How the Mighty Have Fallen
(Video at Bottom) Andreas was a big promoter of the Bitcoin exit from fiat in the early days, but he’s gone off the rails. And this is after some Bitcoiners made him wealthy with donations, but I haven’t followed him…
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Fully Wayland, Ending Nearly 30 Years of X11 Sessions
I guess my days of using KDE are coming to an end, as I’m not using Wayland, the IBM/Red Hat AI layer for agentic AI spying. I’m kind of glad I hadn’t donated, as when I did try they didn’t…
The Unpowered SSDs in Your Drawer Are Slowly Losing Your Data
An interesting article on using SSDs for storage. You just might to make sure you power them up a time or two per year. By Tanveer Singh Your SSD data isn’t as permanent as you think Non-volatile with an asterisk…
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Unveils the Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI for Scientific Discovery
Given the name of Genesis, and how they want to link and empower industry and national security by linking computing assets in the government together, you’d have to think mark of the beast system inbound. And possibly a platform for…
Germany Is Debanking Dissidents, How Monero Solves This…
This is a very good presentation on debanking happening in Germany, and Sam Bent advocates for Monero, though Bitcoin with Lightning or Liquid will work for this as well. And Bitcoin is not being outlawed in the EU like Monero…
Pixnapping Exploit on Android – No Fix Yet
It’s a pretty interesting hack to read the screen, letting a malicious app read anything on the screen and even grab 2FA codes, or just any data from other apps. Though they’d have to know what they were going after…
Security Chip Companies Don’t Want You Seeing This…
A very important point is made at the beginning of this presentation having to do with opensource, and that’s others reviewing the code. And for this to truly work, you need to allow others to use the code as well,…
GrapheneOS Accuses Murena & Iodé of Sabotage, Pulls Servers From France Over Police ‘Threats’
(Headline article below) It would seem that Graphene OS is the gold standard for privacy for how they change and lock down the device, also using sandboxing. The other devices are based on Lineage OS per my memory and not…
ChatGPT is Turning Everyone Into Bots
The video presentation is interesting, but this chart below got my attention. Consequently, social media has been instrumental in getting people to spend less quality time with each other, but the whole COVID scamdemic took it to another level, perfectly…
Feds and Local Cops Team Up To Surveil EVERYONE
My favorite YouTube attorney covered this story, and there are some interesting extra details given.
Border Patrol Expands Surveillance Network: Secretive Program Monitors Millions of U.S. Drivers
This gives more details on a previous post where a driver was flagged and pulled over for a suspicious driving pattern, with his constitutional rights violated, now suing the sheriff department. Given the bodycam video I saw, I think he’ll…
Why Chevy Switched To A Flat Plane Crank In The Corvette
Personally, I thought the whole move to a hypercar was a bad move, as what made the Corvette an interesting sports car was it’s comparable affordability. Though when pickups and Jeeps can be over $100,000, I suppose the Stingray at…