It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
old models still work..
openwrt.. the "linux" of router operating systems..
plan ahead while they still let you.
provided the "spy" is software based, not hardware based. If it's hardware based, then all you can do it is not use the device. Find some other device, if one exists. I'm sure that as the situation develops more info about hardware will begin to come to the fore in the news as public consciousness shifts.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
yeah DD-WRT days were a long time ago. Install is as easy as uploading an image via the web interface in the stock firmware then reboot. Done. Updates for complicated setups can be complicated, but for basic wifi router it's as simple as it gets. A few clicks, reboot, done..
way less fuckery than with cell phones. I run lineageOS on all my phones. I put up with the pain and the fuckery for the first 3 (motorolas). Now I just get pixel phones and have zero fuckery because the bootloaders are trivial to unlock, and designed to be unlocked. Motorolas- almost trivial.. and like a honda civic or toyota camry, great bang for the buck. same is true of pixel phones. good value for the $$$
yeah I was at that point in the 2000's when social media was being born. All seemed like a waste of time to me. Still does, but that was one of those forks in the road of tech where it seemed like a lot of wheels were being re-invented needlessly and resources wasted, and fuckery abounding. Ditto with early smart phones. But both matured, eventually. Still, those transitions are painful. Old wisdom gets forgotten. Perhaps it was always thus.
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I was happy with Archie before we got HTML. That and the news groups. When everyone had their own corner of the Net. I have to laugh there hasn't been anything new since the 70's it all just been refinements of old tech. I got back into the media because of our current administration, couldn't stand the thought of him after the first run. Folks just fucked themselves. Sad. Biden/Harris had set it up so we would have the economy of the 60's. Peace
just get a phone that's well supported by lineage os. android that's been de-googled, and is absent all the google fuckery ain't that bad to use. more free space internally with the google cruft gone and better battery life because the phones not constantly doing shit behind your back you are unaware of and might not approve of. Also- data lines to google are stripped out of the OS. You can put them back if you wish, but by default they aren't there.
even older pixels are still quite good hardware. no need to buy the current generation for $1000+ pixels are so ahead of the curve you can get one 3-4 gens older than current and still have a very modern phone whose hardware will last you a long long time before becoming obsolete.
any hdware spy that Gov could require?
although the way this is worded, your precise meaning is a little unclear.
security down to the components on the board itself is such a deep rabbit hole to dive down. I mean how trustworthy or truly impartial are the chi-coms, in the end? They've been making all our shit for 40+ years now. How do we know they haven't backdoored the shit out of things they sell down at the component level? Some things you just can't know with any certainty in this world, sadly.
UK is already there.
Internet Connectable devices have had to be compliant to a (hackable by government level) standard for a few years.
Hm. I have never used the stock software on any of my routers. Does it really matter where the hardware was made?
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
Or a sales pitch for Starlink and v creepy musk makes more Billions.
This stuff has me worried
@VeroniqueB99 yeah. It isn't.
I posted it a while back and was surprised it didn't travel like a helium post did.
Fortunately, I am not limited by Trump at present.
Unfortunately, many I care about are.
But they would not leave Meta despite my warnings over years so...
I cannot help them. 😐
@VeroniqueB99
The US NSA has always been spying on online activity--there are words that flag conversations etc....
All Canadian internet runs north-south through the US, often when we are accessing websites, even within our own city it jumps to and fro, and that's one of the reasons why we outside your borders need digital sovereignty.
And they can spy on your wifi even if you use non-US made products
@shwell @VeroniqueB99 agree.
The instructions are out there (this is an older variant)
Use Raspberry Pi 3 As Router : 10 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables https://www.instructables.com/Use-Raspberry-Pi-3-As-Router/
Use Raspberry Pi 3 As Router: According to Wikipedia, a router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. If we tear-down a wireless router, we will probably find an application specific processor that handles data packets and an RF segment tha…
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One might run OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD and free himself. Or maybe use pfsense as a commercial product you can trust.
#freebsd is already accepting LLM slop ...
@as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 Last I knew, #FreeBSD adopted an official policy rejecting AI/LLM patch submissions. They announced that policy last year at the FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Can you provide a git commit hash or a link to LLM slop in FreeBSD?
@lw @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 It's possible I might be misremembering or misunderstanding the presentation.
If I get some spare time this weekend, I'll dig deeper for that presentation.
Attached: 1 image LOL, the first vibe-coded commit landed in the FreeBSD. The fun part — in this commit was changed literally one line in one file. And this required the use of LLM, LMAO?! :drgn_blush_giggle: :drgn_blush_giggle::drgn_blush_giggle: #FreeBSD #LLM
@lattera @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 well, okay. i don't really care about this issue one way or the other, i was just trying to be helpful :-)
i can tell you, anecdotally, i know at least several FreeBSD committers who eagerly use LLMs to write code and are very on-board with the AI hype train. it's almost certain those people have committed LLM-assisted code.
core doesn't review all code. if they adopted an anti-LLM policy, it would be something akin to a "don't commit code you plagiarised from a commercial project" policy, i.e. we can't prove it, but it's bad and please don't do it... and if you do, we'll probably revoke your commit bit.
Could be a case of knowing but don't care ...
Every day in every way they say something then somebody points out if that happens they will lose money ... so they do nothing knowing their voters have short and selective memories ...
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