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TechNerdWizard42

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  • China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement

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  • So same with the people voluntarily visiting the USA right? Because the same laws already exist there.

  • China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement

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  • First, obviously this is not good. Secondly, if anyone is complaining about this from the USA, you don't get to. CBP has the right to inspect your electronics with no questions asked by you. They have a right to make a copy of all data. They have a right to seize your electronics and decrypt them if you fail to provide the encryption pin. They have the right to compel you to unlock and decrypt your devices if it uses fingerprint or facial unlock. They have the right to revoke your residency status if you aren't a citizen.

    CBP has authority to do this at any sea, land, or air crossing. It also has the authority to do this within 100 miles of any border. That means about 70% of all Americans live their day to day lives within the scope of the exact same legislation. And yes it is used, all the time. If you think it isn't, you're just ignorant.

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?

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  • Wow I thought I was the only idiot that bought it. Once they started charging for the smart features, it got unbatteried and became just a fancy box.

  • Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal.

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  • If he's smart, he'll be on a chartered flight out of the US now.

  • eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech

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  • Yup that's a good description. The scary part is that the new ones are sooo much better. And even work from the planes and helicopters and now drones.

  • When your bank/CU/brokerage demands that you login to their portal to update KYC info - Hack Liberty

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  • I have many citizenships, one specifically for banking. They look at your birthplace but really it's your passport. They are required to report US citizens, which are passport holders (because you're outside the US). Having a second passport or third or whatever, doesn't bring it up. You must falsely claim you are not an American in friendly countries and then you're fine. They are very aware of renunciation and don't require proof. The proof of a secondary passport as your primary is all that's needed. For example you entered the country on your other passport, that's where your visa is tied to etc.

    The other way with unfriendly countries is even easier. For example if you open a TBank account in Russia, it takes about a day online and they courier you your debit card and bank documents to your hotel. So it requires 2 days in Russia. Even as a US citizen, on a US passport, they do not comply with FACTA. Your accounts and transactions will never be sent to the USA.

    You as an American must still report those assets on your taxes. So again, choose whether you want privacy or being a "white collar criminal"

  • When your bank/CU/brokerage demands that you login to their portal to update KYC info - Hack Liberty

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  • Here's the thing. It's every bank that is on the SWIFT network because the US is a terroristic state when it comes to financial spying, sorry "transparency".

    Demanding KYC and reporting all your transactions via SARs is the standard thing for all banks. The only ones that get away with not having to do it are the manipulative criminals who schmooze there way in with tellers and do transactions that way. But that's also stopping with the crackdown at large.

    I keep accounts in the US, but I have moved as much as I can out. If you're in the position where you've got high 5 figures or more it may be worth it to setup accounts outside the USA in countries that are hostile to the US banking system. If you are in the position where you can drop $250k on a new citizenship, then get it. Then open accounts under that passport in countries that don't comply with the US.

    Otherwise, you're screwed. This is why crypto and BRICs are a big thing.

  • Are you better off than you were four years ago? It can be a murky picture for many

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  • I've voted D every time. This question is ridiculous because most people are NOT better off and those that are, are all on the low end of the financial spectrum where the short term income gains have made a difference.

    Even the best stats I see from the Democrats show 8% better income adjusted for inflation. That's awesome! But what inflation? The low fed number. Not the CPI.

    This means for anyone who purchases things, or where purchasing things is a larger proportion of their income which is everyone below the top 0.5% or 1% in the USA, your effective wage has gone down 10% to 40% depending on what your personal income raise was. Those that job hopped, are only down a bit. Those that didn't are screwed.

    Everytime this question gets asked, I look around and not a single person I know is better off now from income. Not a damn one. You know what is doing better? Stock portfolios. I have them, I'm up. My friends have them, they're up. We have traded realized daily losses in living for stock market unrealized gains. The average person doesn't have stocks. They just get shafted completely.

    It's incomprehensible to me how low Democrats have gone to just blatantly lie and gas light. That's a Republican move. And every one of the people smart enough to actually think, gets a little more pissed off when they're gas lit into trying to believe that 20% year over year multiple years in a row of inflation is good. That's batshit.

  • Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge

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  • Ipv4 is one of those things that works awesome, is simple, and is a victim of its own success. Ipv6 is just complicated bloat of a standard. Cool features, but nobody implements them, so useless.

    In 30 years, probably useful. Until then, I'm not giving up Ipv4.

  • Violence outside Los Angeles synagogue taxed LAPD, sparks condemnation from Biden, Newsom, Bass. Mayor adds additional LAPD patrols outside houses of worship citywide

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  • If you hold your Nazi meeting at a Dairy Queen, and people show up to protest your Nazism, the news article should not be about the disgraceful attacks on Dairy Queen. When they are, and nobody mentions the reason why the protest was actually there, it is blatant propaganda. The fancy new term being "fake news".

  • Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats

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  • Wow this is such propaganda... How many mass shootings does the USA have again???

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  • Unsurprisingly almost all non-negative news of the arab world is suppressed. Yes the path is full normalization and fully legally protected.

    The major difference in the UAE is that the judicial system is victim based. Not DA based. Basically the government leaves you alone for most of these things except if a party to the "crime" on the books complains.

    So for abortion, if 2 expats hook up and a need an abortion it's basically like California. You make an appointment, you get it done, you get prescription meds, all good. No protestors anywhere, ever.

    If someone hooks up with a deeply conservative person and they disagree with the abortion, then legally they're correct. And it can be stopped unless as outlined for the reasons in the article now. But just like in the redneck states, most of the conservatives are not against it when it benefits them or they need it.

    Which brings it all back to nobody cares. And having been someone who has taken women to get their abortions in the US (as a friend only!) that walk of pressure and shame is ridiculous. The last time was like a friggin spy movie. We got a location to go to 1hr before the appointment. We parked there. An unmarked van pulls up, and you get in. You put on covers for your clothes and face. The van drives you to the clinic, parks near a rear entrance, and you run inside while all the "Christians" scream at you, throw blood at you, call you a murderer, etc. Then after the woman has the procedure and has to go back, has to do it in reverse in pain. And the van does like 30 minutes of evasive driving down random roads until they finally double back to wherever your car is. This was in a purple area of a blue state btw. The clinic had people routinely shoot it up (at night, not with people in it), try to light it on fire, harass employees, etc.

    It's absolutely horrifying.

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  • It is true. And yet it actually has been that way for a long time. The level of theocracy is actually lower in the UAE than in the USA. Which is super weird if you haven't experienced both.

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  • The unspoken rule is that nobody cares. There are clinics that operate now in the non conservative areas in the open. Anyone, single mothers, expats, whatever, can get one no issue.

    In the redneck areas, this is where this will make a change.

  • Old timers know

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  • Who can afford the performance hit?

    My production server running Win XP Home has to have the firewall off just to make all the super secret company internal networks work. SFTP would cripple us!

    /s, except about the performance hit being stupidly unacceptable in 2024.

  • A fourth victim has died a day after a shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, police say

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  • Oh no.... Anyways.

    Thoughts and Prayers.

  • Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale

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  • There is a no sale order as they fix the pedal and wipers. Voluntarily.

  • Old timers know

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  • You will pry ftp from my cold dead hands.

  • 'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning

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  • There ARE designs that work. Just not found in the USA. Designs from 2000 years ago throughout the hot and humid southeast Asia that work fine.

    If you've ever been to India for example, you'd know. The USA does not have a monopoly on humidity and isn't close to the high for temperatures.