No search can be done if no phone exists but better yet to not go there.

Even before The Fanta Menace, I decided I would never set foot there. I'm a Latin-American Atheist. I don't want to catch a bullet, intentionally fired at me or not.

No, I'm not traveling to the US. Not for a very long time.

They're selling Google smart projectors these days.

Not entirely secure if they can just get their hands on the records, but it'd be a hell of a lot better than just... handing the info over.

Why does there need to be PII on samples going to Texas anyway? Have Seattle take the lab samples and do any medical billing, generate a unique id to go on that set of lab samples, keep the link between the patient and ID tied to the record back in Seattle, and then send the samples to Texas.

Texas tests samples and returns results for Patient 3418-6834-0556 when Seattle knows that actually means they're for Bob Smith taken on September 18, 2026.

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Thanks, didn't know that term. I also falsely assumed that where the article states it was required by the "Washington Department of Health" it meant the federal government, but in hindsight they probably meant the Washington State Department of Health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition

Which blue dogs?

Blue Dogs assisting Nazi Republicans.

that's just to protect profits. and this is just propaganda, because American cars are also laughably insecure. it made the national news several years ago.

cars these days are built to be surveillance machines on wheels, with almost no thought to security or protecting them from people trying to hack them. it's only a matter of time until we start seeing deaths related to this.

I'll have to give that talk a listen. Might be something on 2600. Thing is the next pricier level up on my vehicle unlocks a number of features that would be pleasant to add. And I'm the sort of person that feels like making changes in the vehicle I own is my right and privilege. Mod is Life. Thanks for your input!!

Yeah, self-hosting is almost always going to be the "ideal" solution for this sort of stuff, but not everyone has the means (knowledge, time, etc.) or even the reliable internet for that to make sense.

Personally, I know that a few years from now at most, I'll have probably transitioned to something more custom, but I'm guessing this is going to be a more viable solution for a LOT of people.

There was one defcon talk about it. It's a lot of pretty complex reverse engineering, so getting really good at reading and understanding assembly and working with debuggers /disassemblers without symbols is a start.

The talk I remember, where they were able to steer and break any car of the model in the world remotely, they got in by finding a unauth vulnerability in a remote call, and then used the firmware update process to bridge the almost airgapped vehicle controls system from the frontend car control (the screen, etc) system.

They boasted how secure it is because it's airgaoped and compromised frontend can't touch the critical vehicle controls. It almost was, save for a single function used for updating both at once. It was months of reverse engineering and several bricked cars.

But if you just want to change the frontend a little bit, it's not going to be as complex, probably. Still really difficult.

I suppose if you don't already have your own domain/email hosted on your own *nix box, and you use CF, then I guess this is a workable solution. A lot of geeks have just been doing this the old-fashioned way for decades... so seeing a different way to do it looks quite foreign (and a little bit of "why would you do this") to me :p

To me the whole point of custom email+domain is to host it yourself and be free from vendor lock-in like this, but I suppose not everyone's usecase is the same.

I've seen the browser block 50 or more connections on sites I've visited.

For routers, you can build your own firewall and put OPNsense on it. Very customizable.

If all my traffic comes from a single IP, that's a single datapoint. If instead my traffic occasionally comes from a mobile source, that's suddenly multiple datapoints, that can be used to establish a pattern. It can be correlated to identify when am home VS when I'm not.

I just double checked and Firefox had a custom DNS running on top of Mullvad's... Let's see if that cures a few of the issues.

Thanks!

Proton paid. So I pick a server that specifically has a low fraud rating and run the house on that.

May I ask which one you use?

I also have a VPN on at the router level 24/7. Zero issues.

It could be your VPN, but could also be a conflict if you have another DNS selected on your browser or devices. Try turning off any custom DNS resolvers and see if of there's a difference.

Why do you consider the mobile IP a critical data point?

It's getting ridiculous. I've also noticed that a wave of sites recently added a set of scripts that, if not handled just right, will keep cycling through resets and error messages, whilst teasingly allowing glimpses of the actual news / article page. Reader mode doesn't work, unfortunately.