This looks like malicious compliance to me.

They were probably given a list of things that the parade had to have and they went down the list. Marching in formation (doesn’t say in step anywhere), check. Tanks (from 1980), check. Soldiers with drones (from Best Buy), check. Music, check.

It could be a distro if enough of us download it

The problem with trying to increase the signal to noise ratio is that you don’t know all of the datapoints that are being collected and some of those datapoints could be used to filter the real from the fake.

Like, in your example, if you made all of these account from the same browser then they could be linked together. If they were made on the same IP, they could be linked together. If you were using the same phone, they could be linked together. Those are just the datapoints that we know to try to protect, it’s the datapoints that you don’t know that get you.

Like, maybe your phone or desktop is screenshotting itself every 5 seconds (“for AI purposes”) or maybe the app that you’re trying to fool also secretly sends your GPS location during account creation or maybe the adversary has malware running on your PC which is keylogging you.

IF you knew all of the ways that they were collecting data on you, then you could take countermeasures. Since you don’t, you have to assume that any of your identities can be linked to your person unless you take unusual measures such, not using Microsoft/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc products at a minimum. Depending on your security needs this could also mean things like using burner hardware, non-commercial VPNs, physically disabling sensors/radios/ports, traffic/network monitoring, etc.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167049/assuming-a-flat-world-and-no-obstacles-how-far-could-you-see

Basically, you could see for a long way but your eyeballs suck so it largely doesn’t matter. Even with the best telescope and optics on a perfect day you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere which scatter light.

Also, Barad-dûr was destroyed when Frodo threw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom so it wouldn’t be there.

Yes, and some fine work as been put into making it a great choice for a webserver:

https://totl.net/Spud/

How are they gonna trace that to you?

The modern Internet is essentially about spying on you as much as possible and then selling the data to whoever wants to buy it. Linking identities with devices/browsers is worth a lot of money and so most every website/app has a way of linking you to the devices and software that you use.

Unless the user took some pretty extreme measures to create the account, they’ve likely logged in from a phone/ip/browser that has been linked to their real identity at some point in its lifetime. That link will be sold to data brokers and used to tie the random handle to you, the person. Then the State Department just buys that information.

Alternatively, you should be assuming that sovereign entities with the means are reading all public network data. There’s a lot of information that you can learn from that as well. Like, over time, the posts from the ‘random’ account could be strongly correlated to the times that you were accessing the site even if all of the data was encrypted with HTTPS.

Alternatively, alternatively. There is a threat known as Store Now Decrypt Later (SNDL). The idea is basically: Quantum Computers are coming and they can break some cryptographic primitives. If someone saves all of the encrypted traffic that they would want to read, in a few years they will have the means to read that data. We won’t know when this moment occurs, because it’ll likely be a secret, but we do know that it will happen and so you should additionally assume that anything that isn’t using post-quantum encryption, which transited a public network, will be read and used to link you to your identities.

This is, essentially, the core thing that the Privacy community is attempting to mitigate.

I like the part where it says people are using “The Dark Web” both within the United States and “at the international border”.

Because that would put essentially all computer crimes in ICE jurisdiction.

That would make sense, if it’s educational then it’s probably used to teach about the Caesar/shift cipher

Just download this executable file from the Internet and run it as administrator.

No, I don’t.

We’re about to be seeing a lot of people with the wrong political opinions being targeted using this data.

Trump is already calling the protesters terrorists. Using this data to eliminate his political opponents would be pretty on brand for Trump.

Every felon he makes now is one less person voting against him in the next election.

All data.

Your Facebook information, Gmail emails, Insta DMs, etc. It’s all for sale and federal law enforcement are buying it. Things that they would normally need a warrant to get, they can simply pull up from a data broker.

Everything that’s collected is sold. If it is for sale, law enforcement is buying it. Everything is collected.

Snowden showed that this is being done by all major social media sites and email providers in the US.

They either willingly sell their data or are compelled to give access with a National Security Letter.

When you give up data or type a message, assume a federal law enforcement officer is reading it.

Imagine I said that I would come into your house and install a new TV and entertainment system, re-build your bathroom, fix your maintenance issues, clean your floors, wash your dishes, etc. That’d save you a lot of time.

Now, I’ll even do it for free! But, you have to let me install a door that only I have a key to so you can’t stop me from entering your house and also to install cameras and microphones covering every square foot of your house and you consent to being recorded.

That’s the deal people are making with their digital lives.

Yeah, it was inconvenient to have to learn how to setup the software so I could have ‘cloud storage’ using my home server. It’s annoying that I have to deal with IP Cameras and ZoneMinder. But, because I do the work myself, I don’t have to let Google/Meta/FBI/Amazon have access to listening devices in my home (Oh, sorry Alexa, I didn’t know you were listening), footage from my security system or the contents of my personal files.

Unless you can convince them to get out of the ‘surveillance for free stuff’ market then they’re fucked, not everyone.

You can choose to use free and open source software and sped time learning and putting together a system that benefits you. Or you can just sign up for Google, let them do all of the work in exchange for spying on you with every device that you buy and put in your house.

Google is constantly making changes that break it, the developers fix them quickly… but if your distro doesn’t keep the newest version in their repo then you’d have to install it from their git repo.

Generally they have a patch for any breaking changes within the day.

How does Newpipe work?

Miracles

I see you’re channeling the spirits of Social Media

You’d need to write a script, for example:

#!/bin/bash

# Set the directory where screenshots will be saved
SCREENSHOT_DIR=~/Pictures/Screenshots

# Create the directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$SCREENSHOT_DIR"

# Get the current date and time in the format MM-DD-YYYY_HH:MM:SS
DATETIME=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M-%S")

# Build the filename using the datetime
FILENAME="screenshot_$DATETIME.png"

# Take a fullscreen screenshot, save it to the specified directory, and copy it to the clipboard
spectacle -f -b -c -o "$SCREENSHOT_DIR/$FILENAME"

# Optional: Notify the user (requires notify-send)
notify-send "Screenshot taken" "$FILENAME saved to $SCREENSHOT_DIR"

You can change the -f to change the screenshot mode. From spectacle --help:

  -f, --fullscreen                        Capture the entire desktop (default)
  -m, --current                           Capture the current monitor
  -a, --activewindow                      Capture the active window
  -u, --windowundercursor                 Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, including parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -t, --transientonly                     Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, excluding parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -r, --region                            Capture a rectangular region of the
                                          screen

Save the script somewhere. It’s safest to make it owned by root and put somewhere like /usr/scripts so random user-access programs can’t edit the script. Use chmod +x to make it executable.

Then go to Plasma -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, Click ‘Add New’ -> Command or Script. For the command, give it the path to your script, give it a name click Add and then set a hotkey by clicking the Add butoon.