pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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Oh no, it's going to make Cybertrucks cost more to manufacture. Tesla's stock is going to plummet. Please, stop. Won't somebody think of the poor Nazis?

Nah. The tweet would be from Elon. Trump’s just going to make a post on his shitty antisocial media site:

Liberal Judge Soandso DEMANDED I reveal NATIONAL SECRETS with CHINA. I said NO. The courts are full with CORRUPTION and DOGE is doing GREAT THINGS TO FIX IT. We are DRAINING THE SWAMP for America! We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Democrats got us here and let me tell you, I WILL get us out. Things are going to be GREAT AGAIN. No more communism, no more woke agenda. You can say what you want. You can say what you mean. Eggs will be cheap. The economy, we're fixing it. The liberals don't want us to fix it, let me tell you. They're just making America WEAK. More communist immigrants. More transvestites. Making our strong soldiers and men into little girls. NO MORE. I'm fixing it. DOGE is fixing it. The CORRUPT DEMOCRATS WILL LOSE.

Why does it look friendly?

Well as much as a printer can work.

Only after a ceremonial blood sacrifice on the Tuesday after a blood moon. Got it.

"America will recover quickly! Drill Mine baby, mine!"
— MAGA logic

which conveniently ignores the realities and challenges of ramping up local supply chains and the long-term infrastructure changes that need to happen first.

It took me about 3 attempts.

Between the overzealous capitalization, misinformation, complete insane fantasy ideas, and lack of paragraphs, my eyes kept glazing over.

He really doesn't seem to comprehend the consequences of that "51st state" garbage. It's doing a great job pissing off Canadians, inspiring patriotism and unifying them.

The very same Canadians who constitute a decent slice of our tourism. The ones who import our agriculture and goods, and are now preferring to buy local voluntarily. They forgot/forgave the economic strong-arming bullshit from his last run, but they're not going to forget the relentless threats of being annexed.

The original source, as posted by Demented Don:

Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!

"Mr President, you're the president. You don't need other people telling you what to do, your own ideas are perfect. By the way, here's The Hungry Hungry Liberal, A Project 2025 Picturebook for you to read while waiting for Biden to leave."

As far as them being applied, yes. The loaded microcode is volatile.

They can kind of persist across cold reboots, but it relies on them being applied again at some point. The motherboard vendor can apply microcode updates during platform initialization before POSTing. Or they can be applied from EFI (modern equivalent of BIOS) before handing control to the kernel. Or they can be applied very early in the boot process by the kernel.

I’m surprised this is considered retro now and I’m a little sad since I never got to play it.

The good news is PS2 emulation is pretty solid. Xbox is less so, but luckily most games in the generation were also available on PS2.

FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
Musk guts the FAA
FAA no longer stopping rockets
Musk decries nobody will stop other people's rockets

He has proven to know nothing about computers when he bought the twitter and he has proven it by this absolutely ridiculous claim.

He's proven it a few times by now.

One of my favorite demonstrations of his lack of self-awareness is when he made a Twitter reply saying "the government doesn't use SQL, [ableist slur]". It's easily and provably wrong while also demonstrating what a rotten pile of shit he is.

As always, this quote remains relevant:

"We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing..."

In other words: a metrics query for ingress traffic by IP addresses and sorted by volume, followed by looking up the country of origin on some random IP geolocation website.

Anyone with a basic understanding of computer networking can do that. The only tracing going on there is Elon's fingers as they try to find the ego they so desperate want to stroke.

Later on Monday, Mr Musk claimed on Fox News that IP addresses involved in the cyber attack were traced to locations "in the Ukraine area".

A cool fact for those unaware: every packet of data that goes through the internet has a return address. If you don't care about getting a response back, nothing stops you from lying about your return address. In fact, when being malicious, it can often be beneficial to lie about your return address.

That's assuming the attackers intentionally tried to frame Ukraine or exclusively use Ukrainian servers for amplification. The more likely scenario is that Musk cherry-picked one of the many addresses from around the world to use as an example that supports his agenda.

Are you that cool Polish chick who talked with me in the "hell" room about that exciting investment opportunity?

"Nicole" spams people's DMs on Lemmy and Mastodon, making new accounts every time one of them gets banned. I would suggest not following through with that investment "opportunity" unless you're happy becoming a scam victim.

Don't give Musk a reason to tell his orange bitch to sign an order making lobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.

Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China's Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.

"At least it's not CoMmUNiSm"
— Bartholomew Bootsonhisface

Yeah, no.

The only thing that has shifted left in the Democratic Party is the public's perception of them. They intentionally fuck over actual leftists (aka progressives) within their party while offering up milquetoast policies that look progressive on paper but are either completely toothless or designed to benefit to their corporate lobbyists first and foremost.

They're a conservative party who used rainbow capitalism to masquerade as the comparatively left-wing alternative to the Republican Party. The reality is that every election cycle in the past two decades, they're promising more "liberal" ideas while acting more conservative. Do you know who had a record number of deportations under their administration? It's not Trump. It's not Obama. It's Biden.

Anybody that thinks the Democratic Party is sliding any direction other than right is either right-wing and arguing in bad faith, an anti-"woke" moron like Elon Musk, or consuming too much Fox News.