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  • After a court ordered warrant. For someone that threatened the FBI director’s girlfriend.

    It’s a service that doesn’t even begin to claim to be truly anonymous, just to give you a secondary email that forwards to your real one so you don’t have to give your real email to someone.

    This is a non story all the way through. The FBI went through the proper procedures, got a warrant from the courts, and Apple complied with that legal warrant, which they are required by law to do.

    The only “story” aspect here is that someone threatened the girlfriend of the FBI director, who presumably is an innocent civilian and not involved with the FBI’s actions at all. She may have shitty taste in men, but that is hardly a reason to be threatened.



  • If you do any sort of self-hosting, take a look at Vaultwarden. All the premium functions for free.

    Before my entire network setup changed recently for unrelated reasons… I had Vaultwarden running on my home server (TrueNAS) and a free Cloudflare account with a tunnel to my home server and a $5/year domain. Worked for my parents easily and no longer had to worry about the big infrastructure being targeted.


  • Vaultwarden, self-hosted is free as well. And since it’s not using the Bitwarden infrastructure, you’re only as exposed as your own network anyway.

    But you can still use all the standard Bitwarden apps and extensions on any device, you just need to point it at your server. Easy to set up for friends and family as well. No need to try and teach them about VPNs, setting up syncthing, etc.


  • The people flying the jets aren’t handling the logistics of telling Kuwait they’re going to be in the airspace.

    And those pilots are going to assume that their logistics infrastructure did the bare minimum and that they don’t need to worry about Kuwaiti air defense because they’re on the same side and IFF should identify them correctly.

    Well, they would have assumed that previously, they might not anymore.


  • Does it though? This isn’t even approaching being out of the ordinary for this administration.

    Everything they do is implemented in the most incompetent fashion, because everyone running this now has no relevant experience for what they’re supposed to be running. They all come through the fascism media news machine and Trump puts them in charge of something as a reward for being a yes man.








  • Nearly every electronic device sold at Walmart is a unique SKU sold nowhere else.

    They have their own internal logistics and manufacturing specialist team that works with manufacturers to hit specific wholesale price targets that they demand to even consider carrying their products in store. They reduce the number of ports, features, included accessories, quality of materials, etc. to get the that specific price.

    The manufacturers take a huge hit on their own profits from these… but in theory will make up for that with sheer sales quantity.

    Requiring a Walmart account probably means some sort of kickback to Vizio, or other wholesale arrangement. And since these devices are usually unique SKUs that can’t be sold elsewhere, they can receive differentiated software, have no risk of any sort of price matching, etc.