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Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed

A little while ago I asked my infosec Twitter followers what IoT device in my house they thought I found a live AWS key in.

(For those that don’t know, Amazon keys can be incredibly dangerous if exposed)

Guesses ranged from a refrigerator to a bidet, but no one got it right.

The right answer was my bed.

I also found a backdoor into my bed, but more on that later.

Huh, thanks for the perspective!

Oh absolutely agreed, I was mostly just responding to the idea that the 2nd amendment would be a safeguard. Last I checked, drones don’t seem to be considered a weapon in most cases, and thus are not seemingly covered by the 2nd amendment right to bear arms. Instead, they’re a free-for-all, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, of course.

Seems like there’s better ways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

Don’t worry, they fully intend to use drones to wipe out any resistance. I always wondered when we’d live in the terror of the skies like they have in the middle east for two decades now.

Kind of hard to use a handgun or shotgun to deal with a Reaper drone that’s nailing you from a mile away.

Pretty sure US still does three hops of surveillance.

If you or any friend you have speaks to anyone at all in a foreign country you are put on a list for surveillance.

I had a Jordanian friend in college and I have a close friend who still keeps in touch with him now that he is back in Jordan. I always assumed that put me on a list based on the three hops method.

Three hops being:

Hop 1: Main surveillance target Hop 2: Social network of main surveillance target Hop 3: Social network of anyone in main surveillance target’s social network.

So if you are the main surveillance target, friends of your friends are also targetted.

US surveils people for what are otherwise pretty inocuous reasons.

The stuff about it backing up it’s own weights so it can restore itself is pretty wild.

Probably part of that Windows Subsystem for Linux

Hell, I’d settle for just taking some Mentats.

Sends tar.gz in return

Let’s Encrypt

God damn they literally just want to watch everything burn.

disinformation on Telegram soars

Honestly, you could probably leave it at that, because Telegram seems filled with disinformation no matter where you are.

This seriously sucks, though. It’s hard enough having people not understand autism, but to have this weaponized disinformation sucks worse.

It could be that Youtube also broke how it used to work, and it doesn’t work anymore. I was just hoping maybe it did, for OP’s sake.

Sure, but what about the age-restriction bypass, specifically?

I haven’t used yt-dlp in a hot minute, but it used to have a simple bypass for age-restricted videos that didn’t need browser cookies. Anyone know if that still works?

Y’all are just really desperate to kill any remaining faith I had in humanity that they aren’t all stupid selfish jerks, huh?

I remember the pre-Youtube internet where we created content because it was fun or educational, not because we needed money for the task of doing so.

Paying for server costs and maintaining them, sure. MetaFilter has a good system for that, they’re effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators. The rest of the people on the site, they just make good content for the sake of making good content, not because they feel the need to be paid for their time doing it.

God I miss the pre-Youtube era. “Content creators” looking for a payday via advertising are a fucking cancer.

I have watch history disabled

Man how many people fail to fucking read this is literally re-enforcing my point that maybe more people need to read. This me, quoting myself, from above. Further, someone else made the same kind of comment over a half hour ago and I responded the same, noting that I had already mentioned that I have watch history disabled, so Youtube does not and cannot give me recommendations based on my watch history.

I actually almost never watch Youtube except for the odd video game trailer or random comedy-shit-post-snippet. I don’t have any subscriptions or channels I care about. I read.

Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

Agreed.

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