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  • "look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

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  • No, I focus on that because it's real. It sounds like you don't get out much, just judging by how you talk to people. So let me lay it out for you. People are resistant to change and you have to convince them. You aren't good at that, which is why you're so mad. I'm trying to get information to help convince people I know and love, which is why I'm asking for more information from the person who seems to know a lot. However you also seem to be bad at providing resources to back your claims up.

  • "look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

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  • We already know it's a honeypot

    Oh?

  • "look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

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  • Signal is the only way I've been able to get my friends and family onto an E2E messaging app. Before this, they were all using SMS and WhatsApp. Signal is how we survived ICE in Minneapolis and organized to stop a bunch of jackbooted fascists from kidnapping all of our neighbors and deporting them to unknown countries. I have a lot of respect for the folks at Signal as a result.

    I get that you all are on better platforms or whatever, but I don't appreciate the dismissive shit that I'm seeing in these replies. Especially when it's about one of the first privacy-oriented apps that normies get started with. You have some information about Signal that shows it's shitty or a honeypot? Great, then post it. I'd genuinely love to see it (and not in a "post it so I can argue with you like an annoying redditor" kinda way). But this shit about high salaries at a non profit is not convincing to me and none of your replies here are doing your cause any service.

  • LTT does another Linux Challenge

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  • Stay on Windows then, you corporate fuckboy! Enjoy XBox cloud gaming and never owning anything again.

    Yep! Linus is basically rendering his own channel obsolete by doing this shit.

  • "look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

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  • I'm really trying hard to see the point that's being made. Is it just the "high" salaries, or is there some other implication? The OP seems to be insinuating that Signal is a honeypot or something. I am going to need a lot more proof than, "hey, these guys work at a non-profit and they aren't underpaid!" Given that most tech jobs offer stock options in addition to normal salary, it would make sense that base salary should be higher at a non-profit (where stock options don't exist). Their salary structure also seems much flatter than other non-profits that I saw within the propublica link.

    What am I missing here?

  • new Juan Guiado just dropped

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  • Ummmm.... You can have the Madcatz controller little bud

    hands over unplugged controller

  • Le funny

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  • The story itself was buried, but It basically created NSPM-7. I think they got exactly what they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk killing.

  • Iranian warship hit by US torpedo did not carry ammunition, say Indian sources

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  • Not that it excuses the horrific warcrime or absolves the US at all, but how did Iran not realize this possibility after the US has repeatedly bombed civilian boats in the gulf of Mexico?

    Truly abhorent and cowardly. I hope Iran responds ruthlessly.

  • A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.

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  • And yet so many people have a hard time acknowledging it.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • To be fair to Cash for Clunkers, the intent was to get people on better gas efficiency cars, not to downgrade people to worse cars.

    I was a supporter of the program at the time and agreed with that intent. However, In retrospect it was more of a handout to the auto industry. And whether intended or not, it hurt the used car market and got people to abandon very reliable (and more importantly, easily self repairable) cars that were built in the 90s.

    2008 was right around the time when automakers started adding more tech to cars. So that's where my suspicions about surveilance comes in. In fact, an infamous vulnerability, which can be used to uniquely identify vehicles, was introduced into most US vehicles made after 2008.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • So this is my understanding:

    • Microsoft is moving to a subscription model OS
    • new tpm requirement
    • hardware is sold out and/or 3x more expensive because of Sam Altman
    • Microsoft is leaning into thin clients

    I see people celebrating this "stupid decision" by Microsoft and saying that it's the year of the Linux desktop. Honestly, I'd love that outcome.

    But what if Microsoft is willing to destroy Windows right before the AI bubble pops, shift the entire industry away from consumer parts, get people to throw all their old devices in a landfill, and then recoup their losses when Trump inevitably bails out the industry?

    I always think about how Obama's Cash for Clunkers got people to trade in their old, reliable cars for arguably shittier new cars with built-in Surveillance capabilities and planned obsolescence. It ended up ruining the used car market too. I wonder if we will see something like that for AI. "Trade in your pc for a free year of windows 12 and a new pc (thin client) to run it"

  • Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics

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  • Yeah, definitely. Either way, the end result is the same.

  • Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics

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  • This just feels like they're laying the groundwork for a false flag to justify the war after the fact.

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • My SO works at a callcenter and they get dinged for the use of what they call "tragic phrases." These include, but aren't limited to:

    • "Unfortunately"
    • Words/phrases that imply uncertainty like "should"
    • Words/phrases that imply non-commitment like "I can't do that" or "that's against policy" or "that's not my dept"
    • So-called sloppy words/phrases like "No problem" or "hold on just a sec"

    Its fucking ridiculous. They pay some outside vendor for training and guidelines.

  • 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

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  • Yeah, I personally wouldn't be announcing this failure to the world if I were in her position. I don't think you could torture it out of me lmao

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • I did not know that stuff was available to the public to scrutinize. Interesting.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • We have a group of arrogant tech oligarchs who are embedded in a fascist government. They've already shown that they're chomping at the bit to try out new surveillance toys. I imagine that it's far simpler/cleaner for them to exploit some vulnerability or built-in back door that makes it look like a reckless teen crashed his own car.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • Yeah I noticed that little detail too. Definitely seems like a newer car.

    We already know that these vehicles spy on us using mics and sensors that phone home. We also know that some manufacturers allow users to summon their car and/or remotely disable the car. But, I think a capability that hasn't been fully revealed to us yet is the ability for manufacturers and (presumably intelligence/law enforcement agencies) full remote takeover of some of these vehicles. I think that we've gotten a sneak peak with Waymos and their ability to have someone in the Philippines get them "unstuck." It wouldn't surprise me if Teslas, for instance, had the same feature.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • Mr. Orta died in a fiery car crash at around 1 a.m. on Saturday when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and struck a utility pole. The car caught on fire and Mr. Orta died before the three other people in the car, including a stepsister, were able to pull him out, Mr. Arriaga said. The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.

    According to a preliminary San Antonio police report, which did not name Mr. Orta, the person behind the wheel was driving “at a high rate of speed” when he attempted to exit the highway and lost control of the vehicle.

    I want to know the make and model of the car and whether it has drive-by-wire systems.