I have never used or cared about this W11. It has never seen the internet. I only keep it around for my keyboard’s RGB controller app if I ever need it. So I have no clue if this is everything or whatnot, but that is a screenshot of my access to the windows file system from within the file manager of Fedora. That is a dual boot partition. Fedora is particularly good at coexisting with a dual boot partition.
Use offline open weights.
It is the tiny URL link that has a unique identifier. The normal website links are just the regular website address root for reddit.com. Tiny URL links stand out more to me because I use a DNS whitelist firewall and will never approve any of these forwarding connections.
Why the reddit tracking link?
DNS filtering usually only filters on incoming packets, but for bot stuff that should catch issues.
In general, most routers run everything from a serial flash chip on the board. These are usually 8, 16, or 32 megabytes. They have a simple bootloader like U-Boot. This is what loads the operating system. These devices have a UART serial port on the PCB. You can use a USB to serial UART adaptor to see what is happening in the device. With a proprietary OS, you are still likely to see the pre-init boot sequence that the bootloader prints to terminal. Most operating systems also print information to this interface, at least of the couple dozen junk devices I have been given and messed around with. I make a little mount for a USB to serial adaptor and add it to all of my routers when new, so I only need to plug in USB to get to the internal bootloader and tty terminal interface of OpenWRT. You will need to know the default baud rate of the device, although it is probably listed somewhere online or can be guessed as one of the common high values at or above 9600.
Getting into this further gets complicated. It is probably better to look for any CVE that is relevant to the device or software and work backwards. Look for any software updates that have obfuscated the risk for each CVE. If the issue was not fixed, that is where to look to see if someone has exploited the device. Ultimately, they need clock cycles from the CPU scheduler. So it must be a process or some way of executing code from unregistered memory.
This is getting to the edge of what I have messed around with and understand. There may be a way to get a memory map that includes unused pages, and compare that with a hex dump of the flash memory. This is outside of your scope of a proprietary OS, but hopefully frames the abstract scope of what is possible on this class of device when you have an open source stack. The main advantage of this kind of device and issue is that you can physically remove the flash chip and then see and manipulate every page and memory location. The device likely doesn’t have microcode loaded into the CPU(s) that make it challenging to determine what is going on.
There is probably an easier way, but a hex dump of the current system can be hashed against the factory updated version to see if any differences are present. It is likely that any exploit will include a string with the address to connect to somewhere in flash memory. It could be obfuscated through encryption or a cypher, but a simple check for strings in the hex dump and a grep for “http” is a simple way to looks for issues.
The OpenWRT forum is a good general source. The people behind the bootloaders for these devices are also Linux kernel developers and on the OpenWRT forum.
Democracy is predicated on the Citizens that have a right to all information sources, the right to skepticism, the right to error, and the right to dissent in all nonviolent forms.
The right to information, skepticism, and to error, is the right to communicate freely, albeit directly, public commons, or press.
The right to dissent, is the right to offend when it does not cause substantive harm to others.
Calling it a Democracy, while destroying the foundations is spurious nonsense. No one will make you a slave in name: “You will own nothing, and you will be happy about it.” They redefine the word Citizen to be functionally equivalent.
I’ll have the chocolate stout
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The first life did not possess a sentient consciousness. Yet here you are reading this now. No one even tried to direct that. Quite the opposite, everything has been trying to kill you from the very start.
How do you punch holes in that dogma? I can think if many logical ways, but that is meaningless against the tribal structure.
Obviously, all the junk noncoding DNA most life is carrying around likely includes some coping mechanisms for whatever potential situations arise. Like there is the one town in Iran with something like ten times Earth’s nominal background radiation and people are fine living there.
Makes me a bit concerned when this kind of thing is talked about and researched. Probably my cynicism, but if it gets out that most species have some genetic tolerance in a significant portion of the population, the potential for nuclear weapons use increases dramatically. I believe it is likely that early life had a lot more exposure to radiation, so early ancestors likely evolved the machinery. When the vast majority of DNA is noncoding, I think the probability is high. We come at the medical issue backwards, playing wack-a-mole with symptoms, rather than building a full ontological understanding of biology. That level is still centuries away. Hopefully we are less primitive murder orgy fans by then. We survived the world war of chemicals, and physics that followed. If we survive the world war of computer science, the world war of biology will be the brutal final boss for the starting planetary level of Evo’ Universe. Who bets we can beat the game on one evo life?
Like don’t go rounding up my extended family, but other than that, whatever. I bet there is legislation in your area where witnesses have challenged it and lost. Thing is, they try to find witnesses that are lawyers, yet are anti education beyond that which is required by law. So their pool of candidates is dismal as are their results.
The way the world is changing, and the poor state of unfiltered information exchange in the present, I worry that such a law may ultimately prevent people from nonviolent dissent, skepticism, and access to politically inconvenient truths. Canvassing is rarely used now, but is the only form of information sharing that we the people fully own.
I’d rather not have unexpected guests too. With my physical disability, it is much more trouble for me than most.
Dogma is one of the worst traits in humans. So I do not faulting anyone for disliking the spread of that disease, few overcome the illness.
Sorry if I don’t know when to shut up too.
I don’t mean you are lying or anything like that friend. There is a certain unique language to witnesses. Most of my reply was me showing my authenticity, and that was to see if anyone more recently familiar had any corrections to make or might want to chat over common ground.
One of the oddities of Jehovah’s Witnesses is that they have a disproportionately large footprint in human rights legislation regarding the right to knock on people’s front door. It may seem annoying, but this impacts postal, logistics, neighborhood kids playing, and the public commons around the world. To a lesser extent, also the fundamental right of a citizen to error, to be skeptical, to all sources of information, and to offend, aka dissent in all nonviolent forms (though indirectly).
They are also apolitical. While doing nothing is still a useful tool for conservatives, at least they are a group of dogmatic people that would otherwise be sympathetic to spurious and populist politics, but are removed from that danger.
Anyways, I’m trying to frame this softly. Legally, soliciting is defined as the sale of goods or services. Witnesses generally ignore those. You need something to the effect of ‘no evangelists’ if you want to stop Witnesses and Mormons.
When it comes to lists like returning to a do not call or a person that is disfellowshipped, you might end up on a call list record. The elders in a hall have an overseer that visits each hall a couple of times a year for a week. That person is checking to make sure everything is managed correctly. So long as someone technically tried to call on the address once, that is all that matters. It would have been a couple of old men, probably at 11 am on a weekday when the odds of them finding the right address, you hearing them, or being home are extremely low. The statistics of actually encountering people at the door are very low.
Only the most obnoxious or oblivious witnesses, and pioneers are likely to ignore your sign. When I was young, it was all I knew, and I was one of those. It wasn’t because I wanted to argue with you. It was because it erodes the legal rights of citizens to categorize noncommercial activities as solicitation.
Sometimes I want words with special letters or without others. Or I may want to try various combinations of words.
You are likely to end up on an list where congregation elders will call on you if you say you’re disfellowshipped. That is the protocol. Just ask to be added to the do not call list. That should stop them from calling again.
All areas are divided into tiny maps that are laminated and checked out by publishers in the respective congregation. These are called, territories. There is a little piece of paper clipped to each of these territories that has the do not call list. Anything on this list is skipped.
People make mistakes at times. Like there is only one territory card and list and there may be 4 people in a car group. Witnesses always go to doors in pairs, so there might be 2 groups on the street. One might work even and the other on the odd address side. If someone is not all that bright, as is often the case, they may forget to look at the do not call list and share that with the other pair. With Witnesses, it is never malice. They mean well, but such is dogma.
I forget the cycle time, I haven’t been a pioneer for a couple of decades and outgrew that dogma a decade ago. I think it is or was four years for the do not call list, and it is supposed to only be elders from the hall that revisit those homes on the list. Almost everyone is either not home or does not come to the door anyways. From 9:30 in the morning until 12:00, a witness might knock on a hundred doors and talk to all of 3 people, at least that was the case 20 years ago.
Do any artists make substantive revenue from physical media? I am under the impression that the only meaningful revenue available to artists is from live performances. I get the impression that physical media is either someone else buying publishing rights from the artist, or basically someone selling the illusion of support. I could be wrong, but I see the whole thing as audio art ads for exposure/influence, that drives the live performance revenue source.
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