Comment on: Tweeting "Memphis" will automatically lock your account
"The issue referenced was a result of a bug, and has since been resolved," Twitter told BleepingComputer in a statement.
In our tests, if you were affected by the bug, you will need to perform a captcha and verification procedure to gain access to the account again. Once you verify your account, it will welcome you back as a 'human.'
This indicates that the bug was likely caused by anti-bot filter that went awry.
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14 Mar 2021 23:30
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Comment on: 1995 Flashback: First-time PC user can’t work computer - YouTube
I still have my original computer with said software and manuals. It works too. They gave it to me when the 286 came out.
I was dialing in, but I had three computers connected with token ring coax in my house, for duke nukem death matches. I had 10 meg at work and used it to nuke peoples dial up email if they aggravated me.

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13 Feb 2021 15:16
u/MudBoy
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Comment on: 1995 Flashback: First-time PC user can’t work computer - YouTube
I started with fixing radios. Then teletype machines with modems connected to radios. My first computer was dos 2.0, wordstar and enable. No mouse. Did you edlin? Our network was running floppies from one office to the next because it was faster than the modems. Computers ran circles around teletypes, floppies instead of ticker tape or magnetic tape. I remember changing from maintenance to help desk. That was when the clueless got their hands on computers and we ended up spending more time answering questions than fixing things. Smart phones brought me full circle.
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13 Feb 2021 14:47
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Comment on: A German man is keeping $60 million in bitcoin from police by never revealing his password
He did mine it himself. The authorities just don't like the fact he secretly used other peoples computers to do it.
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06 Feb 2021 20:10
u/MudBoy
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Comment on: State Police Using Encryption Apps to Avoid FOIA?
No. Government employees have no right to privacy as they are supposed to be doing business for the people. I have the right to know every plan the government has for me. The only restrictions are national security which is a very narrow window. Civilians on the other hand, have a right to privacy for everything. Government has no right to know what I share with my friends, be it planning business strategies, birthday parties, or anything else. (An implausible example is if I discovered anti-gravity and am secretly building a fleet of flying saucers to overwhelm the current aircraft market. Government has no right to my papers or facilities. If they did, the current corruption between government and big business would ensure my demise and their continued profit.)
We are not subjects to be governed, the government works for us. Our bill of rights are written to remind us that the people actually hold all the power. Thomas Jefferson said "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Right now there is a lot of fear of the government because of its actions. It can only go on so long before there are repercussions. The 4th sentence of the declaration of independence says what the founders believe the inevitable outcome must be.
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04 Feb 2021 04:50
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Comment on: State Police Using Encryption Apps to Avoid FOIA?
A violation of state law on multiple levels. The only purpose would be to coordinate or cover up illegal activities.
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03 Feb 2021 21:42
u/MudBoy
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Comment on: Meet the People Keeping BlackBerry Alive in 2021
I am glad it still has fans, I have memories of mine. It was the original smart phone with simple features of email, note taking, and calendar. It earned the name crackberry because people would constantly interact with it. It was nothing compared to the drug of todays smart phone. Just try to take a phone from a teenage girl today as punishment and she will go hysterical, then cationic, because of withdrawal.
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02 Feb 2021 21:28
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Comment on: Tesla Files Declassified
All of the files that were declassified pertain to attempts to gain access to Tesla's research and tracking speculations about what his research contained. None of the files contain any insight to Tesla's actual research and it remains classified.
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31 Jan 2021 23:02
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
When have you heard of a linux gaming machine? Most software is built for windows.
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31 Jan 2021 16:07
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Comment on: Tesla Files Declassified
News from 2018?
https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi After years of fielding questions about possible cover-ups, the FBI finally declassified some 250 pages of Tesla-related documents under the Freedom of Information Act in 2016. The bureau followed up with two additional releases, the latest in March 2018.
In 1952, after a U.S. court declared Kosanovic the rightful heir to his uncle’s estate, Tesla’s files and other materials were sent to Belgrade, Serbia, where they now reside in the Nikola Tesla Museum there. But while the FBI originally recorded some 80 trunks among Tesla’s effects, only 60 arrived in Belgrade, Seifer says. “Maybe they packed the 80 into 60, but there is the possibility that…the government did keep the missing trunks.”
https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla This is a heavily redacted drop of water in a pond. It is around 350 mostly blacked out pages out of 80 trunks full of files. I will read them, but I doubt I will see anything worth noting.
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31 Jan 2021 07:25
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Comment on: Intelligence agencies bypass the need for warrants by buying data harvested from smartphones
The Defense Intelligence Agency was founded in 1961. You knew them as "military intelligence", not their real name.
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28 Jan 2021 17:05
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Comment on: Facebook to stop recommending civic and political groups
Promotion is not necessary if opposition is censored out of existence.
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28 Jan 2021 16:51
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Comment on: Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
Not hate specifically to federated, they are just no more secure than any other platform. Anonymous servers decrease accountability to users.
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25 Jan 2021 18:48
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Comment on: Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
You are not fine, you are fooling yourself unless you have a dedicated computer on a VPN for anonymous use only. If you use your computer for real activity in addition to anonymous activity, big tech can dox you. https://www.dignited.com/34146/heres-what-your-browser-knows-about-you/ That is enough information to uniquely identify your computer. Your anonymous metadata is matched to your real metadata, logged in a database, and sold.
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25 Jan 2021 16:26
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Comment on: Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
FTA: Search engines like Google can discover and index all of your public posts in the Fediverse. By default, you can see the social graphs of all accounts, as followers are public. Especially Mastodon servers come with privacy policies that don’t meet the European GDPR requirements. Many (Mastodon) servers seem to run an outdated version, indicating inadequate security practices.
You will get doxed.
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25 Jan 2021 14:56
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Comment on: TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don't Have an Account
If you install the app, you get the malware embedded in it. You have to click to agree with the terms during install. Duh.
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24 Jan 2021 19:27
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Comment on: Elon Musk offers $100M prize for best carbon capture technology - Business Insider
Plants. Do I win?
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22 Jan 2021 11:13
u/MudBoy
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Comment on: Massive blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming bitcoin mining.
I wanna see what other weird stuff they have on their roulette wheel of excuses.
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19 Jan 2021 02:54
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