How do they manage to keep millions of other accounts uncompromised for over a decade, yet somehow it's only you getting 2FAs? Seems unlikely.

Why not just let MC deny the payments if they have a "policy" about it?

Let the free market decide. Other payment methods do exist.

That would only matter if they weren't a monopoly. If there were viable alternatives then this would not be an issue, as users could just go buy dirty cat girl pokemon clones with their baiter cards and not use master cards.

I hear they will Smurf a Smurf right in the Smurf.

Control. Can't black mail people if this sort of thing is generally acceptable and it's easy to be anonymous.

What good is a surveillance state if you can't threaten troublesome elements with purity laws.

Meanwhile, infrastructure remains unbuilt.

They rationalize the AI spend on hardware they can't power that will be obsolete by the time they get it online.

Make one think they want to tank the economy for some of that depression era labor exploitation for the next wave of build out...

Everyone hopes someone else will be the first to charge the hill. Then they have second thoughts when they have to climb over the corpses.

I hope he likes to Hang around train stations with MAnGo Mussolini.

Yes, but now your the Nazi for trying to stop a genocide, and your neighbors can rat you out for cash if you make anti-semitic comments like "Please stop killing brown people to build a Trump Tower on the Gaza Strip.".

Socialists gonna socialize?

Lol. They already pull in $17B/yr, ~4B/yr profit, ~70% market share, <400 employees.... Privately held...

Gabe already has >9B himself.

Why would they sell?

Sure, some day they may enshitify, but by the time that happens, I'll be able to reverse engineer and recompile my STEAM library on my home server.

Yea. I don't think most normies, not even most home server nerds have much real exposure to this particular vulnerability.

So everyone, go harden your infrastructure, because it's the right thing to do, not just because of this.

The last Apple I purchased was the Apple IIc. Has much changed since then? Do we still need to flip the floppy disk or can they do that with a robot now?

It's Five 5s, uncrackable.

It is insane that the way I use my TV is to immediately isolate it from the Internet, set up a mini PC running Kodi, and never let the TV make a connection to anything else.

Just wait until the next gen of TVs are "AI ready" running local quantized proprietary LLMs designed to steal your data. Maybe they can fight with my local open weight model running on an old laptop.

Looking forward to the battle.

Don't tell my neighbors. They only hate state approved scapegoat citizens minorities, not True Americans like the non-citizen Israelis.

This double speak is getting cumbersome. Can someone ask the ministry of information to tighten up the propaganda? What is this amateur hour?

My router is Opnscence & pihole VMs running on a proxmox host with unbound/DHCP, VLAN segmentation and DHCP snooping on managed switches . YMMV

DNS resolution, split DHCP/DNS roles, and segmented services FTW.

Cost? 1 discarded enterprise miniPC, 1 extra NIC and a managed switch. (Cheaper than some commercial routers if you're creative.)

I run on old PCs also. Though, I use Proxmox (proxmox uses ZFS, and now that I have expanded to 3 old mini PCs, they can cluster). Not claiming it is superior, it's probably slightly more complicated, but it works for me. (Also, given the RAM situation, 3 essentially free mini PCs can hold more old salvaged RAM dimms, for more VMs, and redundancy/availability.)

The Proxmox is on the bare metal, then VMs run the heavy applications solo, or docker for stacks of lighter apps like *arr.

(VMs prevent kernel panic from hitting the host, but containers are lighter, it's a case by case thing depending on the application/risk. I have had a container take down the host, but for most of us it's not like we are running critical applications, it's not a huge deal if you just run containers.)

Let me boot up this copy of SpaceWar! from 1962.... Yep, it is real.

Also, the oldest STEAM account is now >20 years old.

I really really like that image.

https://youtu.be/7eKv4BEujFU