Further, since instance owners are just a username…

If my good admin got black bagged and replaced by someone else with access to her accounts… How long would it be before I noticed? What if she was pressured or threatened with death if she didn’t comply? Many ways to ruin otherwise good people.

Dope, thanks for the heads up

Unfortunately, not really. I only thought of this one due to how many times I’ve had to deal with not having water and needing to flush my poos ha.

The real issue, whether on Amazon or ebay, is that only a handful on ebay are listed as “unlocked” to be used on cellular networks other than Verizon.

Maybe? The Orbic is fully Linux whereas Android is a locked down heavily modified version Linux with a lot of differences in the codebase.

Androids only work as a WiFi hotspot. I could be wrong but I am not aware of any with cellular hotspot capability. You would need it running as a cellular hotspot for it to detect the stingrays.

But the technology to fake it clearly could? Idiots…

I have long said that even in a Utopia you would have people unhappy about the way things were.

https://www.justanswer.com/computer-networking/h3j0m-orbic-mifi-trying-active.html

This thread seems to imply that it could work in Europe for US customers, but I can’t find much else about whether or not it directly supports European cellular radio bands.

From the Github:

Rayhunter has been built and tested for the Orbic RC400L mobile hotspot. It may work on other orbics and other linux/qualcom devices, but this is the only one we have tested on.

Still very cool, but very, very limited options for using it.

On the plus side, it at least seems like a relatively inexpensive option, only $19 on Amazon.

To be clear, I’m only linking to it on Amazon because it is sold out from the manufacturer itself. Due to being sold out, I assume, Orbic doesn’t even list a price for it.

Another important note from the Github (emphasis not mine):

THIS CODE IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS!

It doesn’t need to be non-potable, but it seems wasteful (in my opinion) to use potable water for flushing toilets.

They hate their fellow Americans more than they hate foreigners these days.

They truly do think the greatest evil is liberalism, empathy, and compassion. They’ll back anyone who thinks opposite.

Good, this should have always been the norm. You literally cannot predict disaster, so you should always have something available just in case.

It should also include things like jugs of non-potable water in addition to jugs of potable water. The non-potable water can be used for things like flushing toilets a commonly overlooked but important aspect of losing water access.

Dang it I finally literally just updated yesterday after not updating for like six months and being lazy haha.

Nice new features though and no breaking changes so no big deal. Just update it again today, I guess.

I am an unabashed media pirate.

I hate how the techpirate ethos of routing around bad legislation has led these techbro assholes to route around any and all legislation that would stop them.

I hate to admit it, but it really is the same ethos taken to it’s most extreme conclusions.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18508

And here’s a thorough takedown on why Glover sucks so much. He may as well be on the Joe Rogan manosphere, fuck that guy. He’s an unscientific sexist charlatan who blames radical feminism.

I think it’s at least partially cultural. Depending on the country you’re living in, it may be part of the culture.

I am from the USA, and the “rugged individualist” mindset is rampant and unhealthy.

It can also come from family history. Most of my feelings of being a burden come from a childhood of being told I was a burden even though I never asked to be brought into this world.

I still feel like a burden even though I didn’t ask to have cancer, either.

It often comes from how family characterizes it, as well. I explained to my mother recently that she doesn’t even notice she’s doing it. I have worked hard all my life and it is not my fault that society has devalued the kind of work I do and that even though I have worked long hours, always worked holidays, and in general busted my ass, I have very little to show for it. Yet, when she talks about my sister, she characterizes it as “Well, your sister grew up and got out on her own,” as though I haven’t grown up and haven’t been doing grown up things and haven’t just been overworked and underpaid. She has promised to try to not talk about it that way anymore because late into her seventies, she’s finally fucking realizing how damaging that is and how much it hurts when I have worked hard and been an adult, too. I chose jobs and careers which still have a lot of value in society but society has decided they don’t want to pay for, and she is finally recognizing that instead of placing the blame on me or acting like I haven’t “grown up” because I struggled and am still struggling.

In the USA at least, I commonly hear people tell each other that they should drop someone as a friend or a partner if it’s too hard to support them. It makes me ill inside. Nobody asked to be here, nobody asked for the problems they have, and if we weren’t all overworked and put on the verge of homelessness, we might actually have the capacity to care for each other instead of giving up and trying to find someone else.

That red-headed step-child? No way.

I pirated that game just so I could critique how god damned bad it was.

CDs absolutely influenced the scale and speed of it. And it was a generational shift that went from piracy being something that wasn’t well understood and mostly a niche issue for music and movie lovers (“home taping is killing music”) to something that impacted all types of media.