A hacker needs root in linux to install boot time malware at which point its game over anyway and youll need to nuke the install from orbit including the loader so UEFI brings nothing to the table.

LittleSnitch (and I guess open snitch?) show you whenever a process attempts to make an outbound connection and lets you define a rule about if you want to allow it. It's not just a monitor, it actively forces you to approve or deny every program's connection to the Internet the first time you run it.

I've used "Windows Firewall Control" for years; have an actual license that worked on Win8 and 10 without needing an upgrade. It's not as good as Little Snitch as it will block the connection, not hold it. You then have to select the enable/disable and it adds the rule to the built-in Windows firewall and run the application again. (Little Snitch won't drop the connection, just block the calling process. After you select what to do, the network connection continues as normal).

>the response of a child. this is why you are not to be taken seriously.

ad hominem. You cannot attack the argument so you attack the person. That's not childish, it's just logically dumb and completely adult.

> youre going to have to accept that most normie people just dont really care about "domestic spying", we've been hearing about it for 20+ years and most normal people arent seeing a negative thing about it.

Strawman. I never made that argument. In fact, I said that's the problem. I don't have to "accept" it. I know it's true and a failure of society I cannot change. It doesn't make it right. It makes things sad.

> "some things happened in the past therefor i dont need real evidence for claims now in the present" is still retarded and you are still doing it.

Strawman. That's not the argument. These things really did happen in the past and would be dismissed by people as conspiracy. Therefore, anything that looks too outlandish to be true today should be fully investigated, and by using your own brain and mainstream/non-mainstream sources. For example, I did a full writeup with a lot of sources oh why I think the Trump assassination was fake:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

> enjoy your iranian war loser. its your fault.

Why is it my fault? Once again, calling me a "loser." I didn't vote for this. I haven't voted since 2008:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

Mostly because it scientifically doesn't make any difference:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

You are an anon coward, you don't have any good arguments, you insult me instead of addressing the arguments and then you straw man arguments I wasn't making. It's kinda funny honestly watching you punch yourself in the face. Your type of aggressive attitude and assumptions of the total of an individual due to some isolated views is the direct result of your consumption of the Google/Facebook/ABC/NBC/MSNBC/Propaganda machines. There are many independents and libertarians who chose the Orange side for lack of better options, and now that everyone hates war, they can no longer protest together because someone who is for killing babies views the one who is against giving sex hormones as a Nazi and their induced differences separates them from the true enemies of the pedophile class.

You sir, are what the federal government's propaganda machines would call "A perfect citizen."

What you're trying to say is that it was created by the NSA, and that it's a honeypot.

.. could help him find the missing 'e' in his name.

If you think UEFI enhances anything except MSs stranglehold on the PC market then theres a bridge with your name on it.

Years ago I upgraded the storage on my old MSI laptop. I made a video of it:

https://battlepenguin.video/w/...

It worked great for years after that. Very different situation from more recently when I tried to fix my Dell, gave up and replaced it with a Framework:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

The intelligence agencies are so strong that they can tell everyone how evil they are intentionally and nothing happens. Jeffrey Epstein is a perfect example. Snowden is another. The outrage people feel at domestic spying and even kiddy diddlers isn't enough for anyone to really do anything so long as they get three meals a day and all the entertainment they can stream into their eyeballs.

War is about actual conspiracies that are carried out. That's literally all it is. The term "conspiracy theorist" was intentionally used as a demonization by the CIA in the 1960s to prevent people from questioning anything the government puts out.

I'm talking about THE FIRST F-15 that was originally shot down. Why send in a real human when we've been using drones effectively all this time. That's the real question no on is answering.

And as far as Conspiracy Realities that have been verified as true: Operation Paperclip, Operation Ajax (relevant to Iran today), Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, MK Ultra (where the US psychologically tortured Americans and Canadians), the Tuskegee Experiments ... all real. Oh but 9/11 is exactly like they said! Don't trust the "conspiracy theorist" even when it's been proven the OSS/CIA has done such things over and over and over again. But no, this time you're a stupid conspiracy theorist for suggesting it.

I'm talking about the first F-15 that was downed.

I'm sorry you're too retarded to understand basic reading comprehension and immediately resort to insults and post anonymously like a coward.

I HATE HATE HATE top tabs! I don't understand why editors still insist on them. Eclipse and IntelliJ have vertical tabs. Hell, even Visual Studio has vertical tabs (although they looked like shit until VS2026). It's one of the reason I cannot stand VSCode, Zed and Sublime. The first two have had open issues for vertical tabs for years with very little to no progress. Tabs belong on the side. It's easy to see and sort all of them there. Putting them on top just gets cluttered and shitty. Fuck horizontal tabs.

Firefox could implement vertical tabs LOOOOOONG before 2025 using the TreeStyleTabs extension.

Vivaldi is a Chrome based browser that's also had vertical tabs for years.

Google Chrome itself literally has zero support in the plugin system to even begin implementing something like this without forking the whole project, and they've actually made their extension system worse to try to kill ad blockers.

Fuck Chrome ... and Mozilla. Use Librewolf (privacy fork of Firefox) until Ladybird gets good enough to crush them all.

I just run a Linux distro and setup iptables rules directly. I've been doing that since the very early 2000s.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

I did the SBC router thing for a while too:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

and now I use Void Linux which I installed on this industrial appliance

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

The vast majority of people out there aren't going to know how to do that, or even care about learning it. I remember the first time I set up masquerading (NAT) and just how difficult it was, and now it's really easy and makes total sense. I have to remind myself that this stuff really isn't that easy.

I agree, same with the "Dirty Bomb." In Adam Curtis's documentary The Power of Nightmare, he claims a "dirty bomb," isn't even really feasible; that if you just detonated a bunch of fissile material, it would pretty quickly dissipate without really poisoning anyone unless they stood on the detonation spot for a few days.