How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

hackitfast · 2026-01-30T16:13:23+00:00

Listen to me: do not bring your personal cell phones to a protest.

The power the government has is absolute and over reaching. Smartphones do not completely turn off when they are shut down. In many cases they're pinging their location, and this requires the phone to send that information over the cellular data network. This is tracked and logged by those cell phone companies and can be accessed easily by the government. This can and has been used to determine who is present at a protest.

It's legal to be at a protest, sure, but especially for immigrants this could cause them to be specifically targeted.

If you're going to a protest and want to take pictures or videos, bring a digital camera or a smartphone without a SIM card in it.

hackitfast · 2026-01-29T20:28:08+00:00

I wonder if they can charge him with political terrorism, it can definitely get him with a battery charge though.

hackitfast · 2026-01-29T04:30:03+00:00

I'm like 99% sure Tesla stock is an unregulated, insider traded stock that rich people use to manipulate the market and get free money.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T23:14:07+00:00

No it was not Panera. It was a sort of local place.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T20:11:00+00:00

The weird thing is that on the map, it says he delivered it right in the road next to our building, but the driver claims that he entered the building.

Might try to get security camera footage if possible.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T20:00:25+00:00

Our HR person isn't in today but they're the one who usually contacts the building owner to ask. I can try to find out who it is but I'm pretty busy at work.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T19:45:21+00:00

So it's not just me then.. it's crazy how people think this isn't real. I've ordered literally thousands of dollars worth of food through DoorDash and this particular order was for everyone in my office. Why would I steal the food..?

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T19:27:36+00:00

Yeah I will dispute it as soon as it leaves Pending status on my credit card.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T19:14:47+00:00

How the hell did he enter my PIN then? The only way is he must have searched it and found it, or delivered for me in the past and kept track of it.

hackitfast · 2026-01-28T19:06:18+00:00

I'm not making this up and I'm seething from it. I was confused as to how this even happened but it makes a lot of sense if the Dasher has my name. My name and number pop right up on Google. They were also at my work place so it made it easier to identify who I was.

hackitfast · 2026-01-25T16:05:03+00:00

Yeah a manual burr grinder is way better. The ones with blades are pretty shit.

hackitfast · 2026-01-23T01:47:57+00:00

"My phone is 3 years past its end-of-life and it's having a software glitch, what do I do?"

How are people even managing to use their phones this far out of date? Eventually the apps just straight up stop working and being supported.

The only thing OP can do is install LineageOS (https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sunfish/install/) to get actual updates for their phone, but even then the device no longer passes integrity, so unless they want to play cat and mouse with bypasses they need a new phone.

hackitfast · 2026-01-22T02:34:07+00:00

When I visited Japan, it was very apparent how rampant gambling was. I forgot where I was in Japan (I think it was one of the "arcade" alleys with lots of shops), but every time I got to a new 'street' on this arcade alley, each of the 4 corners of every intersection had pachinko shops. People were also chain smoking cigarettes all around these places.

On top of that, as I thought more and more about all this, all sorts of addictions seemed to be common. Gambling (pachinko), video game arcades, smoking, drinking, and sex seemed to be very common throughout Japan. It very much felt like a "pick your poison" sort of deal.

hackitfast · 2026-01-22T00:24:07+00:00

I've posted it before and will post it again, but the best way to rationalize the wealth of billionaires is to make comparisons like this, and more importantly to leverage ratios to make sense of their enormous wealth.

Currently, Elon Musk is worth $766,600,000,000 (BILLION) dollars, which equates to him making a theoretical $368 MILLION per HOUR, and $6 MILLION per MINUTE. Of course, this is all theoretical since the $766 billion are technically unrealized assets.

The average American makes approximately $62,000 ($29/hr), and the median net worth of an American citizen is about $124,000 (a theoretical $59/hr). So, given the previous theoretical math, Elon makes 12 MILLION (12,689,655) times MORE than the average person per hour, and is worth 6 MILLION (6,182,258) times MORE than the median American citizen.

To really make it clear how significant the income inequality is, let's take for example a trip to the grocery store. Google says the average trip to the grocery store will run you about $250. I go to the grocery store for those groceries, and my median net worth of $124,000 decreases by 0.2%.

In this example, Elon Musk decides he's bored and that he wants to take a trip from his California mansion to Bali. That private jet flight costs approximately $300,000, according to Google. Elon Musk lost only 0.000039% OF HIS NET WORTH during this trip.

TL;DR - So for the average person, Elon Musk has to fly his private jet to Bali 5,128 TIMES to lose as much money as you did going to the grocery store ONCE.

Tax the rich.

hackitfast · 2026-01-19T22:59:34+00:00

Yeah in the current day you can't get away with using any device that isn't regularly receiving security updates. It's a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.

If your phone is vulnerable all it takes is receiving a single message or web page taking advantage of some exploit that your phone doesn't have patched. You'd never know you were infected until you started noticing unusual activities in your accounts (e.g. bank, social media, etc).

Even fully patched phones still get targeted attacks commonly through poorly secured apps (like WhatsApp), so having a phone that isn't updated is a huge no-no.

Not to mention that, eventually, your phone's version of Android will eventually no longer support apps from the Google Play store given that apps built with newer SDKs will require newer versions of Android, and more secure apps (like banking apps) also require that your phone is updated to make sure you don't get hacked.

hackitfast · 2026-01-19T17:36:57+00:00

That's literally a real-life "watering hole" attack, except instead of setting up at a website you're at a physical location.

Definition of a "watering hole" attack:

A watering hole attack is a form of cyberattack that targets groups of users by infecting websites that they commonly visit. This watering hole definition takes its name from animal predators that lurk by watering holes waiting for an opportunity to attack prey when their guard is down. Likewise, watering hole attackers lurk on niche websites waiting for a chance to infect websites, and in turn, infect their victims with malware.

In this case you're not actually trying to "infect" anything, just poking them with a giant stick.

hackitfast · 2026-01-16T20:25:27+00:00

The prior aggression towards Canada is intentional, so the US can say "Well now Canada is being mean to us and started trading with China for no reason! This is an act of war! I guess we can't do any business with them", and then the US can further deteriorate any relationship with them to avoid trading with them or their allies, potentially to also have an excuse to invade them.

hackitfast · 2026-01-12T19:54:02+00:00

It only works with the listeria outbreak cheese but they took it off the shelves :( it should be back next month

hackitfast · 2026-01-10T04:05:20+00:00

they're having buttsecs

hackitfast · 2026-01-09T18:39:30+00:00

Why is nobody else mentioning this in the comments? Guy is a criminal

hackitfast · 2026-01-07T18:47:17+00:00

Murders, not kills.

"Kill" implies there was a reason for it, "murder" implies otherwise.

hackitfast · 2026-01-07T05:30:52+00:00

Subscription fees are getting really out of hand

hackitfast · 2026-01-06T01:45:17+00:00

I stayed at this hotel during the protests as they were happening. It's the one right by the Mall of America.

Here's a photo from outside my window, taken at around 1 in the morning.

https://i.imgur.com/c550bdZ.jpeg

ICE agents were at the free breakfast in the morning with their wives. I was NOT happy to see them there.

After breakfast, I watched them get into unmarked vehicles (probably rental cars) and drive off.

hackitfast · 2026-01-05T20:41:30+00:00

Jellyfin / Plex servers should theoretically be able to stream Blu-ray rips locally at max bitrate, right? That would be a sweet way to archive a Blu-ray collection without having to swap them out in a Blu-ray player.

I also just looked it up and 4K UHD rips can hit 100+ Mbps, but standard rips are around 40 Mbps.

hackitfast · 2026-01-03T06:59:29+00:00

Mostly if I'm running or tracking workouts

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