I switched to Bitwarden after the LastPass stuff a couple years ago, and I just got around to installing Vaultwarden on my TrueNAS system at home. Using a single Cloudflare Tunnel to handle secure external connections for that and other services like Emby easily. Took a little bit to setup following some guides, but has been working flawlessly for me and some friends. You can use the regular Bitwarden apps and extensions since they natively support self hosting.

To be fair most of the “bloat” is the flashy stuff that gets consumers to buy things. The extras that enterprise and some power users don’t care about because they want to use their own thing instead.

A lot of that “bloat” is the easy integrated stuff the average person can set up and use themselves following a couple login and setup screens without having to think about it. Things like OneDrive for easy automated document backup, backing up device licenses to an account versus needing to keep track of a license key if they need to reinstall, integrated find my device services, etc.

All of those functions are expected in a modern OS by the average user, so they are ready to go out of the box with a little setup. It’s the same way Apple handles similar services on OSX and iOS, and Google does with ChromeOS. Not every user will use those services, and there are alternatives of course. Nothing prevents you from uninstalling OneDrive, or most other pre-installed programs or components. I got rid of those immediately after installing Windows 11 because I use other services, and I haven’t seen them since.

Reminder that Fox News was created in the wake of Watergate specifically because media coverage of the scandal went from non-existent to shifting public opinion against it in weeks. It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform to prevent that from ever happening again.

It would be a state law. Dems in CA are much more likely to make sure it gets enforced compared to the federal level.

It’s actually not that vague looking into it. They have to be readily identifiable. They can totally wear masks as long as their identifiable as police and not trying to disguise themselves. So things like SWAT and riot equipment already identify them as police.

It has an exemption for undercover officers, which already have existing requirements and paperwork associated for oversight. There is zero reason for any other officer to not be identifiable.

It requires intent to disguise, so effectively this just outlaws plainclothes officers, which should already not be allowed honestly. Too easy for them to escalate a conflict from within to then justify an escalated police response. Protesters aren’t violent enough? Send Jeff and Bobby inside in plain clothes to start some shit.

They’re basically extending an existing law making wearing a disguise while committing a crime a separate offense, to cover law enforcement while in the performance of their duties. It’s already illegal for you to do this as a regular civilian, they’re making it the same for law enforcement.

There is an exception for undercover officers. There is zero reason outside those situations for an officer to disguise themselves. SWAT aren’t usually disguised, they are very clearly identified as police already and aren’t trying to disguise themselves.

Plainclothes officers outside undercover assignments are already a grey area to be honest, too easy for them to purposefully escalate conflicts while making it look natural, and then justify a response to an escalation they created. ICE is just using that to their advantage here.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to wear a mask, false whiskers, or any personal disguise, as specified, with the purpose of evading or escaping discovery, recognition, or identification while committing a public offense, or for concealment, flight, evasion, or escape from arrest or conviction for any public offense. This bill would make it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties, except as specified. The bill would exempt an officer engaged in an undercover assignment from these provisions. The bill would define law enforcement officer as any officer of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency, or any person acting on behalf of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would declare its provisions to be severable. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

SB627 | California 2025-2026 | Law enforcement: masks. | TrackBill https://trackbill.com/bill/california-senate-bill-627-law-enforcement-masks/2670575/

This actually is not a particularly vague law. It’s pretty clear cut, and requires an intent to disguise. With the ICE bitches there is a clear intent to disguise there and not identify themselves as law enforcement, they’ve even admitted that is the case.

The mask itself isn’t the issue, it’s the mask alongside not being not identifying themselves as police via something like a uniform or vest.

That’s when California started restricting firearms so heavily, under Republican leadership at the time.

The Republicans love to talk about CA gun restrictions, and conveniently leave out that they started it specifically to undermine citizens expressing their 2nd amendment rights in the state.

The crazy part about this is we have no explanation for why they were using a modified version of Signal that allows for the type of message backup needed for archival purposes if they weren’t doing that. They might as well just have installed the regular version of the app. The only explanation that seems to fit is to purposefully create an unmonitored security vulnerability by having that access available.

They’re referring to the shifting variance between political sides and the range expressed between them. The Overton Window usually.

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand. It exemplifies “the slow evolution of societal values and norms”.

Outside of this window you still have Left and Right, but they’re the more extreme beliefs that the general populace doesn’t currently accept. The window shifting over time means something that would have been considered absolutely insane 20 years ago, could be entirely mainstream now.

A current example would be federal deployment of the military to handle local protests when there is no declared State of Emergency and local government doesn’t need or want assistance.

It doesn’t even require belief.

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

While a facetious statement in general, it is factual if those values derive from rounding. Significant Digits must be maintained.

Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.

Impersonating law enforcement, or actual law enforcement? If they don’t have the suspect in custody yet, they have no idea whether they were impersonating law enforcement.

You’re wrong, but I understand why you think that way. You’re almost surely focusing on the concrete aspects of life, not the things you just live everyday without thinking about, like just talking to people, small talk, filling awkward silences, etc. I’m not suggesting the #1 priority is to catch up on the Kardashians, but it’s about having something in common to talk about with people around them.

Their entire life has been prison for 11 years, they need something current to be able to talk to regular people about while going about their day. Otherwise they will feel like an outcast that knows nothing about current society and cannot relate to anyone on any level because they don’t know what the people are talking about or referencing. It’s literally the Captain America “I understood that reference” situation.

They’re going to be treated as an outcast by a lot of society simply because they have a record. Anything that helps them connect will help.

This entire topic is about the help that the younger sibling can help with. Current social trends are exactly what they can help with, easily, it’s what they already live daily. They’re an expert on that.

I know others will mention some of the personal things, so I’ll instead focus on ways to help him try to reintegrate with everyday life and society socially.

You could start to try to help with some things he will interact with daily. The chances of him knowing about basically anything electronic you use now on a daily basis are slim. This is one of the biggest daily interactions that many former inmates have trouble with and betting up to speed on in modern society.

For some perspective, 11 years ago was 2014, and the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. All the advancements since then will be new. LTE actually being widespread and usable, 5G even being a thing at all.

An offshoot of those are things like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc. which are massive social media hubs now, but didn’t exist then. Heck, Vine was technically still around for a couple years after he went in. Educating about changes to media consumption and social media use can help with integration back into society, and suggesting some recent things to catch up on can provide recent and relevant topics of conversation for daily life.

So not just a civilian, but a US military veteran who earned his citizenship via service to the country. I’d argue if they want to try and make different levels, since that’s clearly what they’re trying to do, that he’s more an American citizen than anyone that happened to be born here, especially more than any of the current Administration.

Also, how much you want to bet they’re checking every piece of paper in his immigration file to see if a signature or date was missed. Serving earns you citizenship, but it is not automatic. You still have to fill out the paperwork, and that leaves open the possibility of errors. We already have stories of people who have been deported because they don’t care about fixing paperwork errors caused by Immigration staff if it gives them an excuse to get rid of someone.

Jefferson wanted it to be every 20 years. Every generation essentially.

Instead we let the chuckle fucks in Congress stay as long as they want, into their 80s, across 4 generation. Determining laws for technologies and both global and local economic situations they have no comprehension of or even a chance at understanding.

They offered them a 64 box of Crayola. You really expect them to ignore that offer?

I’m torn on this because that is correct, but it also means that the average person hasn’t seen just how damaging those policies really are. The damage control is working well enough that many people aren’t noticing there’s much damage at all.

Ancestry stuff has been pretty popular in the US for decades, DNA testing for it is relatively new but just the next easy step.

Someone never had to deal with mathematical proofs, only layman’s definitions.

All properties of a parallelogram apply:

• Opposite sides are parallel
• Opposite sides are congruent
• Opposite angles are congruent
• Consecutive angles are supplementary
• Diagonals bisect each other

AND

• All angles are congruent
• All sides are congruent
• Diagonals are congruent
• Diagonals are perpendicular
• Diagonals bisect opposite angles

While the collective memory is staggeringly short, Trump 2.0 is entirely the Republican Party’s fault. Their base will vote for whoever the fuck they put on the ballot, they clearly don’t think for themselves. Hell even the politicians do what they’re told by leadership. The party could have forced Trump out, cut him off from all support and made him an outcast, instead they decided to embrace him fully.