Yes that was a typo thank you.

The individuals exploited by this attack had already been influenced by prior messaging that relied on fear, misinformation, and manipulative tactics. This made them more vulnerable to being targeted again by unrelated scammers who look for the same types of susceptible individuals.

In this situation, the people affected are not directly attempting to deceive anyone themselves — they are victims of two separate schemes that both exploit the same vulnerabilities.

I don’t feel sympathy for them, because the hostility and resentment they embraced played a major role in making them vulnerable to this situation. Their own engagement with harmful narratives set the stage for how they ended up being exploited.

Really they grifted the grifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.

23.6m if this is true, I am disgusted at how cheap it is to corrupt an entire legal system.

And here we are, the mad president is the one with the nukes.

He “was only following orders”. But yes this is a class war.

Because google is so productive about eliminating malware from the play store and all of its scam advertising. This is not about protecting the vulnerable, this is about control and forcing people into their ecosystem.

He is the forefront expert in WADing

Setting fire to the oil fields, cutting out the middle men. That’s American efficiency.

Won’t somebody please, think of the children

Yes

OEMs are in a tough spot. crossing Microsoft risks serious blowback or even being cut out of the ecosystem entirely

It’s so next year when they expand the requirements the infrastructure is already in place.

Delusions of grandeur?

I made a conscious decision years ago to not buy any games that do not support Linux. This had the advantage of when I actually switched, all my recent games had full support ready to go. Plus it helps that I also don’t support anti consumer corporations such as ea or ubi or epic. No Tux, No bux.

Is that Batman on a horse?

Who needs a world clock when AI can guess the time anywhere.

I’ll look into that. I was considering plugging in an old wifi router without a wan connection. Which should effectively be the same outcome.

Mine periodically displays a wi-fi not connected overlay if it’s not connected.

Sony is also a terrible company with a long history of anti-consumer behaviour.

I am not sure what you are implying. There will always be art. Art does not need to be a commercial success to be expressive.