I want one. Not to wear, but to endlessly clone.

I would speculate that most of the design is focused around ensuring raw data integrity, some levels of redundancy all while attempting to prevent physical tampering.

Flooding the network with bogus traffic would probably be the route I would take first. I wouldn’t want to cause full saturation of the network causing a DoS, but rather, flood the network with tons of overlapping IDs and lots of random location information. (I would make plans for it to be an eventual DoS anyway. If you want to hide your tampering, you need to tamper at a large scale and interfere with as many devices as you possibly can. If there is some kind of police response process, saturating that would be super important as well.)

Sure. There are probably many people that actually should be monitored for violent crimes and I have no problems with that. However, the level of security theater with these things is probably maxed out as well. I am sure that the people issuing these things have no clue how they actually work and it’s in their benefit to overstate any capabilities to any lucky “customer”. Many of those people couldn’t figure out how they work either and believe anything they were told about it.

I am sure there is going to be several layers of encryption, but of capitalism is still in full force, there are probably just as many broken implementations.

Of course I am just vomiting out lots of speculation, but if there is a weak spot, it probably isn’t with the physical design of the thing, but rather in the way it manages its communication protocols and how the devices are managed at scale.

Really though. If someone needs an ankle monitor for something serious, cutting the thing off and running is all it takes. Just leave all other transmitters at home and you will have a decent chance of hiding… (This includes your wallet that is crammed full of RFID tags. Don’t carry those with you, please.)

Life, uh, finds a way.

Shocked expressions, big red arrows pointing to nothing, titles based on shock, surprise or open-ended questions are videos I tend to avoid. I don’t particularly care to watch a video where the first emotion had is sympathy for desperation. (It makes you almost question the emotional state of most of the users that “the algorithm” tuned itself for, TBH. I say that only as an observation of scale when looking at the sheer numbers of viewers that YouTube has.)

Sticking with the subtle stuff is just fine. A picture of the host smiling with an informative title and thumbnail is OK, and not very gag evoking.

Blaming “the algorithm” for having to do that shit is likely a very real thing. However, I will religiously watch channels that produce good content first.

Either way, I have conflicting views: A person has to earn a living, but when emotional exploitation is used in this way, I don’t know what to think. Is it really harmless? Not sure about that yet.

Not true. If they piss off richer, more prominent pedophiles they may accidentally fall out of windows or simply hang themselves in jail.

Fingers?

I did. All the important things have time to gracefully shutdown now. (Except my for my rack of 4 DL360’s, which need something a little more robust than a Walmart UPS. They aren’t critical and only exist to handle weird one-off projects anyway.)

This happens, too. A burst of local brownouts killed an OPNsense firewall of mine once. (The hardware was fine. The data got wrecked.) The firewall would boot, or almost finish booting, and then another brownout would hit. After the third or fourth cycle, the poor thing was toast.

I should thank the power company for free resilience testing.

There absolutely is a darker side to Lemmy, but for the most part, many of those “legacy” instances have already been pruned from the federation that we are in now. (I suspect there are smaller, highly niche, “Lemmy” bubbles that even I wouldn’t want to go looking for that have never federated with the larger group. There are also various branches you can explore via instances that keep their doors mostly open.)

On the surface, and depending on what you consider toxic, the misinformation campaigns that are run on Lemmy seem fairly normal, but can get fairly dark if you understand the sources and start to do broader geolocation estimation of some of the participants.

There are still the occasional DDoS’s and the occasional CSAM posters, both of those are only a degree or two away from the really nasty shit.

The biggest issue now, and probably will always be, is how easy it is to avoid bans. Some seriously troubled users have generated hundreds of accounts across multiple instances just to troll and appear to generate traffic to specific communities. (“you_emm” being one of the worst, but its posts are fairly easy to sniff out still. It will actively search for untagged mentions as well, hence, my obfuscation.)

But for the most part, the bullshit is easy to filter out. When you stumble across a specific niche, they tend to niche themselves super hard, so beware. All-in-all, Lemmy is chill and fairly quiet which is why I still use it.

https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

Twice?

In most cases, I believe it’s a mix of hormones and traditionalism. Men have generally been more likely to seek grandeur by participating in violent activities, or, violent activities are demanded by their particular social group. Sometimes a mix of both.

I think it also it boils down to how gender roles are taught by different cultures. If men are taught to be the risk takers, it only makes sense that boundaries and laws will get pushed more by men. After all, intentionally breaking a law may simply be viewed as a calculated risk and not as something that should never be done.

Honestly speaking, it seems too easy of an answer to just blame male physiology. The social aspects of this can’t be ignore either.

Booze is a helluva drug.

Domestic borrowing is helpful, but in Russia’s case, they will need to fully control every aspect of their economy as well, from capping prices on all consumer goods to directly propping up critical domestic manufacturing companies.

I won’t pretend to know all the details of how mostly isolated wartime economies function. Still, borrowing from the public is a huge part of this, but most of it based around simply keeping the people thinking their currency has value while giving everyone jobs to manufacture goods for the war effort. (If taxation becomes extreme, then they start manufacturing bodies for the war effort from people who can’t pay or doge.)

Russia still has active trading partners and can still barter raw materials for other things. The gas shortages due to fires at refineries caused by “careless smokers” is really hitting them hard though…

But yeah, like I mentioned before, wartime economies are a thing and they can function for quite a number of years. Up to and during WW2, deficit spending and taxation for Germany was insane. (Most of that debt was cancelled after the war as Germany had no economy left to pay it back.)

They just fake their economy for while, until they can’t. That’s an extremely simplic way to put it, but for idiots like me, it’s easier to understand.

Simply “printing more money” doesn’t work and the “real” economy becomes mostly goods, services and guns. Extreme inflation will drain bank accounts naturally, I speculate.

Feel free to completely correct me here, but there seem to be way to drain bank accounts without having it perceived as government theft, is my main point. (TBH, currency value makes little sense to me with the ways governments print and burn it at massive rates. It’s just all … fake to me.)

I’ll see if I can find one that doesn’t actually contact the back of the phone, but the trial and error to find one of those may end up destroying the autograph.

I dunno anything about the American Spirit culture wars, but it is a much more dense cigarette and does taste a little more “natural”.

TBH, anyone that smokes them thinking they are any safer because they are supposedly more “natural” needs to learn how marketing works. Less “chemicals” doesn’t matter much in the context of doing something that stilly anyway. (ie: if you decide to jump off a cliff, it doesn’t matter how much you weigh because the end result at the bottom is exactly the same.)

There probably isn’t a way around removing the battery, after more thought.

Eventually, unless the battery is properly managed, gas buildup may eventually win and turn it into a forbidden pillow. Controlled battery destruction/ventilation sounds like a fun, but lengthy science project for this problem, IMHO. Gasses need to escape the battery, but phone shouldn’t go boom in the process. Deep discharge + adding vent holes after may work in some way.

Lithium batteries mainly explode and cause fires mostly because of any stored energy and gas buildup that deformes the battery causing a short circuit and thus, fire, to my knowledge. The lithium isn’t as reactive with water because it isn’t pure lithium? My knowledge is extremely limited on keeping lithium from exploding. (I think I remember videos of lithium batteries being unrolled that still explode in water, charge or not.)

It’s a sharpie, and I speculate it may have been specially for fabric (if there is such a thing), further adding to the preservation conundrum.

But anything alcohol based (or is a substance that has molecules around the same size) would melt a sharpie really quick.

You got me thinking about this differently now, specifically about different solvents that would have been in your spray primer. Acetone is common in epoxies and primers, and it will aggressively remove sharpies as well. (Water is also a solvent, and smaller than acetone or isopropyl, but something something polar/non-polar, or something. Sharpie ink is naturally hydrophobic anyway, but not completely.) Other, equally effective solvents exist to remove sharpie and also, well, act as a solvent for other uses.

So, point being, you just eliminated what is likely to be a fairly large range of possible coating options to choose from, which is a good thing. (I completely forgot solvents are a huge thing to consider, as did a few others here.)

It’s on the phone itself, unfortunately. The case is off in this pic.

That’s tight. I would keep that around for a while, for sure.