Some enterprising individuals in the US figured out you could print out your Venmo QR and stick it to parking signs to get people to just send you money

What are the other loopholes?

You generally have to pass a background check. You can buy guns in some states without one from a private seller but this is rarely how they’re acquired for school shootings, most of the population lives in states where this is not legal. Typically they either just didn’t have anything concerning in their background and were able to pass the background check (other than a ton of shit everyone around them ignored) or they had access to someone else’s gun which should have been secured better. There have been a few cases of parents buying their children guns which they then used in shootings though.

Most of the populous states are rolling various forms of safe storage requirements (you have to store guns in a safe your children don’t have access to), red flag laws (this person keeps tweeting about wanting to kill people don’t give them guns), waiting periods (so if you’re planning something dumb you have a few days to calm down), and raising age limits to 21 (so people in still in school can’t obtain them).

There’s conflicting info on if these work, it’ll take time for them to have an effect as compliance is complicated. The safe storage one in particular would probably stop a lot of shootings if it had widespread compliance.

The mag bans/ASW bans don’t seem to do much as the vast majority of shootings are a few rounds using common handguns.

This article makes no fucking sense. In a normal system, nothing you could reasonably call “zoning” should change flash read speeds. WTF are they talking about.

To be clear, the flipper is just a Girl Tech IM-me with an NFC chip. If it lets people do a thing, that thing has been possible for decades. Just wait until someone makes a popular device based on a cheap fully featured wideband SDR like the AD9363 or LMS7002. Shit is gonna get fucking wild.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker

I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.

https://youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems

His logo leaves very little to the imagination

Yeah, but they used to be fairly obvious. Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested. I think it’s good they’re keeping this in the public eye.

Use LoRa instead of sim cards so they can’t tell who bought it though

I was watching random body cam footage recently and in one of the arrests they commented that the traffic stop/detention was because flock had identified unusual multi state activity. The cops had absolutely nothing else to work with but because the drivers in the group of cars didn’t speak much English they were able to force illegal searches and found that they were carrying high value goods that they felt were stolen. The whole thing was a huge mess of insane 4th and 5th amendment violations.

Bear in mind the map is far from compete. It’s best to learn what they look like so you can ID them in real time. Also the issue isn’t your commute, it’s when you deviate from it for whatever purpose. For instance, if you need to go pick up a friend from a protest you’ll need to map a specific route to avoid them.

Not much, but it does need to be maintained. Every time someone pushes an update to code that the driver uses, something changes in the Linux kernel, or Intel releases be hardware that needs a different register map or whatever, the driver will fail. If nobody steps up to maintain it, it could stop working in a matter of months.

I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.

I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.

The number of people who don’t understand that AI is just the mathematical average of the internet… If we’re, on average, assholes, AI is gonna be an asshole

This is the correct initial reaction but given the extent to which the US monitors every single transaction everyone makes, it’s getting awful hard to manage the influx of feral hogs without having them streaming through your door.

Since nobody has mentioned it, all of this is turbo illegal and the federal courts will absolutely nuke this from orbit. State governments do not control airspace, full stop. The courts have been very clear on this. Manned vs unmanned doesn’t matter to the FAA, it’s still one hell of a PP slap from the feds for encroaching on their turf. Additionally, any form of jamming (desense, deauth, noise, location spoofing, fraudulent signals etc) is illegal and regulated by the FCC, and doing it with intent to take down an aircraft means you get strung up by both the FCC and FAA simultaneously. In particular doing literally anything to the GPS band will pose a massive and immediate risk to manned passenger aircraft and the feds aren’t going to look kindly on that.

Everything seems to be. There was a period where you could kinda have a sane experience browsing over a VPN or otherwise using a cloud service IP range endpoint but especially the past 6 months or so things have gotten worse exponentially by the week. Everything is moving behind cloudflare or other systems

The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent.

The problem isn’t that you can’t predict when a stock is mispriced, that’s sometimes very easy, it’s predicting when all the other dipshits will come to the same conclusion because ultimately that’s all that matters.

Right now musk still has a personality cult and there are a lot of morons buying the stock like their worldview depends on it. They don’t read the earnings reports, they don’t read unbiased news, they mostly don’t even own the cars, they just think it’s going to the moon because…for lack of a better word, propaganda.

What’s the deal with libreSSL at this point, it seems like a few distros added it then removed it a few years later, now you don’t hear about it much.

Trump could get the case dropped right now though if he wanted to, right? Or is it too far along at the lower level for that to be an option?