Governments are starting to require people verify their ages with an actual picture ID either primarily or via a trusted third party verifier. How does does a flag sent by the OS that the user sets to whatever they want satisfy that requirement?

It's not a question of a default admin password anymore. Many people never update their router firmware to patch security holes or run old out-of-support routers that don't receive updates anymore. The risk is more often that someone is running a router that has remote exploitable exploits.

Fortunately those people are increasingly on ISP-managed equipment now, and more tech savvy folks throw their ISP router in the trash and run OpenWRT or PF/OPNSense or similar.

Also, the Chinese government has no real interest in me, and far less ability to lay hands on me than my own government. I don't want to be spied on by anyone, but if my choices are TPLink/CCP vs Cisco/NSA, I'll take China, thanks. Anything sensitive is end-to-end encrypted anyway, so sure they can do some traffic analysis, but I'm not too worried about my financial data or anything. They already got my life's story when they broke into OPM back in '15 and stole my SF86 anyways.

Same - it's a lovely little device. I use TPLink Omada (similar prosumer/SOHO stuff as UNIFI) for my managed switch, APs, and AP controller, but I wanted to keep my router open source and out of any one company's control.

The actual vault is just a mini PC in a nice machined aluminum case. Those aren't banned AFAIK, and OPNSense is just one of many OS options you can choose when you purchase it. It doesn't become a router until you install router software on it, which I assume is done by Protectli in CA.

I've pretty routinely seen claude break out of the sandbox in not super transparent ways. For example, it tries to run git commit, fails because the sandbox won't let git talk to my gpg agent to sign the commit, then it retries outside the sandbox and tells me what it's done after the fact. I think going forward the best practice is going to run it in a container with only project files mounted read-write and to have a pretty restrictive firewall around it.

Those are all features that could be implemented into Android auto. Google and the auto manufacturers just need to agree on an API for the phone to be able to send commands to the head unit, which can then broadcast them on the CAN bus.

Do you know if running a 3rd party OS like Graphene or Lineage precludes you from running apps that use DRM, like Hulu or Netflix? I've been toying with the idea of converting my NVidia shield, but I don't want to hobble its usefullness as a settop box in the family room.

A good portion of the defense budget that goes toward maintaining up America's military dominance in order to prop up the petrodollar.

How about throw them in jail for a while, let's say.... about 6 months. Ah fuck it, lets double it for the criminal negligence displayed.

You verify a signature with the public key that pairs with the private key used to sign. There is no need to keep a public key secret so no need to keep it offline on a fragile flash drive. You can and should keep the verification public keys available on the elections website available to all. Even if the private keys in the voting machine used to create the signature on the e-ballots are lost, you can still verify the signature with the widely available and corresponding replicated public keys.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

Assuming the author is somewhat competent, it is much harder to spot a mistake in someone else's code than it is to just write it correctly yourself. AI can spew out reasonable-looking, almost-correct code at a much higher rate than any human reviewer can hope to keep up with.

What's maybe even worse, is that in working with claude code, I've noticed even if the code is correct, the comments it generates are often off. There will be false assumptions or mis-statements about the API being accessed. Those are time bombs for a junior engineer or a future AI session that comes in and takes them at face value.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

For the adverts, they still depict trademarked products. Even if the content is not copyrighted, you still don't have free reign to use that trademark in an unauthorized manner.