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  • This dude is great at explaining math, including this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=r0_mi8ngNnM

  • What's going on with typescript?
  • I think it’s more of a JSDoc > TS thing. I need to check the drama, but I don’t believe anyone would want to write vanilla JS without some type declarations..

  • So, what should I make of this?
  • Looking at the behaviour, this is some really shady piece of software, changing credentials, adding scheduled tasks as an admin, etc.

    Avoid.

  • My ISP sends me letters even if I am torrenting on VPN. Is there anyway to make my traffic not look like torrenting?
  • What, they don’t allow torrenting legal stuff? So you can’t download Windows 11 as a torrent from Microsoft? Sounds like a sassy ISP.

  • Lemmy.world and another instance have been compromised
  • It’s worse than that. Until Lemmy is more mature, I would reccomend using the lite version of Lemmy, the JS-free version, for sake of client side security. Alternatively, or as an added point of security, the front-ends themselves should implement more sanitazion themselves. I’m willing to spend some free time vulnerability testing, but I would need a dedicated sand-box for that.

  • Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
  • Yes, I’m not arguing or anything, I forgot to mention I appreciated the added context you provided. Just wanted to further expand on it for those wanting to get more context, as it seems to be a lot of people in the thread that didn’t read the article

  • Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
  • The article:

    Court and police records show that police began investigating 17-year-old Celeste Burgess and her mother Jessica Burgess after receiving a tip-off that the pair had illegally buried a stillborn child given birth to prematurely by Celeste. The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger, which prompted the state to issue Meta with a search warrant for their chat history and data including log-in timestamps and photos.

    From Motherboard (where you also can read court documents):

    The state’s case relies on evidence from the teenager’s private Facebook messages, obtained directly from Facebook by court order, which show the mother and daughter allegedly bought medication to induce abortion online, and then disposed of the body of the fetus.

    According to court records, Celeste Burgess, 17, and her mother, Jessica Burgess, bought medication called Pregnot designed to end pregnancy. Pregnot is a kit of mifepristone and misoprostol, which is often used to safely end pregnancy in the first trimester. In this case, Burgess was 28-weeks pregnant, which is later in pregnancy than mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended for use. It’s also later than Nebraska’s 20-week post-fertilization abortion ban, which makes allowances only if the pregnant person is at risk of death or "serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function." (Nebraska’s abortion laws have not changed since Roe v Wade was overturned).

  • Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
  • 1984 indeed..

    However, private chat messages are only one component in a whole range of digital evidence that is likely to be used by police to prosecute illegal abortions in the United States. Investigators will be able to request access to many data sources, including digital health records, Google search history, text messages, and phone location data.

  • Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
  • (Also not a Lawyer) I’m not familiar with the laws in Nebraska, but they wouldn’t be able to get the messages from Meta. They would need to get on the devices, but it seemed like the people charged themselves tipped off about using Messenger to the police. The only other way to get E2EE message from a device without consent is with the use of force.

    From the article:

    However, campaigners note that Meta always has to comply with legal requests for data, and that the company can only change this if it stops collecting that data in the first place. In the case of Celeste and Jessica Burgess, this would have meant making end-to-end encryption (E2EE) the default in Facebook Messenger. This would have meant that police would have had to gain access to the pair’s phones directly to read their chats. (E2EE is available in Messenger but has to be toggled on manually. It’s on by default in WhatsApp.)

    (…)

    However, private chat messages are only one component in a whole range of digital evidence that is likely to be used by police to prosecute illegal abortions in the United States. Investigators will be able to request access to many data sources, including digital health records, Google search history, text messages, and phone location data.

  • Russia temporarily restricts access to the global network to test its 'sovereign Internet'
  • We have the same issue with China, even though ‘nefarious elements’ is country agnostic, those attacking from China, from within the great firewall, still does so, and filtering the nefarious still isn’t trivial. I wouldn’t believe this would be any different, but I have no knowledge about their system, just the assumption that they have adopted a lot of the same techniques and procedures.

    Edit: Changed from ‘nefarious people’ to ‘nefarious element’ as mentioned in the comment

  • 1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
  • On super meth, we would've needed volunteers to TL:DR; everything. On /r/stims, the comment section tends to be quite lengthy

  • It's Open Source!
  • I remember this, wasn't this a complete shitshow in the news?

  • [Need advice] My first home server
  • It's weird, because that's my feeling too. It got suggested by customer support at a retailer when asking in their chat. I guess it'll work, but feels backwards. I think I'm going with a NAS solution, and running the server without RAID

  • [Need advice] My first home server
  • Thanks for the detailed response! I've looked around a bit, and a Synology DS220+ seems like a good starter. Knowing I have the ability to move comoutation to a server later on and keep using the NAS for storage makes it seem like a great setup for me

  • [Need advice] My first home server
  • What do you think about running the OS and binaries on the SATA SSD, and storing the data on the M2's? And having the M2's in RAID1?

  • We did it Lemmy!
  • Nostr have a adopted a system for this. It would be cool to integrate the Lightning Network into Lemmy as well!

  • [Need advice] My first home server
  • I’ve been considering a NAS, but haven’t looked to much into it. Could it be an idea to have both? Do you have any NAS reccomendations?

  • [Need advice] My first home server
  • Thanks, I was thinking 2TB, so 4TB then! I’m considering a RAID1 setup, so the budget would need to accomodate that

  • [Need advice] My first home server

    I need some advice on what hardware to buy for my home setup. I see a lot of posts talking about software, but not so much hardware. I would love to have a box I can buy and start setting up stuff.

    A rack seems a bit expensive, my initial budget I feel is reasonable starting out is about $500-$800.

    I’ve been looking at mini PCs, what are your thoughts on ASUS PN52? Just throwing that into the post to give a pin point of what I’m looking for.

    I’m planning on hosting

    • Bitwarden
    • Nextcloud
    • Plex
    • Standard notes
    • Lemmy instance
    • Web server
    • Openresty

    And need to be able to upgrade storage etc. for future proofing.

    Thankful for all insights, tips, and suggestions!

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    Dioxy Dioxy @programming.dev

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