CyberDine

I liked her better when I didn't know she was Putin's lapdog.

Ukraine used to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It dates back to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in '91. All of those Russian satellite countries, including Russia itself had to deal with organized crime and oligarchs and the turmoil and discord they sowed.

This is not a criticism of Ukraine as much as it is an attempt to show those issues don't just go away in war time, in fact it can extrapolate and make matters much worse as criminals and oligarchs engage in War Profiteering.

I'm actually quite proud of Ukraine and Zelenskyy for keeping a lid on many of those unsavory elements and leading a very effective war against a foreign invader.

Like most Chinese products I wouldn't trust their quality or their customer support, and would expect the thing to spy on me 24/7.

I wanted a Tesla when I thought Musk was pretty cool with everything he was doing with SpaceX.

Then the pandemic hit and I learned exactly who he was. There's no way I'd ever support Musk now, let alone voluntarily give him my money.

Dude looks like he sniffs his own farts, and he likes the smell.

Tell me you're getting dark money by Putin, without telling me you're getting dark money from Putin.

The election in 2024 is going to be so fucked up.

This doesn't mean shit if Trump wins the Presidency.

But if he loses, this will seriously harm the RNC's ability to support any Republican candidates after this year.

Biden didn't ask Trump to sell National Security secrets to the Russians.

Biden didn't ask Putin to trade those secrets to Iran.

Biden didn't ask Iran to use said secrets and launch an attack on Israel to start a war that the U.S. would be forced to support in order to take away resources and attention from Putin's war in Ukraine.

But Biden IS a Zionist.

You can criticize him for his support of Palestinian genocide, and rightly so. But you would be sadly mistaken if you withhold your vote for Biden and allow a Trump Presidency, who would not only continue the Palestinian genocide, but allow a Ukrainian one and a Taiwanese one as well... And perhaps fully and finally bring Totalitarianism to the U.S. since why not, he made it so close on January 6th anyways.

The findings in a nut shell:

“Heterosexual men who play extreme metal guitar do not seem to be doing it to attract women, as has been suspected about musicians of other genres,” DeLecce told PsyPost. “Instead, it seems they are trying to impress and/or intimidate other heterosexual men with their skills.”

Also researchers mention their study suffers from small sample size.

"Anyone not powerful, rich or politically-connected enough to scrub their names from the record will be shown."

This is 100% going to fuck all of the victims and none of the perpetrators.

I quit reddit when they started charging for API. I started engaging with my local library. I'm 35 years old and started reading my local newspaper for the first time ever in my life.

I came back to Reddit only to discover lemmy and now I read both my local news and lemmy.

It's been nice. Calmer, less stressful. It feels good again and I realize now that I've been very unhappy with reddit for many years now.

It's aimed at the U.S. Government. There's been an absolutely massive shift to get to Windows 10, updating systems as old as Windows 2000 to get there. MS advertised Windows 10 as their final OS, eventually backtracking and releasing Windows 11 and will continue to make iterative releases in the future. But for a moment The Government believed it and thought it was a great time to bite the bullet and go all in. Now that most major systems are upgraded to W10, it's doubtful from my perspective that U.S.G. will be able to support or migrate to W11 or even W12, meaning they will most likely pay a lot of money over many many years to keep MS providing security updates for the W10 platform.

They can laugh at themselves. Not to the point of self deprecation, but they can acknowledge when they're wrong or dumb

The children yearn for the mines!

Counterpoint, if you're a Billionaire you probably subscribe to the idea of class warfare and that it's your civic duty to fuck the poors. Keep donating money to causes that keep the poor eating themselves and not the wealthy.

Social contract? Sounds a lot like socialism to me! /s

Resident of Illinois here, I got $450 from Facebook, and $100 from Google for Biometric violations.

Very reminiscent of Jeb.

"Please clap."

'C's get degrees.

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

You can teach the job, you can't teach personality.

If the world is going to shit, and you can't or won't do anything about it, why worry about it.

They're trying to shake people out of a contract that favors a set price, not prone to sudden increases. The Ultimate plan looks great now, then in a year it will be double the cost and in another year it'll be double again.

Trump is in full control of RNC spending. Money coming in, money going out, it all flows through Trump.

You can't be a Republican candidate without professing fealty to him.

Trump also has an MO which is give me everything, I give you nothing, so it's suspect that he'll use all funding for all candidates to line his own pockets which won't allow any other Republicans to compete in any of their races.

The danger to Republicans is that after this year if Trump doesn't secure the Presidential nomination, all funding still goes to Trump, and Republicans are still kissing the ring of a man who holds no power outside of his undying support by 30% of voting Americans and his connection to Putin.

What this tells me personally is that Republicans are all in on a Trump 2025 presidency, and my beliefs are that the rich and elite are too.

I'm fairly concerned for the General election and expect a few more Biden attacks, Russian disinformation, and an economic crash all to attempt to sink Biden below Trump

Step 1. Russia admits it's losing the war in Ukraine... Continue to send Russian men to the meat grinder because Putin gonna Putin.

Step 2. Make tentative pacts with Iran, North Korea, and China (On the down-low) to provide equipment and continue funding the war.

Step 3. Apply leverage to compromised GOP assets to halt U.S. war funding.

Step 4. Supply Iran with Intelligence gained from compromised and twice-impeached U.S. President Donald Trump about how to attack Israel, and convince them to provide that to Hamas to provoke a war.

Step 5. Continue back-channelling with China to increase threats or even encourage invasion of Taiwan.

Step 6. Hope that the U.S. has to use war funds to choose between protecting Taiwan, supporting Israel or supporting Ukraine.

Step 7. Ramp up support for far-right candidates in key Ukraine-supporting allies elections, including U.S. France and Germany.

Step 8. Attempt to win war of attrition against Ukraine as funding/manpower dries up for Ukraine.

As someone who watched millions of Texans cheer on Trump as he actively antagonized the wildfire situation in California, I would like to extend thoughts and prayers to Texans as they go through this trying time.

Good thing Biden will extend disaster aid to Texas without any fanfare or ridicule because it's his fucking job to support the U.S.

1 of 2 political parties in America is basically stating "we do not care how morally bankrupt you are, if you always tow the party line, we will give you power and cover."

Your average Joe, unless they are an idiot, already sees the GOP for what it is and would stay away. But for a ghoul, the GOP seems like a great place to have certain proclivities and then the power and shield to ensure you can't be prosecuted.

The Champs - Tequila

Y'all are also smart enough to know and prohibit retailers from boosting prices just before discounting them to trick consumers into thinking they're getting a huge deal when they're actually paying average, or above average cost for the product.

What's the vision for this game? In my mind it's like they want to create some massive P2W MMOFPS that somehow casuals will want to play despite some whales having paid into it for 10 years for game breaking advantages?

I admit I know little about the game, I'm just not sure how they're going to attract that user base.

Might be an AI generated article

Found the dude from 1920

NSA requires the use of a industrial shredder that can grind the components into pieces less than 2mm.

https://ameri-shred.com/portfolio-items/2mm-ssd-solid-state-drive-hammer-mills/

If you can't do that, you should incinerate the drive at over 700 degrees.

As far as wiping goes, a 3 pass overwrite alternating 0s and 1s is good enough as long as it's done over the entire drive, not just the partition.

BCWipe is good enough for this

I know at least a couple million, but probably not a billion reasons why

The DoD will soon be requiring itself and Contractors to start following Rev 5 of the NIST SP 800-53 Risk Management Framework. In this revision are more robust controls for Supply-side security, which the DoD has been trying to incorporate for over 10 years.

Americans should know that the military and DOD and it's contractors do their best to purchase authentic hardware from reputable vendors, but there are exceptions and alternate procurement allowances if the need is great and the standard more secure lines are unavailable or simply on back order.

It's usually then that some of the fake hardware makes it into use

I was on reddit for 12 years. My time spent on that platform and posting directly correlates to when I first found it (posted a lot) vs. when I quit earlier this year.

Reddit in it's infancy was great and the users and the subreddits, with a few notable exceptions were great too.

Once it got too big/popular... About 6 years ago you could note the decline and quality of the posting

Lookup "Generational Trauma."

Families of all different walks of life, from generation to generation are just stuck in cycles of perpetual trauma that they act out and pass down to their children.

With therapy you start to learn about and recognize your subconscious responses and triggers to this trauma and how to break out of that pattern.

This ensures that what they say and do no longer holds power over you, that you stop acting on or acting out your own trauma response, and most importantly you break the cycle and stop passing it down to your kids.

If anybody needs a catch up on the facts of this case:

https://apnews.com/article/assange-wikileaks-plea-deal-39b72e6be6a775dae9b008728a46e595

Y'all have to general strike or something

I don't doom scroll.

I read a copy of my local, still-Independent newspaper free every morning with digital access to my library.

I vote in every local, State and Federal election.

I vote Progressive in the Primaries and Democrat in the General.

I say 'Yes' to any/all referendums that Tax the wealthy.

That's about all I can do without financially impacting my family or my career. If it was feasible I'd maybe even start attending my Town Hall meetings just to get a barometer reading on my local Council Members.

Crazy thing is I'm 36yo, and sanity checks have required me to act like a 60yo from the 90s... minus the 'got mine' Boomer attitude.

“If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.” ~Joe Biden

The State is absolutely necessary to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

The oligarchy does not want an effective Democratic candidate