We both know that this kind of nuanced take isn’t was Truss is aiming for, though. Otherwise she wouldn’t use the “free speech” canard.

Last I checked the UK has no guarantees of free speech.

weaning them off government assistance.

What a horrific way to state such a thing, and basically, fuck Florida for this anyway.

faith-based organizations

No seriously, fuck Florida.

I don’t know whether to be on the trolls’ side or not in this instance, because these people should just have access to their government assistance instead of this bullshit. I guess I’m not on their side though because getting in the way still hurts people in need. Ugh. Ugh. Fuck everything about all of this.

this one time, as a treat.

Thanks for this, at least it gave me a chuckle in these dark times.

If we are going by that metric clay tablets beat paper.

The articles take is actually much more nuanced and neutral than that, but it still really amounts to the same thing.

Even if there are other options for viewing the limited content, those options are not widely used, and as such, the content block is generally effective.

I think tape storage has the best longevity in offline data storage, but it’s been a while since I checked.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/google-faces-backlash-over-human-rights-concerns-in-32bn-deal-for-israeli-unit-8200-linked-firm/

If they don’t follow the law with their adds, why should they follow it with our data?

Oh we’re well past that point.

Oh and that biometric data? The US government can just ask for any and all of it any time it wants to and Discord has to legally give it up.

Do you really want to be handing this info to the Trump admin?

Get the fuck off Discord, now.

I don’t give one flying fuck how easy it is to use, they’re betraying you with every word you type into it. They keep all that data, and thus all that data is up for grabs by the US government because it’s a US company.

This is fascism we’re dealing with here. You can piss and moan about “user interface” and “it’s hard to understand Matrix” when you don’t live under fascist authoritarianism you fucking fools.

Clean copies of GOG games can be hash-checked. The only pirated games I really fuck with are GOG.

Although I wouldn’t be too worried even if I did because I’m in Linux, and anything I did would be sandboxed and closed off from the rest of the system since it’s running in a compatibility layer.

What could possibly go wrong?

Works fine every time I’ve used it in Windows, but I do mostly live in Linux now, so your mileage may vary.

This one always gets a chuckle out of me.

I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.

Right, Zune was one of their few wins. So of course it died. Just like the Windows Phones just as they started getting good.

GIMP isn’t that hard to use for basics.

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed

Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed

A little while ago I asked my infosec Twitter followers what IoT device in my house they thought I found a live AWS key in.

(For those that don’t know, Amazon keys can be incredibly dangerous if exposed)

Guesses ranged from a refrigerator to a bidet, but no one got it right.

The right answer was my bed.

I also found a backdoor into my bed, but more on that later.

Pretty sure US still does three hops of surveillance.

If you or any friend you have speaks to anyone at all in a foreign country you are put on a list for surveillance.

I had a Jordanian friend in college and I have a close friend who still keeps in touch with him now that he is back in Jordan. I always assumed that put me on a list based on the three hops method.

Three hops being:

Hop 1: Main surveillance target Hop 2: Social network of main surveillance target Hop 3: Social network of anyone in main surveillance target’s social network.

So if you are the main surveillance target, friends of your friends are also targetted.

US surveils people for what are otherwise pretty inocuous reasons.

The stuff about it backing up it’s own weights so it can restore itself is pretty wild.