Billy Santana

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain deletes most of your ordinary days. It keeps almost every minute of a night alone in a foreign city. What's happening there is actually one of the more beautiful things about how your nervous system works.

Your brain is a prediction machine. When it can predict everything, like your commute, your kitchen, your same six streets, it stops recording. That's why whole months at home just vanish. But put yourself somewhere it can't predict anything and the system flips. Every sign, every smell, every crosswalk registers as new information. Dopamine tags all of it as worth keeping. This is why one week abroad feels longer in memory than a month at home. Your brain literally kept more of it.

The second thing happening is quieter. At home, some part of you is always tracking how you're being perceived. Your boss, your friends, the people who knew you at 22. In a city where nobody knows your name, that entire system goes offline.

And when it goes offline, the bandwidth doesn't disappear. It gets redirected inward.

That's the "realizing how far you've come" part. Your brain is finally recording again, the self-monitoring is off, and you're far enough away from your life to see the whole shape of it at once.

You spend years too close to your own life to see it. Then one night you're crossing a street on the other side of the world, and you finally have enough distance to look.

[Billy Santana @CyberBilly01]

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today we celebrate the birth of a little girl who would be called to become the Mother of her Creator, the Mother of God. Yet, she is born simply as a little girl, like the daughters and granddaughters we hold in our arms. We bestow upon her the most exalted and noble titles, such as Our Lady and Queen, but God’s way was and remains simpler and quieter, yet no less powerful and transformative. It is the way of Jesus Himself. #NativityOfMary

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

This investigation into LG TVs spying on you, your family, and your network is absolutely insane.

It has made me irrationally angry that even in this 2 hour video there isn't a whole lot of "what you should do about it" - because there isn't much you can do.

They suggest disconnecting all smart TVs from your network, but also demonstrate that offline TVs still record audio and can try to connect to neighbors open ISP provided WiFi (Xfinity and AT&T default routers) and exfil that anyway.

The lack of control we have over our own electronics is insane, we need massive comprehensive consumer privacy legal reform.

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

Privacy Notes offers different kinds of templates, secret vault, burn after reading and an optional zero-knowledge encrypted sync.

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[AstraKernel 💫 @AstraKernel]

@IntCyberDigest Meanwhile, Linus torvalds:
> And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

> Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

GrapheneOS is partnered with Motorola Mobility which is Lenovo's mobile division.

In 2011, Motorola was split into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2012 and sold it to Lenovo in 2014. Motorola Mobility is the company selling smartphones and tablets.

Motorola Solutions is a separate company. It's the continuation of the government contract side of Motorola selling radios, cameras and now drones. Both share the same brand for historical reasons but are entirely different things. We're working with the smartphone company, not the radio/camera one.

People regularly get the companies mixed up due to both using the Motorola brand. We're clarifying this since people keep asking if GrapheneOS is going to run on Motorola Solutions radios or about their government contracts. That's a different company from the Motorola selling smartphones/tablets.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us #PrayTogether for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it. #PrayerIntention @clicktopray_en @vaticanIHD https://t.co/rCmSKkqM3b

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless.

[Billy Santana @CyberBilly01]

@GrapheneOS @Kyle03394105 Can you post the link (support page) of how to set up the secondary fingerprint+PIN unlock? I'm not a Graphene user yet but I'd like to know how it's implemented.

[Jack Mallers @jackmallers]

As bankers debate how much our lives should be inflated away, ask yourself:

Why do we need inflation at all?

We don't need our money destroyed to make us spend. We want to save. We want productivity to make things cheaper. We want money to hold its value.

Bitcoin fixes this.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

The company which leaked data is IDScan. IDScan does not list all of their customers, however some are publicly known. If you have ever used these companies (and provided an ID) your data has been leaked:

- Shell
- AMC Theaters
- DraftKings
- Dutchie
- FedEx
- Hertz
- Chevrolet (General Motors)
- GameStop
- Jack Henry
- MRI (Checkpoint ID)
- Polaris
- Simmons Bank
- LendingUSA
- Circa Resort & Casino
- Planet 13
- Rouses Market
- US Coast Guard Academy
- Caesars Entertainment
- Motorola

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

I really recommending reading this.

In summary, a company which does ID verification for in-person interactions (hotels, car rentals, ID verification for alcohol or marijuana, etc) has some how exposed over 153,000,000 drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada.

It is a catastrophic data breach, probably one of the worse I've ever seen. If you're in the United States and have traveled, gotten a hotel, purchased marijuana or alcohol, there is a high probability you're in this.

Unlike other breaches, this includes a photo of the person (from the license), making verification you've identified the person significantly easier.

This poses a significant threat to celebrities (musicians, YouTubers, streamers, adult entertainers, actors, etc), politicians, lawyers, wealthy people (CEOs, investors, people of public interest), Law Enforcement Officers, etc

Krebs himself, and several other security researchers, have already confirmed they're in the data leak.

tl;dr gah damn dawg this company is going to be sued into oblivion

https://t.co/QpsegBUzH5

[Billy Santana @CyberBilly01]

@GrapheneOS @pegboard696969 Which Android smartphone would you guys recommend as far as GPU performance-wise? (in the meantime, before your Motorola release of course) 😉

[Billy Santana @CyberBilly01]

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[Computer Knowledge @Computer_basic0]

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[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."

[Billy Santana @CyberBilly01]

@gabHernandez285 @TechieUltimatum They're doing all these "initiatives" to divert attention from the fact that they are k*lling sideloading very soon. By April '27 I doubt any Android phone will permit sideloading without going through a very long, tedious process. #GrapheneOS #Motorola

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Holy smokes... how is this AI?

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Marriage used to be the starting point.

Two people would come together with almost nothing to their name, but each other, and then they would build everything side by side. This process of building led to bonding, it built loyalty, it required tremendous sacrifice and most of all it taught interdependence. But now we are told the opposite. We are told instead that we need to have it all before we marry.

We need a good career, a home, a bunch of money in the bank, your entire identity discovered and solidified, a passport filled with stamps, a degree and much dating experience.

The problem with this is that by the time two people finally decide to join one another, well they have spent most of their lives learning how to do life alone.

So it is not wonder then that building a life with someone else, suddenly feels so much harder. Marriage used to be a beginning, not it is an after thought to an already built life.

Two already self-sufficient and self-reliant people do not easily merge and mesh. It is hard to go from the perspective of “mine”, to “ours”, when individualism is all we have ever known.

And this is why individualism has become the death of marriage.