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> The silk road guy was got on conspiracy for attempting murder and not drug or human trafficking charges

Actually, the murder stuff was not part of his sentencing or what they tried him for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht


A system where the whole populace votes on everything isn't the only kind of democracy. The US is a representative democracy.


Did I say they have to vote on everything?


Unfortunately not. The exemption dropped some years ago.


Personal archival isn't exempt anymore, that dropped some years ago. The only archival exemption now is for "qualifying institutions".


You have a source on that? I can't find anything - so as far as I can tell you're just spreading misinformation.


I mean just read through the link above. You'll find no exemption for personal use when it involves bypassing DRM. Which I don't think any DVD or blu-ray anymore lacks.

I'm also reasonably sure that "3. Proposed Class 6: Audiovisual Works—Space-Shifting" in the above link would cover personal archival and that was explicitly rejected.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for it, but it's not permitted anymore like it used to be.


FWIW, I've been using an Omada switch and 2 APs for over a year with the controller in a docker container without any issues. I have preferred OPNSense as my router/firewall for years and it works well for me with omada gear.


Could potentially Faraday cage it if you can find the exact spot it's at.


Careful with that or it might just eat up your battery trying to contact cellular towers at maximum power with a short retry interval.


The module should go to sleep, and the battery management should also load-shed it if it detects the battery draining. I suspect this is probably not implemented correctly on some cars (because what is), but it's definitely something that's tested for regularly (since cars can be expected to be taken camping, off the grid, or even just purchased by owners who live outside of cellular coverage).


> The module should go to sleep

lol tell Subaru owners about this. There are tons of them complaining of batteries going dead the last few years, just from sitting a few days in the driveway, while the always-on cellular is at edge of range, hunting. Subaru's solution to this has been to in some cases pay for a bigger battery for those customers.


Maybe an other way around solution? Is is possible to build some kind of dummy cell tower that supersedes real ones?


Good luck with that. This is illegal (in europe)


I wholly agree with your sentiment, but as someone who cares to actually take action for my privacy this kind of onerousness is par for the course, unfortunately.


I think an argument should be made against normalizing this, which could then lead to OEMs building in internet assisted data export functionality in new cars and people won't know until a lawsuit (likely) starts years after the fact and the harm is done.


This is why I've taken a more and more grim look at technology and software, in particular.

Stallman was right, about nearly everything concerning power, companies and governments using it, and the role the citizen is viewed to have in such a limited capitalist view.

Without government mandates to open the source of every chip and firmware, none of the modern hardware we use is trustable.


Bitwarden is fantastic IMO, vaultwarden if you like to self host.

Out of an abundance of caution, it would be prudent to change the passwords for the most critical accounts in your life initially. Things like your bank, email, Google. Accounts that losing control of would immediately make you go "oh shit, I can't do X that I need for daily life". Then slowly over time change the less critical ones.


Consider porting the number to something like Google voice or jmp.chat and get a random number you don't care about for your SIM.


It seems that Google Voice numbers can't be used for some 2FA services.


That's possible, but those services most likely offer another form of 2FA. Getting away from using SMS 2FA everywhere you can is best.


I know, but it's not always under my control.


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