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.
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.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99
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
@A_Minion @VeroniqueB99
I have to laugh there hasn't been anything new since the 70's it all just been refinements of old tech.
I'm laughing right along with you.. and have been for 30+ years. Nothing new under the sun. Young kids talk like they invented everything.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 Lord I hated capt'n crunch. Rice Crispies. War Games? A song from the 60's that we need to pay attention too.
https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBO0fydIaUA
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 Yeah I know that one too. One that describes me in part is.
A lot of hate and irrationality in here, too. Maybe more than the reasonable or intelligent people. Just sayin'.
I've been banned more times than I can easily remember and it's only been a little over a year.
that hateful message arrived about 8 mins ago. The trick is they send you a hate message, then delete it so you see it for an instant if you are looking, but because it's been deleted, there is no trace of it on the sever logs. I've had death threats, been told that I am in league with Epstein, that I am a pedophile.. the outrageous hyperbole knows no bounds in here, to say nothing of the hatred.
wanted more selfies of me to prove I wasn't a bot after I'd been there 8 or so years
yeah fuck that jazz. the fedi has serious design flaws, and at the moment the inmates are running the asylum. I'm a free speech absolutist.. you are free to say whatever, be it true or lies, and I am free to mute or block you, quietly. There should be no banning online.. just good block & filter tools. That was the ethos in the old days. It's been washed away in the flood of woke.
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