The Doctor

They said straight up, “I googled you and couldn’t find a Twitter or Facebook account. What are you hiding?” I had to teach them who Armand Jean du Plessis was.

Opting out of social media these days is considered inherently suspicious. It definitely came up the last time I had to undergo a background check for work.

I think I still have a copy of that book in a box somewhere. I know I have a scanned copy in my archive. Lots of fun.

Low hundreds of billions?

They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.

Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.

JFC

This is a thing that folks have done in the past:

• http://kacangbawang.com/encrypting-stored-email-with-postfix/
• https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email and https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email_Part_2
• https://jnphilipp.org/posts/auto-encrypt-all-incoming-email-with-postfix/
• https://www.mydreams.cz/en/hosting-wiki/9663-configuring-automatic-email-encryption-in-postfix-on-centos-7-using-gpg.html

The Great Game continues, same as it always has.

It’s pretty nice. The REST API for running searches makes running SearxNG worth it, if nothing else.

The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.

This is endgame. The folks on top decided that there’s no point in being surreptitious anymore and they’re acting openly, because who can do anything about it?

“About to?”

We’ve been watching journalism die in realtime over the last decade. Jeff Bezos discarding all pretense the other day was just the latest in a long line of failures.

I keep waiting for them to start sending legbreakers to seize those record. They’ve had $10kus bounties in place on people who’ve had abortions since 2021, and now trans folks, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to push it a little bit farther.

The downside of that would be that the techbros who think Snow Crash is a how-to manual will never stop jizzing themselves.

“None” is the correct answer.

I’ve tested wifi calling on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. How well it works (call quality, whether or not the call gets dropped, how often it gets dropped) has always been a crapshoot. Using a real VoIP client to connect to my Asterisk box? Significantly more stable and usable.

No. There are easier and more reliable ways to backdoor stuff that don’t run the risk of somebody’s fuzzer stumbling across it. Which, I hasten to add, can be installed in such a way that disabling it bricks the device (which means that nobody will bother).

I usually don’t take the rewards - I like to pay it forward for the few times I really needed them.

Not one that editors will let through, no. Remember, most news articles are written for a roughly sixth grade reading level.