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Looking for the most secure way to have a phone. To get around dumb websites that think you aren't a real human being worthy of economic access (if you can't afford a functional smart phone). https://t.co/SZCvQ39kKO
Does this work?https://t.co/pJqyThdbTg
I want to not have a phone at all. I've managed to get away with having a defunct Samsung Note 4 since 2015.https://t.co/7rPyNyGG1m
I want open hardware that makes it easy to cut the microphone on it. https://t.co/nNgXIfEB0c
Now your email provider, the phone, the photocopier's harddrive, the SMTP relay your IT department runs, Facebook, *and* all your friends can all laugh as the surveillance state runs data science algorithms against a picture of your dong you sent as a joke while you were drunk.
The cheaper the better. I plan to have one phone for each vital service in my life and backup phones to use incase they die.https://t.co/XxCI3DWUvT
Hmm, "World’s first open source and modular phone" is out of stock. Darn. https://t.co/BsLhuIdJZp
The "FONA" part of this build is ~$50 on it's own.https://t.co/rnHYPITwHf
I'm so sick of being cut off from economic services b/c I can't afford a phone. The one I was using was busted so even if I bought a phone plan/sim it woudn't help.Gonna borrow money & buy the cheapest POS burner phone I can from Walmart & go from there.https://t.co/LkILscEwkz
I spent some time digging thru phones avail. I think I will be ordering a linux pinephone. Replaceable battery is big deal for me. https://t.co/p7kCllRTow
Tho the thought did occur to me to track down the model that is literally planned to be put into space. https://t.co/uQ6wxAdHBG
Yeeting a cellphone into orbit with a cannon?"This rugged satellite, made from off-the-shelf parts, was test-fired at 3,200 G, [...] Features include a camera, GPS, communications, solar cells and a battery power supply. It remains fully functional." 😂 https://t.co/QpPBmgvgKi
I think it'd be funny to put a spy phone into spy satellite. https://t.co/FbHD1pLIge
"AT&T has a unique power to extract information from its metadata because it retains so much […] more than three-quarters of U.S. landline switches, and the second largest share of the nation’s wireless infrastructure and cellphone towers, behind Verizon"https://t.co/ujUO9dPEBo
With enough of these things you could put them on a drone and fly them into random locations to act as remote listening devices. #birdsarentreal https://t.co/Gz5zWNn1ao
I have lots of bad ideas. Like if I run for office, I can technically get around laws regulating consumer phone spam. https://t.co/XuL0YBMsV8
@prestonjbyrne I was planning on embedding audio beacons in videos so that cellphone apps could snoop on voters to know who was in ear shot, and then time political promotional calls as a mass data harvesting campaign to make ghost profiles of voters.https://t.co/9f3GAxCdYN
I can't find anything I can readily buy multiple of for sub $100. And the SDR FPGAs are hard to homebrew, so I'd have to buy expensive SOC designs if I wanna make custom silicon to get really cheap. https://t.co/h0Vrmok4ul
I don't really want to be come a cellphone provider though.https://t.co/2NDbhfCz9n
The last thing I want to do is jump thru the hoops for getting FCC licensed anyway. That stuff is full of spooks.https://t.co/4CILbzykRi
"NASA called NOAA people and said what's the story on this?There's a national defense directive: you can't have space to space imaging capability on non government satellitesand they said well what does it say exactly?it's classified"echos of https://t.co/6wnCutXN3U
Sure would be fun to create a global network of cameras and have the all knit together to get a way to view the entire world from a throne tho.https://t.co/u68iH0tMXg https://t.co/w3scPyEgqw
We don't need NOAA weather data if we can just leverage multi-view reconstruction techniques like these from 11 years ago. https://t.co/RvSi3QKo5c https://t.co/wKPb9m7uCf but acting on survielence cameras that have a view of the atmosphere.Reconstruction like an insect's eye.
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams..."https://t.co/0xbRnoSRonhttps://t.co/2bZ88wm7t2
Bugs. Bugs everywhere.My dreams are nightmares. Ideas that haunt me.https://t.co/MVjK1XUgRc
This looks good.https://t.co/ILRU2N3bFVhttps://t.co/5CRMR1wAYi
Walmart was out of all the cheap phones. The website said they were in stock, but that was apparently not true?Gonna need to site-to-store and hope they don't mess that up.https://t.co/wJB36n1L0n
Another Walmart nearby had some in stock. So I now have a $30 cellphone. https://t.co/j1B4d9qvDM
"Google can ascertain with a high degree of confidence whether a user is still, walking, running, bicycling, or riding on a train or a car."https://t.co/tv4iOpCeCi
This cheap Motorola phone I got is alright. Not really amused with Tracphone's ambiguous "Mobile Services" app automatically installing facebook and tiktok plus some knockoff games for me. Sketchy autoinstaller is sketchy https://t.co/Khnym5e4nV
I think if I were to buy a new phone, I would buy this one that has end user repairable parts and it doesn't even void the warranty to open it up to do it. https://t.co/3ZaSqXJByC https://t.co/f5l1sSHrZu