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Hmm without seeing what was said it's hard to say if this was justified or not. Certainly some of the things mentioned would warrant at least a warning about using work tools for personal discussions, but some of the other examples given don't seem particularly problematic (except that the current administration has decided to launch a jihad against specific ideas and minority groups).

Alternative more accurate headline would be "Most Americans are really stupid and ignorant and actually believe the things Fox News (or worse) reports are even remotely truthful".

Ah, I see the confusion. Originally you mentioned two Proton services, password manager and email provider. The person who replied to you suggested two alternative password managers (one commercial, the other one FOSS). You then replied saying without a specific email feature it would be pointless, which would be fair for an alternative email provider but doesn't apply in this case.

What do you mean by email aliases?

At this point I'm expecting Trump to just go full mask off and set up a bank account to directly receive payments from Putin and whoever else feels like bribing him. Maybe launch it with a giant "foreign influence welcome!" sign.

I think the ones resigning were part of the old department that Musk took over and converted into DOGE, so they didn't actually join DOGE originally.

Should start with DOGE then reevaluate how it's going.

The coup hasn't failed as long as Trump is still in office and his goons are still running things. Things aren't going as smoothly as the donvict wants but that's an entire universe of a difference from failing.

Is England living in a different century from the rest of us? Some kind of time warp to the 1800s going on over there or something?

That’s if we don’t say “sorry, we don’y have a policy that allows for leaders of enemy states to land without express permission.

This is actually the most likely outcome. Nobody would want to deal with the absolute shitstorm arresting the orange turd would cause so instead they'll just deny him entry.

All the free market evangelists always conveniently forget the original definition of what constitutes a free market. The paper that coined the term free market specifically referred to them as "well regulated". From the very beginning it was recognized that a functioning market requires government regulation, if for nothing else at least for contract enforcement and dispute resolution. Without regulation what you're left with is just "might makes right".

Realistically though there are two distinctly different groups that use the term "free market" and they mean two distinctly different things when they do so. We have economists who mean theoretical free markets and have a very specific concept in mind. Right or wrong they are at least arguing in good faith. Then we have politicians and the general public who are using the term purely as an excuse to justify their policies designed to benefit massive corporations and the rich. For the later group the former group are just tools to be used. Even if all the economists got together and declared free markets a bad idea they would just keep referencing the old economic papers, just like they do for trickle down economics.

From one senior dev to another, who remembers when O'Reily books were the gold standard, this, exactly this. Junior devs are junior because they don't know how to code. The important bit is that they learn and become intermediate devs. If in another decade we're sitting here complaining about intermediate and senior devs that don't know how to program, then we'll have a problem.

The best part of this clusterfuck is buried in the middle. The two Israeli's that were shot believed they were attacked by a Muslim and made a post about it ending in "Death to Arabs".

Don't worry, they'll destroy a lot more than that. The entire US economy is about to be absolutely shredded.

The rest of NATO needs to call Trump's bluff and just start acting without the US. Hold a vote to induct Ukraine into NATO without giving the US a chance to vote on it and then deploy NATO troops into Ukraine. Russia has already been claiming that there are NATO troops there for a while now, should show him what an actual NATO defense looks like instead of a bunch of desperate Ukrainians with hand me down surplus weaponry.

AI isn't allowed on any of my systems, it's practically the first thing I disable (alongside tracking and metrics, but that's basically the same thing). The only AI I will ever allow would be something entirely offline and self hosted that I have complete and total control over.

Microsoft insisting on cramming this crap down everyone's throats has finally convinced me to go 100% Linux for gaming. I'd rather abandon the small handful of games that won't let you run them under Linux than let MS scrape all my personal data and shove ads into every crack of my OS. It's been going great so far and I have absolutely no regrets. Best of all, not a single piece of AI or telemetry to disable.

$9.74 billion for the trash fire that is Twitter is honestly a really good offer, the muskrat should definitely take that.

I got lucky and picked up a 7900 XTX for a reasonable price last gen and it's been a really great card. I've got a couple systems coming up on needing a refresh (1080 Ti and a 2080 Ti) and I'm planning on upgrading both of them to a 9070 XT. I'm staying away from Nvidia until they start pricing their GPUs at prices actual consumers can afford instead of corporations looking to build AI farms.

Strictly speaking no, they don't actually have constitutional protections, it's just that it's simpler for our legal system to treat everyone uniformly (also I'm not sure it's ever actually come up before except in the highly specialized circumstances of Guantanamo Bay). Additionally tourists have their government backing them so it wouldn't be worth the international incident that something like denying them due process would cause. In general though with a tourist causing problems it's often easier for the government to just cancel their visa and deport them back to their home country then ban them from returning, rather than dealing with the headache of trying to prosecute a foreign national.

The sliver of hope there is that the law isn't usually written in terms of the one being acted on but in terms of the one doing the action. Murder is illegal regardless of the status of the victim. It doesn't say murder is the killing of a citizen, but rather a person regardless of nationality or citizenship status. Where things get a bit rockier though is in regards to constitutional protections. Things like due process it could be argued don't apply to non-citizens.