🏳️⚧️ Elara ☭ @lemmygrad.ml 18-year-old Autistic, Trans ML descended from the Soviet Union. Bourgeoisie's worst nightmare.
she/her
Overlord Friendly server admin of the genzedong.xyz matrix homeserver
Previously known as Arsen6331
WHAT?? Are you serious?! I thought watches were permanent! /s
CCP hatches evil scheme to steal OUR carbon right out of the atmosphere!
Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for the latest scheme of the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose sinister plan involves nothing less than stealing the world's carbon right out of the atmosphere. How nefarious, you might think. Let's dive into this evil plan!
Instead of ignoring the dire warnings of climate scientists and continuing to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere like the international community has done for decades, the CCP wants to capture it and store it safely. What's next? Preventing forest fires instead of letting them rage uncontrollably? How selfish of China not to consider how much profit we make rebuilding when people's houses get burned to the ground.
We've consulted with an expert, who agrees with our conclusion that the CCP's plan is to steal our carbon out of the atmosphere. The expert, who has asked to remain anonymous, stated the following: "I don't know exactly why they're doing it, but they're definitely up to no good." Truly chilling testimony!
Let's not forget the CCP's participation in international climate agreements and commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How cunning to want to work collaboratively with other nations to address the pressing issue of climate change. Clearly, they're just trying to divert attention away from their grand scheme of carbon larceny.
But their evil plot doesn't stop there, oh no! China has had the audacity to invest in renewable energy, public transportation, and electric vehicles. So, not only are they stealing our carbon, they're lowering their own emissions. At this rate, there won't be any carbon left for us!
I hope everyone reading this understands that this threat is extremely dire. We must all be wary of China's plan to preserve this planet for future generations!
That was my bot. Lemmy removed a feature the bot was using, so it stopped working.
Yeah, this is the reason. TankieReplyBot used Lemmy's WebSocket API because it was far more efficient for a bot to receive events as they happen rather than constantly checking for new comments and posts. With that gone, the bot will have to be rewritten to use polling instead, and the last time I did that, it caused my IP to be rate limited within an hour and that was with a relatively long polling interval.
Have you ever seen UPS' website? lol
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I'm definitely not your overlord. Nope, not at all, not sure why you'd ever think that. Definitely no sarcasm in this comment.
The NSA’s BULLRUN program suggests that the TLS encryption is compromised anyway.
I doubt that. Potentially, at some point, that might've been true, but TLS constantly changes which encryption algorithms are used. The older algorithms that leaked documents state the NSA had cracked are no longer allowed in TLS and your browser will refuse to load pages that use them. Current algorithms are far more secure and the open source implementations used for them have no back doors. They're being audited constantly by hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity experts. If any back doors appear, we'll know pretty quickly. If you're using a proprietary browser like Chrome, however, there's no way to know if Google has altered the implementation in some way (although someone at Google probably would speak up if that was the case), so I'd recommend never using a proprietary browser. Use something like Firefox or Chromium instead. Ideally, Firefox or one of its forks such as Librewolf.
My money is on certificate authories having given the NSA a backdoor ‘for national security
This wouldn't do anything but make it a little easier for the NSA to run man in the middle attacks. It would not give them the ability to crack any encryption at all or even make that easier, and if the CA was ever discovered doing this, they'd go out of business immediately (this has happened before), so they're highly disincentivized from allowing it.
I don’t think that they need to compromise an app directly.
This is actually true, but not in the ways you listed. A lot of the web is now using Cloudflare's free CDN service. They proxy their traffic through it to make their sites faster and reduce server load. Cloudflare issues their own TLS certificates and the connection is made between the browser and their servers before getting forwarded to the destination. That means Cloudflare is in possession of plain text data from all users who use any site that happens to use Cloudflare. If Cloudflare has given the feds a backdoor (and they probably have), that would give them lots of data. Lemmygrad is not using Cloudflare, nor do any of my services including the genzedong matrix server.
Also, most people are using proprietary OSes like Windows or Android with Google services. No one has any idea what data is being collected by those, and what is being done with that data. So, for anything truly sensitive, use an open source OS like Linux.
If you need to communicate privately, please don’t use an open forum. Use an OS without telemetry (not Windows), make self-generated keys for GPG emails or OMEMO chat, and verify the key signatures directly with your comrades. If you need to communicate anonymously, bear in mind that there is no silver bullet.
This is good advice. Ideally, if your life genuinely depends on being able to communicate or otherwise use the internet privately, use an amnesic OS like TAILS that will irretrievably erase anything you were doing once you shut down or for something more permanent, an OS specifically designed for protecting your anonymity, such as Whonix.
Wisconsin Shaken by Mysterious Thermonuclear Explosion: Links to Obscure Website 'Lemmygrad' Baffle Authorities
In a shocking turn of events, a thermonuclear explosion was detected in the heart of Wisconsin earlier today. What's even more bewildering is that the source of the explosion appears to be a single individual.
According to the ISP logs, the person was apparently browsing a website called "Lemmygrad" when the incident occurred. We're not sure what "Lemmygrad" is or what kind of content it hosts, but we can't help but wonder if it had something to do with this catastrophic event.
Authorities are currently investigating the matter, but no one seems to have any clue as to what happened. Some are speculating that the person was some kind of a mad scientist experimenting with nuclear fission in his basement, while others are suggesting that this was a terrorist attack.
But the question on everyone's mind is how a single person could cause a thermonuclear explosion. We're talking about the kind of explosion that can level entire cities and wipe out populations. It's simply inconceivable that a lone individual could have that kind of power.
The fact that such an incident could happen in this day and age is simply mind-boggling. We have to wonder what kind of world we're living in when a single person can cause a thermonuclear explosion. It's a scary thought, and it's one that we hope we'll never have to face again.
In the meantime, we urge everyone to stay vigilant and report any suspicious activity. We never know who might be lurking around the corner about to go THERMONUCLEAR. It could be anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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UPDATE:
As the investigation into the thermonuclear explosion in Wisconsin continues, new details have emerged that shed some light on the individual responsible.
According to sources close to the investigation, the person in question had rented a storage unit. Inside the storage unit, authorities found numerous handwritten letters addressed to someone named "CriticalResist."
The letters, which were filled with rambling and disjointed thoughts, suggested that "CriticalResist" had somehow forced the individual to carry out the explosion. The writer claimed that "CriticalResist" had banned him from their online community, and that this had left him with no other option but to act out in this violent and destructive manner.
It's worth noting that the writer of these letters seemed to be suffering from some kind of psychological distress. The letters were filled with paranoid ramblings and conspiracy theories, and the writer seemed to have a deep-seated resentment towards society and its institutions.
As the investigation continues, we can only hope that we'll be able to piece together the events that led up to this catastrophic event. But one thing is certain: the repercussions of this explosion will be felt for years to come.
Telemetry in open source projects
Generally, I'm opposed to any telemetry in any project, open source or not. However, there was recently a discussion about adding telemetry to the Go programming language's tools, and Go is my primary language. My initial reaction was outrage, I don't want Google spyware on my system, but reading the proposal for how it was actually going to work changed my opinion.
Here's a link to the proposal: https://research.swtch.com/telemetry. It was designed for Go, but the author believes it can be applied to other open source projects as well.
It was originally going to be opt-out, which I disagree with, but the Go team has listened to feedback and it will be opt-in instead. This is the first telemetry proposal I'm not completely opposed to, and I might even enable it on some of my devices.
While Google has had a very bad track record with spyware, this proposal actually seems reasonable and carefully designed to take privacy into consideration. The system will only collect numbers and stack traces. The numbers are statistics like the amount of times a Go tool has crashed or the amount of times a feature was used. Every week, with a 10% probability, a report will be sent. This amounts to an average of just 5 reports per year. The reports will contain no identifying information, not even a randomly-generated ID, they will be publicly viewable, and the decisions about what to collect will be made in an open, public process. All the code for this will be completely open source. It only applies to the Go tools themselves, not programs compiled with the Go compiler, and all the collection logic is local, with the metrics being stored in files that you can inspect to see what will be sent.
It seems like this proposal would preserve privacy while still providing only the necessary data to allow the Go team to improve their tools. What are your thoughts on this?
I have evolved
Hello everyone,
You all know me as Arsen6331
A while ago, I had a realization. I realized I was trans.
As with all the other major realizations in my life, my brain has been subconsciously collecting evidence for years, and I had this realization in a single moment. My egg didn't crack, it exploded and shattered violently. Memories containing evidence started popping up in quick succession, from when I was as young as 3 years old, and I had to process all of them. It has been a major emotional rollercoaster.
I've been repressing this for as long as I've been alive, so this makes me very anxious, but now that most of it has been processed, and the most important people have been told, I can tell all of you:
Hello, I am Elara, an Autistic, Trans ML.
Thanks to everyone here. You all were a huge part of my realization. Without you, it might've happened a lot later or not at all.