that figure. Branches within repos maybe, otherwise those are mostly junk or their supply chain attack security requirements had them cloning and building themselves the repos of every open source library they’ve ever used for vulnerability scans.

I don’t trust these attempts under capitalism one bit, but a well-functioning state probably has an interest in not seeing its lonely people driven crazier than necessary by algorithms designed to waste users’ time and make money. I used one like 10 years ago or more but all I hear is how horrible they are from everybody I know. Either ban it or make it functional, I say.

If you control the device and can root it, you can definitely fake the connected wifi SSID, the list of available ones, whether you are in fact using Wi-Fi etc with Xposed but it’ll probably take research into the current landscape that I’m no longer familiar with. There is no perfect software method on unrooted Android for fake GPS, depending on how motivated the app dev was at detecting it.

I’ve got one of those hardware GPS spoofers that attaches to the handset, basically jams GPS and impersonates the satellites. Works well. I don’t know of a comparable piece of hardware that would both jam wifi for a handset and present a fake SSID unfortunately.

If you can leave the handset in one place you could also remote into it, software like DroidVNC-NG can let you access it from another handset.

A couple guys at a place I work trained a chat bot on our trove of documents, going thru QA now. I haven’t gotten a 100% accurate response from it about anything I knew the answer to already. Often while I’m reading the source document.

I use mpv off of F-Droid

If you already know the channels, there are some Telegram -> RSS conversion services on the web that I’ve used successfully for just observing.

When I had to use it at one point to get in touch with someone, I used a spare prepaid MVNO SIM card that had been bought with cash (hat + mask optional). Signed up a no-data plan so I had a phone number for 5$/mo to register and then cancelled the plan. Personally I switched to a client on F-Droid called forkgram if I recall which showed up as com.telegram.messenger.something on its app tile, but had all the “premium” features enabled somehow.

Btw, if you have an old phone lying around, odds are you hack it to can change its IMEI nowadays. And most MNVOs don’t use device IMEI allow-lists even though they’re reselling networks like AT&T which try that crap.

Forget electric cars show me the

Jitsi is just using WebRTC I believe, so basically P2P over the web. Call participants will see each others’ IP addresses unless any take additional precautions.

Like the competitiveness of open models versus Op*nAI and the like. I don’t see a reason to pay myself. The few times I’ve asked something to spit out the husk of a program in a language I’ll never learn or use again, the commercial options were just as competent as the open one that ran locally.

Image generators are pretty much on par whether proprietary or open from what I can tell. Haven’t really messed with voice or anything else myself.

The deep political establishment is infinitely more interested in funneling people to Alex Jones-types or Tucker Carlson than anyone with an actual critique. Right now they’re kind of slowly trotting out the JFK stuff, crucially couched within the whole “GLOBALISTS” thing that if necessary whichever faction of powerful actors manages to seize control in the future can distract the public for a bit longer by excising only the “bad capitalists”.

What I do is clear watch history if I accidentally watch something on the website itself, but on the account where I actually want good recs I haven’t updated my watch history for 7 years now. It just cuts off at a point and anything new I watch gets marked “not interested” (which does seem to work for me, I think continuing to watch and have updated watch history contributes to them reappearing, but for anyone else you can also report them for violence and such to make sure they stay hidden).

There’s addons for browsers to send youtube links directly to mpv, you can use a proxy.

Yeah, don’t use NATO technology. Those who think they’re in the good graces of the empire should not consider themselves safe either, even those who work on its behalf might step on the wrong toes.

1 - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

Briar is fully decentralized chat, not federated, only dependent on Tor. Session is probably pretty safe and worth checking out, though it’s piggybacking on a cryptocurrency network called LOKI (“low-key”) for its routing. More feature-complete, user-friendly alternatives like SimpleX unfortunately aren’t trustworthy, having devs tied to Israel in particular.

That probably worked for some, I pushshift’s API returned just the latest revision and a timestamp it was edited at. For forums I archive, I store every event. If it’s a small enough edit (using difflib I think) then I store the deltas. If it overwrote most of the comment I store the latest non-overwritten one and mark it as having been overwritten with the last event time on the comment.

Text is tiny, and with federation it’s trivial to scrape but even centralized forums barely impede data archival.

I refuse to use it, hasn’t been a problem so far

Fuck whoever it is, but I cannot say that I know a single person involved in the formalization of any language and I’m not starting now.

I’ve only used C/C++ and Python for the last ~10years. Fuck Java, the last thing I worked on was a rewrite of Java mixnetworking software, totally interoperable with Java version peers. Went from 1.5GiB memory consumption out of the box to 15MiB.

Still controversies popping up over that stupid program? I think they also managed to piss off Apple with another one where they were enrolling iOS devices in an Enterprise MDM platform so they could push policies/apps to those users. Though now iOS has (EU only?) side-loading or at least other app stores I think.

18. Send out a twitter poll asking people what to do