• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

    It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

    People really hate insurance companies.

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      Don’t do it under your names folks, regime will be making lists based on this.

      They are scared and they will lash out.

      With that being said, fuck that parasite.

      FAFO

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        You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

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          Make them spend more resources doing deanonymizations. First they have to get the IP from instance admins, then trace the tor routing, then the VPN that I use, then ask for my ISP. Make them do all that work.

          (Or maybe they already have access by simply activating their backdoors within Intel ME, AMD PSP, and whatever baseband backdoor on the phones they have, and have just gotten everyone’s real identities in an instant, we can’t know for sure.)

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            17 days ago

            They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

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              It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.

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              I work in cryptography, and I guarantee if that’s true “some person you know who worked in government security” would not tell you if they did know, or they are pulling shit out of their ass. There have been so many people that have looked at or worked on SSL/TLS implementations (including some of my coworkers), any vulnerabilities would have to be pretty subtle or clever, and that would be kept highly classified. Quit making shit up or repeating bullshit you heard.

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                Sure, if we’re talking about code vulnerabilities only. It’s most likely a compromised root cert though.

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                  That just would allow a malicious attacker to fake being the server, it doesn’t actually compromise the TLS session. So you are talking about a much more sophisticated multi stage attack that needs to be actively executed. This wouldn’t at all allow them to record traffic and decrypt later.

                  The certs authenticate that you are talking to the real server, the symmetric session keys that are usually derived from a diffie helman key exchange have nothing to do with certs. That’s two separate (but connected) parts of the transaction to build a TLS session.

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      17 days ago

      LinkedIn is one of the least sane social media sites I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Under all the marketing BS and obviously fake feel good stories lie takes that would make your insane Facebook uncle blush.

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    17 days ago

    “United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

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    What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it’s a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

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      I like the idea that they’ve got billions of dollars, but will have to live in a windowless bunker eating beans.

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        They couldn’t even hunker down in their mansions for two weeks of Covid lockdown.

        They like to fantasize about it, but the reality of living like that will hit them fast.

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      These parasites know that we got numbers on our side and we permit their rule by and large…

      I don’t think this corp of owners realize that plebs can turn on a dime, they got too comfortable. This is a wake up call.

      Having their goon wacked like this got to make them feels a certain way hehe

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        I hope there’s a copycat to reinforce the lesson very soon, or they’ll write this off as a one off.

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    16 days ago

    Stop struggling and accept that lots of people are ok with advocating violence against evil people.

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      I mean, I don’t have a problem with people advocating violence against evil people.

      But being happy or laughing does seem pretty tactless and frankly gross.

      Death and violence may be necessary in many instances but it should never be glorified or celebrated, simply accepted.

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        Don’t get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.

        He did job well, least we can do it pay respects

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        Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

        Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.

        Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

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          Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

          This is one of the things that scares me about most about completely anonymous currencies and networks: untraceable kill orders and, to a lesser extent, unlimited bribery (that already exists in US). Because you know, it opens the most possibilities to people with money. Like billionaires.

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            I suspect billionaires and other people of high authority, especially, would be the first ones on the list. But your average everyday person is very unlikely to be on the list because they don’t have enough people who hate them.

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      When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

      Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

      If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

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        I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

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          Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

          If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

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      Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

      This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

      The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

      This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

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    I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

    I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

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        No, it’s terror. It’s just that that isn’t always the negative we’ve tended to think it is.

        Typically we’ve been citizens in a country on the “power” side of the dynamic, so using terror like that meant using it on us, and so we learned that it’s bad.

        This time we’re on the other side of the power dynamic, so it’s seemingly… Good.

        The bad thing being good creates cognitive dissonance.

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          This is a direct consequence of “the war on terror” attempting to redefine the military strategy of asymmetrical warfare as terrorism and inherently immoral.

          To sell the bullshit “war on terror” the easiest way to make the US seem righteous was to degrade the public’s sense of why people violently resist and reduce it to the act of violently resisting an organized traditional military is immoral unless the thing resisting is also a traditional organized military.

          I am glad that narrative is breaking down though as the distortion of how and why violent conflicts occur is dangerously blinding to a basic understanding of the world.

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            Killing people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time is always wrong.

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                I think you will find Palestinian citizens agree with you on that point.

                Yes. And the Israeli hostages.

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        Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

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      In France, during the Nazi occupation in WW2, a few people turned to the Resistance movement which was also a terror operation: they would target military objectives but also conduct assassinations of nazi officials designed to inspire fear in the others and spark support in the population.

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        You just reminded me of a movie and let’s just say I highly recommend it.

        On yet another front, the Greek resistance would kill Nazis. In retaliation, Nazis would kill whole villages. Enraged, more Greeks would join the resistance and kill more Nazis. Net result: Towards the end pretty much every Greek was in the resistance and Greece was the only (IIRC, or at least the first or something) country to free itself from Nazi occupation. (Then they became a dictatorship different story).

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      Technically they didn’t fully rescind it. They rescinded it in some places but not others, and for some patients but not others. It’s just PR, they have no intention of actually changing things.

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      Silly tardigrade’s playing on the wrong side of the bridge. Do they teach nothing at tardigrade music school?

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          TIL. Thank you!

          but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

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            The Threnody is definitely his most famous, but he has used that technique in some of his solo compositions for cello as well - example

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    I’m telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

    Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

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            I think we’ve all been conditioned to clutch pearls at the news like this.

            But ironically Trump has removed any and all decorum. Even when he was shot, people gave no shits, because he’s a piece of shit that gives no shits.

            So here we are. There’s still some that want to “virtue signal” because violence and hate is never the answer! Meanwhile people are being ground into desperation, so your pearl clutching can get fucked.

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          And the sense of entitlement people on a FREE WEBSITE is ridiculous. How many of the people complaining about .world censorship help pay for the sever?

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            The positions you take lately, and the arguments you make lately are increasingly disappointing.

            No one owes .world anything… If those in control make questionable decisions, they are going to be called out regardless of aggressive moderation, it’s all federated, kinda the point.

            “Can’t take he heat, get out of the kitchen…” and all that jazz…

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              I’m not defending anything. I’m accusing a bunch of people who think they’re owed something on a free website of being children with a massive sense of entitlement.

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                  Because you do not have a right to not be censored. And since you’ve decided to insult rather than argue, I think there’s no need to continue this discussion.

                  And yes, I’m aware my brain, and the rest of me, is trash. I don’t know why people have to constantly tell me I’m inferior to them when I’m already aware of it. It’s like people who tell fat people they’re fat.

                  Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            I don’t pay for .world nor it’s micromanaging moderators and admins. Never have, never would for such a place.

            Next time I get a bit of extra cash I will donate to my instance however.

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              And if you’re posting there and bitching about it, that’s your problem, not .world’s.

              No one is forcing you to post there and no one is under any obligation to do what you want in terms of server rules. Sorry, .world is not there to cater to you or anyone else in specific. If your instance has different rules, post there and don’t bitch about the ones in .world.

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                And no one is forcing you to reply. We will post wherever we want, and bitch about whatever we want, anywhere we want. You seem to feel like you actually are .world, so go ahead and ban everyone who doesn’t bow down to arbitrary garbage. No wonder no one ever has anything positive to say about you squid, it sucks to suck. Be better.

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                  I see, so you can post and bitch whenever you want, but I’m not allowed to.

                  Why am I different?

                  And if I’m not different, why are you complaining about me bitching about what I want?