Yes they can and do access your photos and videos. The claim they need this profoundly invasive business practice to scan your media for CSAM to “protect the children.”

That’s going to be easily spun by media as terrorist cells.

And the “terrorist” label might also be pretext for the government to de-bank the people they accuse.

One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.

Respectfully, that’s an outcome, not a path to get there.

The MAGA shitheads won’t just give up and let themselves be prosecuted. They won’t stop appointing judges, they won’t stop cheating on elections, they won’t stop manipulating media, and they won’t stop harassing, intimidating, and killing their opposition until someone makes them.

I’ve had pangolin running for a while, doing tunneling to some self hosted resources, and I’m confused by this announcement and update. It seems like they’re suggesting to use an Android/iOS client to connect to Pangolin protected resources, which seems like a shitload more work and overhead than just using wireguard to do the same thing. Am i missing something here?

They didn’t even vote to stop funding for ICE. You’re putting your hope in the wrong group of people.

In the time since George Floyd’s murder, much has changed. The courts are much more in Trumps pocket, and to the extent that they can male this a federal case, he’ll just pardon the murderers again.

In the mean time, the Dems will focus on stepping on their own necks to prevent the GOP from doing it.

Agreed. Wrong word choice. And its an important, major correction. Not a small one. :-)

I don’t know about intentionally designing that. It would violate contracts and have to be a hidden, but broadly conspiratorial activity. I have some professional experience in consumer electronics, and I remember when TPMs started becoming a required component for CE. It took several years to become commonplace; a slow transition from security by obscurity to sensible practices when devices started to be internet connected.

Nevertheless, from my experience, I’d say the TPMs aren’t there for user security, they are there to keep Hollywood movies safe.

+100. People forget, or chose not to pay attention to the fact that Google sensor vault data was key evidence in convicting the January 6 insurrectionists (who were exonerated to become ICE). Surveillance capitalism doesn’t care which side you are on.

Just to clarify… my question wasn’t “do sleepers exist” it was should we continue to call them sleepers when they have broad access to the administrative branch of the US government.

I read 100 priests arrested and thought “holy shit, are we seeing justice finally arrive?” and then realized no, we’re not.

A lot of her campaign was brain dead, but the Liz Cheney friendship tour was a pretty clear tip of the hand.

And then, unless you jumped through hoops to disable it, your PC sends the key to Microsoft so they can just keep it linked to your account.

You’d probably also have to jump through the hoops to disable windows recall too.

Are they really sleepers any more?

I’ve got a few domains. I use Porkbun as registrar. They’re awesome, and the domains were pretty cheap. Under $10 a year each.

Gonna need you to open the YouTube app on the iPad you left at your mom’s house a few weeks ago and tap “Yes, its me.”

We track it’s location, so we know it’s at your mom’s place a few states away, and yeah, we could send the notification to the phone that’s sitting right next to you (we track its location too) but that would be a little too easy on you. And lets face it, if we wanted this to be easy, we’d just let you use the Google Authenticator 2FA we had you set up a few years ago and skip all this nonsense. But that’s not how we roll.

Hugs n kisses, Google

Not everybody wants to buy a house. They serve a necessary market function.

Fully agree that the DE doesn’t matter much. I’ve used KDE and XFCE the most over the years, and cinnamon, gnome, and even enlightenment a bit over the years. I was never a big fan of gnome, however I recently got a 2in1 laptop, and after a few days of tinkering… I think gnome is a bit better for that kind of interaction than than the others.

There are things to like and dislike with all of them I’d say.

I don’t… think I’m a bot?

Your comment reminded me of the Black Mirror episode - Hang the DJ. (if you haven’t seen it, it’s brilliant). Also, I don’t think I’m a bot pushing a Netflix agenda, but who can tell these days.