That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla's crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.
*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can't stop a bullet.
A friendly reminder: corporations are not your friends. Everything they do is in effort of chasing profits, and they'll bend over and look pretty for whichever party is in power.
This is just another unfortunate reminder that respect and equity are not factors in their decisions.
My policy has always been if you want me to use your crap, you provide the hardware. And if they still insist, they get to live with their garbage running inside a VM.
There's exactly 0% chance I'm letting corporate spyware touch my data or have full access to my hardware. Between being able to lock down the operating system and remotely wipe the device, that shit cannot be trusted.
Alienating whatever remaining trade partners you had outside of the two local ones, which your friends in the administration tariffed and threatened to annex, is going to go tremendously. Sure are putting America First... in line to find out what happens when no other country is willing to trade their resources with us or buy our goods.
Lead poses a low health risk to most people. People with kidney issues, or people under the age of 18 are at an increased risk of negative side effects. Most likely people in these groups will be living in a house without lead pipes and are at no risk of consuming excess lead.
Good reason for other, not-at-risk people to stop taking preventative measures like not adding lead to their gasoline then, yeah?
Yeh, the difference between being high value (twitter) and an actual high value (government) target are entirely different.
Exactly. Tesla or Twitter might be on a country's radar for juicy IP theft reasons, but that's a speck of dust in comparison to a network full of classified government secrets. A country doesn't burn multiple zero-days and backdoor supply chains to find out the contents of the next Tesla firmware update. They sure as hell do when it gives them access to military information and civil infrastructure of a world power.
I wonder if DOGE have reputable hardware, or if they cheapest out on servers.
I doubt it. If the way Elon talks about software is indicative of his understanding of hardware or cybersecurity, he has absolutely no idea what the fuck he's actually doing. Knowing that, it's probably an off the shelf commercial rack-mount with IME enabled and the management port plugged into the same switch as the regular network interface.
I wouldn't say it's someone as much as it's something.
Neither of the Felonius Fuckheads have ever faced actual consequences for their actions. The entire judicial system has fucked up by teaching them that they're above the systems of checks and balances designed to hold them accountable and prevent them from making unilateral changes to fundamental aspects of the government operates.
And so, Elon just casually walked in wherever he pleased, caused chaos and disruption with his cronies, and walked out leaving behind servers exfiltrating anything they could get their hands on.
My surprise is immeasurable. I would have never--for one single instant in time--thought that the man whose thumbs are looser than an orange asshole after a foreign meeting with Big Daddy Vladdy, would have leaked confidential and classified information anywhere other than directly on Twitter.
Am I being sarcastic? I don't even know at this point! This shit is beyond what satire can express.
On one hand, the workers should tell them to shove their backpeddle up their asses. They're only going to get fired again in a month after being used to train The Detritus Duo's cronies.
On the other hand, untrained sycophants in charge of nuclear security is even worse than trained sycophants in charge of nuclear security.
the muSSk team learn from it, and figure out how actual internet security works, and harden their systems accordingly.
They won't. Musk is a narcissist who thinks his every instruction is perfection, and his merry gang of racist goons are wet-behind-the-ears grads who have yet to be humbled by experience.
My predicted outcome is they fix this hole, send the FBI after the grey-hats to make an example out of them, and continue on business as usual while a foreign nation laughs from the shadows with a rootkit installed. DOGE is a treasure trove of data, and network security is a cat and mouse game that takes real manpower and time to set up, maintain, and actively monitor. I don't think these chucklefucks know anything about being a high-value target of state actors, and they're too prideful to admit it and get help.
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I imagine the treasury department is corrupt, and that's why DOGE found so much mass fraud.
Followed by right-wing podcasters and YouTube creators taking it as gospel and generating public outrage, which is used to justify outing all the leadership and replacing them with cronies who cancel the investigation.
Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?
Doubtful. If I remember the statistic correctly, 95% of social media users are lurkers. Greedy Little Pigboy wouldn't pass up the opportunity to milk the remaining 19/20 users.
Let's assume you're correct, and you got that fact from an actual survey and statistical analysis that has undergone peer-review. It really doesn't come as a surprise that there are masses of people cheering on policies that work against their own interests.
The American public education system is a disaster that can barely teach basic adulting, let alone critical thinking or identifying untrustworthy reporting. Add in how most of the past century has been nonstop propaganda about how showing compassion to anyone outside your family is socialism, and socialism is communism, and communism is the antichrist. Now, throw in a heaping dose of social media and viral misinformation where the loudest person making the most emotionally reactive claims gets the most attention and positive reinforcement.
It's really no wonder that a majority of people are metaphorically, ritualisticly throwing gasoline onto a tire fire while complaining about the toxic fumes that surround them. They literally lack the skills to know any better.
This is news? It wasn't exactly a recent development that made voting a choice between picking a conservative party backed by interests or picking a conservative party backed by self-interests.
The former is better than the latter, but it's not much of a consolation prize, considering neither of them give a rat's ass about the people they claim to represent.
Recently had to deal with creating a Windows 11 installation for someone else. I used a self-downloaded ISO and Rufus, and it still tried to pull that crap. OneDrive will create a system notification offering to enable it, and it's similar enough to the various annoying Windows onboarding notifications that some people will accidentally click the confirmation thinking it's the dismiss button.
If the past month has been any indication of the next 47 of them, Canada might want to start negotiating long-term trade deals with Europe and China while also significantly cutting back on trade with the United States.
Trump has suggested he wants to use economic pressure against Canada.
Trump has "joked" about Canada becoming the 51st state.
Like with blackmailers, once you give into the first demand of someone using threats as a bargaining chip, they come back asking for even more.
Canada seems to have something we need (oil, natural resources). They're well within their rights to treat us as a hostile nation and show the assholes in power that they need to play nicely in global politics more than they think they do. With the way things are going, the average US citizen is probably fucked either way, so it's not like it's going to harm anybody but the oligarchs in the long run.
Oh, great. So it's also another regressive push towards recreating the mysognist shithole decades where married women were treated as the property of their husbands. What's next, giving married men in heterosexual relationships two votes?
Well said, and I wish our northern neighbors well. It can't be easy sharing a border with a government actively ignoring and dismantling its systems of checks and balances, while its new leader is simultaneously make "jokes" about taking over neutral or allied countries.
What really annoys me is the self-righteousness, self-importance, and proselytizing of our low-information conservative members. Most of the world has either thrived or at least existed fine enough with socialism or politics designed to benefit its average citizen, and ever step of the way these chucklefucks are screaming "communism" and denigrating the very things that would have helped them live better lives. And then they try and force those views on other countries which have better standards of living than we do! It's infuriating.
So many right-wing Americans talking down on Canada's public healthcare and left-leaning politics, praising Trump's "fixes," and acting like an authority on everything Canada. God, can we please fix our own problems before trying to ruin everything else with regressive changes?
That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla's crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.
*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can't stop a bullet.