I used to tell my friends to vote. I would never tell them who to vote for, and I wouldn’t harangue them. Basically, I would say that voting is useless at worst, and might move some needle at best, so why not just do it? I kind of still feel the same way, but I also am so disgusted with this bullshit right now, that I’m not telling anyone to vote. I actually apologized to a friend recently, for all the times I argued with him about voting.

All of them.

I blame tankies for tanking Biden’s confidence. If we had all just united and pledged to vote for him super hard, he could have capitalized on our combined psychic energy, and done a hadouken on Trump.

You ever hate the left so much you fuck a dog?

This right here is what keeps me from charging for Jellyfin access.

You’re here. You made it. That’s all it takes for your life to have as much value as anyone else’s. Plenty of people have children in less than ideal circumstances. That’s their own lives. This is yours.

Haha awesome.

When I was growing up, the only bar in town open after 2am was a gay club.

Presumably mattering massively to someone, somewhere!

“I don’t have online, and I don’t do the emails”.

Thanks for the links. There’s some new information in there that I’ll have to look further into. For one, I’ve never heard of security concerns about 5G versus 4G.

I also wasn’t aware of the TMSI at all. I still don’t fully understand some things about it which would be important considerations:

How is this randomized number assigned/correlated to the IMSI? Is it done by the tower?

It seems like the carrier can request the actual IMSI at any time. Can these CSS also do that? TMSI is supposed to protect against ‘eavesdroppers’ but these industrial a grade CSS might have greater capabilities than passive eavesdropping.

I am unsure if or how disabling roaming would protect you from CSS. For one, the spoofing might make your device think it isn’t roaming. Secondly, the CSS might still be aware of your device anyway, even if it doesn’t establish an open connection to it. The phone and the tower need some minimum communication to even determine if you’re roaming or not.

That’s what ACAB means though. You cannot trust cops, because there’s no real accountability for them. Why is there no accountability? Because their colleagues lie for them, their bosses lie for them, the prosecutors decline to prosecute them, judges trust them implicitly, their unions intimidate mayors and lobby politicians for more funding, tougher laws (for non-cops) and less accountability for themselves.

The system is so fucked up that reforming it seems like a waste of time. Actual “good cops” get squeezed out or worse. You might as well assume that ACAB, because the stakes are too high to assume otherwise.

And how the fuck do they even think it’s going to happen? As if the entrenched political duopoly is going to allow any meaningful reform of itself. The reason we don’t have politicians getting assassinated all the time is because nobody’s even allowed to become a serious enough threat to the status quo.

Can’t be fuckin, with a full bladder.

There are already a lot of open models and tools out there. I totally disagree that Linux distros or DEs should be looking to bake in AI features. People can run an LLM on their computer just like they run any other application.

Haha no, it is pretty predictable here. Breeze from the northwest in the daytime, generally. Changes with the seasons, but rarely anything but gentle. Far northern California.

Well that would make a vas deferens.

Penis lengthening, so it drips on your sock instead?

These devices (CSS/Stingray) are going to see both your SIM IMSI number, and your device IMEI number. AFAIK, the MAC randomization that most modern phones do, is with your WiFi modem so that WiFi routers can’t track you.

If you put your SIM card into a new phone, and then login to your cell service provider portal with a computer or other device, you will observe that they know the model of phone you are using. They get this info from the IMEI when your phone talks to the tower. Since the CSS is a rogue tower, they get the same info.

My wife got me into Rihanna, and Lana Del Ray.