@vaurora You probably want to get that drive out of the USB enclosure and directly onto a SATA port of a computer. The USB->SATA adapter is 'handling' errors upstream from where your operating system can see them.

I'd get the drive into a PC and 'dd' it to a file first, then mount the image with loopback and read-only and retrieve the files from that disk image. The less the damaged disk is used, the better, and one fell swoop to grab an image is the cleanest exit on that front.

@zackwhittaker funny story. People predicted this back in the Bush II era, when legislators and regulators decided to give up a bunch of privacy in the name of security, but it was really all just corporatism under the hood.

I got the FCC chairman's pager number from a forum and paged him (I was but a pimple-faced teenager). HE CALLED ME, so I gave him a piece of my mind, telling him how if it was OK for the phone company to sell my data, his data was fair game too. He was furious, and I've been getting Extra Screening at airports ever since.

@adamshostack there are also 'local groups' on social media that are clearly astroturfing, trying to get people to blame the high energy costs on Democrats and Green Energy.

Our offshore wind farm was recently connected, and it's providing a decent portion of our electricity now, and it's doing it pretty reliably. If we keep this up we could really cut down on how much natural gas we need, and the price spikes we all pay for when demand for it exceeds supply.

@aaron.rupar I really don't think most westerners understand what they're dealing with when they confront an ancient civilization on its home turf.

So many westerners idealize ancient empires, but they're really cosplaying something that's out of their league.

@PeterLG @campuscodi I don't recall a time when using Android implied some sort of expert status; it's been a globally popular platform for general purpose smartphones for about two decades.

Also, this is about the principle of the thing. If I had to get permission from Mazda to change my own oil, I'd be furious.

I don't think sideloading presents a practical security risk. I don't see how this makes things safer. I do see how it moves a line of control from 'in my hands' to 'a distant megacorp'.