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troed

@ troed @fedia.io

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HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I'm too tired to care now.

  • Unmasked: Musk’s secret DOGE goon squad—who are all under 26

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  • No, it's not a fact. That's the whole point.

  • Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing

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  • Lots of western companies have divested from working with/in Russia even though it has cost them lots of money. Some because that's a legal requirement (sanctions), some because it's the right thing to do.

    Not doing so is supporting Russia.

  • Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing

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  • Vlad wrote it to me in their chat. Screenshot here: https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311981054448887

    Ask your wife whether she thinks people should send money to Russia. Now, Yandex is politically twisting the truth in their search results, but I care less about that than the fact that I'll happily send money to Ukraine but there's no way in hell I'm sending money to Russia.

    Being a Kagi subscriber means you are. Morally - I'm not ok with it. In some nations it might even be against the law. Sanctions, you know. I'm not even sure Kagi is legally in the clear here.

  • Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing

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  • They specifically avoid sanctions by routing payments through Kazakhstan, and tried to claim Yandex wasn't even a russian company when called out.

    And no, the US is not the same. You might not have hosted Ukrainian refugees or be in full understanding of what's happening there but any money going into Russia is right now used for torture, rape and killing of Ukrainians.

    I had a Kagi family subscription and immediately cancelled when I learnt about Vlad's "it's just some geopolitical opinions" stance. I also know others have done the same.

  • Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing

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  • FWIW - most mobile data plans roll over if you don't use them fully during the month.

    (at least where I live)

  • Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing

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  • This must've been a lot more complicated to implement than to allow us to NOT SEND OUR SUBSCRIPTION MONEY TO RUSSIA.

    sigh

  • Unmasked: Musk’s secret DOGE goon squad—who are all under 26

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  • That feeling never goes away. I'm 50 and consider the 40yo me to have lacked plenty.

    Any line thus becomes quite arbitrary. The point is that there really isn't anything that supports the trope about "not grown until 25".

  • Unmasked: Musk’s secret DOGE goon squad—who are all under 26

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  • You need to follow @garwboy@ohai.social

    Start here: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/113944647175536159

    Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be)

    In-lieu of the young guys working on Musk's behalf, the old "Your brain isn't fully developed until your 25 claim" has emerged yet again

    Here's why it's BS

  • Elon Musk says he might sue Gov. Tim Walz over accusations he gave a Nazi salute

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  • How should I be accessing the fediverse to get the most "federated" experience

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  • Yes, I know :) (I run a family instance with FediFetcher and relays as well)

    Large instances are usually well covered enough. I don't know if Lemmy/Mbin pull sll posts for a thread you visit but Mastodon has plans to do so in the future to alleviate this issue.

  • How should I be accessing the fediverse to get the most "federated" experience

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  • Well it's difficult to know what you don't know, but the admin of fedia.io is the same as the admin of infosec.exchange et. al. and that's not a small instance. When people discuss Mbin instances my impression is that fedia.io would be one of the bigger ones.

  • How should I be accessing the fediverse to get the most "federated" experience

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  • Even though apps interconnect it's a good idea to use the best client for the service. But, sure - I can start following "@3dmvr@lemm.ee" from my Mastodon account. It's also possible to subscribe to a Lemmy group from Mastodon, and reply to it.

    But the best user experience is had by creating a Lemmy/Mbin account on such a server and interacting from there - like I am with my fedia.io account here now.

  • The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes

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  • Removed Locked

    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • fedia.io here too, it's the one I recommend to others as well. No specific "angle", just works, based in Europe.

  • Trump threatens Russia with taxes, tariffs, sanctions if ‘ridiculous’ Ukraine war not ended

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  • The Hill seems to not know about the 2014 invasion. 2022 was just a continuation.

  • "A recounting of dansup's hostility towards FOSS maintainers and the ecosystem at large" — wait what?

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  • Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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  • Yeah I'd rather the Matrix/Element people got that funding. They need it.

  • TIL that US Ex-Nazi Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun wrote a scifi book where the Martian government is ruled by a single leader called "The Elon"

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  • Errol is known for making shit up regarding Elon. The interview in which he mentions this is also from 2022 while the story about the coincidence is from 2017 so plenty of time for Errol to have picked up on it.

  • TIL that US Ex-Nazi Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun wrote a scifi book where the Martian government is ruled by a single leader called "The Elon"

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  • Seems like a no, unfortunately.

    Because, if the publishing history for von Braun’s book on Wikipedia is correct, then Errol couldn’t have heard about it when he was a child and used it as the basis for naming his son – as it wasn’t actually published until well after Elon Musk was born.

    (It should be noted that the technical appendix to the book, which contained the specifications for the novel’s expedition to Mars, was published earlier: in Germany in 1952, and in English the following year – however, this appendix as it appears in Project Mars does not contain any mention of ‘Elon’.)

    https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/did-elon-musks-father-confirm-that-he-was-named-after-the-martian-leader-in-a-science-fiction-novel-by-a-nazi-rocket-scientist/