NoImmatureAdHom (u/NoImmatureAdHom)

NoImmatureAdHom commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

NoImmatureAdHom · 8 days ago

This is a really stupid situation. We shouldn't be obstructed from flying without ID as long as we pass the regular security checks, and those security checks shouldn't be unreasonable.

What can we do to get there? Is anybody organizing?

I want to open my wallet. Where can I donate?

NoImmatureAdHom commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

rayiner · 8 days ago

Saying that there is “no legal requirement to show an ID” is truthy but misleading. Federal law gives the TSA authority over “screening” passengers: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/44901 (“The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall provide for the screening of all passengers and property, including United States mail, cargo, carry-on and checked baggage, and other articles, that will be carried aboard a passenger aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier in air transportation or intrastate air transportation.”).

That means the TSA can do whatever it can get away with labeling “screening.” It doesn’t matter that Congress didn’t specifically require showing IDs. That’s just one possible way of doing “screening.” Under the statute, the TSA is not required to do screening any particular way.

NoImmatureAdHom · 8 days ago

You have the right to travel without ID in the U.S. The TSA may demand it, and may tell you it's legally required, but that doesn't make that true.

"In fact, the TSA does not require, and the law does not authorize the TSA to require, that would-be travelers show any identity documents. According to longstanding practice, people who do not show any identity documents travel by air every day – typically after being required to complete and sign the current version of TSA Form 415 and answer questions about what information is contained in the file about them obtained by the TSA from data broker Accurint…."

https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/05/19/tsa-tries-again-to-im...

https://papersplease.org/wp/2024/03/18/buses-trains-and-us-d...

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

NoImmatureAdHom commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

youknownothing · 10 days ago

Just to throw in a couple of possibly outlandish theories:

1. as others have said, they could be collecting the encrypted messages and then tried to decrypt them using quantum computing, the Chinese have been reportedly trying to do this for many years now.

2. with metadata and all the information from other sources, they could infer what the conversation is about without the need to decrypt it: if I visit a page (Facebook cookies, they know), then I share a message to my friend John, and then John visits the same page (again, cookies), then they can be pretty certain that the contain of the message was me sharing the link.

NoImmatureAdHom · 10 days ago

It's the backups. The backups aren't encrypted such that only the end-user has the key.

NoImmatureAdHom commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

prakashn27 · 10 days ago

Ex-WhatsApp engineer here. WhatsApp team makes so much effort to make this end to end encrypted messages possible. From the time I worked I know for sure it is not possible to read the encrypted messages.

From business standpoint they don’t have to read these messages, since WhatsApp business API provide the necessary funding for the org as a whole.

NoImmatureAdHom · 10 days ago

The backups are either unencrypted by default or have keys held by Meta / your backup provider. I think this means three-letter agencies can see your chats, just with a slight delay.

Another comment above mentions that you can recover conversation histories with just your phone number--if that's true then yup. The E2EE is all smoke and mirrors.

NoImmatureAdHom commented on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics theintercept.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/qingcharles

rolph · 11 days ago

if something made them decide to force a particular finger into a sensor, what happens next is a result of thier own actions.

NoImmatureAdHom · 11 days ago

Maybe, maybe not. I'm sure there's some legal mechanism for punishing you for setting a boobytrap.

You'd also have to rely on this unnamed other to force that particular finger, rather than the others...

NoImmatureAdHom commented on Ode to the AA Battery jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

nickcw · 11 days ago

Eneloops are fantastic. I've been using them for 10 years.

They have very low self discharge so you can keep them on the shelf for a year and they will still have 70% charge which is very different to most rechargeable batteries.

They don't leak unlike alkaline batteries and you can run them to 0% charge without damaging them unlike Lion batteries.

The terminal voltage is only 1.2v so there is the occasional thing they don't work well in.

That said my collection of eneloops get much less use than they used to as everything comes with built in lithium batteries and a usb charger nowadays. That is very convenient until the moment the lithium battery dies...

Changing the lithium battery in things sucks. Firstly it's really difficult to get a good one and not a crappy knock off. Secondly modern stuff isn't meant to be repaired. Every time I pick up my kindle I shed a small tear when I see the screen damage I caused changing the battery.

So, I buy stuff with AA or AAA batteries if possible and if I want it to last for more than 3 years.

NoImmatureAdHom · 11 days ago

> Every time I pick up my kindle I shed a small tear when I see the screen damage I caused changing the battery.

Don't shed a tear! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

Repairs are beautiful.

NoImmatureAdHom commented on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics theintercept.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/qingcharles

NoImmatureAdHom · 11 days ago

https://archive.is/NEjHU

NoImmatureAdHom commented on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics theintercept.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/qingcharles

robotburrito · 11 days ago

These phones need a kill expression or finger. If you touch a sensor with your left pinky or wink at the camera it nukes the phone.

NoImmatureAdHom · 11 days ago

Perhaps a lawyer can chime in here.

My impression is deliberately doing this would be illegal. It would have to be convincingly deniable somehow.

Is there a way to do that?

NoImmatureAdHom commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea

rusk · 15 days ago

Believe it or not it’s a question on the pre-clearance form for travel to the US: ”are you or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation” - I always wondered what the rationale for that was

NoImmatureAdHom · 14 days ago

You say "No", then it turns out you're a HAMAS supporter --> deported.

NoImmatureAdHom commented on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found nytimes.com/2026/01/26/sc... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

melenaboija · 14 days ago

Ok, since I moved to the US from Europe a few years ago my perception of wood has changed a lot, especially for construction. Seeing this reinforces my view.

Wood lasts for fucking ever under the proper conditions. Old construction in Europe often only had the beams made of wood, and I always thought that was orders of magnitude more durable than wooden houses, like thousands of years vs decades. I don’t think that’s true anymore.

And this might be one of the few environmentally friendly decisions that Americans got better than Europeans, I guess. Wood is still prevalent in construction here, and as far as I know concrete and cement production are quite bad.

BTW, I’m a total ignorant about all this so just intuition and probably wrong

NoImmatureAdHom · 14 days ago

It's not totally a "decision" on the part of the Americans to use a lot of wood in construction. It's just that America has tons of space, including space useful for growing Douglas Fir and Southern Yellow Pine, which then can be turned in to 2x4s and other construction lumber.

Most of Europe long ago exhausted easily accessible natural forest resources, and where it's not densely populated tends to prefer using land to do other stuff (like grow food). Hence, stone and concrete and similar materials in European construction.