• @[email protected]
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    1516 months ago

    Well, it’s Mental Outlaw. He’s a contender for one of the most paranoid tech YouTubers out there.

  • @[email protected]
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    726 months ago

    This reminds me of that copy pasta about having an old printer and a gun in case it does something unexpected; can’t remember the exact words though.

      • @[email protected]
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        -26 months ago

        Oh I remember that guy, I watched like 2 videos and then removed them from my watch history hoping that YouTube wouldn’t recommend him again lol

        • Possibly linux
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          126 months ago

          If you have a YouTube watch history you are doing it wrong from a privacy and freedom perspective.

              • @[email protected]
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                86 months ago

                I exclusively use NewPipe on my phone, and it works well (although it seems comments broke recently, but I’m sure it’ll be fixed in due course), but I try to use Piped on PC and I find that it is significantly slower, most videos I have to play at 720p or lower, and it usually takes 20+ seconds to initially load. Being in Australia probably doesn’t help

                Is there any other alternatives that I should consider?

                • If you want a native client for Piped on your phone, check out LibreTube

                  If you want something closer to NewPipe on your PC, check out Invidious, Tubo or FreeTube if you want a native client. There’s also an Invidious client for Android called Clipious.

                  You can also try out Tubular on your phone, it’s a fork of NewPipe with some nice extra features like SponsorBlock integration

                • Possibly linux
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                  06 months ago

                  On my phone I use Libretube and for desktop I use Invidious.

                  The thing with Libretube is you have to flip though instances to get it to work.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                16 months ago

                They can’t rival the youtube app because if I want to have the same subscriptions on yt web I’m gonna need to subscribe on both apps. Revanced is perfectly fine for me

  • @[email protected]
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    446 months ago

    I wish he didn’t ramble as much as he does. Most of his videos could be a quarter of the length.

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      He’s kind of like that crazy prepper/survivalist uncle who lives in the ass end of nowhere, has a homemade fallout shelter stocked to the ceiling with canned chicken and peach, sleeps with a combat knife under his pillow, and rants about the government and agencies whenever he gets the chance. The family still keeps him around because he sometimes does something useful.

      Luke Smith, on the other hand, is already out in the desert building a shrine to Old Man Atom.

  • @[email protected]
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    436 months ago

    There is no software solution that protects from a crowbar, you have to go to the hardware side.

    • FuglyDuck
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      116 months ago

      this is why I always laugh when people use biometrics. best case scenario, they use whatever it’s locked behind with you under duress. Worst case? they take whatever.

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

        “I laugh at people who use security that is possible – unlikely – but possible, to defeat”

        -Internet Chode #577645086

      • @[email protected]
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        I dont get it. In that cenario, using Biometrics is not less secure as that wrench would convince you of telling the password.

        Btw biometrics dont work on first boot on android, or after you used the wrong finger a few times on GrapheneOS. They will also implement a duress long-powerbutton-press feature in some future, to reboot the phone.

        • I Cast Fist
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          I dont get it. In that cenario, using Biometrics is not less secure as that wrench would convince you of telling the password.

          A password is safer because they will need you alive and conscious. To bypass the biometrics, you just need the body part.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          At least they need to keep you conscious and able to speak if its a password tho. Small mercies.

      • @[email protected]
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        06 months ago

        The random person the receptionist let into the main office is not likely to chop my finger off to access my phone or computer. I don’t use biometrics because I don’t want Samsung and Microsoft having my fingerprints for their eventual reconstruction of humanity into Tleilaxu gholas in service to the shareholders.

        • FuglyDuck
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          26 months ago

          the random person that wandered in is also unlikely to ask you for your keys or your password

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Lol, he used this comic in the video as an example of what to do against a Wrench Attack (CVE-1800-4096), to shoot them before they beat you with the wrench.

  • Possibly linux
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    306 months ago

    Protecting your self is important not to mention shooting guns is fun.

      • @[email protected]
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        “Hello Mr. Deadly Attacker, you’re going to kill me with that knife? Well watch out because I’m going to defend myself with this universal healthcare!”

        Stab stab

        “Oh no! It seems that concepts, lacking physical properties of any kind, are inadequate defenses against a knife which contains actual matter! At least my family won’t be charged by the coroner if that counts as ‘healthcare,’ so that works out I guess!”

          • @[email protected]
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            See, that’s where you’re wrong. Not only does rely on an assumption that is flat out untrue, as people do get robbed and killed in America with other weapons all the time, but contrary to your claim guns can indeed be effective against guns, as cops, self defenders, and even gang members often prove.

            I’m not going to bother going into the specifics on if you have a subsecond draw blah blah blah because let’s be honest you don’t really care, but again it has been demonstrated time and time again that guns are in fact an effective weapon against guns.

            To my other point, of the four robberies that I’ve (or in one case a roommate) been victim of, only one was at gunpoint. One was just strong arm, two was my roommate got stabbed and then robbed, three was a home invasion (this was the one with guns), four was at knifepoint (unsuccessfully, because after #3 I picked up, you guessed it, a fucking gun.) #4 decided to walk away instead of stab me for some odd reason that “surely wasn’t me drawing my gun,” so I consider it a success.

  • Quack Doc
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    not enough guns, needs a rifle and a shotgun at least.

  • twelve20two
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    176 months ago

    That is the most cartoony/toy looking handgun I’ve seen in a good while

    • Quack Doc
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      we already have them. It’s not hard to make a firearm, and the 3d printed weapons scene has taken off quite well. all of the good ones still need metal parts ofc, but they are pretty easy to get your hands on in many cases.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          They are nowhere near as reliable as a properly manufactured gun but they are still pretty solid for plastic and a bit of metal

          • SSTF
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            It really depends on the design and how much of it somebody is committed to 3D printing. If somebody wants to 3D print the bare minimum for legal purposes and use a parts kit for the rest, there’s a number of designs that seem identical in function to something factory made.

      • HEXN3T
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        It’s not hard to make a firearm, but it’s pretty hard to make a good one. I could maybe make something about ten times worse than that thing that one Aussie kid made during WWI in his garage.

        • Quack Doc
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          specific parts. you need metal to withstand the pressures of the actual bullet to get a somewhat degree of reliability, so any pressure bearing part needs to be metal, everything else can be plastic, but the more metal the better. Now you can get some more basic designs with parts that you could fabricate at home, but a lot of the higher end designs require off the shelf gun parts.

          The “leading design” right now is the FGC-9 which is actually seeing a degree of use in myanmar(??). The design requires metal parts that could be feasible to fabricate at home. However it is shockingly easy, even in heavily restricted countries, to be able to order the metal parts.

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          You can get parts or parts kits (random example) and make the receiver/frame (whatever the legal “gun” part happens to be on a design) yourself.

  • @[email protected]
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    86 months ago

    arch security

    the decades long joke still keeps paying dividends. well done to trolls that kick-started the whole thing.