Month: January 2025

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This mid-sized gear pouch from Superior Threadworks is handmade in the USA. It provides elastic loops to hold pocket knives, flashlights, other small tools, and two interior slip pockets perfectly sized for a passport and a standard 5.5″ x 3.5″ journal. The bag comes in red, black, purple, and blaze orange, as well as an M81 woodland camo print.

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Spatie has open-sourced their Laravel Backup Server package with the release of v4.0.0. Previously a paid offering, this package is now freely available for Laravel users.

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A portly female rapper from Detroit is suing Lyft for millions of dollars after a driver refused her a ride to a Lions watch party … because he didn’t want his car to break.

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SimpleStats – a Server-side, GDPR compliant and 100% accurate analytics tool, that goes beyond simple counts of views and visits. Discover in-depth metrics like Registrations, Conversion Rate, campaign ROI and much more in just a few minutes!

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Laravel Rewind is a powerful and efficient versioning package for your Eloquent models created by Jared Cannon. This package stores a combination of partial diffs and full snapshots of your model data.

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Here at Ars, we’re suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from CAPTCHA robot checks and Windows’ notepad.exe to AI hallucinations and fluorescing gut bacteria. Despite all that experience, we were still thrown for a loop by a recent demonstration of Doom running in the usually static confines of a PDF file.

On the Github page for the quixotic project, coder ading2210 discusses how Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format. That JS coding support—which dates back decades and is still fully documented in Adobe’s official PDF specs—is currently implemented in a more limited, more secure form as part of PDFium, the built-in PDF-rendering engine of Chromium-based browsers.

In the past, hackers have used this little-known Adobe feature to code simple games like Breakout and Tetris into PDF documents. But ading220 went further, recompiling a streamlined fork of Doom‘s open source code using an old version of Emscripten that outputs optimized asm.js code.

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This fan-made video pays homage to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Like the Mutara Nebula scene that ILM brought to life in 1982, these spaceships were created without the benefit of CGI. NJM Photo used AMT model kits and a low-budget motion control rig to capture the Starship Enterprise and the hijacked USS Reliant. Check out the BTS video here.

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To figure out what gear we need to survive a civil unrest scenario, we need to identify what that scenario is. Depending on where you live and commute, the threats for those areas will dictate the gear. This is going to be different from person to person.

The following is the gear I’m using for my area of operations. For my area, Northeast Ohio, we’ve had “street takeovers” that have turned violent in Cleveland and surrounding areas. With that, my mindset is, what do I need to safely escape and evade that area if I get caught up in one of these? If I have my wife and daughters with me, it becomes even more critical that I get them to safety.

Aside from that, you’ve likely seen gangs harassing small towns across the United States, breaking and entering apartment complexes, and carjacking.

Not all these scenarios are going to warrant lethal force unless you can, without a doubt, prove your life was in danger. For that reason, I will always have my concealed carry pistol on me, but I will likely be going for the other gear first.

Most of you have heard of the different gear levels, starting with the gear on your person, your belt and/or chest rig, and finally, a backpack. Keeping somewhat with those levels, we will adapt that to the everyday guy or gal. Let’s cover the minimum EDC you should have on your person and then the minimum items to have in a go-bag.

On Person EDC Gear List

• Handheld Flashlight. I have been carrying the Streamlight Protac 1L-1AA light since it was released. I prefer it because its a dual-fuel light meaning I can use with a standard AA battery or a more powerful CR123.
• Knife and/or MultiTool. I’ve been through many EDC knives, expensive and cheap, and I always go back to the KA-BAR Dozier folding knife.
• Concealed Carry Pistol and spare mag. For me, that’s a Glock 17 carried in a Tier 1 Concealed IWB holster.
• Minimum of $100 cash with a recommended amount of $300.
• EDC Tourniquet in my back pocket. I’ve carried a SWAT-T Tourniquet for about a decade and, luckily, never used it.

Go-Bag Gear List

• Medical Trauma Kit. There are some great pre-made options to purchase. To keep things simple, I built my own kit with the four primary trauma items: tourniquet, hemostatic gauze, compact pressure dressing, and compact chest seal. In addition, I also carry a small pack of first aid items for smaller cuts and scrapes.
• Gas mask
• Smoke  grenades
• Bear spray
• Water bottle with water
• Compact Rain Jacket
• Level 3a soft armor backpack insert

I have to give credit where credit is due for a few of my go-bag items. John ‘Shrek’ McPhee recently did a video on his go-bag. After watching that video and thinking about his mindset, I decided to add a gas mask, smoke grenades, and bear spray to my go-bag equipment list. Plus, it’s just cool to have a blacked-out gas mask and smokes. A little intimidation goes a long way. Check it out!

Some of you may have plate carriers with plates and/or chest rigs ready to go. While that may work for your area, it does not work for mine. The same goes for a truck gun. I’ve carried a rifle in my truck from time to time, but I don’t want the risk of someone breaking in and getting it, nor is it practical for the threats in my area. My civil unrest gear is not meant for a Red Dawn invasion but rather to escape and evade a bad situation.

Sound off in the comments with your preferred gear for civil unrest!

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About Scott Witner

Scott Witner is a former Marine Corps Infantryman with 2ndBn/8th Marines. He completed training in desert warfare at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, Mountain Warfare and survival at the Mountain Warfare Training Center, the South Korean Mountain Warfare School in Pohang, and the Jungle Warfare school in the jungles of Okinawa, Japan. He now enjoys recreational shooting, trail running, hiking, functional fitness, and working on his truck. Scott resides in Northeastern Ohio.

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