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Comment another way around internet blockage (Score 1) 123

by SteveWoz on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:30PM (#65007001) Attached to: Russia Tests Cutting Off Access To Global Web, and VPNs Can't Get Around It

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Comment Re:This is a delusion (Score 1, Insightful) 183

by TubeSteak on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:38PM (#64876333) Attached to: West Virginia Town of Green Bank Has Become a Refuge For Electrosensitive People

They're not hurting anyone.
Leave them alone.

Comment Social Security Numbers (Score 1) 24

by TubeSteak on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:30PM (#64855663) Attached to: Fidelity Says Data Breach Exposed Personal Data of 77,000 Customers

Why does every business need a copy of my Social Security Number?

Comment Re:Legalize Assassinating Ransomeware Gangs (Score 1) 115

by SteveWoz on Saturday July 06, 2024 @01:15PM (#64605325) Attached to: Cancer Patient Forced To Make Terrible Decision After Ransomware Attack On London Hospitals

Thanks.

Comment Re:What was the mistake? (Score 1) 202

by TubeSteak on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:41PM (#64399592) Attached to: Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick

His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) online portal.

With a click more potent than Cupid's arrow, the solicitor "issued a final order of divorce in proceedings between Mrs Williams, the applicant wife, and Mr Williams,"

And why is a lawyer the one finalizing the divorce order?
Shouldn't that power solely lie with the judge (or the judge's staff)?

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 370

by TubeSteak on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:30PM (#64359310) Attached to: Will EVs Kill the Stick Shift Car?

The original Tesla Model S had a two speed gearbox, but Tesla couldn't figure out how to keep them from breaking, so they went with a one speed instead.

Comment Re:The schools have been graduating too many lawye (Score 1) 65

by TubeSteak on Monday January 01, 2024 @11:41PM (#64123441) Attached to: US Supreme Court's Roberts Urges 'Caution' as AI Reshapes Legal Field

We are basically relying on a bottleneck created by the need to manually research cases in order to prevent a giant legal apocalypse

98% of Federal Court cases are settled https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F02%2F22...
TFA also mentions that the same situation exists at the State level as well.

All it takes for your apocalypse to materialize is for X% of defendants to say "I want a trial"

Comment Re:This does not need to be a problem (Score 1) 100

by TubeSteak on Monday December 25, 2023 @01:23PM (#64104893) Attached to: Will AI Be a Disaster for the Climate?

that nobody has really figured out how to properly dispose of.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
"the closure was for political, not technical or safety reasons."

Comment Re: Biggest problem is CCS vs NACS/Tesla (Score 2) 172

by TubeSteak on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:00PM (#64050173) Attached to: EV Owners Report 'Far More' Problems Than Conventional Car Owners, Says Consumer Reports

To wit, you get money/subsidies to install chargers, not to keep them running.

There's a lack of charger repairmen

There Aren't Enough Electricians To Fix America's Broken EV Chargers
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2Fnot-enough-electricians-to-fix-broken-ev-chargers-1850915631

tl;dr: estimates are that the demand for electricians will grow over the next decade while the supply of electricians will shrink

Comment COVID (Score 1) 26

by TubeSteak on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:48PM (#62257365) Attached to: MoviePass Is Officially Coming Back

The depressed viewership during COVID makes for a great time to bring back moviepass. /s

Comment Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (Score 1) 34

by TubeSteak on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:58PM (#62010923) Attached to: Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023

8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?"

[...]

like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.

Comment Re:Full of fail (Score 1) 344

by TubeSteak on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:41PM (#61991413) Attached to: Increasingly Popular Ghost Guns Fuel an 'Epidemic of Violence', says NYT

You're just dancing around it because fixing the REAL problem is HARD.

how about you let us deal with the low hanging fruit (guns) while we work on the REAL problem.

Comment Re:Just follow the law (Score 5, Informative) 97

by TubeSteak on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:51PM (#61882435) Attached to: Credit-Card Firms Are Becoming Reluctant Regulators of the Web

Just like a bank can't refuse to process a check because of who I wrote it too,

Chase closing accounts of porn stars: Report
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2014%2F04%2F2...

American banks regularly close the accounts of individuals who work in adult entertainment.
There's still check cashing stores, but that's not what you're talking about.

Comment Translation (Score 4, Interesting) 72

by TubeSteak on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:48PM (#61881985) Attached to: Florida Judge Rules Section 230 Bars Defamation Claim Against the Wikimedia Foundation

It is important to note that Section 230â(TM)s broad protection of Wikimedia projects and other online services does not leave litigants like Mr. White without options. Instead, the law simply requires that litigants direct their complaints at the individuals who made the statements at issue, rather than the forums where the statements were made.

So they want him to subpoena the IP address and sue the contributor who posted his image.

Seems like a fair compromise.

Comment Re:Insurrection = Profit (Score 1) 152

by TubeSteak on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:20PM (#61087018) Attached to: Did Facebook Change Its Rules to Placate the Right?

TFA uses the word "backlash" three times and "blowback" once.

Why? Because Zuckerberg is a coward who is afraid of angering conservatives.

This isn't about money, it's about avoiding an angry mob.

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