Fabulous guide
Even I can do this, and Im 69 years old, though I do have some arch experience.
Thank you Tony
I have downloaded the video to watch later and saved the git page
I wil give me something to dive into when I am bored
There is an option in the developer options to enable a fake location app.
https://github.com/lilstiffy/MockGps
Ideally you would want to remove your carrier sim. your carrier will know you are in a different country (roaming), and use a good VPN
I use mullvad VPN and that spoofs my GPS and location.
I use Lineage on my current phone with no google apps and dont use a fake location app.
If you are using a default, we love google phone, I am not sure if disabling the gps and location stops google and its apps from having access to your location data.
I dont trust them to honour the pressing of a button to disable anything, when location and advertising is so important to them, and their other surveillance friends
I dont know about you, but I can never access any youtube links.
unless your some savvy bastard who has an account
here are alternatives without:
Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=v5rdiwP8l4Y
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v5rdiwP8l4Y
from Asteroid
In this guide/opinion video, I show explanations of multiple aspects of Linux to help people get into it, as well as I rant and rave over my experience testing 20 Linux Distros with arbitrary guidelines that are not very consistent, but hopefully funny, considering I worked on this for almost a year.
This is only going to add to the already mass failure in childrens social care.
Social work used to be an extremely good recognised profession.
The modern failures in child protection we hear about in the news, is solely down to government policies. Not social workers.
There used to be the DipSW (Diploma in Social Work) which was dismantled in favour of a degree in social work. The first failure of many.
In the old days, most of the social workers I came into contact with were women. Women, who had raised their own familes, and had a vast amount of life experience, dealing with life and other families. They had heard and seen it all, from the alcoholic abusive husband, to the violent mentally ill child.
These social workers were absolutely perfect for working in children's social services.
Then, the government of the day, I think it was a tory, decided that they would do away with the DipSW and instead decided, that to work in children's social services you had to have a university degree.
so what happened?
Most of the experienced social workers left social care, only to be replaced by very young newly qualified degree students who had just left university.
While it is a wonderful experience gaining a degree, it is does not prepare you for a life dealing with manipulative family child abusers.
reading the list of preferred books while on a degree course and writing a few 3000 word essays, does not prepare you to work in children's social care or child protection services.
You cannot expect a 23 year old to be able to manage a manipulative abuser. Nothing can prepare them for the; violence, neglect, physical abuse, psychological abuse or sexual abuse that goes on in abusive families. But this is exactly what is expected of them
On the other hand, an abuser would have great difficulty manipulating an older, wiser, more experienced, been there, seen it, done it, DipSW qualified social worker, compared to a 23 year old who has just come out of university.
AI in social work and children’s services!
what a total fuck up that will be.
We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.
With the names and adresses of our children's school's and school teachers.
you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.
Then, Go online and spread the "we have nothing to hide", "we must protect our children" mantra.
yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.
LOL!
To the legislators of Mississippi.
one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band
Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*) He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3 He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou But she died of cancer on her anniversary
[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson Toughshit, thoughshit was his name Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach But roach didn't see the coach approach And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head
I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.
[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson And toughshit was his name They call him toughshit And toughshit was his claim to fame At tough shits funeral, no one came The vicar was late and it poured with rain They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs But let us not forget toughshits pain And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that Who fucking cares, not me I don't See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists
Of course she will, said the right wing tory muppet supporting newspaper, stirring up hatred and division.
It will be in the daily mail in a few days, to keep the anger and hatred fresh in people's minds.
The telegraph is now owned by some american hustle company Redbird.
In May this year, RedBird Capital, an investment management firm, bought the stake owned by Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Sultan al-Nahyan who had bankrolled an earlier bid.
RedBird Capital owns AC Milan.
Top quality meaningless reporting.
I agree with Novamdomum
35 years ago, I used to have my own business, designing, bulding and installing high end bathrooms.
Marble, natural stone, sunken baths, steam rooms, HansGrohe shower heads and multi jet systems etc etc.
You know, the muppets who could afford to pay £400 for a pair of gold plated basin taps and import marble directly from Italy.
I got a phone call one day from a Property developer, who asked me if I would be interested in creating a contract with him to maintain his property portfolio.
I drove to his big gaff in Weybridge and we discussed his proposals.
He said, he had just bought 19 properties at a new build in Feltham High street near the train station.
I looked into these properties, They were built and sold as "affordable housing" for the local residents.
This guy had bought 19 of them, specifically to rent out to Heathrow airport staff. at rents £1,000 a month more than the council were charging.
I turned him down! I'm a socialist who believes in an equal society, not a money grabbing tory.
This is what affordable housing is really about.
The first time I heard the words "affordable housing" coming from a lying MP's lips, I knew it was a con.
Its not social housing, which the country lacks and desperately needs, but another means for the wealthy to make more money.
Landlords are ultimately very rich people. Typically, always moaning about being poor and not having enough.
How about just tax their personal earnings at 80% basic rate, rather than the rental properties they own, which will only be passed on to the renters.
If you own more than one house, your tax burden goes up incrementally on a per house basis. If you own two house, you pay an extra 10% tax, if you own 4 houses you pay 20% extra tax and so on, all the way up to 80% for the wealthiest.
Imagine all those properties that were bought 30 years ago, who's 25 year mortgages are now fully paid off by the renters.
Landlords have made an absolute fortune, not only have renters paid their mortgages for them, but they have also made an obscene amount of money on the increased value of all the properties they own, over 30 years.
They should all fuck off, give their properties back to the people, and live happily on the money they have ripped off from the renters.
This is also my worry.
But it is also about taking personal responsibility for our privacy.
Its like having your home continually burgled, while you continue to refuse to install new locks.
So you install a ring doorbell instead, Amazon will keep you safe!
Again this is not taking personal responsibilty for our privacy and safety, but relying on big tech's surveillance answer.
The incessant belief that you must use an app for convenience, is beyond me.
We have our bank cards and cash to buy stuff from stores. Personally I go to the bank each week and get enough cash to last the week. pay everything cash.
I pay all my bills online, use my bank, manage my direct debits, transfer money to my kids, all online with my linux laptop, Librewolf and a vpn. Takes 30 seconds to login.
I do not need to authorise my login with an app. I told my bank I do not have a smart phone.
I could use Ente Auth or KeepassXc on my desktop for 2FA. no phone required.
Plus being an old git, I dont have to piss about with a tiny phone screen and keyboard with my gnarly fingers.
I absolutely refuse all offers of apps.
When asked by check-out staff if I have the app, or, do I want their app.
I say: I dont do apps! I do not give up my privacy or share my personal data.
As Mat says. I too worry about the future of custom roms. I managed to get all my family on custom roms.
It is a great shame that Mozilla gave up on the Firefox OS phone. Great little phone.
Hi vimmiewimmie
My friend travels to the USA fairly often. or used to.
Before she goes, she has an old laptop that she rarely uses. I wipe the drive and re-install her favourite linux distro and do a basic set up. She has a laptop with a newly installed linux going through customs with no password. nothing to see here.
She has a spare Oneplus 6, especially for the USA, with Lineage on it, with no social media or any signed in apps. It is factory reset before she goes again with no password. she also takes usb drive with a distro already on it.
When she gets settled in the USA, she connects to wifi and installs the apps she needs. VPN, messenger etc, and emails me.
Between us we set up Signal messenger / molly. She installs it on her phone, I use her phone number from home and I send her the code/details via encrypted email.
once she is set up she only uses Signal to phone her friends, no open line calls or text messages, she only uses Signal's camera to take any photos, so they are not stored on the phone.
she has nothing to hide, she is not a criminal, its just that we value privacy and confidentiality.
anything that she needs, she messages me and I send it to her via signal.
When she leaves the USA, she resets her phone. I have taught her how to erase her drive with the USB using dd and re-install linux from there.
She has decided that she will not go to the USA after the recent nightmares for foreign travellers.
People in the USA do have more rights than people here on Airstip One.
Though we are both under the big black boot of government friendly fascism.
Since October 2007, we have had Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 or RIPA.
We cannot refuse to give up a password or access to an encrypted device.
Section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence to not comply with a Section 49 notice, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison, and up to five years in cases involving national security, terrorism or child indecency.
We have no Fifth Amendment covering self-incrimination laws to protect us from over zealous police and state.
Who in society is going to argue against laws that are sold to us to protect our children?
I am an old retired psychotherapist. I remember the introduction of the CRB (criminal records bureau) check, here on Airstrip one in the early 2000's. Now called a DBS check.
The CRB scanned the Police National Computer for any criminal offences that you had committed, this also included juvenile, aged under 17 offences. Which empowered all employers to use the CRB checks to get rid of staff and refuse to employ certain people. Discrimination was rife.
You were now judged, not on your competence to do your job, but whether you had a criminal record.
I would not have minded so much if they solely searched for any offence that were linked to child abuse, terrorism or national security, but they provided your entire life criminal offences.
My enhanced CRB check showed that I had gotten fined £3 for riding my bicycle on a pavement in the mid 60's when I was 11 years old. My mum had to pay. My dad earned about £10 per week as a lorry driver.
What a danger to society I was! An employer could refuse to employ me just because of that little bit of information.
Sold to the UK population as a means to protect our children from sexual predators. Of course no one complained.
Yet, forward just a few years and you needed a CRB check to work at:
The airport, the local supermarket, as a gardener in a school, as a handyman sweeping the car park of the local doctors practice.
you needed to have a CRB check if you came within 100M of a child or vulnerable adult.
Even University students now have to have a CRB checks if they are on a psychology, counselling or psychotherapy course, because they may come into contact with children and or vulnerable adults.
This is the slow creep of government policies expanding, with no oversight, sold to us under the guise that they are protecting children and vulnerable adults.
fear is a great driver for change. scare someone enough and they will give up their granny.
I think this is also linked to Airstrip One's governments, continually attempting to remove all encryption from devices by using child protection as a reason
On linux you can access your Signal messages in db.sqlite.
once you delete a message from signal, either through disappearing messages or manually, all those messages are deleted from the db.sqlite.
They are stored in an encrypted db.sqlite here:
/home/user/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite
you can also extract it from you phone:
only the messages that you can see when you open the Signal app are visible there.
to access the messages:
install:
signal-bakcup-tools-git
https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
and
DB browser for sqlite
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The most straight forward way is to create an output file to html.
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
open a terminal and run
signalbackup-tools --exportdesktophtml signal.html
this will create folders of all your contacts and messages and media.
easily acessible. open the signal.html files in your browser
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To open db.sqlite as a Sqlite database;
first you need to get the key:
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
then run in terminal:
signalbackup-tools db.sqlite --showdesktopkey
OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)
Signal Desktop key (hex):
58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
copy the key to a text editor
===========================
you must now add 0x to the beginning of that line:
0x58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
then open db.sqlite with the sqlitebrowser
right click db.sqlite, select open with DB Browser for sqlite
select RAW from the dropdown menu
input the passphrase from above. make sure you added the 0x to the beginning.
The entire database opens.
you can view all the information that signal collects. phone numbers, messages, images, media etc
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this is the difference between Molly and signal.
In Molly you can password protect db.sqlite, Signal removed this a while ago
infjarchninja
joined 5 months ago
Hey irotsoma
I do feel your dilemma
I would drive for an hour to buy anything from a small store rather than buying from amazon and increasing their profits. Obviously one person has no impact upon their obscene profits.
Amazon is the curse for small business and all its employees, drivers, sellers and customers.
good reseacrh here:
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox
The authors conclude that getting the best price on Amazon requires that you "first spend considerable time searching through pages of results and then utilize, at a minimum, spreadsheet algebraic capabilities to determine the product’s full price…[and] somehow de-bias from the psychological effects of anchoring, and labels such as 'limited time deal' and 'Best Seller,' as well as many other subtle psychological influences."
Amazon says it's entitled to use the consumer welfare cheat-code to get out of antitrust enforcement because it has so many bargains. But to get those bargains, you have to pay such minutely detailed attention – literally spreadsheeting your options and hand-coding mathematical formulas to compare them – that you'll almost certainly fail. The price of failure is incredibly high – a 25-29% overcharge on every purchase.
The Amazon Paradox has dropped, and it drills into another way that Amazon overcharges most of us by as much as 29% on nearly every purchase, disqualifying it from invoking that consumer welfare cheat code. The new paper is "Amazon's Pricing Paradox," from law professors Rory Van Loo and Nikita Aggarwal, for The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology:
The authors concede that while Amazon does have some great bargains, it goes to enormous lengths to make it nearly impossible to get those bargains. Drawing from the literature on behavioral economics, the authors make the reasonable (and experimentally verified) assumption that shoppers generally assume that the top results in an Amazon search are the best results, and click on those.
But Amazon's search-ordering is enshittified: it shifts value from sellers and shoppers (you!) to the company. A combination of self-preferencing (upranking Amazon's own knock-offs), pay-for-placement (Amazon ads), other forms of payola (whether a merchant is paying for Prime), and "junk ads" (that don't match your search) turn Amazon's search-ordering into a rigged casino game.
From 2023:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date