You Should Connect to Tor via a VPN
A video in which I respond to Mental Outlaw’s “Stop Using Tor With VPNs” video that somebody shared with me, and then also talk more about Tor security.
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Why Flock Is A Fourth Amendment Nightmare
Transcript Recording a car on a public road generally isn’t a Fourth Amendment search. But turning sightings from an entire camera network into a searchable history of where people travel may be. That is what Flock gives police the power to do, and I’m going to tell you
Will Cape be my new favorite carrier?
This is a first impressions video. I want to talk about some of Cape's features and why I think they are actually neat and not snake oil, but I haven't been using Cape nearly long enough to speak to network coverage/performance, real-world testing, etc.
Increase Mastodon's Character Limit
Create a file config/initializers/zzz_local_patches.rb: require Rails.root.join('app/validators/status_length_validator.rb') if ENV.has_key?('MAX_POST_CHARS') && ENV['MAX_POST_CHARS'].to_i > 0 && ENV['MAX_POST_CHARS'
Transfer Mastodon Media to Object Storage with Rclone
rclone copy --fast-list --copy-links -P \ --max-backlog 10000 \ --order-by size,mixed,75 \ --transfers 32 \ --s3-chunk-size 16M --s3-upload-concurrency 8 \ ./live/public/system/ remote:media-bucket/ * fast-list is compatible with Garage S3 * max-backlog queues up to 10,000 files at a time * order-