The Doctor @ drwho @beehaw.org

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Somebody seems to think so.

I can't shake the feeling that we're in the middle of a passive-aggressive depopulation operation.

That's a really good question, the article doesn't go into specifics.

Then the body’s own repair systems recognize the damaged DNA as foreign and get rid of it.

This is somewhat ambiguous. It could mean that human DNA polymerases see the damaged DNA, scroll backwards and forwards to the START and STOP codons, and break the bonds to snip out the bits of viral DNA. Then endogenous DNA ligases patch the ends together. It could mean that it affects DNA in the viral particles themselves (but from the context in the article I don't think this is the case). Or it could be the case that the process triggers apoptosis to eliminate the infected cells entirely; I don't think this is the case because then you have necrotic tissue all over the place, and given that we're talking about herpes viruses this means fragile skin in tender places... ouch. That's kind of like using thermite to roast a marshmallow: Fun but overkill and potentially hazardous.

Anybody have a VPN link into HK? It'd be easy to find out.

It still strikes me as odd that anybody ever trusted a mega.

Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.

One account, multiple devices logging into it (in my use case, personal laptop, work laptop, two phones).

I do not think so, no. However, Amazon is certainly big enough to be un-humorously compared to nation-states as well.

And I agree with you.

It's a Google hosted service, which is arguably worse because they may as well be a nation-state unto themselves.

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https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/112437280384669007

XMPP is nice, but OMEMO is brittle.

The fairest thing you can say about CrossFit is that it's a nicely unique string to filter out. :)

They do this periodically. We saw it during Occupy, the Arab Spring, BLM, now Palestine (again). As a general rule, when folks go into the streets, the tighty righties start up the FUD.

There is a reason why spooks learn tradecraft - threat modeling, procedures, awareness, and techniques - more than they learn technology. It would behoove folks to to learn a little about that before hitting up the appstore.

They've never been shy about saying this.

The number of people who actually change their default settings is quite small. Those of us who have these discussions are a distinct minority in the sum userbase.

"nice" * 0.1

Nobody is using all of sudo's features because those features are for different use cases. Case in point, LDAP support. At home, pretty much nobody uses it. But on the job, where there are tens to hundreds of machines that someone might need, and they're all hooked into LDAP for centralized authentication management, it makes sense to have that built into sudo. Same with Kerberos support - at home, forget it, but in a campus environment where Kerberos (and possibly AFS) are part of the network, it makes sense.

He's trying to turn Linux into Windows NT. And Microsoft hired him as a reward for doing so.

Thing is, Protonmail has been telling people this from the very beginning. It's like it gets rediscovered every year or so when somebody else gets busted.