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Naomi Wu is one of the OGs of maker youtube and a lot of consumer grade 3d printing can be traced right back to her.
Teaching Tech have talked about this a fair amount over the past year or two. But Naomi basically trying to walk a fine line and not get CCP'd is pretty well known at this point. The issue is that she isn't seeking help (because any help is likely to get her and her partner in trouble) and the major "gossip" youtubers just want to say "Stupid girl has tits".
Real shit situation all around but hopefully she and her partner are safe-ish and happy.
Its honestly a REALLY good idea. Still pisses me off that windows has had a QR code for years but it just goes to a generic support page.
That said: There are plenty of environments where a QR code is not viable. Secure environments where you cannot have a camera is one. But also most server rooms where the KVM has been abused for years and is covered in filth. What you can squint and scratch down on a piece of paper and what your phone can process are two very different things.
Linux so easy enough to have both code and text but I do have concerns on the broader impact of this being normalized.
This might be the first time I have ever truly been glad that Veep ended 5 years ago. Because the writers would just be paralyzed by all of this stupidity.
Sanders gets us back to the "too old" and has the added benefit of him being historically horrible at condemning atrocities by "Communist" countries.
And AOC is too young. And also a she is of color
We are democrats. Never trust us to slit our own throats.
But yeah. This feels about as coordinated as it can be. Expect vp tomorrow
Martin Luther King was successful in large part because of the acts of people like Malcolm X. Talk softly but point at the person with a big stick
When we are dealing with good faith actors Speak
When we are dealing with violent insurrectionists who have never won a popular vote and are actively talking about how they will remove the ability to ever speak again?
Shit is already escalated
We had a violent fucking insurrection in 2020. The fallout is a corrupt supreme court saying that was legal because it was an official act
Shit is already fucked. Either bury your head in the sand and hope the Nazis will respect your integrity or act
Fuck the high road.
One party is insisting on protecting the legacy of this country and democracy.
The other openly has plans to destroy democracy and are acting on them.
And now I understand why that weirdo was so hellbent on the corporations of the world supporting this
Not sure if google is particularly different but the way this works for the other services is basically low energy bluetooth scanning coupled with the phones providing their location*. So basically all the devices on that scanning/spy network periodically ping/listen for nearby devices/trackers. When it finds one, it sends a quick message to the servers with that phone's location and the ID of the tracker. Get enough of those pings and you can triangulate the position of the tracker pretty precisely.
Which... is why this fundamentally does not work with "hacker" solutions that allegedly emphasize privacy. Because you just don't have enough devices listening. This was painfully obvious with tile back in the day and is still an issue with Samsung in some countries.
*: Via a combination of gps, cell tower, and wifi network scanning. The less obvious part of that being wifi networks which is the majority of how interior positioning works.
I mean... bluetooth is literally broadcasting your position (sort of/it depends on the implementation). It is not at all a stretch that you should turn that off if you care about privacy. Same with not scanning for what wifi networks are available or even pinging GPS satellites (because that leaves a log). Hell... cell tower logs are a treat for cops/TLAs for a reason.
Aside from that? Good for you. If you actually follow through on that I can respect it. My point is more that this particular solution seems like the worst of all worlds.
Either you are demolishing your battery with regular phone homes to a server you hopefully control or you are relying on a push via SMS and the hope that you lose your phone somewhere you havea reception. And you still only have YOUR phone and YOUR network to track it which has significant drawbacks if you travel.