The UK enacted age verification, the instance said fuck that. So, more or less, the UK’s fault.

https://www.torproject.org/download/

Probably a good idea for things other than Lemmy, too, the way that things are going.

Cops have a saying, “We don’t catch the smart ones.” It is self selection, a lot of it.

IDK man. If your hardware doesn’t work on the stock kernels + firmware + etc, I don’t feel like it’s the distro makers’ problem to make some extra changes to try to make it work.

If they want to to make a smoother experience for their users (which is a common Ubuntu thing), then great. But they’re not “supposed” to.

I wonder if I’ll see AOC’s name mentioned in this, now that there’s a firm gestalt that they’re really pushing to establish linking her to Israel for made-up reasons.

I wonder if I’ll see clarification about the final house vote, not on the amendment to strip a tiny amount of Israel’s budget, but on the full version including tons of aid to Israel, and who it was that voted against that massive chunk of aid to Israel.

My prediction is “yes” and “no.” Brb.

Okay. Answers are “no” and “no,” I was half right. For reference here is the final vote on the full bill, including billions of dollars more aid for Israel:

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025212

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…

Boots into secure bootstrap

npm install

I’m not sure that the Ken Thompson type of backdoor is even on the radar as an urgent enough threat to be worth worrying about at this point. I mean, it’s fine, but the boot-i-est of bootstraps at this point is the network hardware that’s running the network you are trying to secure, and most of it is riddled with holes which are likely to largely undo whatever you’re trying to do sad to say.

It’s a hell of a lot wider than one specific sloppy contractor. They basically compromised everybody (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated Communications, Windstream, the system for CALEA requests, routers made by Cisco, phones belonging to Trump and Vance… basically, everything.) Viasat is on that list, but they’re no more particularly sloppy than any other contractor in that space. Basically it would have been truly remarkable if some Guard agency had managed to hire a cloud contractor that was able to resist it.

I feel like this is similar to how Stalin and Hitler really liked to envision massive fighting machines the size of buildings. “If APC < tank < bigger tank, then I just need to build THE BIGGEST TANKS.” It’s like some kind of disease that infects people who aren’t actually doing any of the engineering, just overseeing it, and then taking the most simple minded shortcut they can think to how to make everything more “winning.”

Supplies cannot meet the rising demands.

Jimmy Kimmel, apparently, had Stormy Daniels come on and point to the most accurate one of a selection of dildos, if you want to get the information without needing gory details.

Even that is way too kind. The whole jolly “Alligator” imagery is part of their shtick. I think “the Everglades Concentration Camp” / “Ochopee Internment Camp” or something.

They know the power of language and use it accordingly, so should we.