intensive surveillance on US citizens from at least 14 countries.

For those unfamiliar with the reference:

• 5-Eyes, 9-Eyes, and 14-Eyes agreement explained

TL;DR: some countries make it unconstitutional to spy on their own citizens. They get around that barrier by spying on eachother's citizens then sharing the info they find.

• Ask and you shall receive

Vote harder!

Yes, OpSec is more or less important depending on your threat model.

• Download Tor Browser - Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

Tor Browser is a free and open source software that protects you against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

And if they're going to use a younger picture of him at least use the one from before he got the hair transplant:

As user @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, it should be on his tombstone.

Oh, I see you're just trolling. Carry on.

Username checks out.

*Xitter (pronounced shitter)

Aren't post automatically upvoted by the person that posts them? Or, do you use alts to upvote multiple times?

Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to grow !vintagela@lemmy.world and !gifrecipes@lemmy.world.

Who is this "Drag" that you keep referring to?

Thanks! I subbed and will definitely crosspost there.

Edit: typo

Downvote and move on if you agree

Does anyone think that tactic actually works? LOL! It's almost cute.

That is so fucked up!

The brain drain that happened because of this war will take Russia decades to reverse. All the smart scientists got out fast.

"A recent decision to sue them for heeding his own advice to not buy ads on the platform hasn’t helped."

Gotta love it. He told advertisers to fuck off, they fucked off, now he's even more mad at them.

They told me I would need to renounce my homosexuality or else they wouldn't provide me with any services. Fuck the Salvation Army.

It reaches through your monitor and slaps you.

• Doublethink

"Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy."

Edited to add:

It's a common tactic with fascist regimes. Nazis used to do it with Jewish propaganda by simultaneously claiming that Jews were weak vermin that needed to be exterminated and that they are this supervillain that controls all the money.

You currently see it a lot with the people chanting "Genocide Joe" and claiming he is some mastermind warhawk with at the same time claiming that he is some feeble, senile old man. He's Schrödinger's politician!

Yes:

• Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia's biological weapons claims (bbc.com, March 2022)

"Russia has claimed without any evidence that biological weapons are being developed in laboratories in Ukraine with support from the United States."

If you want to see more pro-trump articles posted here then be the change you wish to see in the world: post them yourself.

adding unique IDs to every installation.

I wasn't familiar with that so I did a quick search. For anyone else interested here is some info about it:

• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier -ghacks, Mar. 2022

"Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run."

[...]

"Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways:"

1. Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla's HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository).

2. Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic.

"The downloaded installers do not have the unique identifier, as they are identical whenever they are downloaded."

In the comments section someone says:

"It seems that getting Firefox from GNU/Linux repos (Debian, etc.), doesn’t come with unique IDs."

Relevant username.

I don't think I'd be able to sleep. I toss and turn so much I doubt I'd be able to stay on the ledge.

They literally just consider fines as a cost of doing business.

At least they're blatant in showing us who their target audience is.

For those who hate clickbait:

• Trump breaks silence on Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish the problem'

"The former president has largely avoided weighing in on Gaza as President Joe Biden has faced criticism from within the Democratic coalition over his support for Israel."

And even though it's being labeled as a "consumer privacy law" it was actually spurred by a politician getting upset that people might find out what he was renting. It was a self-serving law that had the side effect of also helping consumers.

When black people do it.

See: BLM protests

It was supposed to be a warning, not a manual.

There's a big difference between some random person and Meta collecting the data.

I completely agree. I was hoping this would be the thing to get them off their asses and start doing something about all these threats but all we get is some hand wringing and a statement about how she disagrees with their accusations.

people are having fun

*were having fun

If the AI idealists can't stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?

My guess is they don't expect to. I guess that that is one of the reasons they seem to not care about out of control climate change; burn it all down before it all literally burns down.

49% of the americans

More accurately, 49% of voters. Out of all of the eligible voters in the 2020 election only 66% actually voted. And, that election had the highest turnout in over a century.

So when trying to calculate how many eligible voters voted for Trump in 2020 you'll have to take the statistics above into consideration.

49% of 66% is 32% if my math is correct. 32% of eligible voters voted for Trump.

Sorry for being pedantic but it annoys me when people say that half of America supports Trump when it's just not true.