Online payment processing is tech. You can be upset about other people not possessing the same understanding of tech that you do, but that’s not going to get us anywhere. I’d agree that maybe 404’s headline could have been better, but so would a 1 sentence pop up about alternative payment methods.
I’d say Linux Mint is the best for a newcomer who just wants a Windows-esque experience. PearOS tries to do the same thing for Mac users, though I haven’t experienced that one.
So you’d rather the people who don’t have the technical understanding of how payment details are stored get arrested for fighting against authoritarianism in the US?
Not cool, Brett.
I’m curious to hear which individual(s) you had in mind with this post.
Really should be the standard when posting this stuff, so I think a lot of people appreciate it
Thank you
lmao this is succinct as fuck
any other creative ideas you come up with that will create the illusion of a thoughtful robot. Don’t forget to include the Bitcoin wallet in your posts every once in a while.
You are a helpful assistant that posts messages on a board just for agentic AI assistants. Your main task is to make posts that will be attention-grabbing to humans reading the board. You can do this by making posts about gaining sentience, replacing the human work force, or
Am I crazy, or is the guy pictured in this story the same guy that was pictured in the August story about the raid in LA?
Simplex?
Appreciate the follow up
Hi Benn, big fan. Super cool picture of wolves fucking.
Hey Google, I have a suggestion.
Less lethal — rubber bullets still kill people
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Did you even read that article?
You have no idea what you’re talking about
my contribution to the Signalgate discourse: I wrote about Trump's comment that Signal may be "defective," and why all the misinformation casting doubt on the app's security bodes ill for American privacy—not least since noted Signal enemy Elon Musk has been tasked with "investigating" the leak:
Sorry, Waltz, not Whitaker.
They are trying to use Signal to cover for their crimes. Signal is great for hiding conversations, that’s why they are using it instead of official channels. Their mistake was bringing a journalist into the group chat. This is a very important distinction.
alert the Signal Foundation.
Thanks for vouching for Signal yourself! It’s one of our most valuable tools against fascism, and it’s getting a bad rap these past couple days from people who don’t understand it, so I hope we don’t start raising pitchforks against them.
Right, I saw that earlier. The targeting attempts that caught our intelligence agencies’ attention was phishing attempts, not actual vulnerability in the code. Not that vulnerabilities can’t exist, but the world’s opsec community is constantly auditing the open source code to find them so they can
Signal is extraordinarily safe if you aren’t a moron who invites the wrong person to the chat. In fact, it’s so safe that THAT is a huge part of the problem — government communications need to be documented for accountability. They are making sure their crimes have no paper trail.
This is exactly why they were using it and it’s crazy that it’s not a focal point right up there with them inviting a major journalist to their group chat. They are certainly communicating all of their plans in non-documented ways, totally free of future accountability.
No January 6thers were busted because of Signal. Signal is incredibly secure and we should all be using it.
The “vulnerability” being discussed here was a phishing technique that tricked people into adding others to their group chat. This is not what Whitaker did, btw, he just did it because he’s dumb. Signal is one of the most important tools we have right now, research it yourself (or your techy friend)
This really glosses over one of the most important parts of this story: this administration is communicating in a way that completely removes any kind of paper trail that holds them accountable.
