and here I thought the radical left were the ones into speedrunning!

yep. that’s why me and everyone I know is prepping to DIY. they can pry my estradiol from my cold, dead hands.

there will be no green light. one side will be legitimized as lawful agents or paramilitaries, every excess of force overlooked, and our side will be considered criminals and terrorists, even in self-defense.

if it comes to violence it will be more like the Troubles than the Civil War.

if this comes to violence, I will be slaughtered. not because I plan to fight, but because trans people have been so thoroughly villianized by the Right. I won’t hurt a soul, but I expect to be hurt.

violence would be a catastrophe.

Have you been conscious and actually aware of your surroundings over the last eight months?

yes. I’ve personally read most of the Supreme Court decisions from 2025 in their entirety. I’ve consumed a truly unhealthy amount of news.

Violation of due process rights

Yes, the Administration has pulled shady shit, especially their shell game with original jurisdiction and habeas petitions. The worst has been CECOT. Trump v. JGG and Trump v. AARP did smack down some of this, though DHS v. DVD was unconscionable in shirking the requirements for CAT hearings.

blatant kidnapping of naturalized citizens or permanent residents

I’m aware of a few cases of naturalized citizens being stripped of citizenship, ostensibly due to mistakes or omissions in their applications. This has always been a thing, legally, but courts have held that it mistakes must have material significance. I’m not aware that they’ve deported anyone for typos.

Many more permanent residents have been detained, usually due to some prior conviction on their record. Again, this is legal, though terribly wrong. All permanent residents should be getting naturalized asap because the protections are much stronger.

military occupations of entire cities

Legal for DC, due to its special status as a Federal city. Forbidden in States without invitation by their Governors, except in cases of Rebellion, per the Posse Comitatus Act. Troops can be deployed to protect Federal buildings or workers, which was the excuse Trump used in LA. As a result, the Marines mostly stood around doing nothing, since they weren’t allowed to police. A judge found this unlawful and enjoined the order, and the troops were removed.

As for Memphis, the Governor of Tennessee invited Trump to deploy the National Guard, so it was legal.

As for Chicago, despite Trump’s cringe Apocalypse Now meme, he backed down because Pritzker opposed, so he would have violated Posse Comitatus.

deporting full American citizens

A few children who were US citizens left the Country with their undocumented parents, when they were deported. Legally, they can’t deport the kids, but they can offer the parents a horrible choice: bring them with you, or put them in the foster system. If they weren’t offered a choice, this is an easy suit to win, but my understanding is that the parents decided to bring their kids with them.

open corruption

ha, yep. Trump and his cronies are laughably corrupt. don’t get me started on the memecoin…

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so yes, the Constitution is in trouble. a couple months ago the Administration was skirting being held in contempt, in particular with deportations. but the judicial system is holding up surprisingly decently, with the exception of the absolutely disgraceful shadow docket orders SCOTUS has handed down.

but it’s not at a point yet where Trump can write EO that says “grr Antifa bad” and round up people who’ve committed no crimes.

no, that’s the thing. a group could literally call itself Antifa, apply for a permit to hold a demonstration and burn American flags holding “DOWN WITH FASCISM” signs, and there’s nothing the Administration could do. it’s all protected speech. they can’t jail someone for being Antifa. not even the EO claims this.

pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.

and even that’s overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.

until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.

/uj not really but that’d be sick as hell.

for work I have a cloud dev VM, in which I run WSL2. so there’s at least two levels of VMs happening, maybe three honestly.

this order doesn’t really do anything. it declares that “Antifa” is a domestic terrorist organization, and directs executive agencies to prioritize investigating and preventing illegal actions done by, or on behalf of, “Antifa.”

it doesn’t criminalize “Antifa,” define what that is, impose any sanctions, suspend any rights etc. there’s no statutory authority invoked. it’s just an order telling Federal law enforcement to focus on crimes by “Antifa” first.

why? probably because there’s jack shit they can do. there’s no magical war powers to invoke against domestic terrorists.

it’s just a tweet on fancy letterhead.

if anyone has one of these phones, please contact CitizenLab. they can reverse-engineer it.

oh they’re totally a tankie, I just don’t think they were employed by the Russian government.

you know what, that’s fair. I admit I’ve heard so frequently (e.g. from the GOS community) that FF is less secure due to low maintenance, so I read the CVE statistics with that bias. I apologize.

in your view, how ought we to assess the attack surface of things like browsers? I’d love to move back to FF if it’s roughly as secure.

there’s always the high seas 🏴‍☠️

Apple devices and just trusting their word that it isn’t enabled? Why are you so bent on propping up Apple as a secure platform when it’s so glaringly obvious they can’t be trusted with your data?

because, while I use GrapheneOS, it’s a little hard to set up and lacks some creature comforts. Android devices outside of GOS/CalyxOS/Lineage are probably even less secure than iPhones.

but perhaps it’s better for me to encourage everyone to bite the bullet and switch to Pixels running GOS. it really isn’t that hard.

or maybe the amount of research I could be fucked to do on my phone on a Saturday to reply to some snide lemming topped out at not adding up subranges by hand.

I’m also skeptical of the RCE tallies, the more I look at them, given two JS sandbox escapes for FF were reported just days ago: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-73/

I don’t understand why so many people on this site take every opportunity to attack each other, rather than extending the principle of charity.

Firefox CVEs

Chrome CVEs

93 code execution vulns in Chrome since 2015, 135 in FF. 975 memory corruption + 267 overflow for Chrome in that same time, while 142 + 536 respectively for FF, so in raw terms Chrome is higher, but A) most of the Chrome vulns are classified as DoS rather than RCE, which indicates their mitigations seem to work, and B) Chrome has way more market share, hence way more people finding vulns. Ladybird has like, 2 CVEs, but that doesn’t mean it’s way more secure than FF/Chrome, it means nobody’s using it.

Opzero.Ru (the quickest exploit market I could find) will pay $200k for Firefox RCE but $500K for Chrome RCE. Lower prices either mean less demand (low browser market share) or high supply (more vulns already in their inventory.)

So no, I am not fear mongering. You may disagree with my conclusions but I’m trying to be objective.

it was created by @[email protected] maybe they’re a Russian troll? I don’t think they are, but you could ask them :)

I’d trust an iPhone more than a random Samsung full of carrier bloatware, but I trust my Pixel running GrapheneOS more than either.

I have the USB-C port disabled for anything but charging, a duress pin, and reboots after 8 hours without a login. I’m honestly not sure if GrayKey could unlock it. I have memory tagging and a bunch of other hardening enabled, running only open-source apps I’ve verified the signatures of, running with minimal permissions. It would be hard to hack.

Yes, of course the NSA could almost certainly break it, but it would probably cost them time, money and vulns. If everyone uses GOS it will make their job very, very annoying :)

I’m trans and I very much care about not ending up in a concentration camp, please. (And yes I voted for Harris, but for the love of God can we take over the primaries next time, so the neoliberals are the ones holding their nose and voting?)

Lemmy is not really big enough yet to attract Russian trolls.