Who are they worried China is going to influence? Children, right? If it's adults, that's almost more insulting, they think we don't deserve to be able to see all sides of an argument and are too stupid to discern fact from fiction.

Yeah fam, you and me are definitely way too smart to ever be manipulated by military units whose sole job is to effectively manipulate large swaths of the population.

The answer is everyone. They’re worried about anyone and everyone, because they do it also.

https://youtu.be/VA4e0NqyYMw?si=u_d-eDOMYA-FetVn

detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).

Fuck me, this really hammers home that first world privilege. More than that amount of USD hits my checking account each month in my direct wages. This guy knew what would happen to him when he was caught then decided that risking misery in Siberia before being executed was worth less than a month of my take home pay. I mean i get that some level of radicalization is involved here, but still what the fuck.

Except that’s not my point, but you already knew that didn’t you? It’s pretty obvious you’re not actually here for a conversation.

Imagine the uproar if China demanded that Google stopped being a US military contractor.

China is actively demanding that all Chinese companies excise American hardware and software from their technology stacks. They know that they can’t divorce a US tech company headquartered in the US from the US intelligence agencies, so it is the next best option. This is colloquially known in China as “Delete A” or “Delete America”. Who is being xenophobic again?

Saying they banned VPNs isn’t completely, technically correct I’d guess. If I were another country then VPN’d in to my house, I would probably be fine. A pedantically correct statement would be that they banned known VPN IP ranges, so if you’re attempting to connect while your traffic is routed through one you get blocked.

It is part of the deep web, just like Discord or any sites hosted on private companies intranets. Lemmy is not, you can just hit any instance with a web browser and view stuff.

To be completely clear, dark web/net and deep web are two different things. That wiki link you used is describing dark web stuff like tor etc.

I’m slightly less mad now that I know this has precedent. I’m still fucking furious that the only precedent I’ve heard about is corporations and Trump, since the law should be equally applied regardless of absolute amounts of money and I’m pretty sure that someone living in poverty isn’t going to get the same treatment for a $50k (or whatever is a proportional amount) judgement against them.

And if the jury really needs to know the contents of the files, I don’t see any issue with just swearing in a jury of already cleared TS SCI w/Poly Commissioned Officers, or just full send it and let Trump get prosecuted in a military court. I’d love to see a bunch of GWOT brass ream that dudes asshole.

And leaded gasoline and leaded diesel and leaded aviation fuel and lead pipes in household plumbing. Probably lead in the cigarettes everyone smoked literally everywhere.

That wasn’t what was at stake here. Trump was already found guilty, he wasn’t bonding out of pretrial detention he was having to post bond in order to appeal the ruling, which typically requires the person making the appeal to post a bind to make sure they don’t spend all their money fighting on appeal, just to lose the appeal and not have any money left to pay the original judgement.

So my expectation was that yes, he would have to follow the same court rules as everyone else and put up the bond in order to appeal. While I do think we should get rid of requiring pretrial detention bond, I don’t necessarily see an issue with requiring pre-appeal bond. I don’t know, you don’t want to create a situation where you’re means testing the right to appeal, but you don’t want people to indefinitely delay enforcement of judgement against them or to allow them to spend away their ability to pay the judgement on appeals. Maybe forcing either the entirety of the judgement to be paid into a more traditional escrow account, or a payment plan for the judgement to be accepted and that paid into escrow, before an appeal can be started?

Any way you cut it though, I can’t fault this chuckle fuck for playing the court game but I’m fucking incensed the court is enabling it.

Well, this isn’t exactly how I saw the Singularity Church of the MachineGod getting started, I’m still here for it.

Matrix would also be a viable alternative to Discord.

Oh damn. Yeah fuck that place, glad I left.

Semi-related, I was searching for some hyper specific job related technical cybersecurity stuff a few weeks ago and the first result with the verbatim error message was a reddit post, so i clicked. No dice, loads a reddit branded error page. My employer has their own ARIN number/ASN. As far as i could tell every connection from an IP in one of our blocks was being blocked by reddit. My employer isn’t a faang type tech company, they don’t work in ai, they don’t scrape content for datasets or anything else. I can’t figure out why kind of business would cut off entire swaths of customers from accessing their site during the workday, a prime “take a shit and dick around on the phone” audience. I’ve just made a point to search with stack exchange site dorks since then.

Yeah, I've made like 5 accounts over the past few days myself. As soon as I saw @[email protected]'s htop screenshots my heart warmed and I realized I found my people.

That’s exactly what a bot would say… 🤨

My dude, I am positive. My cake day: June 8 2023. Your cake day: June 12, 2023. Do you not realize that people can have multiple accounts? Dick measuring and attempts at gate keeping based on time on a platform is super cringe.

I created the community you’re posting in right now. You should probably get off the internet and chill bro. You woke up and made the choice to behave this way, and it’s pretty fucking embarrassing tbh.

Despite their issues I put hundreds of hours into each one and enjoyed them all. I see no reason to think this won’t be the same, and have no problem betting $70 on it.

Really the issue here is that there are very few reasons to hand a company your money before they are prepared to deliver you a product. There are even fewer reasons when the product is most likely going to be purchased and delivered digitally, since there is zero chance the product will be sold out. When a game is being developed by Microsoft-owned Bethesda, they don't need preorder money to finish the game.

What gave you the impression that it would work?

Just fyi, any email address ending with a valid TLD, whether or not an SMTP server for that domain actually exists, will work to register accounts with pretty much any site. Depending on the form field validation/sanitization in place, sometimes even random nonsense will work. Now if an SMTP server doesn't exist, obviously sites that require verification of the email address won't work because you'll never receive the email, which was probably the case with aiparadise.moe.

If you really want Lemmy to support a baked in SMTP server, create a pull request. I can almost guarantee you that it won't be accepted though.

If a server provider is insane and actually wants to provide email service they would just host a separate email server on their domain. Pretty much no one does this outside of doing it as an educational exercise. Many ISPs just outright block SMTP traffic from their resedential blocks, and even some from their commercial blocks unless you specifically pay for it. You're going to have to do a lot more configuration due to things like SPF and DKIM/DMARC. Even after you set everything up most other email providers will just mark you as spam and drop emails from your domain at their email gateway. Enterprises are even trending away from self-hosting their own SMTP servers, they just offload the entire headache to O365. Places still do self-host Exchange 2016, but it's definitely becoming more rare to see.

Edit - I can absolutely guarantee you that if something like Lemmy included a functional SMTP server in it's Docker deployment, the ratio of legitimate users to spambots would be so heavily weighted towards spambots that it would be accurate to state that sending spam was basically its only purpose.

We got 4 mainline games in the first 18 years, which works out to a game every 4.5 years on average. We have been getting ports and remasters of a single game for the remaining 12 years. Idk what happened over there. Did the main TES devs just burn out? If so why all the ports and rereleases? Maybe they’re just sticking a revolving door of interns on those?

Edit - Oh I guess the TES mmo. Still though.

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Whether you're a seasoned cybersecurity professional, a student, or someone with a passing interest, feel free to join and contribute! I've been posting relevant news articles and research as I find them, but I would love for there to be more social/conversational posts as well.