PhilipTheBucket

Not that any of this matters, but they did do their own domain registration it looks like, through Squarespace. Check whois. They just have it pointed at Substack right now presumably because they don't want to invest the resources in a whole web dev or admin team.

But again, it doesn't matter. The whole issue of "are they associated with blogs" or "who is their DNS registration processed by" is a stupid waste of time to talk about, created only by your inability to admit any error. They are a reliable source (as far as I can tell at least), and only someone casting about for irrelevant reasons to pretend they are not because they're dug into that position would try to claim otherwise.

Just as general advice, being willing to reverse yourself when new information comes to light makes you more credible. Definitely not less. It increases your authority level, because people will take you seriously because it means you take yourself and your own statements seriously, and shows you want to get them right. Not that you're just saying whatever and then stubbornly refusing to hear anything different. I think you should try it. Although, of course, it's up to you.

Yeah. When you've been handed free wins all your life, it's genuinely confusing to you when someone talks about it being important to play smart. "No, we just do whatever we want and win anyway. That's how it works." Until it doesn't...

This kind of thing used to be a big deal. There were some kind of exotic custom-hardened Blackberries that the top people got as their personal devices, specifically so the national security apparatus could have some kind of a prayer of keeping them secure against this stuff.

Being in an office like the US president is weird. You're kind of the boss, but you're also kind of an employee. Your employer gives you tons of restrictions some of which really are pretty irritating or restrictive, but it's for a good reason. It's a big deal. The kind of responsibility you carry is so globe-spanning that some of your personal preferences go straight to the back of the line. Of course, that was all when the system is functioning properly and keeping us safe from violent adversaries. Now the people in charge are violent, corrupt morons who are openly in league with our adversaries. Why would they be trying to keep us safe from them, even if they even could grasp the issues involved? Where that all might lead is pretty hard to say but it's for fucking sure not good.

IDK what I expected lol...

It is not a blog. I understand you along with the rest of LW mods are incapable of admitting error or saying anything along the lines of "Oh, you're right, it's clearly a professional news organization with credentials from the exact agency we have chosen to vet our news organizations, I didn't realize that, we can allow it going forward." So I won't make the futile effort to expect that of you.

Oh whoa, this is a really good point.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drop-site-news-bias-and-credibility/

High credibility, mostly factual.

@[email protected] ?

"Now that you put it that way, I feel silly for not seeing it earlier. That's clearly exactly how it is."

It is therefore conceivable that foreign agents were reading along when Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed a military strike in a signals chat with others.

It is guaranteed that foreign agents were reading along. 1,000% guaranteed. Probably most if not all of their personal devices are compromised, the E2EE aspect doesn't even matter.

Infosec in the modern computing ecosystem against skilled and well-resourced adversaries is very very hard, even when you're trying, and this bunch isn't trying and wouldn't be good at it if they were.

I think the "occupiers" are "the West" in this equation. The narrative being that South Korea are victims of the US and EU, and if only they were lucky like North Korea to be free of those violent forcible influences, they'd be much better off, like North Korea is.

It is fascinating to me how persistent Lemmy.ml and friends are about framing the instances they find problematic as being some kind of unusual outliers, instead of it being literally every single one outside of the Hexbear / .ml / Lemmygrad triad.

Yeah. One of the very few design feature of AP that I like is that actors have their very own keys, which means that in theory you could have the keys stay in the browser unlocked by a passphrase or something, and make it so no one could forge a message by a user except that user.

It would be pretty easy to extend that, so that Lemmy DMs get encrypted with the key of the actor meant to receive them, private posts get multi-encrypted with the public keys of any approved followers, et cetera. But yeah it seems like the amount of attention this stuff gets is very minimal.

Email is not private. I think we're running into a difference of definitions.

Stuff that random unauthorized people can read if they want to, even if the number of people is small, is not private. To me. Other people might have different definitions, but that's the one I am using when I say "private."

While we're on the subject, all your votes on Lemmy are public, and Lemmy takes the same approach of "every software needs to agree to keep it a secret, and the ones that do not, don't count, and the information is private because I say it's supposed to be even if in practice it is not." This should be more widely known.