I like the part where it says people are using “The Dark Web” both within the United States and “at the international border”.

Because that would put essentially all computer crimes in ICE jurisdiction.

That would make sense, if it’s educational then it’s probably used to teach about the Caesar/shift cipher

Just download this executable file from the Internet and run it as administrator.

No, I don’t.

We’re about to be seeing a lot of people with the wrong political opinions being targeted using this data.

Trump is already calling the protesters terrorists. Using this data to eliminate his political opponents would be pretty on brand for Trump.

Every felon he makes now is one less person voting against him in the next election.

All data.

Your Facebook information, Gmail emails, Insta DMs, etc. It’s all for sale and federal law enforcement are buying it. Things that they would normally need a warrant to get, they can simply pull up from a data broker.

Everything that’s collected is sold. If it is for sale, law enforcement is buying it. Everything is collected.

Snowden showed that this is being done by all major social media sites and email providers in the US.

They either willingly sell their data or are compelled to give access with a National Security Letter.

When you give up data or type a message, assume a federal law enforcement officer is reading it.

Imagine I said that I would come into your house and install a new TV and entertainment system, re-build your bathroom, fix your maintenance issues, clean your floors, wash your dishes, etc. That’d save you a lot of time.

Now, I’ll even do it for free! But, you have to let me install a door that only I have a key to so you can’t stop me from entering your house and also to install cameras and microphones covering every square foot of your house and you consent to being recorded.

That’s the deal people are making with their digital lives.

Yeah, it was inconvenient to have to learn how to setup the software so I could have ‘cloud storage’ using my home server. It’s annoying that I have to deal with IP Cameras and ZoneMinder. But, because I do the work myself, I don’t have to let Google/Meta/FBI/Amazon have access to listening devices in my home (Oh, sorry Alexa, I didn’t know you were listening), footage from my security system or the contents of my personal files.

Unless you can convince them to get out of the ‘surveillance for free stuff’ market then they’re fucked, not everyone.

You can choose to use free and open source software and sped time learning and putting together a system that benefits you. Or you can just sign up for Google, let them do all of the work in exchange for spying on you with every device that you buy and put in your house.

Google is constantly making changes that break it, the developers fix them quickly… but if your distro doesn’t keep the newest version in their repo then you’d have to install it from their git repo.

Generally they have a patch for any breaking changes within the day.

How does Newpipe work?

Miracles

I see you’re channeling the spirits of Social Media

You’d need to write a script, for example:

#!/bin/bash

# Set the directory where screenshots will be saved
SCREENSHOT_DIR=~/Pictures/Screenshots

# Create the directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$SCREENSHOT_DIR"

# Get the current date and time in the format MM-DD-YYYY_HH:MM:SS
DATETIME=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M-%S")

# Build the filename using the datetime
FILENAME="screenshot_$DATETIME.png"

# Take a fullscreen screenshot, save it to the specified directory, and copy it to the clipboard
spectacle -f -b -c -o "$SCREENSHOT_DIR/$FILENAME"

# Optional: Notify the user (requires notify-send)
notify-send "Screenshot taken" "$FILENAME saved to $SCREENSHOT_DIR"

You can change the -f to change the screenshot mode. From spectacle --help:

  -f, --fullscreen                        Capture the entire desktop (default)
  -m, --current                           Capture the current monitor
  -a, --activewindow                      Capture the active window
  -u, --windowundercursor                 Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, including parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -t, --transientonly                     Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, excluding parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -r, --region                            Capture a rectangular region of the
                                          screen

Save the script somewhere. It’s safest to make it owned by root and put somewhere like /usr/scripts so random user-access programs can’t edit the script. Use chmod +x to make it executable.

Then go to Plasma -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, Click ‘Add New’ -> Command or Script. For the command, give it the path to your script, give it a name click Add and then set a hotkey by clicking the Add butoon.

None of that addresses the company at issue.

There are several Chinese developers involved in this investigation.

If the DoD was “designating every rival as a military organization” then why are they singling out specific Chinese developers instead of designating them all as a “Chinese Military Company”? It isn’t because they “have to comply with local data regulations”, all companies have to do that. All Chinese companies have to do that and not all Chinese companies are designated by the DoD as a Military Company.

So, why is this one specific company singled out? Probably because it works for the PLA, as the DoD says.

Your argument is basically “The DoD is lying” which isn’t supported by any evidence in this case. “Trust me bro” from a random social media user isn’t exactly a credible source.

Are iOS app developers usually considered rivals of the Department of Defense?

Or is it only the ones that work for the PLA?

They didn’t designate all Chinese iOS developers, they singled a few out. Unless you think the DoD is trolling, they must have a reason for accusing this specific app developer.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    exec(open(__file__, 'r').read())

From the article:

Several of the apps traced back to Qihoo 360, a firm declared by the Defense Department to be a “Chinese Military Company."

Pretend it is just a boring TV and use an OSMC box or some other HTPC solution.

There is very little you can do to the default OS other than not give it access to the Internet.

Mate, I think you mean rubbish tip