This is why I have all auto updates turned off, and just do it manually once every week or so. Corporations can never be trusted.

Be Luigi

There has never been a more apt title in the history of media.

My bet is on Trump triggering a civil war before he ever gets to the point of invading Canada, Panama, or Denmark.

He may have replaced the political brass with criminals, but it’ll take years to hollow out the military with sycophants.

Testify!

Isn’t that literally what happens? I’m sure that’s how it’s done in the rest of the developed world, but neolibs/conservatives may have snuck in self-regulation…

The Putler youth, huh? Nothing suss…

I would suggest investigating how much effort it would take to alter your voice. Is it possible to do it live, or does it take post processing? There’s no harm in doing it unless you meet up with internet people in the real world. Even then it may not really be an issue.

I’ve felt the same about parsing my comments via an AI because, using stylometry, a small sample of your comments are enough to de-anonymize all of your online accounts. It ultimately required too much effort and friction, plus I have decades of comments already out there so whatevs. I’m not here to fuck spiders.

Yeah, but Israel created a hacking services industry to commit crimes on behalf of the corporate oligarchy, therefore they are just an extension of surveillance capitalism, which is very legal and very cool!

Completely different to the brown and Asian hackers you should be scared of.

Chadwick Cockburn

Man, all of these responses are crazy to me. They sound like living in some corporate cyberpunk dystopia instead of a developed economy. Been living in Sydney for 35 years. Grew up on the outskirts that were minutes from bush and farmland. I have essentially never experienced power loss for more than a day. I don’t think the powers been out for more than 6 hours in the last 2 decades. I don’t even think the power’s cut out once in the last 2-3 years. There may have been 1 or 2 occasions that took longer than a day, after severe storms, when I was a child, but the memories are so vague I’m not sure they even happened, and definitely not more than 48 hours.

I grew up with computers and cable, so I would remember if I were forced to raw dog existence for fucking days. It would of been trauma.

The only cables I’ve ever thrown out are my husbands, because he tears them from devices like a retarded neanderthal.

Encryption with a backdoor is malware.

Member when they tried to do this publicly and it only took hackers a few months to completely annihilate the most secure backdoor ever devised?

What you *will* find are instances with no apparent violations. Just like setting all the nuclear weapons to have the exact same easily remembered activation code didn’t actually lead to a nuclear exchange.

This isn’t a great example. Not even a backdoor. That’s an example of weak security, at the final stage behind multiple layers of extremely strong security. If an adversary had got to the point where they were at an ICBM bunker console, and the only thing stopping them was a 4 digit code, it was already basically game over.

The backdoors our corporate oligarchs want have zero safeguards, and once discovered grant any attacker the keys to the entire kingdom, remotely. It’s more like the only security being the 4 digit code. It fundamentally weakens the security of everyone, and every system we rely on, to the extent any attempt to do it should be considered a direct act of war against us — as treasonous sabotage, that only our worst enemies would attempt.

The lesson is no country can trust any other country to defend their sovereignty. Even as individual citizens, we can’t even trust our neighbors to act in their own best interests, let alone ours. There’s a good chance they’re dumb as fuck and will cheer the boot as it crushes their skull.

With how recklessly, callously, criminally, narcissistic the right are, there’s a reasonable chance they’re involved with some of them.

Most people are unaware Putin likely orchestrated domestic terrorist attacks to consolidate power.

I’ve been trying to take ownership of my data and simplify my digital life. The greatest barrier to this by far is Apple/iOS.

Sure am glad I picked that walled garden 15 years ago, when I was none the wiser.

Those oligarchs are still avoiding public scrutiny, working behind the scenes. They’ve been funding both parties the entire god damn time.

While Trump is obviously more dangerous and corrupt, and far less trustworthy than average… those oligarchs could not care less. They have more in common with a Russian or Chinese oligarch than they do with 99.999% of the American population. They have homes around the world; fallout shelters and citizenship in NZ, as well as the EU or Singapore. They have private security teams that cost more per year than you or I will make in a lifetime. Whatever happens, they’ll remain protected by all mainstream political parties the world over. Trump is a dementia patient. He doesn’t read anything he signs (like most of congress). He’s literally just a doormat for moneyed interests. The cost to bribe him is 1/1000th the tax cuts he gives them. The ROI is a no brainier. They’re not afraid of theocracy or fascism. They’re the ones implementing it.

Corporate dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”