This is a 6 minute clip from the show. I recognize Jake Sullivan in the clip. I'm currently not sure who the other 8 Biden people are
https://hexbear.net/comment/6038478
You can see that the Hexbear admin already posted on this update. Also Mods being able to see user upvotes is not new. I think this update only adds a new feature which allows mods to view votes in a different way. Your votes are not a secret. Lemmy is not a {battle bots|ballot box}.
There is no way to definitively say that Ubuntu is "backdoored". Your post is written like bait but I will explore the concept.
Operating systems like Windows and OSX are one big proprietary mess. These systems you have no idea what they are doing. They do things without even telling you.
Ubuntu is a system built on Free (as in freedom) open source software (FOSS). It is made up of over 1000 software packages. Some of the packages are FOSS, a few of the packages are proprietary. The packages are precompiled binaries based on FOSS code. You do not have to install the proprietary packages.
The proprietary packages which are included in Ubuntu by default are wifi drivers, graphics drivers, cpu firmware. Is it possible that a backdoor is hidden in the wifi driver? Maybe but you don't have to install those drivers. You could use a FOSS wifi device or simply not use wifi.
So if we have the Ubuntu system and we don't install the proprietary blobs/drivers. How do we know that the compiled software packages matches the FOSS source code? Well for one, it is illegal under most circumstances to share binaries compiled from FOSS source code without providing the full source code used to compile the software binaries. The GNU project and Free Software Foundation are willing to do litigation against software which violates FOSS licenses.
Let's assume that the Linux Distro is disregarding the law. There is a software project called Reproducible Builds, which means that if you compile source code on 2 different machines, you will get the same binary files. While distros like Arch and Debian (and not Ubuntu) are members of the Reproducible Builds project, the project is still incomplete and many packages are not compliant.
So let's say that you don't trust the Distro developer to compile binaries for you. You can choose to use a GNU/Linux distros such as Gentoo where all of the FOSS packages are in the form of source code and you have to compile them for yourself.
What about non-hidden "backdoors"? Over 10 years ago, Ubuntu introduced a feature which searched Amazon for "products you might be interested in" when you typed into the Unity search bar to search your computer. This feature was removed after community backlash.
What about unintentional vulnerabilities or exploits hidden within the source code? Obfuscated code is not accepted but even then some things have slipped by. In February 2024, a backdoor was added to the XZ Utils, which potentially added a secret key for the attacker to access some systems remotely through OpenSSH. The exploit was discovered and removed in March 2024. The exploit was luckily discovered before it reached most people. I believe most Ubuntu users were not affected by this exploit unless they were using a "testing" version of Ubuntu. Rolling release distros such as Arch Linux were the most affected. For this reason, it is better to use a stable release distro like Debian, which only adds new software features every 2 years.
In 2021, two researchers at the University of Minnesota submitted intentionally buggy code to the Linux Kernel project as part of an experiment to introduce vulnerabilities into Open Source software. 15 days later, the Linux Kernel project banned the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux Kernel development.
Is it possible that Ubuntu has a backdoor? Maybe, but it is very less likely to have a backdoor than Window or OSX.
She stabbed some random guy? It doesn't even say that the guy was in the military.
It was over 3000 pagers that exploded. This article tries to explain it.
The evidence so far suggests that Hezbollah acquired the pagers around February when the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, ordered members to stop using cellphones because they could be easily intercepted and monitored by Israeli intelligence.
In this case, Magnier said, the pagers procured by Hezbollah were with a third party and they sat at a port for three months, awaiting clearances, before they were finally moved to the Lebanese group.
Hezbollah suspects that it was during those three months that Israel managed to plant explosives in the devices, the military analyst said.
A Lebanese security source and another source told the Reuters news agency that the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, planted explosives in 5,000 pagers that Hezbollah had ordered months before the explosions. The sources said a code was simultaneously sent to 3,000 of the pagers, triggering the explosions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/how-did-hezbollah-get-the-pagers-that-exploded-in-lebanon
This video answers the question on why waffle house has so much violence. It has interviews with waffle house workers trying to unionize. Video is age gated for violence. (content warning)
It's not your fault. I think MSNBC/CNN also told people that he was an actual Trump supporter. I blame Jimmy Kimmel honestly.
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In the scene where she eats the cheeseburger, the chef had just announced that he was about to kill everyone at the restaurant in a ritual murder. The woman character tells the chef to make a cheeseburger to prove that he has really cooking talent and is not just a pretentious hack. The chef complies because he's a massive narcissist. The woman character is fearing for her life when she takes a bite of the cheeseburger. She takes a small bite and then asks for the burger to be taken "to go" so that she can escape from being murdered.
Would you eat a massive bite of cheeseburger when the chef just said he was going to kill you? A small bite of burger seems appropriate for the situation of the scene. Twitter discourse is so stupid.
The first 3 transformers movies were partly funded by the USDoD.
https://www.spyculture.com/pentagon-production-assistance-agreements-transformers/
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http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/f8b605dd8138953cff78bf29e179e369.kcmsf
https://archive.is/OvARX
This bridge was first agreed upon 10 months ago, June 20 2024. "The agreements were signed between the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation on building a motorcar bridge over the River Tuman on the DPRK-Russia border". In the older article, the bridge is called a "motorcar bridge". In the new article, DPRK calls this a "motor bridge", which I think is a mis-translation made by DPRK. The new article says that the purpose of the bridge is "travel of persons, tourism and circulation of commodities". I am under the impression that the bridge will be a road bridge for civilians to use motor vehicles to travel between Russia and DPRK.