Kids Aren’t Kids Anymore
This is disturbing. How many parents are pimping out their kids for content? And these megacorps marketing their products to children shines a light on their morality, or lack there of. Our society is cooked.
Category Tech
FBI Investigating 153 Million US and Canadian Driver’s Licenses Leaked on Russian Cybercrime Forum — Data is Suspected to Have Come From an ID-Authentication Service Provider
And this is why uploading an image of your ID to verify your identity is a bad idea. I’m reminded of the WEF hyping cyberattacks to increase, and this could be purposeful to persuade the world’s population to accept a…
Debian 11 “Bullseye” Is Now Officially Unsupported
(Headline blog post below) I’ve always been aware of the Debian LTS and the ELTS project run by Freexian, and when my Raspberry PI PBX on buster went off LTS I tried it since I haven’t replaced that Raspberry Pi…
California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Linux Exemption From Age-Verification Law — Software Distributed Under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache Licenses Are Exempt
(Headline article below) I feel there is a catch coming. All my operating systems are opensource including LineageOS, so I was never going to go along with this game anyway. I think they’ll move to block us from more internet…
Monero: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
I don’t necessarily agree with all his conclusions, but it’s very good analysis and food for thought. And see the link to the article for the citations I didn’t transfer over. I’m in the US, so I find Bitcoin to…
Bitcoin Just Fired The Miners (Hard Fork)
The Bitcoin hard fork went live a couple days early and mining blocks with the hash, originally stated for Sep. 1st. My hard fork node is still downloading the blockchain (less than 100k blocks to go) and Luke Dashjr hadn’t…
Blaze Burns Down Polish Drone Plant Supplying Ukraine
Russia has threatened the UK for providing weapons, so is the EU and UK going too far in helping Ukraine? Is this a sign that they’re no longer safe to do so? Are they going to provoke a wider conflict?…
Let’s Talk About the Coldcard Exploit…
This is a good video on why I was always fond of Trezor while all the Bitcoin influencers were going on about Coldcard devices. Consequently, I bought a Coldcard Q to play with, but having seen the profane Rodolfo Novak…
Artix Linux Drops XLibre Support Just Months After Making It Default
I run Xlibre and use the repositories for my Manjaro laptop and EndeavorOS desktop (mainline Arch), and other than one problem with my Nvidia driver on the desktop that made me fallback a version until they fixed it, Xlibre has…
Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG
Update: My public instance is getting blocked by a bunch of search engines, many using Captchas, and this has been reported and supposedly fixed for the next Docker rollout. Consequently, my backup SearXNG on a home network Docker Pi system…
Palantir’s AI Fuses Satellites, Cameras, and Radar Into One Real-Time Tracker: Sees Everything Everywhere
This isn’t scary at all, and pay attention to how the fed fusion centers could be combining all this data from systems that pay lip service to not sharing data… By Rex Edison From Romania to Finland, an AI…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
This shows where they’re heading with AI this dystopian surveillance. And based on AI prompts you could end up like the worker near the border flagged for his work trips, pulled over, sneakily interrogated on camera at the cop’s passenger…