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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

This is how the worms win.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

It should be noted that there is no evidence of any tampering of the voting machines in the 2024 election. The claim by researchers is that the voting machines in coffee county GA were accessed after the 2020 election by Trump supporters, and data from those machines in the 2020 election uploaded and distributed to pro-Trump groups.

There is no new information being raised in this letter to Harris and reiterates the same information from their 2022 and 2023 letters to the DOJ with the claim that it's possible that the software of these voting machines could have been reverse engineered, a potential exploit found, and then it could be physically possible to alter the vote. There is no evidence cited about irregularities in any Post-Election Audits of a sample of paper ballots which would warrant more scrutiny into the machines and require a full recount.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Obligatory Line Goes Up video, although not exclusively about Bitcoin.

I do admit that early in Bitcoin's life, around 2013, i was a interested in Bitcoin as an alternative to banking, but the volatility and speculation alienated me from the community. Anyone buying BTC now for $90k, you need to realize this turned into a pyramid scheme and you're not at the top of it. You may be able to find someone who's more of a sucker to take the Bitcoin off your hand and make a profit, but it's not sustainable, someone has to loose. Any gains you make are probably less than 10% what the person made by selling it to you.

If you do end up speculating on crypto, don't invest more than you can afford to loose, and assume you'll loose it all. It's very likely you'll either get hacked/scammed, loose your wallet, leave your wallet in an online exchange who runs off with your keys, etc. You're on your own if that happens. If you do end up making any profit, it'll be a blessing and you'll be way happier than if you thought this would be your key to get rich, and you end up loosing it all.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

On one hand, we essentially have someone who accidentally missed an item during self checkout, and another person who ransacked the store, took everything they could, showed off what they stole, and had a standoff with police. Clearly both situations are not equal and saying that both should have the same consequences minimizes Trump's actions and blatant disregard of the judicial system and American people.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

In Australia, which has Ranked Choice Voting, you number the candidates from 1 to the max candidates. For Senate races, you can vote for the party, letting the party decide the down ballot representatives. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/14/how-does-australia-s-voting-system-work

I believe in this process, the ballots are human counted, but the country has less than the population of California, so it probably doesn't take too long. Scaling it up for the backwards US system would be harder, but not impossible to improve.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

don’t let someone sign a petition for more than one candidate for a given race.

This would be so much overhead work and also defeat the purpose of Ranked Choice Voting. This basically moves the First Past the Post earlier in the process, which will exclude candidates

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

This is giving him way too much credit, thinking he's some mastermind who engineered this whole thing. He's very wealthy and addicted with twitter, and started amassing a lot of shares of the company. He didn't really care to own it, and instead tried seeing if he could sway Twitter to benefit him, namely by trying to ban the Elonjet account. That didn't work, so he used his classic 420 joke to say he's going to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, which was way above market rates. He had to be literally sued to purchase the company, after trying to get out of the deal.

Once he was forced to buy the company, it was the company that assumed the debts, not Elon, so it immediately was performing terribly, and Elon had to cut costs, firing employees, not paying rent and server costs, etc. Nothing was planned out ahead of time, the company is flying by the seat of its pants. And arguably the second most prominent user of the platform, the next President, has a competing platform and is directly invested in seeing that succeed, not Twitter/X.

If anything, both Elon and Trump are the modern epitome of failing upwards, exploiting the labor and systems in place to protect Americans, just so they can make more money for themselves. The fact they're celebrated as much as they are is disgusting.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

If Joe doesn't pardon Hunter, there's no way Trump will. He's spent 6+ years saying the Biden family is crooked, he wouldn't want to show he's weak and reverse his original unsubstantiated stance. I assume Joe won't pardon Hunter, to set some sort of norm for Trump, which Trump will completely ignore and pardon his family at the first smell of corruption.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago

We must be truly desperate to look to the electoral college for help.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Still though, Dynamic DNS points to an external IP address, which you'd have your NAS exposed on a public port. This is the flaw in the design which allows remote execution of this exploit.

If you need remote access to the NAS, it should not be publicly exposed and should require a VPN to access. That way if there is an issue or misconfiguration, everyone on the internet can't exploit it easily.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 days ago (6 children)

If you’re using one of these models, it’s highly recommended that you replace your NAS system with one that’s still receiving patches from the manufacturer. If that isn’t possible right now, Netsecfish suggests restricting access to your NAS settings menu/interface to only trusted IP addresses. You could also isolate your NAS from the public internet to ensure that only authorized users can interact with it.

Emphasis mine, regardless of this incident, even with a brand new supported model, it shouldn't be exposed to the internet. Half the reason these security issues are such a big deal is because manufacturers wanted to make things simple and designed it to sit on the open internet, so they wouldn't have to deal with support requests. Now their customers are exposed because of poor recommendations and the lack of updates.

 
 

Today, Celine Dion's management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing "My Heart Will Go On" at a Donald Trump /JD Vance campaign rally in Montana. In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use. ..And really, THAT song?

 
 
 

I didn't realize this was the season finale before watching and was mostly confused that was it after tonight's episode. Seems like they started more loose ends in that one episode, maybe in hope of another season, but it felt like it could have used an episode or two more to set that up better. Spoilers below:

The Acolyte - Episode 8 Season Finale Discussion Spoilers

  • I kept expecting the Green Jedi woman to ultimately be behind the destruction of the witches fortress. It still doesn't make sense that the stone structure could sustain so much damage from some paper burning. Maybe bad editing or something in the previous episodes, but seems like there's still a side of a story being withheld.
  • Reveal of Yoda (or yaddle before growing hair!) and who I assume is Plagueis was underwhelming. Either could have been omitted without issue. If they were going for fan service, focus on one. If it is Plagueis, does the timeline even make sense??
  • Honestly, I wish there were more episodes with the Lesbian Witch Cult which weren't all flashbacks. That conflict with the Jedi was interesting (for the two days it happened in universe) and could have explored more of that side of the force before it was killed off. I guess I'm in the minority based on the backlash that received.
  • Kung fu and lightsaber battles were pretty good. Is this the first time in live action a jedi has turned off a lightsaber mid fight? I think out of everything, the choreography was the strongest aspect of the series.

What'd everyone else think?

 

A U.S. Supreme Court opinion erroneously — and briefly — posted on the court’s website seems to indicate that the court will temporarily allow abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho, according to Bloomberg News.

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I'm not sure if this is a local issue, but I'm not able to load any thumbnail images. I keep getting a connection timed out.

Example URL: https://pictrs.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d3046f30-72da-4798-aacf-a5809e6872bd.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256

Posting this is anyone is having similar experience today, or has advice.

 

Mike hosts a trivia video. Rich and Jay are contestants pitted against each other in an ultimate battle of filthy vulgar 90s musical artist lyrics.

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