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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

    And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

    BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.







  • The guy operating the drone is still allergic to bullets. So is the politician giving the orders.

    Submarines, stealth fighters, etc are good for fighting militaries, not anonymous armed civilians.

    Insurrections armed with small arms drove the US military out of Iraq and Iran, and that’s with none of the US military changing sides because they were being ordered to aguaranheir own people.

    Shy of carpet-bombing cities and nuking the countryside, a tyrannical government can’t fully shield itself from an armed population. And when they start committing that level of atrocity, the military starts breaking into factions.



  • I teach underwater photography at a local university as a side gig. Being around college students all the time ever since I was in college has made me feel young at heart.

    We had a night dive a while back, but a thunderstorm came out of nowhere right before the dive, so we canceled and decided to go to a local pub for dinner. As we were walking in, all my students were getting carded, and the door man was taking it seriously. He was shining a light through the IDs, bending them, etc.

    When I got to the door with my card, he waved his hand and said, “You’re good.”

    That one hurt.