By the wire that powers the PSU, by the CPU on all-high! By the bus and system fans, blessed be… There she lies… The Magnum Opus!

Dear fucking god this is the real issue and why Mastodon is the solution because the agencies can have their own self-hosted presence. Is it perfect by any stretch? Oh fuck no, but it’s a lot closer to those groups having an independence and not relying on the corporations good graces for any of it to keep functioning.

When government relies on corporations to function, those corporations can hold a proverbial gun to the governments head and say “now do what we say or we make everything stop working.”

Good thing they pirated the Gum Gum fruit by seeding.

…I’ll show myself out.

What’s your living situation? You mentioned not necessarily having the room for a drumkit. Similarly, do you really have a need for a pressure washer? Do you live on a large property in an area in which the climate necessitates regular pressure washing? Do you have the knowledge and tools to commit to regular maintenance of either the drumkit or the pressure washer? I don’t mean like fully disassemble style maintenance, but whatever is suggested in the owner’s manual.

He has never been pro-net neutrality.

He is willing to throttle traffic that he doesn’t like, which is explicitly anti-net-neutrality.

Thank you Ted.

No, you’re thinking of Crash Bandicoot.

But I’ve also heard Johnny Silverhand is pretty good at targeting executives.

Oh that’s dope as hell, I didn’t even realize Pis had composite video output at all!

I don’t think that it’s that you can’t comment at all, it’s almost rather that you can only comment.

Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

You can link to other things and embed them in a text post using code, but there is no ability to upload anything, so the content really is all just text (since links are created using text commands).

No matter what choice you make, Lemmy or Plebbit or something else, it’s clear that decentralized/federated services are the real future. The return of the torrent swarms but forum swarms instead.

At some point something clicked with everyone, and they realized “the cloud” is someone else’s computer, someone else’s property. We all collectively realized you never feel truly free when you’re on someone else’s property, you’re always playing by their rules. At least with decentralization the levels of control are distributed so you have less of one person wresting control from anyone else.

It’s a bit like growing your own garden. You do it because you know what you’re putting into your garden and getting out of it. If you choose to use pesticides, that’s your choice, and no one else’s. When you choose how to run your own self-hosted services, it becomes your choice what comes and goes from your network.

I’m glad to be part of the self-hosting future here.

Exactly, creating the exact conditions for them to be scammed!

Story Time: It’s 2003 and I’m working at a local television station in buttfuck nowhere Louisiana as a Production Assistant.

We had just recovered from a massive disaster that had taken out tons of our equipment because somehow, the radio tower next to the building had never been properly grounded and so since it’s the tallest structure in the area by far, when it finally got hit by lightning we got fucked.

Anyway, just back on our feet when a computer virus wrecks more than half the systems in the building.

We would eventually find out that it was the manager who ran the station, the local Big Boss, the guy who answered to corporate (I don’t recall his actual title, just that he was the top dog at the station). He clicked on one of those bullshit emails, downloaded and ran the attachment. This was 2003 mind you, when those type of attacks were even less sophisticated.

Literally, no punishment for him at all despite making everyone’s jobs harder for weeks on end. These people are fucking easily manipulated and we do nothing to punish them when they fuck up.

Finally, why wouldn’t they target executives? They have a history of acting like rules about security don’t apply to them because they’re inconvenient, and they have the biggest pocketbooks to rob and the most control at their corporations. They are literally the most lucrative target you could choose. Getting the keys to their user account could be more useful than getting an IT admins account, depending on how foolhardy the executive is.

Try minutes later.

Slavoj Žižek called it like 10 years ago during the Snowden leaks, I believe, that leaks don’t change anything anymore.

That you can have the evidence out there, and no one cares.

He was working off the evidence we had about the failures and lies about the Iraq War, and then the lies about illegal spying on US citizens, and in both cases, the evidence coming to light basically changed nothing about how the US government conducts itself in either regard.

I think he called it early, but was fundamentally correct, having the evidence out there means nothing anymore when the majority of society simply isn’t even paying attention.

54% of American adults read at below a sixth grade level, and I personally think that has something to do with it.

democracy?

The definitions for that seem pretty loose nowadays.

Also made me think of this:

That’s very curious. The push to WhatsApp is especially interesting considering it is owned by Meta/Facebook, which is a company that has a long history of working with the US government for extrajudicial surveillance of the US populace. I wonder if they’re working with the Indian government in a similar capacity.

As such, I fully personally expect WhatsApp to have officially sanctioned government backdoors. If they’re willing to build them for the US government, maybe they’re building them for the Indian government, too. Which is perhaps why there is a push towards the corporate, non-open solution, because the other options have more ways for individuals to avoid backdoors.

We really need more community owned and operated communications groups, like the barbed wire telephone of the past.

The majority of users on Lemmy are probably not from India, I would say our userbase skews US/Europe.

This is a very, very interesting and important story, if it’s true.

Do you have any other evidence of this happening? It’s okay if your sources are not in English, that’s just the nature of local media, it speaks the local language.

Would love to hear more about this from your perspective, @Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world because this is a big, important issue that needs discussion if it’s really happening. Please expand your thoughts and any evidence you may have in the comments section, please and thank you.

Finally, thank you for bringing this to our attention at all. Cheers.

Well I’ve certainly had enough of liberals expecting people with terminal illnesses to do their dirty work for them instead of, I don’t know, using their able bodies to stand up for the people struggling with painful and exhausting terminal illnesses.

A lot of tough talk from people who expect those whose lives have already been destroyed by this healthcare system to stand up for the folks who never lifted a finger to do something as simple as vote to protect us from this system.

Source: I have cancer and my life is pretty fucked up and I’m tired of overwhelmingly feeling like able bodied people want us to throw away the little that’s left of our lives so maybe we can protect people who are comfortable and haven’t been totally fucked yet. I’m in pain and exhausted every day and some days can barely keep my eyes open from the migraines. Why’s it my fucking job to throw my life away on the off-chance things might get better?

What was difficult about reading the article?

Can someone tell Scott that they added the driver for his laptop on November 29th? Almost a month before he made this post.

Further, from some light reading on the subject after searching around it sounds like since most stuff is moving to NVMe drives, Intel is indeed slowly removing ACHI from newer devices, which does mean you need those IRST drivers to boot and recognize disks.

I think it’s less companies trying to fuck us over and a hiccup in the slow but steady adoption and adaptation of new technologies.

EDIT:

Here’s the Intel Rapid Store Technology driver for the other PC he pointed out, too. This one was added in November 2023.

This seems like it’s a non-issue and maybe this guy just doesn’t know what the IRST acronym stands for?

Much ado about literally nothing. This is literally based on nothing but his own speculation based on his failure to find these drivers that literally exist and are available. Honestly should be removed as misinformation since both PCs he mentioned have IRST drivers available right now.