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Monkey With A Shell

@ ShellMonkey @lemmy.socdojo.com

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Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.

  • The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation!

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  • It depends on how many layers of obfuscation you are looking to deal with. There always needs to be some publicly shared token to initiate a connection, even if that's only the public key of a asymmetric key pair to a 3rd party auth system.

    There are ways to do it, but part of the difficulty is there are so many ways to do it that coming to an agreed method is like herding cats.

  • The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation!

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  • Which means encrypted messaging without a backdoor would be illegal if this passes! That's a slippery slope!

    Metadata is not content, so no E2E would not be illegal. Metadata is things like who sent messages to who at what time, duration, volume of data, other externally parsable metrics like that.

  • Can I delete my Lemmy account and just vanish?

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  • It's interesting that this is kicking up some controversy. Personally I've held similar thoughts since the time of AOL, that once it leaves your system it's no longer in your control. You can ask people to delete it, and maybe they did, or maybe they deleted the one copy but not the cache version, or maybe just didn't and lied about it. I've actually accidentally found stuff I thought was long lost when I decided to just mess around with some data recovery tools and pulled a bunch of pictures back from a drive I didn't remember them ever being on.

    One of my kids I saw take a picture of a snapchat with another phone. Asked what they where doing and it was explained that if you do a regular screenshot it notified the other person, so this was how they kept a copy secretly. So with that in mind, you never know who has copies of what that was posted.

  • What's something you had as a kid you wish had modern batteries?

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  • Neighbor here has one of those for her kids with an adapter to plug in batteries from Ryobi tools. Nice idea if you have a stack of batteries around already that can be swapped on the fly.

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    How do I politely turn down a teenage girl?

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  • The fuck they do. I had to go hunt down some tool grooming and using my kid at that age. A lack of confidence and want of external validation are powerful drivers to do stupid things that can have massive life changing impacts.

  • FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs

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  • Oh fuck off on both sides of that headline. Sure, we'll let you create more monopolistic ISP lock in, just so long as you're not making any effort at not being a biggot while you do it.

  • Legal Experts warn Trump may soon be facing “prison, not politics

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  • Similar to the case where he was convicted of multiple felonies and given (checks notes) not even a slap on the wrist?

  • Is Linux compatible with touchscreen/2 in 1 laptops?

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  • Yeah, it could be meterage I guess, not sure if the non murica-verse uses a similar expression.

    https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/acer-spin-1-sp111-32n-c2x3

    Specifically it's one of these, or at least in the nearby product line. A mere 32GB of storage and 4 GB RAM so you can get away with some pretty lean specs. Used the XFCE version if I recall. Basically just give it a try and there's a good chance it works

  • Is Linux compatible with touchscreen/2 in 1 laptops?

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  • I have Mint on an old Acer 2 in 1 that is barely capable or installing Windows just for the size, so it's possible but of course YMMV.

  • Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites

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  • Trump appeals claiming it's fake info and costs too much electricity to host in 3, 2, 1...

  • 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere

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  • Updated: 4/28/2025, 10:30 AM EDT: This article has been updated to reflect that 4chan appears to have come back online, according to a blog posted on the site on April 25.

    Short lived but even if 4chan died the various spinoffs, some far worse, still exist. There will always be a place where the wild things are and they'll continue screwing with society just for the lulz.

  • ReArm Europe 2030 Discussions:

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  • Hey, maybe if everyone stops buying all our death machines we'll stop making so many and build something useful instead? Wishful thinking I know but...

  • Attacks surge against antiquated routers, FBI warns

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  • Routers don't even need to be old to be targets. A sizable chunk of people will plug in a router, set up the WiFi and never touch it again other than to reboot so the firmware is never updated again.

  • Scorpions ‘taking over’ Brazilian cities with reported stings rising 250%

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  • Sweet, I'll get some shell cruncher tongs

  • Trump plans to announce US will call Persian Gulf ‘Arabian Gulf’, officials say

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  • I have no clue, just that golf course the orange muppet spends a lot of time at.

  • Trump plans to announce US will call Persian Gulf ‘Arabian Gulf’, officials say

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  • I hereby rename 'Mar A Lago' to the 'Moore of Legos'. Visitors are also here by prohibited from wearing shoes while in the facility to demonstrate their toughness and fealty to the lord of plastic bricks...

    It makes about as much sense as anything these days.

  • Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

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  • At what point has this admin given a damn about rules?

  • 10 Years on - How Occupy Wall Street Ended: Clampdown by Obama that Trump Emulated

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  • What does some 4 year old BOTH SIDES thing have to do with shutting down a bunch of facists today?

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • One of the interesting conundrums of Linux at large is there are so many flavors of it. If you generically search for 'how to ... In Linux' you'll probably get things for Ubuntu, maybe Mint or RedHat, but good luck with the 2000 other distros that you see on a list.

    Conversely if you do the same for Windows or Mac it's just a matter of a few recent versions, and half the time fixes would be applicable to any given one of them.