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    • found the egocentric, ethnocentric American!

    hmmm

    The year 2024 is notable for the large number of elections, with 8 of the world's 10 most populous nations (Bangladesh, Brazil, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico) voting; countries that are home to nearly half of the world's people will hold elections in 2024. Around 2 billion voters - approximately a quarter of the world's population - are expected to be heading to the polls this year.

    Stay blissful my friend.

    But yes, American social media platforms are targeted during American elections, so you aren't ignorant about one thing.

  • What guarantees do you have that Malus doesn't copy your key to their cloud?

    I remember when I used a Samsung Galaxy as by daily driver a couple years back. I enabled full disk encryption and thought okay great, now that's done. I noticed a very small, brief popup on my screen that lasted a few seconds, and it was a notice that my key had been sent to Samsung servers. Apparently you have to disable that option that's hurried deep in the settings somewhere no one would think to look, and change your password again. If I hadn't caught that brief notification at the bottom of the screen (not the normal location for notifications), I'd never have known.

    The encryption password is also a max of 15 characters.

  • I could be way overanalyzing this

    You're not overanalyzing it. You're Wayyyyy overanalyzing it to a detrimental degree.

    Even if you did take them back, and the pharmacy made a log of it, it would just be in their internal pharmacy 'drugs to destroy' log and wouldn't be sent to the state or anywhere else to update your records.

    All they see is that you were prescribed a very small amount of a low dose pain medication once after a surgery and you picked it up. Something thousands of people do every single day.

    It's not that important. You're not going to be red-flagged because your doctor/surgeon wrote a prescription and you picked it up.

    You only get flagged as a drug seeker for drug-seeking behavior. That does not include picking up a small prescription for a few pain meds a doctor wrote for you after minor surgery. If it did, anyone who's ever had a root canal or tooth pulled would be flagged and the system would be useless.

  • Humans have been around for an estimated 300,000 years, or 1.09575e+8 days. Here are a few things that would not have been believed possible by 99.9% of the population, including the most rational and logical thinkers, only 150 years ago (54,787 days).

    • Microchips
    • Nuclear weapons, and usable, controllable nuclear fusion/fission in general
    • The Internet
    • Electric cars
    • Jet propulsion
    • Smartphones
    • Most fields of modern chemistry
    • Most fields of physics
    • etc.

    Technological advancements happen at breakneck speed. One mans "you can't break the speed of light" is another mans "you can't fly, humans don't have wings!"

    But scientific advancements happen that change our perspective. It's likely we'll never break the light barrier, if it's as solid as our understanding makes it seem. It's less likely we'll never find a way to sidestep that barrier by manipulating other forces. Let's say we find a way to create a gravity well that encompasses a craft. The person in the craft doesn't actually feel like they're falling at infinite-G, they just happen to get from one place to another incredibly fast, passing through various states of matter unperturbed on their way. To us, it looks like they broke the speed of light. In reality, they weren't actually "moving" in the way we think of movement, thereby not needing to break the speed of light.

    These advancements happen all the time. If you brought a group of the top scientists from the 1850s to be here with us today, they would have have absolutely no idea what was going on and they would believe they'd gone insane. So many paradigm shifts have happened over the last 150 years that it would be impossible to make sense of it in their (remaining) lifetimes.

    I don't know if we're being visited. If we are then it's not likely they're being of another race that came here in a ship. More likely they would be mechanical or biomechanical in nature, some sort of von Neumann probes self-creating and self-spreading reconnaissance craft for an ancient (dead?) race. Or maybe they tapped into another force we don't even have a name or vague idea about yet, maybe a driving force behind consciousness.

    But regardless, UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) is a legitimate field of study and I look forward to seeing it grow.

  • It's like a panopticon, but purely mental and inbuilt since their first memories.

    This will lead to some heinous things down the line, probably started by those who by some luck of the draw weren't exposed to the panopticon.

  • Or Viking Hippie, or some of the other names we've seen everywhere. Reminds me of maxwellhill on reddit. I don't know how someone can read that post and then come to any other conclusion than Ghislane Maxwell was maxwellhill, but when you search maxwellhill, the articles are all refuting it while not touching on many or any of the commonalities in that thread.

    Guess we'll know when we start seeing the same few names pop up as mods for top communities.

  • There are 2 million monthly active Lemmy users. That's a vast untapped market of grassroots users many who likely aren't on many other platforms, due to the nature of Lemmy.

    The first state actor to get in on the ground floor and shape the collective opinion of lemmings as a whole will influence the future outlook of every user of the fediverse. Especially young people. Majority opinion, majority rule.

    I believe we can see this taking place on instances like .world and hexbear, but I'm sure it's happening in a semi-automated fashion across most instances.

  • Thank you for doing the work. More of it needs to be done. I don't know what your workflow is, but running Android-x86 and injecting into the virtualbox networking process to strip the SSL should still work, unless the app uses certificate pinning. I wish I remembered the name of the program, but it's specifically for injecting into a running exe and hooking all network calls to pull ALL network data from that specific app. It's not Fiddler or Wireshark or any of those. Fiddler and wireshark will work fine if you add your self-signed cert to the Android CA list, as long as certificate pinning isn't used in the app. You can point wireshark to the virtualbox network adapter so it doesn't listen on your other adapters. Also, most apps in the app store, play store, and F-Droid likely will not have much maliciousness. Play Store has the highest chance. But I think you'll have better luck using all the major search engines and searching for "free VPN android" without any adblockers, using an android phone (Google & co easily detect user-agent manipulation) running chroming. Making note of all the paid ads, and then getting the first 10 pages of URLs, and then comb those links (all the ad links & result links) and download any .apk that shows up. Keep an eye out for more ads on those pages as well. Use a fresh android-x86 for each analyzed VPN apk.

    There may be a better, easier way, but this was how I quickly analyzed the network data of android malware as of a few years ago.

    Edit: other keywords to find shady vpns are ads for things like "watch porn in Utah" and "express VPN", " nord VPN", etc. You'll want to do the search within android as Google and Bing will allow the malvertisers to target specific operating systems, along with locations and other variables.

    Also for checking into the servers that show up, and any interesting domains, you can use shodan and similar tools, and there is a great site (name escapes me now, similar to domaintools and urlscan.io though) that shows what domains run on certain IP addresses and also the owners and creation dates, although cloudflare and private whois entries make those less useful today. But that will potentially allow you to unmask 'networks' of shady free VPN providers.

  • Its the devil you know vs. the devil you don't. One is trying, at least in some part, to quell fears and stabilize the nation and economy. The other is actively creating division and fear at every turn. Or course project mockingbird, any Hollywood movies or shows featuring the military, etc.

    Does Russian meme technology have a secret sauce?

    I guess you could call it secret sauce. A department of the military for offensive informational warfare, with lots of training, tooling, time and resources. I'm sure we do the same thing but there's a reason our adversaries have heavily censored internet access and they can't freely go onto YouTube or Google and search for topics of interest, or use reddit or Facebook openly without a VPN. They know what their capabilities can do to cripple a nation from the inside and make everyone hate each other and the government. There's no way they'd let us do the same to them, but there is going to be a major revolt when the US decides to do it here.

  • If this were a meme about whatever liberal this or that you were talking about then that would be the case. This is a science meme about archeology and , to not be improper, labeling things as something they probably aren't. For example, smooth well-worn wooden penises (made of non-splintering wood even) and calling then fertility symbols or good luck charms. Yes it does look like its a legitimate back massage in the image, just done in a very nontraditional way that makes it look like 2 dudes connecting on a deeper level, which is what the meme is referencing.

  • I figured. Distinguishing sarcasm is a skill with variables you can detect, like any other human interaction. Best to assume if you've seen it talked about frequently in the space you're in online, and that space has a somewhat strong link (twitter » reddit » Lemmy) then most people there get it. Very much does NOT apply IRL.