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was8309··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
linux?
was8309··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/27/1819792/communit...

https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1311772832234385409?s=20

https://www.graphika.com/reports/posing-as-patriots/

https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-john-brennan-288bc8...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-russ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-russia-senate-f...

was8309··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
'$10k spent on facebook ads' - way more than this. Why is it hard to admit that Russia wanted trump?
was8309··on How the Military Will Hack the Election
"common-meaning-generating" - this! thank you
was8309··on I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union
i took it as sarcasm in that todays authoritarian type bosses would see 'chill' as pathological ?
was8309··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
modify your Local Group Policy Microsoft Learn DeviceInstallation Policy. Open gpedit.msc, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation, and set Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata to Enabled
was8309··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
the instructions to enable "Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata" don't work for me w/ W11, any ideas? thanks
was8309··on Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
I'm guessing the religious people at your neighborhood churches feel pretty strongly about the value of truth. How do they make that work with support for trump? I'm not trying to do a gotcha, I seriously can't see past the dissonance.
was8309··on Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center
what if it becomes clear that it was only to pay informants?
was8309··on Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote
Mueller correctly stated there was an orchestrated disinformation campaign by Russia. That's different than Russians under voting tables stuffing ballots in their pockets. some like to conflate the two so that they can call it all the 'russia hoax'
was8309··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
"Loss of privilege feels like oppression". I see the numbers showing hiring shifts, but i don't see any numbers backing up the claim that there was once an pure and fair "American meritocracy" that has now been "gutted". and this [1] seems to show that the privilege has not actually been lost

[1] <https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/what-does-th...>

was8309··on How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)
"...so many FBI agents at the Jan 6" citation? thanks
was8309··on Socialist ends by market means: A history
maybe i'm doing a No True Scotsman, but i can't see where the Left has ever been against the poors. I thought the the origin of the terms Left and Right was For Democracy (the poors have a voice), and For the King (the wealthies) from the French Revolution. How is 'wealthies vs poors' different from left vs right'?
was8309··on ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
I think police may not mind Waze, they may care more about drivers that are truly dangerous and are fine with filtering out hose that are signalling that they are paying attention and showing respect by slowing down when police are present
was8309··on What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?
one word missing "White" - White Christian Nationalists. not sure who would take that as an insult and who refers to themselves as such
was8309··on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court
this is my confusion also - it sounds like they are conflating "modify and sell" with "modify and consume"
was8309··on The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
the oil industry
was8309··on Exploring an Extreme Wealth Line
what if the 'too much' amount is the result of a vote?
was8309··on Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months
cobol is trivial to learn. the problem is that the core of old systems were written even before 'Structured Programming' and anything like reviewing and enforcing design standards. there is alot of 60 year old, currently running 'mission critical' cobol, some of it is inscrutable and unmaintainable, while some of it is so simple and elegant that it'd be a great way to teach a 10 year old about programming.
was8309··on The Epicenter of Conspiracy Belief
i wish i could upvote this 100 times. like an cop walking into a bar full of criminals. any criminal that has to ask someone what to do won't last long.

plus they can actually be enemies. two guys in a beef about who owns a dog can chain up the dog and fight it out. the dog remains owned

was8309··on The Sad Math of Ads: Messages of inadequacy and salvation through consumption
either it works on customers, or it works on business people - by duping them into spending alot of money ever since Edward Bernays. projected to be a trillion a year 2025
was8309··on Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M
maybe it sounds like no protection from predation?
was8309··on Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade
sorry for late comment, but the problem is clearer to me when considering it as resource control, rather than 'wealth'. Earning $60k gives you control of barely nothing. It would take 10's of millions of dollars just to have any effect on a small US city. It's a football field with 9995 people stuffed in an endzone and 5 people controlling the rest of the field.
was8309··on In Defense of Y'All
sometimes a T is included - yintz
was8309··on How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?
back then I chose prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism because the user wanted a local app and I only wanted to work with the most ubiquitous UI. was lightweight and wish it was still available
was8309··on A Hacker 'Ghost' Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub
is it ok to ask why this is being flagged? I don't know much about cybersecurity, is the article inaccurate or somehow bogus?
was8309··on Use a work journal
and a tool to squash or expand the hierarchy helps alot. jEdit can fold/unfold based on indentation. along with simple prefixes : '-' for info, '>' for todo, '= {date}' for done, etc
was8309··on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
because of the rates of physical abuse of men against women vs vice versa?
was8309··on Toyota cashes in on booming hybrid sales
i just don't want another gas only car, and so will deal with some inconvenience.
was8309··on US Steel, once the largest corporation, agrees to sell to Nippon Steel
by south hills, guessing you mean the Mon Valley?
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