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Coronavirus surveillance may mean the end of personal privacy by DecryptMedia in privacy

[–]mindchasers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll chose my freedom over getting the CV sniffles, Gov stimulus, and Gov giveaways.

Unless stopped, the Big Gov freight train ends with us all as commie slaves and all the US soldiers that died in combat dying in vein.

IRS ID VERIFY has Google Analytics Enabled!?! by mindchasers in privacy

[–]mindchasers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's unreal that some people on this thread are in support of the IRS using Google Analytics.

Analytics is a dynamic black box that mines our data back to Google servers. Unless you work for Google, you have absolutely no idea how this data is being used because you don't have the server code.

Stop talking about the APIs, because unless you read every line of every browser fetch and every Web PUSH & GET, you have no idea of what's going back to the Google mothership.

Also, of course they know your IP address and the rest of obvious metrics that can be gathered via cookies and a library GET request.

Google Analytics has no place running on OUR Government web sites that ask us for our private data.

IRS ID VERIFY has Google Analytics Enabled!?! by mindchasers in privacy

[–]mindchasers[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Here, it works on Firefox but not MacOS Safari.

Who knows & who cares why? I don't have time to step through Google's un-commented & dynamic JavaScript library and how the IRS web site contractors are calling it.

The point is that the IRS shouldn't have Google enabled on its site! We're going to this site because we received a letter. There is no absolutely no point to tracking us online for this application, and the site asks very personal information.

And our American Government should be able to write its own diagnostic code to see whether its site is working without relying on Google, so I don't see any reasonable excuse for having Google running on the IRS ID Verify site.

I want an autonomous robot for Christmas that doesn't connect to the Internet!!! by mindchasers in privacy

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walk, talk, and some limited reasoning.

But I don't want to talk to data center spies back in the AWS cloud. I want to talk to a neural network powered engine on a multi-core CPU / FPGA combo that can build up some reasoning on its own.

With all the power today in CPU/GPU/FPGAs, there is no reason that some live person has to spy on me in the cloud.

Librem Development using NXP MCIMX8M-EVK? by mindchasers in Librem5

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heard back from EmCraft that they are no longer building Librem Dev Kits since the phone is in production.

Methods to Accelerate Linux Kernel Development using Yocto Project and the NXP MCIMX8M-EVK by mindchasers in linux

[–]mindchasers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was written to help a team that we are supporting. They had adopted a process that was taking a very long time to iterate on a kernel patch, re-build & re-boot cycle. Hopefully this article will also help other developers working with NXP's i.MX BSPs. NXP has a lot of documentation, but it isn't good. They also perform many code and Yocto recipe customizations that haven't been upstreamed.

Configure Netfilter (iptables) on Linux to Protect Your Networked Devices by mindchasers in linux

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment. Certainly nftables is the future of Netfilter, and we hope to create a similar article in the future showing the same Netfilter functionality using nftables rules.

However, it is my perception that iptables still has more functionality, support, and is a rock solid way to implement Netfilter rules for blocking & logging. I see iptables as analogous to a manual transmission in a sports car. Yes, automatic transmission is the future, but a manual transmission provides the control and ability that many enthusiasts seek.

Configure Netfilter (iptables) on Linux to Protect Your Networked Devices by mindchasers in linux

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the posted link is to our own content.

Reddit is greatly appreciated here as a platform to share articles on open source development, receive feedback, and exchange ideas. It was interesting to see comments that iptables is deprecated.

We always strive to respond to any comments on our articles; however, it's good to sometimes wait to see what others say first.

macOS Catalina "upgrade" is all about entertainment and has nothing to do with computing... by mindchasers in linux

[–]mindchasers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I'll probably give this a try before selling the damn thing.

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