[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 70 points 10 months ago

this is actually even more sweeping. the decision gives immunity to all exercises of constitutional authority, not just official acts.

elmofire

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

lmao I just got invited to a talk with this as the blurb:

The dollar is the jewel in the crown of the US financial system. The widespread use of the dollar benefits the US in important ways, in particular it allows the US borrow money more easily. It also means the US can use the dollar, and access to it, as a weapon to sanction enemies of the country, unsettling foes and friends alike. In many respects the dollar is as dominant as it has ever been, but that doesn’t mean the position of the buck is at the top of the heap is guaranteed….

  1. saying the quiet part out loud
  2. the financiers are quaking - admitting that the dollar's reign might be coming to an end
  3. I just love the admission that dollar hegemony and sanctions are a weapon deployed against friend and foe alike.

should I attend and take notes for y'all?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by silent_water@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

they were all owned by the same company and sold to Kape, which has ties to the Israeli intelligence service, a few years back.

The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

I personally use perfect-privacy, which didn't turn up any red flags when I did research a few years ago. it's a little lacking in features but openvpn isn't that hard to set up on linux & android. no clue how well their desktop app works.

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EST should be -4 not -5. this is fucking reactionary and you can't expect me to remember this shit. fuck congress for ruining this possibility after passing it.

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lmao her cowardice is amazing. critical support to the greyxone and EI

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1384395

an interesting look at the connection between video games and gambling - a lot of classic games companies started out building slot machines.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

you have to buy me a drink before you get to call me that

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago

finally, a union president who knows how to negotiate

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

my headcanon is that we attracted one of the DE writers and they're now posting here.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 92 points 2 years ago

meow-popcorn I'm just here for the struggle session

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.

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going by the upvote counts on good posts, only 30 of us are doing it. sort by new cowards

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

we don't have downvotes and we have an anti-lurker culture. so if we see a bad take, we reply. in this case you've thoroughly confused us with this "Saturn Devours his Son" is Russian take.

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it calls into question LMG's ethics and business practices. what they did to the waterblock company of two people is obscene. they reviewed the only viable prototype the company had on incompatible hardware, trashed the product in the review, then sold the product act auction to a potential competitor. they effectively destroyed the company and in the WAN show said that they couldn't retest the product properly because it would have cost $500 - not of Linus's time, but of his employees. it's such a callous way to behave that I literally cannot fathom it.

the sheer scope of the data errors from rushed video production are the icing on the cake.

also anyone else remember the company paying out settlements to former female employees for what was suspected to be sexual harassment, forcing them to sign NDAs?

capitalist enshittification continues on and on.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

there's no difference between good and bad things, I insist

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Cracker News (crackernews.github.io)

it's indistinguishable from the original. I for one welcome our javascript-speaking, dolphin overlords.

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[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 78 points 2 years ago

stop using chrome

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

maaaaybe we weren't federated until this week. but nah, paid bots makes more sense. very-intelligent

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 124 points 2 years ago

no, I'm civilized. I use .tar.zstd

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