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deejaaymacon US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

>Lying to a fed

They asked for the pin, maybe they should have said "not the duress pin"

>Destroying evidence

How did they know there was any evidence on there?

>it exists for when compromising the device could get people the owner cares about killed or disappeared and the owner considers their own liability, disappearance, or death a preferable outcome.

No, the duress pin is there for when I'm under duress and being forced to unlock my device against my will

>It is an extreme solution for extreme scenarios

Wiping a device I own is extreme?

deejaaymacon The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

For those curious to see Jellyfin in action

https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/web/#/home

Username is demo, PW is blank

Also, I've been running jellyfin for many years, I've had no issues

deejaaymacon US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

What if I have a camera/microphone near my front door, that when law enforcement is detected, it auto wipes my data, with no interaction from me?

deejaaymacon Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

Porkbun!

deejaaymacon Which streaming service was that on again?

https://app.trakt.tv/

https://reelgood.com/

deejaaymacon Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

Master password to password vault stored on metal, buried in my backyard and I tell a family member where it is in case I ever get brain damage

deejaaymacon Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM

What a strange take.

I grew up in a small hunting town (I'm in my early 30s), where most high school boys (most girls didn't hunt, but some did) had a rifle and/or shotgun in their truck, mounted against the inside back of the cab where you could see it plain view.

We had 0 homicides from guns in the 19 years I lived there, there was 1 suicide by gun that I know of.

Many of us grew up hunting to feed our family. This is in Colorado.

I shot my first pistol around the age of 5.

I accidentally went to 7th grade with ammo in my pocket because we were hunting that morning. I went to the principal, he told me just to put the ammo in my locker.

With that being said, you'd be hard pressed to find a group of townspeople more respectful of guns.

It's not a gun problem, it's a culture problem.

Not saying that there's not "insecure men" out there that are the victim of marketing, etc, but a lot of us grew up with guns and see them as a tool.

deejaaymacon Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, sometimes jackett....aka the ArrStack

deejaaymacon Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse

Customer, user, patient...it's all the same.

deejaaymacon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

People wearing cameras is going to increase over time, no matter what. Why would it slow down?

Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely anti a lot of things, including people wearing cameras all the time, but I see no logical way to stop it without stomping on freedoms. In this case, defense will be your ally, whatever form that may take,eg wearing a mask.

If I had to choose between flock cameras and meta glasses existing, I'd choose the glasses.

deejaaymacon Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

I would argue that if someone can't safely operate a vehicle without this then maybe they shouldn't have a license

deejaaymacon The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

Agreed. I use mullvad because I believe they are the best off the shelf choice. If I stopped using things because of the owners opinions, then I'd live in a cave.

deejaaymacon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

"what high schooler doesn't learn about kinetic energy?"

A lot of them, because being an anti-intellectual is 'cool'

deejaaymacon Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

Replace 'AI' with any other technology. Imagine if only 16% of people thought that the invention of the wheel or soap would have a positive impact.

The overall greater good of humanity matters more than anything else.

deejaaymacon A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

Cool let's hear your solution, you seem well versed on how infosec works.

deejaaymacon Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week

I use bitcoin to pay for things several times a month, works fine for me.

deejaaymacon At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025

Hi. The mayor of Denver pushed through flock cameras despite them being unpopular and not even getting enough votes to buy them. He got them to change the price enough that he didn't need the votes to get them installed.

How do you have a civil society when the people in power cheat?

deejaaymacon I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

I don't think the majority of humanity will ever accept "AI" as being anything more than a fancy computer, let alone a 'new species', even if it was proven sentient.

deejaaymacon AI uses less water than the public thinks

Where's the beef?!

deejaaymacon How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

I mean, some of these are legitimate stragety to surviving corp America.

deejaaymacon New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

Idk if you have something like this in Singapore but I use an app called 'privacy' that let's me make vendor specific digital cards, and I can pause them, set limits, etc.

deejaaymacon Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules

5 years in prison can destroy your life easily, so yeah, what's the difference?

deejaaymacon “Your frustration is the product”

I know of one but it's niche. OpenSubtitles allows people to pay for ads at the start/end of content when you download subtitles on the fly. I've seen countless NordVPN ads in subtitles.

deejaaymacon Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

Pretty sure Vlad the Impaler, Hitler, etc. did worse things to people than anything any of us saw on the internet. So, should we censor history books?

deejaaymacon ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

I do 100% of my banking from my GOS phone and I have like 7 bank apps

deejaaymacon Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

I also should have mentioned this; despite having tinnitus my actual hearing is very good, and yeah a white noise or fan does wonders

deejaaymacon Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

I've had tinnitus longer than I can remember (33m) and I also have moderate visual snow also as long as I can remember. Sadly, I have no tips on tuning it out, but I'd do anything for a cure

deejaaymacon Setting up phones is a nightmare

If you use android and don't choose GrapheneOS then idk what to tell you, its been an awesome experience with no issues for the last ~5ish years I've used it.

deejaaymacon Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

Just to clarify; you're comparing nuclear weapons to lines of code that generate text/images?

deejaaymacon Keep Android Open

The faraday bag I keep with me in my backpack!