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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well all the Jan 6 insurrectionists are pardoned, so even Republican politicians have a reason to fear the gallows

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Absolutely zero chance this person recognizes Trump blew up the nuclear deal with Iran, simply because it was signed under Obama. Some of us are cursed with remembering the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was a targeted attack against a cryptocurrency exchange. The specific crypto happened to be Ethereum (ETH), but more importantly the hackers were able to identify and target the specific employees needed for their multi-signature transactions, and infect their machines with malware to alter the user interface and show different destination wallet addresses. The exchange Bybit has offered a 10% bounty which could earn whitehats up to $140 million for any funds recovered, but I would be very surprised to see huge success with the use of mixers and such.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Government contracts to his companies amount to more than $8 million per day currently, expect that number to grow now that Musk can decide which government functions he should privatize for his own gain. Verizon's $2 billion dollar contract with the FAA is likely to be cancelled so Starlink can get their cut.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In practice the stagnation of IPv6 seems to be a recognition of the unintended security that NAT with IPv4 adds. From a security perspective, having every device use a public IP and trying to prevent malicious software from simply opening whatever ports it needs per device would be a headache.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Before widespread internet it made sense to give out numbers in the White Pages because physical mail forwarding was the other option to find people when their phone number changed. In the internet age where scammers across the globe can and will use personal information to target you for social engineering scams, it is better from a privacy perspective to have phone numbers be information you volunteer to people. There are sites which attempt to catalogue this information and ways to remove yourself from these as well. If a scammer can simply go down a list of most common names and a number string they can more easily make it appear they have a fake Amazon delivery, PayPal transaction, or other pressing issue customized with their name. Most people will not use their critical thinking, and these scams are a big enough problem already.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some amount of those may believe the crisis is that the Constitution itself needs to be ignored or rewritten, because they heard so on right wing media. The ladder-pullers who believe birthright citizenship needs to go, alongside those who now desire a king rather than our backsliding and slightly less corrupt system of checks and balances.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't understand how people can be so credulous as to believe efficiency is the motivator rather than grift simply because some notorious liars said another lie. Trump used presidential visits as an excuse to visit his own properties at inflated rates, and Elon who holds Dogecoin personally and through Tesla now 'as a joke' runs a fake department called DOGE (check the coin's price now). I guarantee another $7 trillion+ tax giveaway for billionaires will be the most important bill Trump will sign, yet people who have apparently never in their life taken a math class are stoked about the prospect of taking $50 billion/year away from the poorest people on earth which among other projects treats HIV to mitigate mutation risk, resistance to current treatments, and further spread of the virus.

Any news on 'efficiency' work for the defense budget, which is $800 billion/year and only expected to increase under Republican plans?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

DonOld just wanted to make someone wet for the first time in his life.

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