• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    Well, it’s Mental Outlaw. He’s a contender for one of the most paranoid tech YouTubers out there.

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    This reminds me of that copy pasta about having an old printer and a gun in case it does something unexpected; can’t remember the exact words though.

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    Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American

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    I wish he didn’t ramble as much as he does. Most of his videos could be a quarter of the length.

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      He’s kind of like that crazy prepper/survivalist uncle who lives in the ass end of nowhere, has a homemade fallout shelter stocked to the ceiling with canned chicken and peach, sleeps with a combat knife under his pillow, and rants about the government and agencies whenever he gets the chance. The family still keeps him around because he sometimes does something useful.

      Luke Smith, on the other hand, is already out in the desert building a shrine to Old Man Atom.

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    There is no software solution that protects from a crowbar, you have to go to the hardware side.

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      this is why I always laugh when people use biometrics. best case scenario, they use whatever it’s locked behind with you under duress. Worst case? they take whatever.

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        I dont get it. In that cenario, using Biometrics is not less secure as that wrench would convince you of telling the password.

        Btw biometrics dont work on first boot on android, or after you used the wrong finger a few times on GrapheneOS. They will also implement a duress long-powerbutton-press feature in some future, to reboot the phone.

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          I dont get it. In that cenario, using Biometrics is not less secure as that wrench would convince you of telling the password.

          A password is safer because they will need you alive and conscious. To bypass the biometrics, you just need the body part.

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          At least they need to keep you conscious and able to speak if its a password tho. Small mercies.

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        The random person the receptionist let into the main office is not likely to chop my finger off to access my phone or computer. I don’t use biometrics because I don’t want Samsung and Microsoft having my fingerprints for their eventual reconstruction of humanity into Tleilaxu gholas in service to the shareholders.

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          the random person that wandered in is also unlikely to ask you for your keys or your password

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      Lol, he used this comic in the video as an example of what to do against a Wrench Attack (CVE-1800-4096), to shoot them before they beat you with the wrench.

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        “Hello Mr. Deadly Attacker, you’re going to kill me with that knife? Well watch out because I’m going to defend myself with this universal healthcare!”

        Stab stab

        “Oh no! It seems that concepts, lacking physical properties of any kind, are inadequate defenses against a knife which contains actual matter! At least my family won’t be charged by the coroner if that counts as ‘healthcare,’ so that works out I guess!”

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            See, that’s where you’re wrong. Not only does rely on an assumption that is flat out untrue, as people do get robbed and killed in America with other weapons all the time, but contrary to your claim guns can indeed be effective against guns, as cops, self defenders, and even gang members often prove.

            I’m not going to bother going into the specifics on if you have a subsecond draw blah blah blah because let’s be honest you don’t really care, but again it has been demonstrated time and time again that guns are in fact an effective weapon against guns.

            To my other point, of the four robberies that I’ve (or in one case a roommate) been victim of, only one was at gunpoint. One was just strong arm, two was my roommate got stabbed and then robbed, three was a home invasion (this was the one with guns), four was at knifepoint (unsuccessfully, because after #3 I picked up, you guessed it, a fucking gun.) #4 decided to walk away instead of stab me for some odd reason that “surely wasn’t me drawing my gun,” so I consider it a success.

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      we already have them. It’s not hard to make a firearm, and the 3d printed weapons scene has taken off quite well. all of the good ones still need metal parts ofc, but they are pretty easy to get your hands on in many cases.

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            It really depends on the design and how much of it somebody is committed to 3D printing. If somebody wants to 3D print the bare minimum for legal purposes and use a parts kit for the rest, there’s a number of designs that seem identical in function to something factory made.

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        It’s not hard to make a firearm, but it’s pretty hard to make a good one. I could maybe make something about ten times worse than that thing that one Aussie kid made during WWI in his garage.

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          specific parts. you need metal to withstand the pressures of the actual bullet to get a somewhat degree of reliability, so any pressure bearing part needs to be metal, everything else can be plastic, but the more metal the better. Now you can get some more basic designs with parts that you could fabricate at home, but a lot of the higher end designs require off the shelf gun parts.

          The “leading design” right now is the FGC-9 which is actually seeing a degree of use in myanmar(??). The design requires metal parts that could be feasible to fabricate at home. However it is shockingly easy, even in heavily restricted countries, to be able to order the metal parts.

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          You can get parts or parts kits (random example) and make the receiver/frame (whatever the legal “gun” part happens to be on a design) yourself.

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    Hell yeah he’s the least. What is that, a 7 round mag? What a joke.

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      Sig p320, looks to be the M17/M18 version with a manual safety, not the extended 21rnd mag though, probably the 17rnd mag; unless CA, NJ, CT, IL, NY, MA, WA, (fuck I know I’m missing one or two), who restrict their citizens to 10rnds arbitrarily. That’s a double stack 9mm magazine, def more than 7rnds.

      In theory it could be a .40sw, but afaik they don’t make them in that caliber and you’d need at least to rebarrel it if not need a new slide too, and new mags and such ofc. That isn’t impossible, because they do make those parts for the regular p320, but afaik they only make the 9mm version of the slide with the manual safety, more likely that it is stock.

      You’re right though, the more rnds the better, but also concealability is a factor. Tbh, we don’t know if he has an AR with 100 surefire 60s stacked up right off camera, either, but we know that wouldn’t fit in his pants lol.

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        Looks like the [320-M18] model, which comes with a [15] round flush magazine. But mechanically it can take a longer magazine and we can’t see the bottom of it in the picture.

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          Duh captain obvious, it’s basically either that or Czech and they don’t know much about variances in US state laws typically.

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            I remember he shit on new jersey and new york(validly) for having very expensive permits to carry so he’s probably in a freedom 🦅🇺🇸 state.

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        Looks like the [320-M18] model, which comes default with a [15] round flush magazine. Then again we can’t see the bottom in the picture and nothing is stopping him from putting an extended magazine in.

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        You guys are seeing something I’m not. Both that barrel length and the mag look way smaller to be what you guys are claiming. I’ve got a FN 509 that’s close what you guys are describing and it’s much bigger than that (although the angle of the pic could just be messing with my eyes)