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From what I’ve read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.
From what I’ve read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.
Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it’s more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.
Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.
This isn’t ransomware. This is standard blackmail.
people will sell insurance for just about anything. for example, you can buy alien abduction insurance that will pay out if you are abducted by aliens.
It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.
I had a couple of Motorola phones back in the day. Most recently I had a Moto Z2 Force, which had a shatterproof screen. I really liked that because around then I had my first kid and kids cause accidents all the time. LOL
I think that would defeat a piece of the point of a decentralized system. In the current design, what will naturally happen is that if one instance has all the good content on a particular topic, most users will gravitate toward it anyway. We can read across federated instances anyway so I, a kbin user, have no problem reading something on lemmy like this.
Then let’s say one day [email protected] gets taken over by people who want to post stuff I don’t want to see. If I miss how it used to be here, I could go make [email protected] and it would be fine.
Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.
It’s good to have a spare I guess. LOL
Remember that in an interview, they mentioned that they used fake accounts early on to control the discourse on Reddit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts–2
Not saying I have any proof they are doing that now, but it does show what they are willing to do to control the platform.
Harming animals is absolutely a sign of someone being deranged. Many eventually escalate to harming humans.
I’ve been a professional software engineer in the game industry for 22 years now. I started off in school at first on Apple computers with Basic, then when I got a graphing calculator in school I started writing tools for school work and games on it all the time. After college, I wasn’t sure what sort of software I wanted to work on (dot-com era), but one of my good friends talked me into applying to some game companies. I’ve been in a bunch of different companies since then but right now I’m working on online systems for one of the biggest online games.
This drives me nuts. Why do his moronic cult followers keep giving him money? He’s a “billionaire.” LOL