claps back

slams

blasts

The sooner this kind of phraseology disappears from media the better. Any outlet using it has become a clickbait shitrag.

For every person like you that won't take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

If nobody accepted such bollocks, it would be more economical to actually investigate, provide service & improve processes - rather than trying to bin complaints at the first hurdle.

Prime (lol) example over here is with Amazon not making it easy to return shit after 30 days, by hiding all the easy return options at that point. You can still do it by contacting customer service and they will generally acquiesce, but just having the extra steps there is enough to save a ton of money by keeping the uninformed in the dark.

Fuck em. Make it difficult for them. Be the goddamn squeakiest wheel you can possibly be.

Not on Steam? No direct release? Steam released, but with a bunch of bolt on EULAs/Denuvo/3rd party launchers?

The seas will provide.

I'd honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)

UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that's the jist of it.

Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.

Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It's a shit law made to pander to the 'think of the children' types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.

I don't blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.

Typical BBC reporting of anything technical.

Keyless repeaters and signal amplifiers scramble the signal from remote key fobs inside people's homes, enabling criminals to unlock cars.

No, they don't. The situation described is a relay attack on keyless entry/start. Jamming is used in a two stage attack, where the device intercepts the first signal and stores it without allowing the car to 'see' it by jamming. The user then tries a second time.

This time the signal is intercepted the same way, and the first signal is played back to the car from the device. The second signal is stored and can be replayed later to bypass a rolling code setup.

It's very niche and the stored signal quickly becomes obsolete anyway.

Sophisticated electronic devices used by criminals to steal cars are set to be banned

Making or selling a signal jammer could lead to up to five years

Jenny Simms said the possession, manufacture, sale and supply of signal jammers had provided an "easily accessible tool for criminals… for far too long".

These devices have no legitimate purpose

Basically, fuck you if you happen to have or build a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Again with the UK 'clamping down' on something that does have plenty of legitimate use.

I use an F0 for toying with my own equipment, as an interface for my smart devices and as a general purpose keyfob. I may be arrested just for possessing it.

The crims will not care a jot and this only serves to restrict/annoy legitimate users.

The fault and solution lies with the manufacturers who implement insecure tech, and with the users who blindly sacrifice pounds of security for ounces of convenience.

Better article with more detail.

During the pandemic, the family moved into a house that prosecutors say was part of a marijuana trafficking operation.

Yang was among 26 people indicted in a sweeping federal case in 2020. It alleged Yang helped count and package cash that was mailed to marijuana suppliers in California. Prosecutors found bags of cash taped between pages of magazines, according to a complaint.

She took a plea deal and served 2 1/2 years in prison. She said her attorney incorrectly told her the plea deal would not affect her immigration status as a green card holder. But her legal permanent residency was revoked.

At the end of her sentence, Yang was transferred to an ICE detention facility in Minnesota. There, at the advice of another attorney, she signed a document agreeing that a deportation order would be entered against her in exchange for being released from detention.

Despite agreeing to be deported, she and her attorney believed it wouldn't happen, since only a small handful of people are deported to Laos each year

Sounds like she got involved with something she shouldn't have as a green card holder, and then took some crap legal advice that didn't account for an aggressive change in administration/policy.

Yes please.

I don't know how much longer my button & dialled up 2012 shitbox is going to last. Being able to buy new without the crap is something to look forward to.

Then again, there's the whole 'car phones home/connected services' thing to consider as well. I like my car safe, but dumb as rocks otherwise.

As for why, it's probably due to the censorship screws getting tighter at Reddit. Luigi is a bad word. Eating the rich is verboten. Just 2 examples. Interacting/upvoting such content is now also an offense even if you didn't write it yourself.

For many, it's their stop to get off the train. Mine was the API boogaloo.

Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.

For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.

If a device relies on any kind of external service to initially set up or function thereafter, do not buy. Regardless of brand.

Or accept that it has a finite lifespan that you cannot control. It's not a matter of if the rug will get pulled, but when.

There is a grey area for things that can be reflashed or rebrained, but I prefer to not rely on this. Local access methods like ZigBee, Z-Wave and 433Mhz are immune to this kind of enshittification by design. Even WiFi devices can fit in here, with appropriate restrictions in place.

An acceptable middle-ground would be for EOL devices to be offered (with a big disclaimer) a final update that removes the reliance on the service but retains the core function. That's a pipe dream though.

It's better to name known safe options rather than leave it up to user search. The entities that work against extensions like uBO are already well aware of their existence, so hiding their names has no benefit.

Case in point - uBlock and uBlock Origin are not the same, with the former being a bastardised version that does 'acceptable ads'. There are plenty of other poor blocking options out there for the unsuspecting to stumble into besides that.

Personal setup is Librewolf/uBO on the client and pfBlockerNG/Snort for network level blocking/additional security layer.

And welcome to .zip :) Hope you enjoy the new home!

About average for a flag shagger I suppose.

Have you considered self hosting with vaultwarden?

At least then it's very apparent when it is a you problem rather than a them problem 😅

Back in the day it just worked because you bought a card with a supported chip.... or you had to do some ungodly things with ndiswrapper to get the Windows driver loaded.

I think back then I was using wicd as well.

It's come a long way.

For all the newcomers, Demigodrick & co do a fantastic job of looking after us all in our little corner.

For UK users, you may be better off at feddit.uk though. This instance has opted to geoblock UK (on browsers at least - apps and instance federation currently unaffected) due to the requirements of the OSA. Worth a mention.

I keep an alt on feddit.uk but still use this as my main. Where allowed, it is good practice to keep an alt elsewhere and occasionally copy your community subscriptions over to it. Saves a lot of time and panic if a lemm.ee situation arises again.

Oh, and welcome!

As nearly always, there is a relevant xkcd.

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

• armadillo bug
• boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
• butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
• carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
• cheeselog (Reading, England)
• cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
• cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
• chiggy pig (Devon, England)
• chisel pig
• chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
• doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
• fat pig (Ireland)
• gramersow (Cornwall, England)
• hog-louse
• millipedus
• QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
• mochyn coed ('tree pig'), pryf lludw ('ash bug'), granny grey in Wales
• pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
• potato bug
• roll up bug
• roly-poly
• slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
• sow bug
• woodbunter
• wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)