[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Of course, that's exactly the point of a surveillance state. It's purpose is total control of the general population and complete freedom from consequences for the wealthy elite. Any rhetoric about it keeping us safe is pure propaganda. People knew this a long time ago, that's why we have the 4th amendment and other privacy laws.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I think MTG is loyal to "her people". She's fine when "other people" are hurt, but Epstein and his co-conspirators hurt white, Christian, American girls. We're seeing more and more people breaking off from MAGA based on their personal principles, like the NRA and other 2nd amendment rights group speaking out against the Pretti shooting.

Donald has no principles whatsoever, he just wants to "win" and demands absolute loyalty no matter what. It looks like some of his supporters are starting to see the con job, or maybe they already did, but they're starting to realize that allying with a man who will betray you as soon as you're no longer useful is a bad strategy.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I appreciate your efforts, one thing I'm sure of is that, "I alone can fix it" is the antithesis of what we need right now. It's going to take a lot of open, compassionate people to make things better.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What's our way forward? I don't know and I'm struggling to figure it out, but the more I get into it, the more I come back to ideas like curiosity, authenticity, and connecting with people outside our comfortable social groups.

I really feel like the world we're living in now is the result of engineered propaganda and the only cure is related to authentic connections among everyday people.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't know how the law works on this, but it's so fucked up that they carefully redacted these guys while exposing several of the victim's names. It's pretty clear who the FBI and DOJ work for and it isn't the American people.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Reverse engineering is theoretically possible, but often very difficult in practice.

I'm not enough of an expert in cryptography to know for sure if packet inspection would allow you to tell if a ciphertext could be decrypted by a second "back door" key. My gut says it's not possible, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

TempleOS is really impressive for an OS made by one guy! Terrence Davis had some mental health issues, but he's legendary as a programmer.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

We now have a President who just posted a video of his personal fantasy which is himself wearing a crown and literally shitting all over the American people exercising their first amendment rights!

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