yeah 100%. IRL organizing for sure more likely to land you in hot water faster ofc. I haven’t seen anything federal up close (so far) but I know some of the local anarchist groups totally collapsed after a campaign of infiltration before I was around. But a wellspring of sympathizers/contacts that aren’t already on a list seems important to maintain.

raiding maybe not, but put on a list, via dragnet surveillance?

I guess I should have led the post off with more my opinion lol. Because I’m beginning to think americans should not be accessing the site directly at all. We’re all libs, I get that, but when circumstances force us all to start touching more grass I’d rather organize with yall than be sent to the camps together

right, but it’s a public website on the clearnet, full of marxists. Not taking any precautions to hide that you are a user of the site from your ISP, etc. seems at this point like a bad plan.

I mean yeah, but is that enough? This server has a static IP, even if they don’t know your posts it’d be easy for feds to find people who post here without tor, vpn, etc. and start knocking on doors, making threats, whatever. I’m not sure the old heuristics of what is/isn’t safe are sufficient anymore.

or built in streaming in mpv if you don’t want to download first

Should USian comrades abandon this site? if not what precautions are appropriate

I think this is a safe assumption but then what is to be done, for people that already have been in discords that could be flagged as marxist or antifa or whatever? scrub everything and delete your account and hope it gets actually deleted eventually? (and practice better opsec in the future ofc)

offline devices don’t help if they get physically seized, which I believe is cellebrite’s specialty, but for things that don’t need to be online, yes. as far as the practicality of hand written cipher pads and such, I feel like it should be obvious that they aren’t practical in most circumstances, though still a useful back-pocket tool in a pinch at least.

I found the article “Talking to Vula” by someone involved in the development of early ANC encrypted comms interesting on this topic.

Good news for graphene. They’re definitely all over it and not invulnerable but it looks like cellebrite currently can’t break into up-to-date graphene devices, even with bootloader unlocked. My takeaway currently is that graphene will help you in the short term but you can’t expect it to keep you safe for years after, if it’s in evidence or whatever they may gain the ability to unlock it later in the future.

Yeah its only getting worse. People need to get tf out of proprietary ecosystems now, android and chrome included, though MS is probably the most egregious at this exact moment

the hair splitting in question was “did a vet or a trainer give the dog bed advice?”, not “does hard flooring affect hip dysplasia?”

it feels kinda like you started from a position (either not liking hasan for other reasons or misleading clips on fash subs) and worked backwards. Using clips cut by reactionaries as primary sources on what his opinion is is whack.

I think if you looked at see he isn’t forcing her to stay on the bed. “Place” is said specifically when she comes and tries to lay down somewhere else in the room on the hard floors but like once a stream most days she gets up and goes off camera (presumably to another room or to be with his family?) for an extended period and he doesn’t do anything about that. But if she’s going to just be laying in the room with him (which she seems to want to be with him, which is pretty normal), she has to be on the bed… Which lines up with what he’s said the whole time.

I don’t even like hasan much these days but I reallly need to stop hearing about this in particular.

He only “defends” shock collars in that he says they are not illegal and are pretty normalized in the US. He doesn’t make a value judgement about them. It’s valid to disagree with that but it’s not a reflection of what he does with his own dog, which he’s said and appears to be just a vibrating collar for outdoor off-leash use. Maybe, if we are to give malicious clips way too much credit, he could have used it indoors to reinforce the place training, I don’t know if that’s perfect dog training practice, but it’s not animal cruelty, IMO

He doesn’t need to, the clips are 99% bullshit as fuck. I don’t care about Hasan at this point, I’m responding solely to the comment “Do you think the e in ecolloar stands for electric shock or something? :jesse-wtf:”. which, to me, implied that the term ecollar did not include shock collars.

yeah, I’m assuming thats what hasan has, I don’t really care, I’m just saying the term e collars does include shock collars. The LSF links flying around are wild

top search result for ecollar: https://www.ecollar.com/categories/pet-yard-e-collars/

Those electrical contacts sticking into the neck are to deliver electrical “stimulation”. But yeah hasan did not afaik endorse them, only the vibrating/noisemaking kind

bonus facts, its also of note that for all the hubbub in the US about how revolutionary it is/was to be doing privately run/financed high speed rail:

• it actually was not high speed rail in any meaningful way until late 2023, almost 6 years after its opening, when the orlando segments opened (125/110mph speeds). The original west palm beach to miami segment, like 1/3 the total trip is to this day capped at 79mph which is the same as amtrak speeds in most of the country, and the same top speed as the local commuter rail that it shares tracks with. nothing special
• it is still slower than driving (not a deal breaker, but again, comparable to short/medium distances on amtrak)
• it was financed using tax-free bonds, of the type usually only available to municipalities
• despite the above financing advantages it a) has never turned a profit and b) has actually negatively affected the municipal bond market as a whole by skipping interest payments

It has better hype and marketing than anything, and US train enthusiasts are so cucked they feel they have no choice but to stan, I guess

ohhh yeah I can imagine. I have avoided clear and not sure about id.me

honestly the only reason I ever need chromium is for nonstandard things like webserial and bluetooth. What sites don’t work with firefox? I’m sure there are some I just don’t run into them I guess

there are actual design problems. see my comment below

The train kills 2 dozen people per year, this is not normal even in amerika

Both. Though I think more pedestrians than cars actually, its just that those videos don’t go viral (too gruesome) and burgerbrains don’t care about the poor (who else would walk anywhere?)