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Found the soydev

Who is “they”? This comment reads like a tinfoil hat caricature of paranoia.

The billionaires are opportunists who got us to where we are because we (stupidly) let them get away with crime after crime.

They aren’t evil geniuses who masterminded this government coup back in 2007. That type of rhetoric is silly and not likely to convince anyone of anything other than thinking you’re a nutjob.

I’ve been wondering about this recently too. Everyone has had that situation where they talk about (Thing) out loud with someone, and then a few seconds later they see an advertisement for (Thing). That means there is something recording conversations and selling it to advertisers. I don’t see why those companies wouldn’t sell that to Palantir too.

The obvious suspect for “who the fuck is recording my conversations” is smartphones, but it’s also probably IOT shit like smart TVs and other appliances. Even if not connected to wifi, some could include their own modems.

In addition to this, Palantir could also just buy location and other data directly from telecom companies. They could even have deals with eg Qualcomm to backdoor their SoCs or implement data collection. (Except I think something like that would’ve been caught be security researchers already)

This is admittedly very cool, and I don’t support shoplifting even if it’s from an evil megacorp.

What worries me is that Cop Drone™ will start carrying a gun some day.

The killer was a college-age white boy from Utah from a religious and self-proclaimed “gun toting” Republican family (which is weird btw, to declare your family as part of a political group). We don’t know if he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s very likely that he at least was at one point in his life. The scary part (for them) is that he represents growing disillusionment with MAGA among one of ther most important groups.

The dude is the exact demographic targeted not just by MAGA, but specifically Kirk’s organization. Kimmel’s comment was about MAGA’s immediate attempts to claim (without any evidence) that the killer was instead a transgender bogeyman, with many influencers even calling for civil war against the left.

But the important thing is that Kimmel got canceled because the Trump admin threatened to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses (without which, they can’t operate). The Kirk comment was obviously just a cover, because MAGA has been attacking left-leaning media, and the comment itself was not offensive to anyone. That’s government censorship, violating the constitution to attack his political opponents. They thought that people would be angry enough about the Kirk killing to let this slide, but even MAGA allies have pushed back against it.

An RTO mandate isn’t growth. Growth would be if they mandated all hard drives containing Teams source code be thrown into a dumpster, and the dumpster lit on fire.

Not saying you didn’t read the article, but your comment could be interpreted as thinking that advertisers are pulling out because they disagree with Kimmel coming back, but it’s actually backwards.

The reason they’re pulling out of advertising is because people are also boycotting companies that advertise with Nexstar/Sinclair to discourage advertisers, and hurt their revenue.

I’m not saying the advertisers are good guys or motivated by anything other than money, but we should definitely encourage more of them to stop advertising there. If anything, start buying from the ones that pulled out.

So what will be the consequences for those involved in this security failure? Nothing? If a preschool fails to lock the doors to the building, and a child is kidnapped, you blame the employees and possibly even charge them criminally. The same should be done here, otherwise stuff like this will continue to happen.

Isn’t the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

They do. The youtube studio thing automatically inserts a shitload of ad breaks by default, but channels have the option to customize it. When you see a video with annoying ad breaks, it’s because the creator didn’t choose to remove them.

There’s a good documentary about this.

Maybe good news, maybe not since you can’t really trust people involved in these things. For all we know, they’re still doing some other kinds of deals behind the scenes, if not straight-up lying here.

From the article:

In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.

The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.

And now their justification for cutting off access is this:

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

So the fucking CEO personally helped get this deal done, but now they’re trying to frame it as “oops, we didn’t know what Israel was doing until we investigated”, and they’re claiming simple terms of service violation to end the contract.

If we’re all still alive by the next decade, I hope the people prosecuting this genocide don’t forget about these sneaky fucks and their role in it.

I see you are a man of culture.

bash supports this feature too btw

Legit unsarcastically nocap fr fr, it might be time to update your eyeglasses prescription

This is extremely naive. We’re on Lemmy, I’m on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.

99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.

For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.

And when the MAGA are out of power, Google will release a statement admitting the Trump administration pressured them into admitting the Biden administration pressured them into censoring Americans.

And throughout all that time, Google will continue getting slaps on the wrist from the courts whenever they break the law.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but the point of this is to reduce overhead associated with virtualization (aka VMs). Few workloads are able to take advantage of the massive compute resources that a single beefy machine has, so partitioning it is the most efficient use of resources, especially in data centers where maximizing efficiency is important.

This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.

But the lesson of this is the same: don’t ever use crypto currencies. Don’t accept them, don’t buy with them, don’t mine them, don’t even look at them. Even if you don’t get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.