The only way this flies this long is that the whole lot of them are corrupt. The investors, the platforms, the regulators, the banks. All of them.

Someone needs to start sleuthing to document all those who are even potentially involved, what they are supposed to do, what they aren’t doing and submit the lot of it to the FB… …

Oh right, never mind…

I disagree. Not in the sense that you are wrong. The similarities to previous grave mistakes is often stunning.

My own personal thoughts are that even though the similarities are there to other historical blunders, the sheer scale and depth of pure stupidity and gross incompetence on full display right now for all the world to see is so mind numbingly unprecedented on so many levels that it shouldn’t be referred to as anything other than a brand new low.

It’s like referring to anything else somehow makes it seem less bad. Even though past conflicts were devastating.

Dude is a legend. A reminder of how the FBI was and should be. If only the core US systems had more like him, maybe this shit show wouldn’t have gone so far

Either is good, latter is better. Might be my calling back to Motorola.

What am I missing about Israel? Why have they been, not even enabled by most of the globe, but emboldened, to obliterate Gaza, and now start to do the same to Iran?

It’s one thing to do all this in the name if religion, self-defence, money, etc. But not one thing I have read seems to even give a solid reason as to why the western world has been largely supportive of them seemingly using every dirty trick in the book, and even inventing new ways, to bypass or flagrantly ignore international laws on war.

The amount of information pointing to complete and total annihilation of large swaths of civilized areas in Gaza seems staggering. Couple that with forced starvation, aid blocking, torture and execution of civilians, and we’ve got war crimes on steroids.

Now, they are seemingly encouraged to do the same to Iran?

Like I said, the reasoning is mind-boggling, but articles about active suppression of any entity that speaks out about this is just downright scary. In what were considered more civilized societies, with free speech and democratic core values, I’ve read chilling pieces on crackdowns on anyone not siding with Israel. Others pointing fingers at public figures for a remark against them. Some even loosing their jobs. Why?

Is the information I am reading just propaganda?

Can someone please explain what I am missing here?

How hard is this type of service, as a self hosted docker app, to develop?

Wouldn’t most of the underlying codec and streaming technologies be more or less extendable into a platform?

I misread the title and thought ICE messed with some Italian mafia connected journalists. Honestly, I think that would be better at this point.

Unity amongst gangs in the US vs. one common enemy.

That’s some medieval shit if they just stood around while she died.

I’m not sure what laws can be thrown at this, though I expect whatever they are, they won’t be nearly enough to truly have a fraction of the appropriate justice served to all involved in her death.

I struggled with this a while ago. The advent of ai and more capitalist strangulation just seem to have made that same feeling worse.

So, what did I do? I stepped out of IT as profession completely, first of all. I’m just a worker bee now. I still have to use some tech for work, but minimal. I realize I am lucky to have been able to do this, but it helped me immensely having corporate tech be more of a choice.

At home tech is a hobby. I self host what I need, and use what I must to get by and screw the rest. If an open source project even hints at corporate influence, I immediately start looking for something else. It’s a pain sometimes, but it’s part of the hobby.

Couple this with trying my best to spend more time outdoors, learning new tangible skills, and just leaning more towards offline time in general really quiets my mind. And stay away from national and international news as much as you can. That stuff is poison.

Best of luck! In my own experience, finding a balance is not an easy thing to do.

It’s the never ending battle between what’s secure and what’s practical. In order to have widespread adoption, it has to be easy. In order to be secure it requires layers of complication.

It’s a yin/yang battle.

A bank vault with walls 2 feet thick, 24/7 surveillance and requiring a two key unlock mechanism is secure compared to a house door lock on a regular suburban bungalow, but is it very practical?

The level of digital security generally attainable is limited by how likely someone is to use it.

2FA using keys is the closest I’ve seen to a happy medium, but it has to be implemented correctly. If the private keys are sitting on a cloud server somewhere and it gets hacked, is it more secure? Maybe not.

Just like real defence, the walls are only as good as the foundation or weakest point.

IOT home devices using cell data? In Canada? It would either come with a hefty monthly fee, or the appliance company would lose their shirt.

Cell companies here put a lot of effort into keeping the prices up.

Might fly south of the border though.

So, what happens if I use pi-hole or adguard to block DNS for the advertisement TLDs, like I do for all the other gizmos in the house trying to show me ads or obtain telemetry data?

It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.

The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.

I would argue that Linux is inherently much more secure than windoze, simply because of how it handles user space vs. System (root access vs. User access). Also by how transparent its configuration is and how much information is readily accessible detailing how it works and how to adjust things.

However, when talking security for anything above the average user’s browsing needs, it can get very complicated depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Think of it like building something to keep out honest people vs. to keep out hardened, knowledgeable, clever thieves. Obviously the latter is going to take more time and resources to achieve, while the need to keep out more sophisticated bad actors would probably only be needed if you have something they might want.

Here are some suggestions for searching if actual security is your goal. Others can chime in with more things if they want. This is just some topics/programs you can read about to dip your toes in.

• nftables/Firewalld (common firewalls)
• wireguard/openvpn (vpn protocols)
• rootless containers (podman)

Best of luck!

Even though switching my laptop to Linux was a bit of a pain, especially for other family members, i didn’t regret it at all before. This just makes it even more reassuring as the right move.

Even the programs I had that rely on windoze I just run in wine or in a small vm.

If you can switch, do it!

Thanks for this! I’ll check it out.

The ensh*tification continues. Time for community git to somehow be federated like lemmy.

Some sort of encrypted collective sharing of the whole through BitTorrent style shared hosting.

I would seriously consider donating a few TB space and half my bandwidth to that.

Yet.

This reads like an obvious ploy to soften the idea to his base. They hate Obama too, probably because Trump does.

What other opponent would ire them more? Also, if someone like Obama was on-board, it would be more of a challenge to the rule against it from both sides. Democrats rally behind Obama, Voting machine hackers behind Trump.

Is like a pretext to calling Obama a chicken for not doing it down the road.

And the news floats gently into the minds of the weary, surprising no one.