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    Making an ad blocking DNS server.

    How to de-google.

    Housing market hacking.

    3D printing guns.

    Removing Smartphone bloatware.

    Setting up a VPN.

    E-cig bombs.

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    “back in the 90s” - LOL.

    January, 1971 -

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook

    Best thing in the book was the section on drugs…

    “You want to do pot? Here’s how to get and do pot. You want to do coke? Here’s how to get and do coke. You want to do heroin? You have to be fucking stupid to want to do heroin, we aren’t telling you how to do heroin.”

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    A practical guide on digital anonymity.

    DIY drone building.

    Torrenting and accessing banned media.

    Discussions on how to exploit the crumbling infrastructure.

    Off grid food and fuel production.

    Urban survival.

    How to thwart AI surveillance and facial recognition discreetly.

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      How to thwart AI surveillance and facial recognition discreetly.

      I recall an article saying a bit of makeup can be enough to fool automatic facial recognition. It compares flat, 2D images, so “faking different shadows” in key areas like the eyes and nose would make you a different person

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        It’s actually surprisingly difficult to thwart facial recognition with makeup alone. It’s not something as simple as just adding some extra contouring, because the software is typically using videos of moving people, not just a single still image. Plus new models are constantly being developed, and what works for one model isn’t guaranteed to work for all of them. Even makeup as extreme as this often fails to fool detection:

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          Even if wild makeup was the answer, you’d still have to start some kind of cultural movement for it to be practical. Otherwise you’re basically painting “political dissident” on your face and being the one person in town that looks like a Jackson Pollock will just make you easier to spot in the crowd.

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          It’s really just download and install. Just follow the instruction on the website. And check the readme on githun for how to use it.

          If you want aa nice looking webinterface, instead of a commandline interface, you can also download one of the many ready to use frontends. You can find them in the github readme.

          I installed it yesterday and the cli is pretty slow (on windows), but the rest api is pretty quick.

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    Lots of things surrounding “easy hacks” that look for important data left in plaintext on websites.

    WiFi, cellular and GPS jammers.

    How to start your own bot net for purposes.

    OSINT gathering.

    How to avoid facial recognition in various scenarios, including protesting.

    How to erase as much of your online data and visibility as possible.

    How to avoid being tracked online.

    Fake identities.

    How to game various corporate systems for free services.

    Homemade tasers.

    Some things wouldn’t be different, you’d still have some instructions on how to make certain drugs, explosives and chemicals. You’d just 3D print more of the components where appropriate, and guns.

    If anyone is at all curious, there are plenty of places to download the original Cookbook.

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    Probably an entire chapter dedicated to 3D printing guns.

    Personally quite a fan of the idea of making my own pistol (or, well, some of it) in the comfort of my own home, but far too poor to get a 3d printer that’ll actually do a good job.

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    A lot of the same stuff, plus information about how to mine crypto.

    As a sidenote: That text file is partially why anarchism has such a bad rep today, because whoever wrote it obviously subscribed to the idea that anarchism means “chaos everywhere and no homework!!11”. It’s an interesting read, though. I just think the title is a bad fit.

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      But DO NOT try the recipes! Some are so wrong they could kill you just by following them to the letter.

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      A giant swath of 80s-90s teenagers thought that anarchism was “chaos everywhere and no homework!!11” it’s just that thankfully most of them didn’t collect a bunch of questionable advice into a book, LOL.

      But, good connection that cryptobros are the modern version thereof, I hadn’t quite realized that until you posted.

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      Yeah. The documentary American Anarchist adds some great perspective. The fellow who originally published it was a teen acting out who didn’t understand anarchism at the time. I didn’t even know better until I learned about it in post-secondary education.

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        Sure, when they exist. They don’t always. They’re sometimes even penalized or limited by certain laws.

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          I live in the states. I you being a troll or are you serious because if your serious that is completely fucked up

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            My home town regulated soup kitchens the same way they regulated adult entertainment which, upon reading the document about zoning and restrictions, seems perfectly reasonable. Once you look at the city zoning however you realize there’s no single location within city limit that fits the criteria set. It’s legal for you to run one, there’s just no place you’re allowed to put it.

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        Those require registering. The kitchens are so overwhelmed (and there are some really shitty people) so they have to make sure you’re not just using the food bank for an easy meal ticket and taking food out of the mouths of people who genuinely can’t afford it. Some shitty people started going around to all the local food banks and collecting from all of them, then reselling what they had been given. Basically just straight up fraud.

        To combat that, the kitchens started taking ID from the people who use it, and notifying all of the other kitchens that John Smith, DOB 01/01/1990 just got food. So when that same John Smith shows up at a kitchen across town 20 minutes later, they know he’s a scammer. Churches do the same with their philanthropy; They’ll often give out gift cards or canned food to the homeless, but it requires registering because some shitty people ruined it. They started hitting all of the local churches, to resell the gift cards.

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          It is shit like this that makes me go WTF and just sadder for humanity. I did not know they took id’s though. I worked at a couple in the US and did not see them take an ID. Now a food bank I have and worked with people who were scamming them. I only used them twice in my life when I was a broke out of work college student and don’t really think I would be here to say thanks to them i would not be alive today.

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    Bad USBs would be on there for sure. Maybe an updated version of the floppy disk (so a USB drive) that catches fire.

    Stealing someone’s phone number or reading their texts.

    Card skimming, though less useful these days with chip tech.

    Making and running ROMs for Nintendo Switch.

    Various ways to pirate besides torrents.

    Product return scamming.

    Jailbreaking your vehicle.

    Stealing a catalytic converter.

    Lots of other stuff involving the Flipper Zero.

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        It’s basically a pen testing multitool with focus on wireless media. I would highly recommend getting familiar with the local regulations (ie. FCC in the US) before obtaining and playing around with one.

        The FCC doesn’t care about political philosophy when it comes to interference regs - they are happy to throw the book at you and have decades of detection equipment development to find you, if you mess with or interfere with regulated bands. For example, guitar pedal company Electro-Harmonix for slapped with a $450k fine and consent decree in 2013 for unknowingly violating FCC Part 15 regulations. Behringer was hit with a $1M fine in 2006. They don’t fuck around.

        That said, I’d encourage you to learn more, maybe get involved with things like LoRa and Meshtastic. Great things for an anarchist to know about.

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    A retraction.

    He also posted an eight-paragraph note on the book’s Amazon.com sales page, calling it “a misguided and potentially dangerous publication” and expressing his wish that the book be taken out of print.

    And from wikipedia:

    […] he began writing about pedagogy and conflict resolution. This led him to renounce his book and instead campaign for its withdrawal from publication. He was unable to legally stop the publication of The Anarchist Cookbook because the copyright had been issued to the original publisher Lyle Stuart, and subsequent publishers that purchased the rights have kept the title in print. Powell publicly renounced his book in a 2013 piece calling for the book to “quickly and quietly go out of print”.

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        Apparently Lemmy is that small, not following you or anything so don’t get excited 😊. I thought it was a spectacular article about where economic incentives have led the world and read it a bit before I saw this prompt so it immediately jumped to mind. Almost not anarchist, it’s capitalist, but has wreaked havoc to the point of anarchy in the US.