IMO this is largely Debian-specific: this distro seems to hold backward comaptibility in very high regard, so any problem is bound to have a multitude of solutions. In addition, the Debian Wiki is not as well maintained as you-know-whose.

I see nothing untoward here.

Except maybe that last sentence, what “s” are you talking about (fwiw, the man page that comes with an installed package should™ be the ultimate authority)?

I guess it would.

OTOH it’s always one of the first things I disable on my phone. That being mandatory would piss me off.

In most laptop web cams, the little LEDs are part of the hardware/firmware modules.

At the time of commenting, this post is 8h old. I read all the top comments, many of them critical of Anubis.

I run a small website and don’t have problems with bots. Of course I know what a DDOS is - maybe that’s the only use case where something like Anubis would help, instead of the strictly server-side solution I deploy?

I use CrowdSec (it seems to work with caddy btw). It took a little setting up, but it does the job.

Am I missing something here? Why wouldn’t that be enough? Why do I need to heckle my visitors?

Despite all that I still had a problem with bots knocking on my ports spamming my logs.

By the time Anubis gets to work, the knocking already happened so I don’t really understand this argument.

If the system is set up to reject a certain type of requests, these are microsecond transactions of no (DDOS exception) harm.

it’s mentioned in this article

That was my first thought. And how many people have done this already? It’s way too easy to take pictures of people while pretending to just be on your phone. They should introduce a little red LED when the camera is on, at the very least.

the pools next to the river

I didn’t even see those at first!

Just to clarify: the water seen in the picture is hot (of course gradually cooling down as it flows)?

There was (early 1900s) a cartoon series about a guy having weird dreams every time they ate a grilled (?) cheese sandwhich before going to sleep.

It was amazing, and my camera doesn’t do it justice.

Judging from the POV, it’s a pretty tall hill.

malicious compliance

Ok, I didn’t catch that’s what you’re going for; what you described didn’t sound like a too bad strategy to get at least a little bit out of AI. And every employer should support your motivation. Should.

That’s a pretty weak and evasive follow-up to your strongly voiced opinion.

Could you please clarify?
The fact checking is in the phones he presents; what I’m interested in is how he got them; he explained that well in the beginning, but I’ll admit I took him at his word. Maybe you have more on that?

OTOH, a web search shows a few articles that find the exact same things on separate devices.

What exactly is your criticism here?

That was extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.

So well explained, in-depth yet not too jargon-y.

In the end, analyzing this device gives a pretty good picture of what it’s like in North Korea, not just wrt smartphones.

The issue

What’s with the comments? “Hi mom”

the PR

So “LuminaX-alt” is an AI?

I thought this was the result of Ukrainian drone attacks, but no. This is the governments doing. Scary stuff, very much reminiscent of the Soviet Union - a new, more tech savvy version.

Widespread cellphone internet shutdowns began in May and persisted through summer and into the fall. In November, 57 Russian regions on average reported daily disruptions to cellphone links, according to Na Svyazi, an activist group monitoring shutdowns.

Authorities say these outages are designed to prevent Ukrainian drones from tapping mobile networks for navigation.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they are “absolutely justified and necessary,” but analyst Kateryna Stepanenko of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said they haven’t been effective in curbing the intensity of Ukraine’s drone attacks, “given the amount of strikes we’ve seen in recent months on Russian oil refineries.”

In many regions, only a handful of government-approved Russian websites and online services — designated as being on “white lists” — are available during connectivity blackouts.

Authorities have tried touting the joys of reconnecting with a technology-free lifestyle.

One recent anti-drone restriction sets 24-hour “cooling periods” during which data and texts are blocked from SIM cards that were carried abroad or have been inactive for 72 hours. The owner can unblock it via a link received by text message.

Unblocking becomes impossible, however, if a SIM card is used in internet-connected appliances or equipment without interfaces for receiving text messages, like portable Wi-Fi routers, cars or meter boxes.

Other restrictions targeted two popular messaging apps: WhatsApp, with about 96 million monthly users in October, and Telegram, with 91 million, according to media monitoring group Mediascope.

Authorities began restricting calls on these apps in August, supposedly to stop phone scams, and are throttling them in some parts of Russia.

Neither app is on the government “white list.”

On the list is Russian messaging service MAX. Authorities actively promote it and since September the service is required to be preinstalled on all smartphones in Russia. Critics see it as a surveillance tool as MAX openly declares it will share user data with authorities upon request. Experts also say it doesn’t use end-to-end encryption.

I certainly couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to do that indefinitely.

You mean the topic of the article, or what you just wrote?

oddly specific

…and who put them there in the first place.

Yeah, the whole thing is pretty fucked up. The world’s societies & systems need a complete overhaul. Doesn’t sound likely, does it?

Aren’t datacenters more like the factory halls for the looms?

And in any case, who is destroying them (who are the weavers)?