@MisuseCase That implies they will also attempt to target Mastodon and Diaspora, perhaps after some major street battle turns out to have been organized outside their sight. They already have made repeated failed attempts to intimidate apps like Signal into installing backdoors, but everytime some thug state like the UK talks of making that mandatory, Signal threatens to exit that market instead.
If TikTok gets sold under pressure to someone like Google or Meta, we then get PRISM and all the rest of that on it. China's MSS is not likely to share data with the FBI and NSA, same way the FBI is not going to give data to the CCP about dissidents in Hong Kong or Xinjiang. While the NSA can watch the MSS, they will miss 90% of what MSS knows, and what they do get they can neither talk about in court nor sell. I hope Tiktok stays Chinese. China's a bigger market: they can tell Biden and Trump to fuck off, then open the door to Tor and VPN connections or even modify their own Great Firewall to obfuscate connections from outside China to Tiktok. Same way Pornhub is handling US states that attempt to require age verification via ID upload: those states get blocked, and VPN and Tor connections welcomed.
This is why I treat every car made after 2010 or so as scrap iron until all wifi and cellular modules have been found and removed or disabled. In the case of at least Teslas, this can be done by pulling one fuse. Real worry is if they ever program cars to refuse to start or refuse to go over 5-10 mph if the telemetry transmitters are not working. US automakers wanted to disable cars with the "check engine" light showing for more than a certain number of start-stop cycles to force people to the dealers, but NHTSA forbade this on the grounds it could get people facing storms or criminal assaults killed.
If someone gave me a new car free of charge, I would disconnect the battery or batteries, have it TOWED home, research all the locations of telemetry devices and fuses, disable them all, reconnect the batteries and see if it starts. If it does not, I'd have to go to a speed/tuner shop and get an aftermarket computer for the engine if its gas, if it's electric I would probably have to build a custom controller myself, or just get a big generic/industrial 3 phase DC motor controller that can handle the same voltage.
If someone gave me a Bosch mid-motor E-bike with a locked and telemetry-supporting (the more upscale versions)controller, that would come out, and a $25 controller meant for a hub motor could probably run that mid-motor the same way.
This is the same as certain HP printers that have "HP plus" enabled by default: if you complain to HP about not wanting to have to make an account to print or about not being able to use non-HP ink, they themselves have to ship you a new printer to get rid of HP+. Once enabled (and some printers turn it on by default), that printer is good only for the parts bin. Probably not much good there either, all "housemarked" chips with no datasheets and few discrete parts. Eventually there will be an exploit to kill HP+, some buffer overflow or something but until there is, these printers are worthless paperweights.
I don't buy locked goods, if I get one by mistake it gets tossed if cheap and bulky, else put on the shelf until someone roots a similar device.
@PatrickWirth@MisuseCase Trying to prosecute someone for disabling vehicle datalogging would be a publicity nightmare, and it would threaten the carmakers as there is always the option of buying an old car and repairing it. Cars predate computers that can be moved with anything smaller than a tractor-trailer by at least 50 years. Good luck tracking a carburettor and a set of points-or a homemade electric conversion with a brushed motor and a bunch of golf cart batteries.
@MisuseCase@PatrickWirth This can be done with or without being legal. At worst insurance might refuse to pay, so don't pay for collision. They would probably be FORCED to pay liability if you yourself are judgement-proof.
Elon Musk knows where his support lies. That's why he's willing to delete and remove anything that challenges the elites and the fascists who support them.
Protesters unfurled a banner and briefly chanted at the US Army booth inside of the #sxsw CREATIVE Expo at the #Austin Convention Center, demanding justice for #Palestine.
@oconnell@palestine Oh yeah: I have on occasion spent six hours on frame by frame blurring of video of Palestine protests. On this issue we don't just have the cops to worry about. We also have employers, landlords, and similar wealthy Israel supporters who are NOT bound by the First Amendment as they are not part of the official government. A boss seeing someone at a protest can fire them, a landlord can find excuses for eviction. Universities are among the worst offenders of all.
In addition, Trump's "people" can harvest photos and video now with the intention of running facial recognition software against it after Jan 20 or even after November. A really pro-Israel boss or university administration can do this now.
@lrvick I canmot do much myself, I do not have a primary care provider or insurance. What I can say is that I have a de-googled phone and would refuse to initiate any transaction w anyone for any reason that required Google or Apple. Cash only in stores too and no personal info or no sale.
Honestly, stories like this make me damned glad I am.able to get away with relying almost exclusively on self-help medicine. Some things are impossible though: example is I obviously cannot burn out a melanoma if it is on my back.
Primary motive though is deep distrust rooted in being autistic and not trusting anything that talks about others to the psych industry.
@br00t4c These are worthwhile even if you are responding to genocide on both sides of the top of the ballot by voting for Mickey Mouse (Orlando bias showing here...)
@BlackAzizAnansi I would walk away from that negative bank account and tell the bank to sue Rite-Aid for their bad check if they want "their" money back
@BlackAzizAnansi This also says any paychecks or severence checks from any company in bankruptcy should be considered potential bad checks.
This is also a reason to avoid direct deposit, making it much more difficult to "reverse" a paper check. If possible, take any suspicious check to the bank it was written against and cash it there instead of depositing it. Simply refuse if you get a letter from the boss asking for the money back.
🇮🇱 The growth of Israeli settlements amounts to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into occupied territories, which is a war crime, UN Volker Turk said on Friday.
The Israeli government’s policies “appear aligned, to an unprecedented extent, with the goals of the Israeli settler movement to expand long-term control over the occupied territories, and to steadily integrate this territory into the State of Israel”.
@EndIsraeliApartheid This may have to be ended by force, using international troops to expel the settlers by arms.
At least due to all the damage Israeli bombs have already done, collateral damage from using air power against the settlements would in at least some places be limited to what was described in WWII as "making the rubble jump." The tough part would be dealing with dug-in IDF units backing the settlements. As the Russians learned in Stalingrad, rubble left by bombed out buildings is some of the best cover against artillery and near-miss bombs you can get.
By rights those settlers would get exactly the same conditions as everyone else in Gaza...
The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
"Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities,” the report says.
@dromografos For Israel to torture detainees while some of their own folks are in Hamas custody is incredibly stupid. That sort of shit can quickly escalate in a tit for tat spiral to no quarter asked and no quarter given on either side, as it did in the South Pacific in WWII. My father was there.
A registry of people of the Romani ethnicity has been revealed at the police of Norway, reports major newspaper Aftenposten.
The racist registry reportedly contains over 650 people.
The police claims it's fine because it is "anonymized", which is of course extremely probably absolute nonsense as it could almost certainly be de-anonymized very easily as has been very many times proven to be done with commercial registries (e.g. ad-profiles).
Romani people interviewed on the matter are devastated, terrified and in tears over being subjected to yet another targeted antiziganism violation.
The police of Sweden were also revealed use a racist registry of Romani people containing 4741 people in 2013 and for that huge act of systematic racism and privacy violations it faced the consequences of... a statement of "serious criticism" (literally, the title) and that was it.
That's also when it was found police had a registry of battered women, with police abusing the women in that registry.
Pic:
"This projection image was shown at a meeting on fighting crime in the Norwegian Roma circles at the Norwegian Police Academy in November"
Aftenposten
They've always called specifically targeted antiziganism easier to swallow terms like "fighting crime" and similar.
@b9AcE@RustyBertrand Thus cluster bombs originated in that war as a Russian development (if not invention.) An "improvement" on Germany's first use of bombing from the sky in WWI.