wonderingwanderer

“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves."

Kinda saying the quiet part loud there, aren’t you, Lindsey? In prior decades the government at least pretended its wars were about anything other than oil…

“This is China’s nightmare.”

No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.

"This is a good investment”

War isn’t a fucking investment! Are dollar signs all you see?

Oh man, I always thought if your drive was already encrypted that a hostile actor couldn’t encrypt it for ransomware. I don’t know where I read that but it was a long time ago and I guess someone lied to me, but it’s whatever.

So what’s the vulnerability that would be exploited, something about using the swap space to get into the encrypted drive? Or does the attack apply to the outside of the container? I’m curious cause I’m working on hardening my own system currently and I want to make sure I’m not leaving any gaps in my blind spots

That’s hilarious. Big corporation apparently can’t afford basic cybersecurity. Always pinching pennies.

Anyway, any big organization should encrypt their core systems to prevent ransomware attacks. Individuals should too. It’s just good practice.

The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.

I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”

That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.

Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “reasons” capitalism…

I don’t know enough to understand the connection. Can you please explain?

In college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because I guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.

So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…

Not really.

If you have the agent installed, it’s like having your gun assembled.

If you have your agent enabled, it’s like having your gun loaded.

If you give your agent permissions, it’s like taking your gun off safety.

If you don’t have your agent properly sandboxed, it’s like having bad muzzle control.

And if your agent is actively running, it’s like having your finger on the trigger.

This breaks every weapon safety rule. That’s how you get a negligent discharge.

Hence, it’s like scratching your back with a loaded weapon.

Unless you’re managing app permissions on android 🙄

“unexpectedly”

That’s so cool, I never knew that much about him but that really explains his demeanor and facial expressions. No wonder they look so genuine.

Why does that glans have a face

According to the commander-in-chief, all the military personnel who die in this pointless war are just a bunch of “losers and suckers.”

According to some economist, unemployment is good for the economy…

In case you’re wondering, yes those economists are rich enough that they never have to work…

You mean the US was sitting on the sidelines of the war in Ukraine all these years and didn’t learn a thing about counter-drone warfare?!?

And then decided to attack the country that makes russia’s drones, with no plan in place to defend against aerial drones?!?!?!?

What the fuck, man…

And now the same regime is going to have a new generation of leadership with a thirst for vengeance.

America and Israel really screwed the pooch on this one, as if anyone’s surprised…

Why does he have a vagina on his forehead?

Man, why did we ever invent social media?

Was he really that old?

Hipsters:

likes something different/uncommon

makes it cool

…

“Ugh. That’s so mainstream.”

judges everyone for liking it.

There are many paths in life, and you chose to follow your own. There is no better way than that.