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DaDonaldisGayola2000 wrote

A lot less than good indoor weed, there is a large amount of Inventory on the market, a lot of people switched to growing both weed and shrooms during Covid, likely as a matter of self preservation. However, the money is addictive. In Denver we are seeing prices as low as 5K for 5lbd, or singles for 1200

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Rambler wrote

It's been a very long time, but back in my day they always were similar to weed prices.

And that's a very regional thing that will vary greatly.

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smartypants OP wrote (edited )

Its worse, and you are right, as always, because on ConPro hours ago a NEW Feb 2022 WebP zero day unpatched on 60% of all Apple users showed up :

https://consumeproduct.win/p/142BTB1ZSP/fuck-around-and-find-out-shitbul/c/

So the new owners of scored.co (formerly .win) are now exhibiting their funding links more and their glowie tendencies on ConPro links march 21 2022.

This is all so tiring.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/webkit-vulnerability-cve-2022-22620/43650/

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awdrifter wrote (edited )

I listen to the Unmade Podcast. It started as a podcast about podcast ideas that will never be made into an actual podcast. But now it has branched into other stuff like travel and souvenir spoon collection.

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=7phLmFbZS_c&list=PLY2OYgTm-83My-n2ST9TdGim2MPKTvoNh

As for more tech related podcast, Cortex is pretty good if you're into Apple product and related stuff (iOS apps etc).

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=cxbA5ot-VL4

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neilalexander OP wrote

dendrite-demo-yggdrasil is a standalone Matrix homeserver that uses Yggdrasil for the federation between servers. It has an embedded Yggdrasil node — the server name is based on the node’s public key. You can use any Matrix client to register accounts and to log in.

I built this a while ago for the P2P Matrix experiments but it still works and is quite fun.

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ghast OP wrote

With any kind of demonstration, I think the main target audience is the public. It can make a difference when people see a large group protesting against the mandates since people are social and being part of a large movement is psychologically appealing. It helps people who are still holding out against mandates to not be demoralized. It can influence the people in the middle who are just complying without really being on board. And it's a networking opportunity for people who want to resist in other ways.

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ghast OP wrote

It's not a bad idea. I've gone cold turkey from politics and news for months at a time when I feel like it's taking up too much time.

But I do enjoy trying to understand what's happening, why it's happening, and what happens next. Since I enjoy it, I don't consider it a complete waste of time.

As for taking action, I think it's important that I do take action, but it's not clear what actions can make a real difference. I think understanding what is going on can help with figuring out which actions are effective and coming up with new ideas.

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ghast wrote

This will really be accelerated if people who are being censored tell people "subscribe to my rss feed" instead of "give me your email address and I'll email you". The main convenient thing about sites like reddit, facebook, etc. is that you can see a lot of different content you want to see in a convenient format while staying on one website. Lots of people don't even really know about RSS, but if there's a comeback, that will make it easier for people to follow updates on multiple personal blogs and websites.

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ghast OP wrote

Some journalists who read the article or twitter thread might decide to go without. But I think the reason many journalists are willing to risk bringing their phone amount to more than just the reasons Snowden mentioned (camera, microphone, and word processor). There’s the risk of government hacking but there are also various safety benefits to having a phone while traveling in a dangerous area in a foreign country. (Having a map of the area in a compact form, being able to message someone to request help if something has gone wrong, being able to look up local businesses, call a taxi service etc.) If Snowden just told journalists “don’t carry a smartphone” I think that message would largely be ignored for this reason. That might have been the reason they went with that iPhone too… probably figured it’s best to make mass adoption easier than give advice that won’t be listened too.

You’re right that the introspection engine turned out to be “too much” for most journalists. If I ran a newspaper and wanted journalists to use the introspection engine and/or remove internal microphones to replace with external mics, I’d assign it as a task to someone from IT to set that up on the phones of all the journalists who want it. But yeah, I was watching a video by the guy who Snowden collaborated with on this project (Andrew "bunnie" Huang ). He said he found out out that journalists need something that’s super straightforward to use. Afterwards he started working on another project called Betrusted which will be more straightforward for journalists. Betrusted looks interesting but it’s not finished yet. I was actually looking into it recently and didn’t realize the same guy was behind it. I’m going to post a video which where he talks about some other reasons for why he’s working on Betrusted. (Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware).

He said Edward Snowden came to him with this problem of journalists getting killed and asked him for a solution and the introspection engine is what he came up with. I think “bunnie” fell victim to this bias when assuming this is something journalists would be happy to use if they’re just shown how. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

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BlueHat wrote (edited )

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Is it open source?

- futaba + futallaby + tinyib -

What are those links supposed to be? It seems like only one of them is pointing to a repository, although the other two also mention some kind of code. Am confused.

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