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You just argued that the Palestinians had a higher level of suffering than the Ukrainians and therefore are more entitled?

Holy crap...

Once you connect to this fake network, the attacker can intercept the unencrypted data you transmit over it, including sensitive information like your usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal data.

So essentially the blog post says that you should make sure you only use HTTPS does with trustee certificates (padlock and no warning from the browser). This is good advice.

On the "your ISP can see what site you access" now I'm pretty sure that when we're talking about open wifi, which we are, they can register your DNS lookups, IP-addresses and ports used by your computer but that doesn't mean they automatic know who you are, especially if you never logged in with credentials that can be traced to your person.

While VPN, generally speaking, is a good solution it essentially just means that while you might use 15 different open wifi providers during a month (=inconclusive information about you spread among 5-15 different operators), centralizing all your internet activity to one single VPN provider (= extremely conclusive information about you) also has risks and a backside.

Good information on the "Evil Twin problem" but in my opinion the focus should be on educating people on how to recognize when the browser is connected to a site without a trusted certificate and what to do/ not to do then rather than promoting VPN.

An evil twin can easily fake the VPN service, popup a browser window with "https://ProtonVPNUpdate.ru" and a request the use to update the VPN client.

If the user fail t recognize that the site is running HTTP or HTTPS without a trusted certificate there's a risk that the user will follow the instructions from "Proton VPN" ("But it was their logo and it also had PayPal on the site....") and connect to the Evil Twin VPN Server.

It's not just about if Russia can manage without Europe/USA, it's about Europe managing without Russia.

So ok, China and India actively supports and essentially bankrolls Russias colonization strategy and this might show as growth. So in short, it's possible for Putin to rearrange his business, sell oil below market price, and show growth, but in the long run its not a viable solution to run a country on.

Add to this the cost of war and loss of manpower. 3-400 000 might seem like a small amount of people when Russia has a population of 147 000 000. But it's not. It's Russia slowly slowly depleating their civilian workforce in a situation where Russia has a declining birth rate with 2023 being the lowest since 2014.

So if shit was going so great, Russian salaries would have skyrocketed and Russia would have their top model tanks on the battlefield but none of that is happening. Instead we see a lot of weird shit from the former Soviet Union on the battlefield. Add to this that back in October there were a lot of press about Russians having less money for necessities than anytime in the last 5 years.

So while Putin has seen no change in quality of life, rest assured that the average Russian has less money to spend on necessities.

Remember: Putin and his friends has been peddling the "everything is A-okay"-bullshit for over a year now but it's just propaganda. Even though there might be periods where Russian economy looks like it's going great it's just not true for the long perspective.

When you get chemo it kills both ordinary cells and cancer cells. However, the body is normally capable of producing more cells than a tumor which means that with enough time more tumor than body will disappear.

While we hurt, Russia hurts more and that's a good thing.

Of course Putin has been planning shit with Iran on the October 7th terror attack. Not even going to waste surprised Pikachu on that one.

One of Putins big grievances was how good Ukraine was handling media. I've never seen a conflict being reported on for so long and still engaging people.

Then the October 7th happened and almost nothing about Ukraine after that

Ever since then the Russian troll factories have been running 24/7 making sure the Israel attack is the main focus.

You can easily see the trolls working hard on fx Lemmy. All those users that are talking about how Israel is breaking the Laws of War while not having any comment history regarding Ukraine.

Either a lot of them are trolls or they are people unable to be angry at two bad things at the same time.

So yes, the Russians are working social media hard. It doesn't matter if you're pro Israel or pro Hamas to them, as long as you don't talk about Ukraine.

Depends on where you live. Not open source but Ikea has one.

https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/knycklan-elektronisk-diskmaskinsavstaengning-20425724/

The system in question is called Primula and it is know to be a Swiss cheese.

No one that knows anything about IT and security is surprised.

Single Sign On doesn't mean that "American BigTech Servers" have to be used.

Essentially, for the users, it means that an account for site A can be used to login on site B because site A and site B trust each other.

A concept to Google if one wants to know more is "federated login".

Ok. Swede here. What the f... did I just read? This was on a .gov site...

Can someone give me an ELI5 and a background?

There always at least one duchebag in every group.

If you don't know who in your group that is the duchebag it's probably you who is the duchebag.

TIL Customers aren't customers. Customers are investments.

Russia doesn't want peace. Russia wants Ukraine.

What are you going to use then?

I still code with the mindset of "I need my software to be good or my clients will leave."

Google still does this. As you probably already know, users aren't clients. Users are products.

As a Swede I just wish Ulf sent a sms to Jens:

Ok guys, we tried our best but we didn't succeed. We refuse to let our security be a pawn in some silly game.

Ps. Joe, your kids are misbehaving. Our offer to help you guys still stands. Call us when they start to behave.

...and then just stopped answering calls from Jens, Erdogan and Orban for a week or two...

Same here

I can't speak for how unions work in the US but over here in Sweden they work because of member engagement. Of course, the opposite is true too: they doesn't work when there is no engagement shown by the members.

If unionmembers don't show up on the meetings, especially the annual one, where the board election take place each year, the board doesn't know what the members want. Furthermore, if members do hint show up on election day they are getting the board they deserve. (The same goes for government and elections)

My experience is that most of the people complaining about the union not representing them, being corrupt and/or being toothless, are people who never visited an annual meeting. They never participated in the election of representatives and they most often think of the union like it's their personal legal team.

Unions are positive and bring good things, not only to workers/members but also to the "area of business", when the members are active in the discussions and understand the issues. Unions are bad, almost cancerous, when members just pay the monthly fee and aren't really engaged...

I don't know if the persons complaining are super engaged in the union work but tweets like "you don't represent me but happily take my money" smell a little bit of "you're the worst legal team I've ever had".

When it comes to the issue here I wonder what the alternative would be? SAG-AFTRA saying no to AI voice overs? Going out on strike?

In what way would that not end up in the companies just use more AI VO AI is an investment and a recurring cost you can calculate. Human labor is not. There is all sorts of unknowns connected to human labor and AI never make threats about going out on strike (yet!?)

So, a little more in detail, what do you think will be the result of what they did here? What should they have done differently and what result would they have gotten then?

What should SAG-AFTRA have done differently do you mean?

That's not how you gain more power....

YouTube should not be able to put ads on content they make available for you?

Tell me, in your world, who pays for the low latency, high bandwidth, high availability streaming platform you consume video on?

You can legally download some of the games for free.

Beneeth A Steel Sky or Flight of the Amazon Queen