But it’s global version or China version?

China version ROM is like this since the mi 6, the excuse was “limiting grey market sales”

Also the ROM now uses a different signature so from mi 5 onwards, flashing global ROM on china version, doesn’t allow to lock the bootloader again (you can send the command to lock it, but then you get a softbrick)

Illegal but tolerated: just think to all the Chinese companies thriving on Facebook ads sales

They crack down on it only when they need to punish a specific target/person

When you enter China, you have to run their application on your phone to fill the immigration form. Way more convenient compared to the paper slip, right? 😉

It’s this https://apkpure.com/zhong-guo-ling-shi/com.gov.mfa

Luckily, you don’t need to install full malware but only medium malware, there’s a way to run it as a web app inside tencent WeChat by scanning a special qr code.

I run this stuff inside insular because tencent is tencent and even on fully patched Android 15 without any file access permission they still manage to drop fingerprinting files disguised as images in /pictures/.gs_fs0

For connecting to my servers, technically ssh on standard ports isn’t blocked (otherwise it would hurt their bots, no?) but I don’t want to show my server IP address, so I use a hysteria2 proxy hosted on a Oracle VM in the Japan datacenter. There are services like doggygo that rent access to those proxys for literal pennies (like $2 per month) but payment need to do with alibaba’s alipay or tencent wepay which is ultra traceable (linked to Chinese id+Chinese bank account+Chinese phone number) and very stupid. Honeypot?

There are reports of evil maid attacks where a secret service agent poses as room cleaner in your hotel room and tampers with your laptop when you’re away, but for normal people this seems unlikely. Keep your electronics with you at all times, always use a VPN, check hashes of executables if really need to run them (better not) and you’re going to be ok

In this specific case can do it but the bootloader unlock request must come from a Chinese ip address, from a verified Chinese number (get otp code via SMS) and wait like one month

They’re mostly configured to ignore it, at most quarantine it

I set the mail server to bounce everything that doesn’t match dkim.

I almost don’t receive spam anymore.

The problem is that sometimes some legitimate services didn’t configure their email server correctly

With the guy that’s going to be defense secretary saying “I don’t see germs, so they aren’t real” maybe it could be the opposite.

I don’t also see ionizing radiations, so they definitely aren’t real, maybe let him taste some polonium tea

Also the irony of a Christian fundamentalist saying that because something can’t be seen, then it can’t be real

They still bought 98% of their needs from Russia in 2023? Ok that’s cheaper but they can weaponize it…

Using the Yuzu case for guidance, dumping encryption keys, regardless of the source of those keys, is illegal

This is false, as the case is non existant, because it has been settled out of court. It has to be proven in court that is illegal, as there’s no law that says that dumping the keys from my own hardware that i paid with my own money is illegal.

Facebook not only sends the code to text without asking, but they love to just directly start the reset password procedure.

Now, that’s super weird. Are they assuming that, because last time I logged in was 6 months ago, I must have forgot my password?

At $12/terabyte/month it seems pretty expensive for media collection (I mean: family photos are irreplaceable but generic video?)

Other options are to use “glacier” tier S3 which is cheap to rent but ultra expensive to recover (but hopefully you won’t need that)

Or just put a pi+HDD hidden somewhere at work/parents and copy to that

The upside is that in this way they use less plastic. Cardboard can’t be transparent and people doesn’t separate the plastic from the cardboard when recycling.

We all know what razor blades look like so a photo can suffice, no?

He is insane

All that info is publicly available, but a nice CSV ready to be fed to spambots isn’t a really good idea…

If I was involved with wordpress for business, i would start to find a plan b, because now they target wp engine, then who’s next?

Hall said the trial was unfair and continued to insist the bombing didn’t happen as he left the court.

per gli americani che l’avranno proposto il 2% del PIL pare anche poco

Nice try, openai bot (/s)

LOL genuinely thought it was a case of “engineer hates the user”, instead it was a case “management said we need to save 5 cents for the voltage regulator”

It’s a cr2032 from Duracell with that coating, later I’m going to try that

Raid wasn’t designed for data safety but to minimize downtime. Just swap the drive an continue operating the server seamlessly. Full backups are still required as the chance of complete failure isn’t zero

Maybe your VRAM is damaged