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realizing that the coverage of the afghan withdrawal means that the media will turn this in to a liability for whatever dem ends it when it becomes a quagmire

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.

this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

A lot of services straight up wont work with IPv6, including a lot of VPNs.

IPv6 is about address pool size, you have VASTLY more address to hand out than with IPv4. There are essentially no applications an end user will run into that will require IPv6 & a bunch that simply wont use it.

Honestly you can usually disable IPv6 on your nic and never see the difference.

A VPN can be part of that, but its more often than not an extremely weak part.

And as always, nothing will make you safe from all threats, even if they have a no logs policy thats held up under governmental pressure, you're not anonymous.

Security is, as always, about knowing your threats and taking reasonable steps to mitigate them.

A VPN is just someone elses intranet you pay to use. That intranet might come with actual features that improve your security, usually at an administrative & records keeping level, most will boast that they do.

A bunch absolutely do not, even when they say they do.

I will add on that while a VPN is not *necessarily* a security tool, it IS part of a good security toolkit and they *can* have security measures such as a "no logs" policy. Though those are generally less useful than theyre advertised as, and finding one with independent verification of that is hard

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Fuck i hate phone keyboards

Feels like a meme device, which is probably why I gets used by bad actors more often. Kinda like how a lot of mass shootings involve an AR, calluses its relatively cheap and widely available.

I mean, its for the same thing all pen-testing/hacking tools exist for: legitimate use cases like penetration testing and other white hat stuff. Why it also has a ripoff tamogachi built in and seems to be kinda bad at most of its applications, now thats a mystery.

I don't know who needs to know this... but...

A VPN is not a privacy application. It doesn't hide your location data, specifically. It doesn't encrypt your data, specifically. All it does is route your traffic through a single server somewhere else.

Let me explain. Or don't, this is the internet.

I'm not gonna lie seeing that "dunking my phone in the pool" post is kind of jokerfying me

Cis dudes can do literally anything and get big fancy jobs, and mesnwhile we'll have spotless records and have GFMs to not become homeless

🎶Stacys dad has got me down real bad
He's what I want, cause he's so raaad🎵

Pocket the Street Alchemist is doing numbers over on Tumblr for some reason, so here you go Bluesky! I hope you enjoy this dumb moment from a lil weirdo NPC I introduced in my D&D campaign a while back!
#kobold #comic #doodle

You've been muted btw, so respond, don't... I'm' not going to be responding further or even see it. Good luck.

I'm not going to litigate this with someone who self-admittedly doesn't really care enough to notice any trends while this platform bent it's own ToS to allow figures like Singal on board.

Sorry, you're wrong about this one.

I never mentioned a conspiracy & it's odd you feel the need to paint what i'm saying as if I did. Bluesky moderation's actions are well known and those actions paint an attitude of over enforcement against trans people and very little against bigots on this platform.

Technically they have one, but it is not enforced with any regularity. They have a history of very uneven enforcement of their rules that preferentially favors transphobes and bringing the hammer down on trans people.

So there are at least 127 sexual predators on the dem side of the aisle in Congress.

Roll Call 83 Roll Call 83, Bill Number: H. Res. 1100, 119th Congress, 2nd Session VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Refer, DESCRIPTION: Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records of the Committee’s review of violations or alleged violations of clause 9 (as...

The explicit breakdown is here clerk.house.gov/Votes/202683

It's a little confusing because it's a vote on refering it to commitee (the thing that effectively kills it) so the votes are recored as yes' instead of no's.

182 democrats voted to kill it. only 27 didn't.

Also The flipper zero seems really bad at being both a neopet or a hacking tool.

If congress would like to prove me wrong, well there was a cool bill they could have voted yes on that just failed that woulda helped.

That's my understanding, yes.

The bluesky team is bad at making a website or running a company and more or less stumbled into being semi-popular by dint of twitter imploding & they fucking haaaate it.

I'm honestly surprised that ANYONE at bluesky can code at all.

Yeah, guy bluesky programmer who loves announcing he can't code and doesn't understand the difference between "water resistant" and "waterproof" would also be a "likes the presidents account on here" kind of guy, too.

I don't know the first thing about you or your life & I loathe trite meaningless praise almost as much as being the one to deliver it.

But like... it's fuck out there, staring at the wall is understandable.

Life is a fuckin' TIME right now, I get it. Try not to beat yourself up just cause you can't walk through the fire unburnt. Not being consumed by it is an accomplishment tbh.

i can't say what i want to on internet about how i feel about this