Are we sure the reporter heard Putin right?
Maybe he was saying “Give up, dumbass.” to Trump…

But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

I wonder if he asked the Norwegian minister if Kristiania was nice in the summer…

I’ll take “kind of meh” over Trump anyday.

Hell, a stinking turd floating down the Potomac river would make a better POTUS than Trump…

This has to be an Onion piece. Surely…

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point

Don’t assume there is a line. Most of those MAGA numbskulls are armed to the teeth, yet neither Trump nor any of his less-well-protected henchmen are dead yet. So I guess kiddie stuff is mildly okay for the MAGA dumdums - or at least not really anything to get truly worked up over…

part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear

So let’s see, a sort of protection squadron with weapons… Hmm, I wonder what we could call it…

How about we use fancy German?

“Schutzstaffel” sounds spiffy. And “Waffen” for the weapons.

We could even shorten it to the even spiffier “Waffen SS”.

I once tried to record / replay my FIAT keyfob with my F0, and it did unlock the car once. Then I spend a bunch of money having the remote lock replaced.

I’d like more evidence that this works reliably before attempting the same thing again…

Are you implying that a man of such unquestioned integrity as Donald Trump might have a conflict of interest here?
Perish the thought…

If I was Lip-Bu Tan, I would retort by asking about the Epstein files.

In fact, I reckon if everybody who gets attacked by Donald Trump retorted the same thing, it would be the most massive embarrassment for the orange utan. Not to mention, it would be highly amusing and extremely satisfying for the rest of us.

I wonder why nobody does it… Trump is such an easy target with that pedo scandal hovering over him right now.

Cook is well known for his ability to foster a relationship with President Trump

Cook is Trump’s token gay friend.

If you buy Apple products for some reason I can’t fathom, remember this: some of your money will have paid for a golden statue for Donald Trump.

I wouldn’t feel good holding that iPhone in my hand knowing that…

My answer to this is: don’t clean and organize anything. Wherever my wife lets me get away with it, it’s been working great for me for the past 35 years.

the people running the show are *also* bumbling fucking morons.

The morons in and around the White House aren’t the ones running the show. They’re puppets, and the puppetmasters are the Heritage Foundation. And THEY are anything but morons.

descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

This isn’t new.

One of the defining traits of fascism is that the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that’s the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make them more money, they’ll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazis is of course that today’s computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should’ve for the past 25 years - the “I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?” fallacy. Now they’re going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say “I told you so” every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it’s so sad and so too late that it isn’t even anything to gloat about…

You’ll know that for sure after it’s built. Right now, that’s only what Trump is promising. And if there’s one hard truth about Trump, it’s that you can’t trust anything he says.

Exactly. This is a malicious PAM module. Of course something as sensitive as PAM running as root can do any nasty thing it wants.

But the trick is, someone has to convince the target to go root and install it. And I guarantee you, of all the Linux users out there, only a teeny tiny fracition knows what PAM even is, and those who know aren’t likely to install any old PAM module willy-nilly. Which leaves an unlikely supply chain attack - unlikely because, just like expert users who diddle with PAM, any maintainer of a distro that supplies PAM modules is going to be super-careful what they onboard. Because ya know… PAM. It’s like super-sensitve.

So yeah, I’m not very worried.

The bee took one for the team.

With any luck, there’s a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.

they want people still pay taxes when they live overseas

That’s why you have to give up your citizenship. The US is one of few countries in the world that run this scam of demanding taxes be paid by people who live abroad.