That man just found out that your secure communication channel is as secure as the weakest node.
That’s also why, if you want to deGoogle your life, you’ve already lost if any of the people you email has a Gmail account: however careful you are not to provide Google any data yourself, the data is leaked to Google by the other party.
No lawyers who value their lives and don’t want to end up on a MAGA hit list will touch that one with a ten-foot pole.
Okay. Not doxxed perhaps. But put on a list that’s implicitely a hit list.
It’s not great.
For those who have the money to hire an attorney, yes.
Don’t people know they shouldn’t divulge their identifies on the internet? Or is it a rule only those of us of older generations who still have a concept of privacy and self-preservation apply?
There ya go:
Oh sorry, my bad: you said AI…
I don’t think the folks who got doxxed by those maniacs are laughing…
There never was an American dream. There is - or rather, was - an American fantasy entertained by immigrants, that turns into a rather bland, if not unpleasant reality check when they arrive in the US and don’t strike it rich, which is the overwhelming majority of them.
Even the Pilgrims sailed to the New World with that fantasy in their minds, and then were confronted with the pretty awful realities of their miserable voyage and even more miserable life in the Plymouth colony. This is nothing new.
What an abhorrent country…
There’s a difference: Rome took a thousand years to fall. America has gone back from going to the moon to medicine by leeches in half a century.
You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.
China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.
One does what one can where one can.
Well, there’s another reason why I run this ARM laptop: it’s fully open-source. Well, mostly: there’s one binary blob left. But that’s as close to open-source as I was able to find.
Like I said, there’s no good option if you need a computer - or indeed any product - that wasn’t made by some company in some country that runs against the values you believe in. Only the least bad option. This laptop is the one that ticked the most boxes for me.
I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).
Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.
But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.
Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:
The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.
Some downtime recently
That’s the understatement of the year 🙂
I’ve been on SDF for two years and I can’t remember it functioning well or fast for more than a month total - when it doesn’t simply go tits up for days at a time. And I paid for it, so I’m not super-happy.
My communities are still there, but I’m still evaluating Piefed with a view to moving them away from SDF permanently.
It’s too bad because SDF has two major advantages over all the other Lemmy instances:
But in fairness, I only have a beef with the Lemmy server and whoever is asleep at the wheel administering it. I have no issues with other SDF Fediverse services, and they’ve always answered my emails - if they don’t answer their internal IRC thing, they do answer emails. If Lemmy wasn’t the main thing I’m interested in in the Fediverse, I’d be pretty happy with SDF I guess…
I see you’re looking at options to leave SDF too 🙂
I left SDF and switched to Piefed a few weeks ago myself. It hasn’t gone down on me yet, so I can’t answer your question. But it seems pretty solid.
It does have small federation quirks if you’re used to Lemmy, but nothing major.
Yeess… I’m sure Kash Patel will blend right in with all the other nordic warriors.
If you have any doubt Charlie Kirk was the most vile piece of shit: Netanyahu, a genocidal war criminal and foreign leader who shouldn’t give a fraction of a shit about a US conservative pundit, can’t stop talking about him.
And of course, the other vile pieces of shit Trump, Vance and the entire nauseating MAGA world are all atwitter about Kirk.
The global Nazisphere is really fired up about this stupid kid’s murder.
I never though I’d say I wish COVID did a better job…
They do. But that’s not a reason so take advantage of people in need - which is the pharma industry’s business model where healthcare costs aren’t regulated like in the US.
The pharma industry is in this very unhealthy position of making a profit from people who desperately need their wares. Exactly like plumbers on a weekend: the pharma industry can - and will, left to their own device - charge you any insane amount they want for your treatment that keeps you alive, like a plumber will charge you any insane amount to fix that leak before the whole living room is flooded.
That’s why it desperately needs to be regulated. If a Big Pharma exec thinks it’s tough to turn a profit in a country, that country is doing its job correctly.
Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There’s heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.
But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails… doesn’t matter here. It’s not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person’s carelessness did another person in.