I dunno, but some encryption at least.

So these guys just send plain text emails to each other saying “Hey Jeff we’re plotting to overthrow Putin. Here are the names of my co-conspirators. Wanna help?” and they don’t consider this kind of a stupid thing to do?

I like this kid.

They asked what you think it means. Please say something about that.

I’d guess that either they think communism = all things bad (because they have no clue what communism is), or they think Trump is on Putin’s side and they didn’t notice that Russia hasn’t been communist for 35 years now. The most charitable reading is that they think Trump is authoritarian and that the USSR was not so much communist as an authoritarian dictatorship despite its communist rhetoric. That last one is at least debatable, but it requires more nuance than is probably there in sticking a hammer and sickle in the middle of Trump’s name.

So they think they’ll bomb and invade Iran and knock out its government, then the people will take to the streets and greet them as liberators? Maybe with flowers? I think I’ve heard this one before somewhere.

Let them drag their feet over Windows 12. It won’t bring anything good.

And it will be called Copilot 365 12 Teams for Home.

That’s crazy talk. Just change the colours and shovel in more AI and ads. Don’t dilute your brand.

GrapheneOS is good and surprisingly simple to install.

I agree. China’s tech is still a risk, and GrapheneOS is the best option right now though Google seem to be working hard to undermine it and other custom Androids. If Linux phones can get up to speed and do away with the need for the Android base, and especially if they can run on more open hardware, that could be even better.

It seems to be an open source application that anyone can host on a server.

The Github repo is called “meet”. So maybe they named it Meet then thought, “Oh no, Google will sue us, let’s choose a different name like… Visio!”

They should really call it Visio Zoom Meet for Teams that Excel.

Following their link to LiveKit’s blog, it seems LiveKit provides a real-time communication stack with adaptive video encoding. So they’re using it to handle multiple video streams over connections of varying quality. I don’t think it’s mainly about AI, even though that’s LiveKit’s focus.

This very much seems to be an international push these days. It looks like there’s coordination going on between countries out of the public eye.

If they had hardware backdoors we wouldn’t know about them. In the end, with closed-source hardware, drivers and firmware, there’s a lot we just don’t know about what our devices are doing.

But as a Canadian I consider the USA to be a more immediate threat than China. I’m trying to extract myself from depending on US technology bit by bit, as far as possible.

The only ones who used guns were ICE.

I could have happily watched that for a lot longer.

Which would leave no means of resistance but confrontation. Unfortunately all the “well-organized militias” have decided they love government tyranny after all, and joined ICE.

Theoretically a little spray paint could work wonders. Or something like a strong glue, or a well aimed laser. I think there’s also something called a WiFi deauthentication attack for a bit of temporary disruption.