ladfrombrad 🇬🇧 @ ladfrombrad @lemdro.id

not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

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Some of us love seeing dodgy devices and their nooks and crannies. If you wanna share them here, or even over on our TG * where there're many nerds from that region still ;)

t.me/randroidtg

You've got me more curious about the device itself and a rough geographical area it was bought in. Care to share?

It does when you're sharing nationally classified information with what is a third party, not sanctioned by the administration itself?

The headquarters are irrelevant.

Is it?

Is that why people trying to protect their privacy use VPN's/DNS resolvers outside of the US jurisdiction such as Mullvad/Quad9 etc?

And as stated by someone else if you're using a personal device with a phone number to share classified information outside of a SCIF, you've got to ask yourself if there's a modicum of "sensibility" in the administration here.

It's like someone else said - I went back and dug a little on old.reddit (RIP r/America) and there's for some reason its "not being shared" and actually, neutered?

Maybe I'm just a sucker for popcorn but it smells like it shit, it usually is 💩

It is absolutely insane, considering they have SCIF devices / rooms but also the option of "not using off the shelf" shit like Signal and using a phone number. But here they are.

Hell, they could even use something like Briar / Matrix / whatever that is decentralised/does not require a phone number unlike Signal but instead they sent emotes, and classified information detrimental to US citizens over a centralised (third party) platform. Literally, insane.

Are we missing an /s here? Signal is headquartered in the US, and here's me pondering if they were actually using Telegram instead. Which would've been pretty apt.

I think at this point I'd be better off trying to use WeChat.....

edit: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger - archive

For a bit of clarity some are not seeing. Google, sanctioned too. Crazy times.

To be fair, it's running at the top of BBC news here in the UK this morning which is kinda weird. They usually dunk stuff like this unless they too have some angle on it.

Why being MDM'ed would make it stolen?

Because companies that have already implemented MDM on a device (which your friend has) will be the first to remove any trace of them on it (data protection/GDPR etc) and if it's being sold still with the credentials of said company (with bonus malware?) you might want to poke around it a little.

As the page above states - someone is in charge of that device still and can manipulate it as per the policies they introduced when locking the phone down to an entity.

tldr: most thieves ask for FRP exploits etc to get around a MDM secured device.

If it's MDM'ed, that 99.99% of the time means it's a stolen device.

Where did they buy it from exactly?

You're gonna be on an aeroplane for a month?

e: tongue in cheek and all aren't SD cards are a thing these days? You've got the obvious network solutions but if you're off the grid?

Why bother?

Pray tell, how do you "pirate" a SSO service as you alluded to above?

No one asked for alternatives. We're more interested in how you're gonna "pirate" these things. Cheers!

Exactly, you tell me since I'm just giving you examples of US hosted services as you asked for.

Personally you could self host all three, but it would be a fairly expensive endeavour and you'd be operating on a brand new platform with no users.

GitHub? Internet Archive? Wikipedia?

Damn, all this time using JF and I never thought of theming it.

While I use it on a SFF PC I have a couple of users that access my server via a couple of CCwGTV Chromecasts I handed them and so, unable to test since I don't have one to hand but can you / does it theme the UI on the Chromecast too?

Cheers!

Help me transition from 2002 to 2025

I have been torrenting the same primitive way for a long time. Turn on a VPN

arrr

I love it when they come in with screenshots of them using the vote button incorrectly.

They also seemingly like spreading incorrect information too which is telling :eyes_roll: and I thought I'd give their account a skim since their comment smelt funny

https://lemdro.id/comment/15091480

The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.

Nothing to do with "video players" and pulling shit out of their arse is hilarious

Ya know reading my comment again, something else I might advise is getting to know Docker if you haven't already.

However I find it shrewd to run anything networking related such as Pihole / TS / Zerotier / Adguard whatever is to run them raw dawg instead of in docker containers. Many recommended but I can't.

I've totally and others have too fugged up their network and not just with them in a docker containers. It's really sometimes very very opaque as to why things don't work.

https://joshrnoll.com/my-tailscale-dns-woes/

Immich and stuff like that is great in docker containers, but networking? No thank u!

Yup!

Things you should be aware of thou are a Rpi3 and below only have a 100Mbps ethernet port, whereas a Pi4 and above have gigabit ports so if you're gonna be doing anything network related it might be better for you. A Pi5 again has one but then isn't as powerful GPU wise (sounds weird I know) and no good for transcoding things unlike the Pi4.

And saying that, I have two dinky Pi Zero's with DVB HAT's on them to give me my own HD Homerun TV tuners that I can access anywhere via Tailscale. They don't require much processing power and only operate over WiFi 2.4GhZ, but they work good.

If you want something to play with self hosting? Immich is a good start as the docs are as good as Tailscale's. A Pihole is often a good start to understanding your network better and allows installation via a simple curl command. Have fun!

I've just checked 5hrs worth and some users are gonna get themselves snagged by screenshotting these dickbutts. Whether that's by their ISP or whatever, and it seems might be wise to hunker down and ask active community members for moar reports?

Main thing is thou did you manage to get your openssh-server working on Android yet instead of using the client? I made that fugg up first time.