CubitOom

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

I did, it has died

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Sir, this is Lemmy

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Apparently, quoting the article means it breaks the rules of the community, so I will not be quoting the article at all in the hopes more people see the terror the regime is inflicting on our communities.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Donald Trump’s Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other, it made house calls to people who said mean things to them online.
Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has been telling us that fighting the good fight of white supremacy will make you look cool and noble. The DHS under former Secretary Kristi Noem spent $220 million to help her cosplay as a cowboy and call up ICE recruits as if we’re fighting a new World War, this time against our friends and neighbors. It’s all very embarassing.
The propaganda is cringeworthy. But the immigration crackdown it services has been, undoubtedly, cruel and deadly. In Texas just this Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three who lived in the US for 35 years building houses and caring for his family. The agency immediately released a statement justifying lethal force on someone it alleges tried to “weaponize his vehicle.” Videos showing parts of the confrontation already suggest it’s probably another bullshit story like the ones we’ve seen from Minnesota. The feds later admitted they were looking for an entirely different person. Salgado Araujo nonetheless ended up dead.
ICE has proven it can’t handle public confrontation. That’s bad. But it also can’t even handle emails and Instagram posts. It’s demanding a total lack of accountability not only from the law, but from society itself.
Over the past year, DHS has invented its own novel version of “doxxing” — once the domain of angry gamers on the internet — wherein the public now dares to unmask and name federal agents who have been responsible for horrors like the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. The government doesn’t want us to talk about the agent accused of shooting her to death (whose name, by the way, is Jonathan Ross). Before being shot to death, Good told agents, “I’m not mad at you.” They killed her anyway, then called her a “fucking bitch.”
The government is very upset that people are criticizing it for shooting innocent mothers to death in the street. DHS stalked and intimidated a man who protested against state-sponsored killing, issuing him a “WARNING NOTICE” as flimsy as the nonjudicial “warrants” it uses now to bust into people’s homes. It’s like if Jay and Silent Bob showed up at your house because of an online comment you wrote, except with guns and the force of the federal government. It’s both deadly serious and deeply unserious. What are they afraid of? Well, we already know. Accountability in any form.
Minnesota officials had to sue the federal government for access to evidence that would aid in investigating ICE shootings because the feds won’t cooperate. It would be a weird thing for the feds managed by an allegedly pro-cop party to do, except when you consider it’s not really a pro-cop party, what with the January 6th insurrection. The current White House webpage about January 6th calls it “a date which will live in infamy” while moping about cop-killers being unfairly treated and saying Democrats did the real insurrection. Yeah, they’re lying. But also, seriously: weak crybaby stuff.
This of course all ladders up to Trump, whose project for more than a decade has been to accumulate power while eliminating the concept of shame and accountability. The man cannot tolerate a single slight without going off the rails, nor can his subordinates. This posture has trickled down to his army of fellow losers who mirror him in several ways: (1) denying any wrongdoing, (2) blaming others, and (3) intimidating anyone who crosses them. In some really bad cases, (4) obstructing justice. Then there’s also (5), looking really lame while doing it.
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ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Even for their stupid outfits, which look ripped from a “how to be tacticool” buying guide. And Americans are ridiculing these people. What better way to protest an army of clowns than by showing up as Portland did with a human frog at the front? Cops arrested that frog. Trillions of dollars later, we’ve learned nothing about counter-insurgency, because now there’s a frog legion.
These ICE agents are so small that they wear masks in public like a bunch of cowardly Patriot Front wannabes, who probably got a similar amount of training. You’d think the average DMV worker would have been masked up for years based on the abuse they get, but then again, the average government employee is far braver than these fools.
ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. If you know anything about the actual waste, fraud, and abuse of federal funding for defense, you’ll know this is not something that guarantees quality or competence. This is just Donald Trump’s new private domestic army. I’d call them Stormtroopers except for the fact I’m pretty sure some of them are getting their uniforms and body armor from Temu.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

I donate to FOSS

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

To the people downvoting, was star trek too political in 1994?

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

That is a ratio.

Maybe the rules should be put to a vote by the community?

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

This isn't so far off from the Greek myth of echo if memory serves.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Everyone loses out.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Patriot Front is a fascist neo-nazi group, as seen marching in DC and riding the subway 4th of July 2026

They can also be seen doing this shitty training that was leaked by an infiltrator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyer3A4TiP0

How to catch a fascist is an interesting book that talks a lot about the leak and these pieces of shit.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Soon enough, If you defeat or try to defeat the government surveillance system, it will probably be against the law

CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

They can promise to form a group of engineers that will work to fix the issue and then a year or so afterwards they will just fire those engineers... Like they did the last time something like this happened.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 1mo ago

Not a direct answer to your question but the first step in replacing a lawn with a garden the nodig way is to cover the grass with something like cardboard and then cover the cardboard with as much as 12 inches of woodchips.

You can get the woodchips for free most of the time as arborists need places to dump. Try to be careful of the type of tree however as some trees have a higher activity than others.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Picture is from this article:

Republican J.D. Vance Confronted on Wanting to Fire ‘Every Civil Servant’