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"Signal doesn't log metadata" -- does that really matter in practice? If the government wants to prove you sent a message at a specific time all they have to do is go after your mobile carrier or ISP and get their netflow logs associated with your IP address

They can even prove you have an account as well because when you activated the service you received an SMS... and they can prove this happened too

So even if you try to disavow any ownership of a message they find on someone's phone, they'll still nail you to the wall. They'll even be able to tell where you were when you sent it.

None of this actually protects you when it matters most. Don't for a second believe that a passive monitoring dragnet by the NSA is within your threat model. You're being gaslit by people who are still addicted to the state of technology and the world during the Snowden revelations

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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

Link: github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
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Every year, we have a fine old tradition of renting a hot tub over Christmas and New Year’s. Sometimes they leave it longer if they don’t have anybody booked immediately. We still have the tub and we just went in. We are having an epic snowstorm in Toronto right now. They are saying we might get 60 cm. They were snowbanks higher than the edge of the tub.

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A lesson I have to keep learning over and over again, most people aren't out to get you. I'm often fearful of interacting with people, especially those I don't know, always scared of saying the wrong thing or offending someone. 99% of the time it goes well, and I end up telling myself "hey, it wasn't so bad man, calm down." No idea where this came from but it's always been something I've struggled with.

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Wow I finally used Codex enough to where I have 20 percent usage left and it doesn't reset until Wednesday.
Thinking of either buying credits, trying some Gemini CLI or Claude, or looking at other tools. Not ready to spend $100/200 a month yet.
There are also some tasks that I could start doing with Codex 5.1 Mini to save credits, and some things I was admittedly lazy on that I could do without AI entirely.
Curious what others in the space are using. Not looking for the anti AI answers here :)

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For all of you who save the most randomm things that would likely never be needed again. Does anyone have any recordings of All in Play Crazy Eights gameplay? This was a bit before podcasts so I don't think there is anything there. The very first SeroTalk has Poker gameplay but that's all I found.
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Tech Singer

@jonathan859 @Bri @MariahL online, freesubtitles.ai command line, github.com/Softcatala/whisper-… for GUI, github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz I'm lazy so, unless it's a really long file or it's private, I use freesubtitles. Their free service is great for fast and reasonable transcripts. The only reason I don't use the other stuff more often is that I don't have a GPU.

Transcribe Audio & Video to Text Free | FreeSubtitles.Ai

FreeSubtitles.Ai: Transcribe Audio and Video to Text for Free, Effortlessly
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@MariahL @Jonathan @Bri🥰
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Jage

@Bri @munchkinbear @GamingWithEars @MariahL That would be fun. A lot of earlier eps were in multiple parts. Ideally, as for A T History, a searchable database of podcasts and shows with guests and products that are featured as tags. I want to do a simlar thing with the BBQast, though at least those are all still online and @Ranger1138 did amazing show notes for just about every episode since 2015.
@MariahL @Munchkinbear @Joe Steinkamp @James Dean @Bri🥰
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Munchkinbear

if that question was directed at me, what I'm pulling down from google drive is @sclower's original work, reorganized by I presume @gallagher123123, into each year's folder from 2000 through 2008, for ease of locating stuff, and it looks like some stuff was replaced with higher quality files, and multipart stuff merged into one file, as the file count is significantly smaller than the original stuff, but the size is larger, so again, I think quality was replaced with a lot of these. What I've been given by @Bri is what looks like the rest of 2008 then everything through 2011 of main menu's stuff. Now if I'm giving incorrect credit, those folks can happily correct me, because I believe in giving credit where credit is due. @GamingWithEars @MariahL
@MariahL @Cullen Gallagher @James Dean @Steve @Bri🥰
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"If the plane is too far north or too cold it has problems sensing its location, sometimes also caused by solar activity, so that's what's going on"

Good job on this 737-9MAX Boeing, you're a real pro. My fucking iPhone has better GPS than the plane I guess

Why is the GPS module even outside the plane where it can get cold in the first place

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It’s really hard to care about the security theatre we must endure at work when things like this are ok.
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/repo…

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Here's some silliness with this Macintalk speak windo thing people have been playing with lately.

I tried to have it sing the Casio VL tone song without using an external wave form by constructing a new voice based on "good news", but apparently, I ran into a length limit, or something, so it kind of broke.
Reposting because I did a stupid thing and deleted it by accident.

\@jaybird110127


@Jayson Smith
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Borris

@simon I did it, and I'm still trying to figure that out.
In the voice file, you can specify notes. Number of notes in a sequence, and then pitch and duration for each note. What I totally don't understand, though, is that the values for pitch entirely change when the timing does. I basically just brute forced it by slapping in a bunch of numbers until I got what I wanted. LOL
@Simon Jaeger

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#TechIsShitDispatch
I ordered two remanufactured toner cartridges for my #HP #printer. These are Staples-branded cartridges and the #Staples website claims they're compatible.
Today I tried to use them and the printer rejected them: bad chip.
It's bullshit that HP is still pulling this cartridge lock crap.
It's bullshit that Staples lied about the compatibility.
It's bullshit that because of these my printer is out of toner and the earliest I can get replacement cartridges is in three days.
😡😡😡😡
#hp #printer #techisshitdispatch #staples

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I’ve documented a clean, native way to integrate FreeBSD 15 into a FreeIPA realm. No heavy dependencies, no Python shims, just pure Kerberos (GSSAPI) and nslcd.

We get full SSH SSO, automated home directories, and centralized sudo rules using standard BSD tools. Pure, stateless, and sane.

blog.hofstede.it/integrating-f…

#FreeBSD #FreeIPA #SysAdmin #Unix #Kerberos #LDAP

Integrating FreeBSD 15 with FreeIPA: Native Kerberos and LDAP Authentication | Larvitz Blog

A clean approach to integrating FreeBSD 15 into a FreeIPA realm using native components - Kerberos for authentication, LDAP for identity, and no local user management.
blog.hofstede.it
#freebsd #unix #sysadmin #freeipa #kerberos #ldap

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“Winning the wrong game”

tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-th…

> If “AI” is actually more expensive that paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages.


Winning the wrong game

With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by on…
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I remember explaining this exact use case to Very Serious People at multiple non-profits who had received literal millions of dollars to research privacy, and these Very Serious People assured me that could never happen.

I quit these places with joy because these folks were myopic assholes who allowed their privilege to exacerbate harms.

One of these fuckers told me "but I like the ads - they help me see what sneakers I should buy."

wired.com/story/ice-asks-compa…

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Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun theonion.com/police-repeatedly…
Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun

CUPERTINO, CA—Explaining that they took immediate action against what they perceived to be a threat, local police officers repeatedly shot Apple CEO Tim Cook after mistaking an iPhone he was holding for a gun, sources confirmed Thursday.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… – despite of the ongoing Google shenanigans – today brought you 17 updated and 1 added apps:

* Sidestep: intercepts social media URLs and redirects them to privacy-friendly alternative frontends while removing tracking parameters 🛡️

RB Status: 809 apps (62.3%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository – and thanks for standing with us! :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Good thing almost no one actually USES it… @mason partychickens.net/@mason/11595…

Mason Loring Bliss (@mason@partychickens.net)

Today I learned about UCEPROTECTL3, and it's deeply exciting. It feels like a protection racket. If you pay this place that maintains it, they'll take your IP address off of it. The trick is that I covers entire ISPs.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Okay, I don't have links to hand, but I'm a licensed ham radio opperator, and this is the kind of theory we learn. The danger from a microwave comes if it is failing to keep the actual waves inside. Microwaves are designed with an enclosure that blocks most of the energy from them. However, you might notice that when you run your microwave, your wifi and cell signal degrades. This is because your wifi/cell and a microwave use similar frequencies. But your wifi just uses a millionth or billionth of the power. So when those waves start leaking out of your microwave, they can drown out the wifi completely. The danger comes from just how much energy is leaking. You can stick a wifi antenna directly in your mouth for hours while it transmits, and nothing bad will happen to you. But if it was putting out the same power of a microwave, you would be cooked. In general, the test I use is this: place your cell phone inside the microwave, and close the door. DO NOT! TURN ON THE MICROWAVE OBVIOUSLY! Now, with the door completely closed, try to call your cell phone from another phone. If it rings while inside the microwave, I'd worry a bit. If it doesn't, I wouldn't. This works because your cell tower is transmitting at low power, and is far away from you. So if your phone can talk to the tower from inside the microwave, it means it's probably leaking more energy than you would really like.
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