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Maddox said:
In light of these pagers and walkie talkies exploding, are there cell phone manufacturers that produce phones that are safe to use for people like us that don't have lithium batteries?
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These devices had explosive material placed into them, it wasn't just the battery exploding. If this is in your threat model I'd instead look for phones you can easily dismantle and view all the components e.g. Fairphone, Librem, PinePhone.
 
Maddox said:
In light of these pagers and walkie talkies exploding, are there cell phone manufacturers that produce phones that are safe to use for people like us that don't have lithium batteries?
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fail dan james GIF by Much
 
Valentine said:
These devices had explosive material placed into them, it wasn't just the battery exploding. If this is in your threat model I'd instead look for phones you can easily dismantle and view all the components e.g. Fairphone, Librem, PinePhone.
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If this is your threat model, you probably should go move to the nearest forest and forgo any technology whatsoever.
 
Unending Powerhouse Match said:
Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for, say, visiting sites like the Daily Stormer in countries like Germany? Would a VPN be enough to protect someone from that?
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In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and probably most other west European countries I would always use VPN for anything questionable or which challenges the narrative. While just visiting the sites is probably not illegal (so long as you're not reposting the links), better to be safe and assume Big Brother is always searching for "dangerous ideas". Your VPN should be a company outside the 5 Eyes and the EU, and the host server as well. Use double VPN for more protection, or just use TOR.
 
Caduceus said:
Reason number 42,768 not to have a public social media presence, or put photos of yourself on the internet.

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Yeah it's crazy how quick the technology has advanced. In 2023 the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses got released, which has it miniaturised to a normal sunglasses form factor:



Now this year Meta's Orion Augmented Reality glasses have been showcased with a slightly thicker frame, but now has a heads-up display and has increased the camera count from 2 to 7:



The future is going to be these cameras everywhere we go, which means that thanks to facial recognition technology it'll be possible to track every human's movements, and tagging spotted individuals with their real-life identity or at the very least a pseudonymous one. It's possible to avoid a large amount of tracking today if you wear a hat and don't carry a phone with you but in the near future you'd have to avoid people completely to evade this kind of location tracking. Arguably it's not worth worrying about though since location tracking is already ubiquitous thanks to cell tower triangulation. It does mean that this data is going to be in more people's hands however, and it's currently possible to avoid this tracking through with faraday bags for example.
 
Valentine said:
Yeah it's crazy how quick the technology has advanced. In 2023 the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses got released, which has it miniaturised to a normal sunglasses form factor:



Now this year Meta's Orion Augmented Reality glasses have been showcased with a slightly thicker frame, but now has a heads-up display and has increased the camera count from 2 to 7:



The future is going to be these cameras everywhere we go, which means that thanks to facial recognition technology it'll be possible to track every human's movements, and tagging spotted individuals with their real-life identity or at the very least a pseudonymous one. It's possible to avoid a large amount of tracking today if you wear a hat and don't carry a phone with you but in the near future you'd have to avoid people completely to evade this kind of location tracking. Arguably it's not worth worrying about though since location tracking is already ubiquitous thanks to cell tower triangulation. It does mean that this data is going to be in more people's hands however, and it's currently possible to avoid this tracking through with faraday bags for example.
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The silver lining is that this is kinda cool. If we're going to live in a dystopia anyway, I appreciate every step that is made to at least make it a cool cyberpunk kind of dystopia with these types of gizmos.
 
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