TwoNineFive

If I was going to implement a Hungary-style authoritarian takeover of the United States government, I would need a way to distract and tie up resources which normally might oppose such actions. An intellectual Denial of Service attack. A storm of stupid. A circus-like atmosphere of chaos makes it difficult for serious people to do serious work. And of course, I would need clowns in my circus. QAnon was certainly effective, but now it has a negative perception in the public mind, and it's not good to associate with that.

I know! The answer is Sasquatch! I'll use my committee powers to start a never-ending congressional investigation into Sasquatch sightings. And I'll bring in Sasquatch experts to testify, combined with selectively leaking tantalizing tidbits of otherwise inane information to the media.

The public's concern over this nebulous Sasquatch menace can be harvested to justify Sasquatch hunting parties and an increases Sasquatch investigation and information harvesting network.

But would people be stupid enough to fall for it?

"going on a journey similar to mine"

At this point "journey" is a cringe word because of it's excessive usage in blogspamverts. It tells me you are a gross aspiring influencer.

It's a self promotional advert blogspam.

That show is 95% hyperbolic con-man BS that angsty tech tweens lap up as truth. I listen to because I want to know what the hype machine is pushing, and they tell me.

It's great for following the techniques of grifter speech and influencing, but it's not a source of good information.

> This is not an ad

> thanks for your engagement

lol

This was bad enough that it's been taken down now.

Note all the comments in this thread about how bad the show is and how they don't trust it... but gee golly it sure is good and you should check it out!

They can't be preaching one thing and doing the exact opposite.

Systemd trolls on HN are really out of hand. This isn't even credible.

It's sad what cketti did to K9 after 5.6. I don't have any hope for the future of K9/Android Thunderbird anymore.

Toxic positivity

This is one the reasons I root my phone and just run an ssh server on it, I can rsync anything anywhere, and do full efficient filesystem backups.

If you don't have root, it's not your phone.

> It's unfortunate that almost none of the PPA criticisms actually go into depth on why its implementation isn't sufficiently private. It seems there's no desire to actually improve privacy, they'd rather just kill the feature.

PPA does not "preserve" or improve privacy; it only reduces it. Your narrative is a lie.

Killing PPA directly increases privacy.

Metaphors are also a handy hint that you are being manipulated. They are often used by influencers, salespeople, con artists, and other fraudsters.

When someone starts using metaphors, you know you are getting taken for a ride.

> We are relieved that hundreds of organisations did not leak their private keys by accident.

It's important to note that the only reason for a business to do this is they are currently or planning on committing crimes and/or embarrassing acts.

While I like LWN and respect their writings, AND I appreciate and respect a good post-mortem story which involves some "I fucked up", this really just highlights negligence on their sysadmin staff. And, in that respect, I don't they have any business telling other people to not run a mail server given their demonstrated negligence. Not everyone else is a fuck up, but LWN sure is.

> configuration was introduced as part of a hurried email server replacement driven by the demise of CentOS 7

They knew for YEARS, and even after the Red Hat controversy of shitting down CentOS, they still sat on their butt and did nothing until the very last minute, and then f*ked it up. That's some serious negligence.

Also, any competent self-hoster knows you need to run a recursive DNS resolver on-host to avoid these kinds of issues. Many other DNS-based RBL services already had such limits and those issues were extremely well-known. This is another sign of negligence.

This guy is an idiot and should not be running a mail server. And, he/they have no business telling anyone else what to do.

Normally I appreciate HN removing trite and toxic comments, but in this case they were well deserved so it's sad to have seen them removed in the last few hours.

Actually the new Thunderbird people are not taking lots of patches and fixes for even things like security and mail corruption issues. And privacy definitely doesn't seem to be anything they are interested in. I gave up and just send them over to Betterbird, which is what I use now anyway, since I don't want my mail corrupted.

That's a deeply troubling non-answer right there.

> Comfort IN, dump OUT.

Kiss up, kick down. Got it.

By "Funny" you mean influenced as part of a media tour.

No, this is entirely different.

Stupid people click on adverts. So, businesses promote and foster stupidity.

Large businesses like Facebook, Reddit, and other social media is about collecting the largest pile of ad-clicking morons together in a package and selling access to advertisers.

> “I haven’t done anything since to deserve special respect.”

She's right.

She left an exploitative disgraceful system who only now grasps for relevancy and respect by seeking to associate itself with those who did the work.

Virtue signaling blog post.

The blog post is weird. "Rogers didn't even try, so OOB is hard."

Also this sentence makes me question his IQ:

"Some people have gone so far as to suggest that out of band network management is an obvious thing that everyone should have"

Yes Chris, Rogers, the monopoly telco company of Canada, should have OOB network! They can afford it.

Talking about the challenges of OOB is great, but the point the blog post is wrong and dumb.

The report says "Rogers had a management network that relied on the Rogers IP core network". They had no OOB network. They didn't even try.

This is a a symptom of Rogers status as a monopoly, negligence on the behalf of Rogers, and negligence on the behalf of the government who should have regulated OOB into existence. This is some serious clown car shit.

One of the advantages that competitor networks provides is redundancy. Canada doesn't have that, so their networks will remain weak. This will probably happen again some day.

Yes OOB is hard, but not even trying and then throwing up your hands and defending the negligent is stupid.

So Omid Farhang is at best an AI blogspammer, at worst a plagiarist.

These have been on the market for years. I have a bunch of them.

They are a bad gimic in every way.

They generate heat. They waste power. They create light pollution. They are distracting. Their measurement capabilities are often very limited or mediocre or don't update quickly. And finally they often burn out and stop working anyway.

If you want a USB power meter, buy one for $10 or less.

Says a lot about people on this website, don't it?

"Bro, it's just a joke."

Unfortunately, it's not all fun and games with the Birds Aren't Real meme. It's been a few years since I looked into it, but if you look at the regular accounts on reddit that participate in that sub, there is a very heavy overlap with other less fun conspiracies and degeneracy, such as hate subs, Trump supporters, actual flat-earthers, and other deplorables.

Racists, Nazis, and other hate groups often use jokes and irony and other systems of plausible deniability to act as cover and deflect consequences for thier behavior.

> With, like, 80+% of inbound SMTP traffic coming from Google, Microsoft, Amazon

Factually untrue. You are a teenager spouting self-important garbage.