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That is… incorrect for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is the following copyright notice given by the EFF themselves:

Not just flock. My city recently backed away from flock under voter pressure… only to start seeking a contract with Motorola Vigilant. Which does all the same nasty shit.

I mean, the W54 was small enough to be carried by a person and I don’t think anyone wants even a 1kt device going off near them. So it’s within the realm of possibility even if it does strain credulity as an actual goal Iran was working toward (let alone a solid justification for this bullshit).

Edit: the W54 weighed 51lb (23 kg).

I came up on Slackware, used it exclusively from like ‘96 - 08’. Have not touched it since. I have fond memories of debugging XFree86.conf and compiling half of what I installed from source. 🤣 This is a wild slack themed day- I just ran into a Bob Dobbs picture in the wild. 😂

Not really. They’re still harvesting/monitoring everyone’s chats and are moving forward with age verification, to include behavior-based age verification. They’re just hiring a different scummy vendor to handle the age checks.

Currently hosting a couple of zulip instances for communities that had been on discord. I really like the way it handles topics/threading and they make hosting a breeze. I reported in an upgrade recently and it was < 30 minutes between me reporting it and getting code to solve my issue pushed to the repos. Wild.

10/10 recommend if voice/video are not a focus.

A major remaining issue with Meshtastic is the NodeID being tied to the device MAC. This means that even if you can’t decrypt comms, it is trivial to track a device and thereby a user across geographical areas even with factory resets. This is solvable at a software level and iirc there’s a PR to address this vulnerability, but it has not been merged.

Tell me you don’t know who the Luddites were without telling me you don’t know who the Luddites were.

I guess what I’m saying is that the immunity thing is not the thing to be upset about here. Agree 100% that no reasonable person would expect her to speak truthfully, but that would be the case with or without immunity.

Folks aren’t going to like hearing this, but there’s nothing untoward or unreasonable about her demanding immunity before testifying. Any lawyer would advise any person in a similar situation to either demand immunity or to avail themselves of their right against self-incrimination. This is literally the foundation of due process and if you don’t care about that for “monsters,” then you don’t really care about it for anyone because it’s real easy for the state/media to make anyone a monster. Immunity isn’t even necessarily a good thing for the person being questioned (prosecutors can non-consensually “immunize” an unwilling witness to force their testimony, opening the witness up to theoretically unlimited contempt penalties for failure to testify).

What is untoward is the DOJ “interviewing” her behind closed doors, particularly when their guy has pardon power and they’ve refused to release the docs they have.

Maxwell is, to put it offensively mildly, a bad guy in this story, but she’s not the bad guy. For every person she trafficked, there is a rich predator who continues to pay no price whatsoever. I have no hopes that she’ll decide to “do the right thing” out of any sense of morality. I do, however, have a modicum of hope that she’ll be so bitter about being the only person punished that she goes scorched earth in her testimony.