We absolutely have large scale disinformation campaigns. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
The military’s “psychological operations team” is based in Tampa, FL and that’s all they do. And that’s just DoD. The CIA obviously does even more.
I agree with everything except that A.I. doesn’t make money and may never solve a problem important enough to justify the cost.
Lots of western companies are. Not everything is subject to sanctions — the U.S. government still buys uranium from Russia and there’s cooperation on space launches — but even the companies that tried to divest for moral reasons found it challenging, to say the least. The ones who tried often had their assets essentially stolen or sold for pennies on the dollar to a Putin loyalist oligarch.
I’m not sure what Apple is doing there besides having the App Store. They did stop all exports so any new Apple products there are smuggled and probably way more expensive. On balance, I think it’s better keeping the App Store and software updates available to Russians. Some dissidents and journalists use Apple products too and you don’t want their devices left insecure.
Because she was getting death threats? They might have been credible and specific for all we know.
Why? I know why far-right Republican bozos want it — all the bribes (or “donations”) from the crypto and oil industries. But how would anyone else benefit from this? We don’t pay our taxes in random things that have a perceived value, whether it’s Mexican Pesos, airline miles, gold doubloons, futures contracts, corn, land, etc. for a reason. Individuals sell those assets (and often pay capital gains taxes on the sale) to get dollars, the national currency that has a known value and doesn’t need to be sold.
Then, the U.S. government would have to sell them all anyway and the price fluctuations make that very risky. Why put that risk on the government? And only for Bitcoin, which is by design1 super volatile. It doesn’t even have a central bank. The U.S. government collecting and selling loads of BTC every April would probably make it even more volatile and speculative.
1 Probably unintentionally since Bitcoin fanboys all seem to have found their Economics knowledge in a Cracker Jack box instead of a textbook.
chown changes the file owner. chmod changes permissions. So, if a file or directory is owned by root but a user should have access, you could make them the owner or you could keep root the owner and just allow read/write access.
They come up more on servers where you often have multiple users with different access levels. Some users might not have sudo permission but do have full control over their home directory and whatever else they need. And web servers, for instance, will usually have a user called www-data or similar and it’s shared by all the users in the “developer” group.
chmod is the command to change user permissions. The numbers mean user, group, and others and the value allows read, write, execute. So, 000 means no one has permissions to get rid of the mount point. 777 means everyone has all permissions. (4 is read, 2 is write, and 1 is execute and the numbers are added. So, 644 would mean you can read/write, the group and other users have read only access.)
You don’t have to use the numbers but eventually, almost every Linux admin does because it’s faster, a bit like a keyboard shortcut. But, for instance, you can add Execute permission with chmod +x /some/file/location.
Here’s more details on the how to chmod and the historic reasons for the 0-7 system (spoiler: it’s 8 bits): https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-file-permissions-explained
The most sociopathic thing about all these careerist sociopaths is that they’re doing time for Donald fucking Trump. I’d be willing to do a little time for Civil Rights, labor unions, protesting war(s), etc. But I’ll be damned if I go to jail for a corrupt politician. And I’ll especially be damned if I get locked up for Donald Trump, the famous racist sex pervert who is allowed to do crimes for some reason.
The Atlantic isn’t left wing. Its editor was a fucking Israeli prison guard despite being born in NYC.
The future of humanity rests on everyone, regardless of nationality, being able to ask Midjourney to generate an image of an Ewok with big naturals.
Can his 78 year-old diapered ass even throw a football with a teenager? He’s basically as bad off as Biden in my expert* opinion.
print “Fine. Fuck y’all.”
And the brain worm died. Imagine having a brain so toxic, not even brain worms can enjoy a few bites, as a treat.
He doesn’t even have to assassinate 1 or 2. Thomas committed tax fraud on his RV deal and Alito probably did on his bribes. Joe Biden apparently has dictatorial powers over the IRS and DOJ. Start arresting people and when Trump supporters act up, use emergency powers to drone strike Mar-a-Lago. Those are all official acts.
Centrists putting fascists in power and then selling out the left to (temporarily) save their own asses is a tradition as old as fascism.
If they want to add me to the list, my name is H.I. McDonough. And if they want to discuss it, they know where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility For Men State Farm, Road Number 31, Tempe, Arizona. I’ll be waiting.
Maybe they asked Quora if it was legal.
In all seriousness, though, I don’t get that site’s popularity. I only ever visit Quora by accident (because Google ranks it highly) and it’s basically always garbage answers. And speaking as a developer, the UI/UX causes my eyes to roll back in my head and say, “REDRUM” in a demonic voice. It’s hard to even tell where the answer is because there’s so much superfluous shit on the page.
Yet another example of leveraged buyouts being bad and dumb. The “risk” may be technically on the company you’re buying’s books but it’s really on the employees who actually face the real consequences of the bet failing.
I don’t have Linux on a tablet right now but my first thought was that you might want to check into what Steam Deck users are doing with “Desktop Mode.” It has a touchscreen and virtual keyboard so it’s essentially a tablet-like experience (though it has touchpads and a few buttons, obviously, and isn’t a tablet). It runs KDE by default, which I’m not as familiar with as Gnome, but it might have more users than any other GNU/Linux touchscreen product.
Last time I had a Linux tablet, there were also some Firefox/Chrome/Gnome extensions that made it more touch-friendly. Like instead of selecting text, one finger swipe scrolled, two-fingers zoomed in, etc. like a typical tablet. Not sure if that’s still an issue. But if you do run into an issue, it might already be solved by an extension.
Hopefully, someone has more up-to-date advice. The tablet I had (and probably still have in a drawer somewhere) was an experimental Ubuntu Touch device and there’s been huge strides since then.
Hard disagree. Russia is worse at the moment but the West is perfectly fine with neocolonialism (using multinational corporations rather than annexations). And we spread destabilizing lies all the time. The most recent one exposed is the U.S. military’s “psychological operations team” (in Tampa, FL) spreading antivax lies about Chinese and Russian vaccines in the Philippines and Middle East (by saying the vaccines contained pork).