was that the one where the corporate security was unexpectedly S-tier and ended up with him getting dogpiled by security guards after their IDS caught him popping powershell on his work machine?

my company doesn’t even allow passwords. everything is TPM+PIN/passkeys/FIDO2 from company managed devices on VPN… for the “low security” side.

the Sturddlefish would like a word.

также мы с NoiseColor не согласны - не думаю что Путин хочет ядерную войну. а победе в Украине надо прекратить поддержку НАТО. ну Путини кажется что Тромп НАТО не дальше поддерживает, и затом НАТО ослабляет. так может быть что Путин нападает Польше, чтобы сломать союзу НАТО. а это очень опасно…

я говорю чуть-чуть по-русски, и занималась истории СССР, а ещё мы - не согласны. СМО неоправдан.

exactly everything I need and nothing more. doesn’t need X. reasonably lightweight. no fiddly configuration needed. nice support for tiling alongside floating.

also, very buggy (at least as of alpha.7), somewhat fickle (at least on my hardware), and I can’t remap keyboard shortcuts.

Hamas is getting exactly what they wanted.

they provoked Israel into massively overreacting, responding to a terrorist attack with a genocide. Israel burned though all its international goodwill and now most of the West has recognized Palestinian statehood.

Netenyahu’s arrogance amazes me. this was easy to foresee.

I’ve been talking with Russians on Reddit. maybe it’s all bots, but most of them really think NATO started the War in Ukraine, that every country in the West has always hated Russia and wants to destroy them, that all the invasions are in self-defense, that attacking the Baltics and Poland would be justified… it was terrifying.

they’re so cynical too - Western news is propaganda, Western democracies are shams, NATO wants to destroy Russia, everyone is Russophobic, that our citizens deserve to suffer for arming Ukraine, that we’d kill them all if we could, so they don’t care if they kill us.

they think they can break NATO, that we will fall apart if Poland is invaded, that Russia will emerge victorious and the Western order will lie in shambles. don’t they see they’re playing with nuclear holocaust? do they care? are they so fatalistic they’d play (apologies) Russian roulette with the extinction of humanity?

I ask you because you seem sane. is this just propaganda from kremlbots, or are most Russians really like this?

idk, honestly. usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there’s a global empathy shortage… too much hate and too little love.

They also normalize risk: forcing constant intercepts drains resources and tests cohesion among allies.

it also keeps defensive forces sharp, by giving them practice, and strengthens cohesion by highlighting the shared threat NATO protects its members from.

the Soviets did this for decades. it’s still part of their military doctrine, I guess. though it seems counterproductive to me.

I’m fine shooting down hostile fighter jets the second they cross into sovereign airspace, and not a moment sooner.

the Soviets used to fly fighters close to Western airspace to probe our defenses. we’d intercept, and if they crossed over we’d take them down. this is nothing new.

discrimination against trans people is increasing in most of the world.

intersex people often look trans, and often are trans.

Certainly!

Peking (KNT) -Chinese at one time experimented with fertilizing a chimpanzee with human sperm in an attempt to create a “near -human ape,” and they may try it again. The chimp was three months pregnant before the first experiment was halted, one of the original researchers claims. Western science long has scoffed at such an experiment as medically impossible, but Dr. Ji Yongxiang says the research, if it ever resumes, has the potential to develop creatures with higher animal intelligence who could speak and perform simple tasks. A second researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science said there were plans to resume testing.

whoa, I just realized this is basically the left-lib equivalent of the NAP.

they meant well! honestly Esperanto has a really positive community, even still. but I can see how it’d get on someone’s nerves.

Newspeak was inspired by Esperanto, because George Orwell had an annoying Esperantist roommate. “bad” in Esperanto is “malbone,” literally “un-good.” “terrible” in Esperanto is “malbonege,” literally “very ungood.”

Chinese scientists worked to create the “humanzee,” a human-chimpanzee hybrid in the '60s. Female chimpanzees were impregnated with human sperm. The experiment was cut short by the Cultural Revolution - the scientists were sent to labor camps and a three-months pregnant chimpanzee died of neglect. The Soviets attempted a similar program in the '20s.

I don’t think breaking the neck is necessarily instant death, though. the breathing muscles are paralyzed but the heart should continue to beat independently. the hypothalamus (iirc) senses CO2 buildup so you could feel choking. in contrast, decapitation exsanguinates the brain pretty rapidly. a bit more gruesome, admittedly.

Russia… Russia never changes.

the most secure possible? you’ll need to learn a ton. you’ll get there, but it’ll take a while.

decently secure? install Linux Mint, install your updates, don’t run sketchy commands with URLs in them unless you know what you’re doing, maybe follow a hardening guide. you’ll be okay.

if you need to be extremely secure and private, install Tails on a USB stick. it will be slow and frustrating, and you’ll need to save files to a second USB drive, but it will probably keep you pretty safe, and it’s decently user-friendly. just make sure you keep Tails updated! you’ll have to do that by flashing the new Tails onto a new USB drive, there’s no easy way around that.

those are your two most user-friendly, safe approaches.