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  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • You did not address the core issue, which is that you engage with many comment threads negatively and on an individual basis, providing a cyclical viewpoint. This is creating engagement for each “toxic” thread individually instead of confidently asserting a PoV and letting it rest. I understand that from your perspective that it’s fair to lower yourself to their perceived level, but it’s still bloating the toxic side of the discourse instead of helping it move on.

    Drop a wall of well reasoned text and let it stand on its own. Or provide the type of comment that you want to see at the top level and be the change you want.

    Case in point, I’ve said what I wanted to say, have found myself restating it once, and this comment is my peace out. A good day to you!

  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • Then make a top level comment that kicks off the type of discussion you want.

    For all your comments, not a single one was a reply to the post itself. Lots of comments presenting your POV (totally fair), others that call the contributions of others noise because you think their POV is low value and over represented.

    Your posting style may come from a good place, but it’s very adjacent to sealioning. Be the change that you want to see, not a comment warrior creating engagement in every comment thread where someone on the internet is wrong.

  • "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

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  • Why not both moment:

    Micro$lop

  • Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.

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  • Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.

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  • If you have any way to check the key validity offline (for example, you subpoena the encrypted data) then it's trivial to check and automate.

    Trivial to automate, yes. The rest is a question of how long it takes to compute, that’s the basic rules of cryptography:

    • good algorithms are computationally more expensive to solve in one direction than the other
    • the hardware of tomorrow will more easily solve the cryptography of today, making it important to rotate your bits into new algorithms as old ones become more solvable
    • big business and big government have more power to throw at the problem, but not infinitely so; where will you fall on their wait list?

    Lack of physical access to your files protects you against casual inquiries by businesses and local governments. If you’re a person of interest, they are breaking down your door and getting your bits unless they self destruct or are in a country they can’t bully.

    In summary:

    • Don’t be a person of interest if you can avoid it.
    • If you live somewhere that hurting a politician’s feelings (or having the wrong demographic) will make you a person of interest, assume they will get physical access to your bits unless those bits are in an unfriendly country. What country do you want them in?
    • Assume they will get their hands on your bits anyway. How easy are they to decrypt, and will the juice be worth the squeeze?

  • Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up

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  • I’m pretty okay with Tucker running for office. It can end the same way Crossfire did: with Jon Stewart sitting across from him.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • Their Black Friday discounts launched this week.

  • 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech

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  • Trump is a narcissist who learned to play social media. At his core he’s a grifting and attention seeking slimeball. Everything else is sausage thumbs posting to social media and gauging what gets the best reactions.

    There’s no cynical intelligence to this, but something worse: chasing the worst of mankind who revel in his boorishness. The very act of remaking himself every second to seek that attention is what makes him who he is, and it’s why he’s so hard to replicate.

    Don’t believe it? Pay attention to his speeches when he’s talking about others. You can see him testing nicknames for opponents, watching the crowd to see how strong the reaction is. Watch for the satisfaction on his face when he finds the one that gets the reaction he’s looking for.

  • Charlie Kirk shot and killed while speaking at Utah college

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  • Agreed, no one ever thinks of the poor Nazis. What did they ever do to hurt anyone?

    …Recently. No, more recently than you’re thinking. Like, they haven’t killed or lynched anyone in the last 30 seconds, have they? QED!

  • Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

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  • Yes, yes. Fix our shit but don’t move away from the shit because it’s our fault for being born here. We’re statistically more likely to be right leaning than any Canadian because most of us don’t even know what the overton window is, let alone pay attention to world news. Those of us who consider ourselves left leaning don’t recognize that the rest of the world considers us conservative.

    I understand the logic you are pushing. It is perfectly reasoned, bargain basement NIMBY xenophobia. It’s grounded in a kernel of truth, self-convinced that it is completely divorced from racism, and completely ignorant of being an active participant in the shift to the right that it is so concerned with.

    You are not stupid. Unfortunately the slide to the right isn’t purely a function of stupidity.

  • Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

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  • Your reasons for being unhappy aren't completely unfounded. We get that. It just doesn't change the fact that you're wallowing in a Canadian brand of conservatism in response to our even stupider conservatism. It isn't going to stop folks from rolling their eyes at the tone deafness or finding amusement at your microcosm of our own bullshit.

    It's clutching poo to your chest while complaining that we're exporting our stinkier poo on your doorstep. Is ours stinkier? Sure, I'll be the first to admit it and include our right leaning "liberal" party in that statement. It's still poo.

  • Journalist publishes every damning text from war plans leak

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  • It's quantifiable and expected threat by a known entity, versus nebulous threat by a unknown entity.

    The records will be scrutinized. The FoIA requests will happen. The hack of their private infrastructure might not ever happen, and even if does, the foreign actors are not necessarily going to leak the records back to the US constituents: the real perceived threat.

    They'll gladly risk operational security for less paper trail. Every. Fucking. Time.

  • Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

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  • I'd argue the point, but you're already preaching our southern border rhetoric perfectly.

    Trying to colonize? Looks to me like we've already succeeded! :D