Dan over at Knowledge Fight has been cataloging how Alex has been working to (lazily) shield his assets for at least a year or two now. He’s barely trying to hide it at all, and is basically telegraphing this on air and almost feels like he’s trying to give them more ammo against him, but he is also very stupid.
Where did the coin come from? Unless you mined it yourself, you’ve left a trail that may eventually lead to you. Even using crypto ATMs, you’re still on surveillance and hoping the tapes/drives roll over before someone comes knocking (which is a very likely bet to win), and even then, you still have a real world location to tie the wallet to because of where the transaction originated.
Anything that interacts with the real world can anchor your identity to your wallet. Travelling out of state can help obfuscate that to an extent, but a high level adversary will be able to correlate travel with that transaction as well.
The clone comment likely refers to the underlying architecture, as WhatsApp is using the signal protocol for its ‘secured’ messaging. Of the two, signal is the far superior choice for anyone not forced to live in Zucco’s World. It’s the more private option, and is secure by default unlike a lot of apps (namely, telegram).
WhatsApp (thankfully) is secure by default now according to Google, but it took them a hot minute to get to that point. That being said, you’re still giving metadata to Zucc no matter what, which is still really bad to give the guy working on military AI…
Signal is a much better choice and its basically a whatsapp clone.
Must be why signal runs on the WhatsApp protocol
Fucking phone systems! That’s what these are, and we have to snap them any time they’re rebooted because sometimes they just shut the bed randomly, but the client doesn’t want to buy a new system…
But, it’s their wallet and they’re willing to pay the “fuck you pay me” legacy surcharge.
Hahahahahaha, I still periodically see win2k/2k3 on the network at some clients, with SMBv1 enabled across the domain to make the CISO’s eye twitch
We have a machine at work which is beefy and works as a server and backups for many many years on windows 10. Why the hell should I upgrade my buisness critical system ??
Because you should be using a server grade os instead of janking things together with desktop OS installs that just make everything so much harder (and aren’t supported for as long).
Sorry, I have to clean up installs like this at least once a year when we take on clients from internal IT that just made things work instead of making something that works right, so I’ve got opinions.
I don’t watch tiktok
Wait, that really happened? I thought the gulf of Mexico renamed shit was just memeing. Google maps still shows the proper name instead of the tantrum name.
I’m not surprised at all. My wife and I only use 3rd party metal bands because the factory bands gave us both chemical burns.
Tell me that you don’t understand why the republicans won.
They didn’t win because people agree with the neo-nazi adjacent right (which, I bet you’re in denial about, but republicans always are), they won because the Democrats abandoned the working class and stupid people thought the Republicans would be better for them despite all empirical evidence.
You’re right tho, disagreeing with dei programs doesn’t make you a Nazi, it just makes you willing bedfellows with them.
Apropos of nothing, this was an article about substance from a year ago:
Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis
Fuck substack.
Shit, this article is about stack overflow, not substack. Too early, but still fuck substack.
I spend more time ripping thistles than anything, but at least I don’t have to water them!
On a serious note, I am working on overseeding clover in half of my yard, and it’s worked well in patches so far. Will probably take a couple seasons to get full results, just time consuming. Almost as much as my war against those goddamned thistles.
My favorite part about DVDs is how sometimes they look just fine but the video doesn’t actually play. I got a DVD from the library recently that the video stopped 10 minutes in the first episode and you couldn’t even play or rip past that point either.
Physical media still really sucks in a lot of ways.
I’ve always taken the “protect our children” argument to have an implied “…from the knowledge that will actually protect them from abusers” based on the things the argument is trotted out for.
Not just talking about it, bragging about how people shouldn’t go to the IW store, but now Alex Jones Inc or some stupid garbage.
I really think he’s trying to see how far he can go before he forced them to do something on air like he’s been edging himself for over the last decade of secretly being the thing he’s ranted about all these years.