solariplex

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[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 months ago

DepYou could attempt the non-selfish kind and just donate it all to an independent health/rescue org like Red Cross/Red Crescent.

You could also go the kinda-selfish route like Alfred Nobel, known in his time as the merchant of death. Make an elaborate award&grant giving scheme for exceptional contributions to society in a variety of fields; boosting said contributions for many years. Would only recommend this route if you've got more than enough coin to spare, as the overhead of ensuring ethical operation is significant.

If you've got a house, you could transfer ownership to a trust/foundation/housing coop, to make it available for living at below market price.

I'd donate to various free software & open hardware projects important to societal improvement; like Mozilla, certain fediverse projects, PostmarketOS, Fairphone, etc. Also anarchist orgs.

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

Very engaging read

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

I see, makes some sense

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Shouldn't it at least be (potential yearly wage*50 + potential pension) adjusted for inflation?

My shitty napkin calculations puts that at about 750k, which still isn't a lot, but a helluva lot more than he actually got.

$7.5 * 40h * 45weeks * 50years = lost wages = 675k Wages * 0.1 = pension = 67.5k

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Uuuuh. There are only a couple lagrange points, unlike the massive amount of normal satellite paths available in LEO and HEO.

We absolutely should not allow any single actor (apart from the UN, maybe) to lay claim to the precious lagrange real estate

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

Hello, fellow SN enjoyer! That's where I first heard it as well

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They were revealed to brag to ad sellers about having access to tons of sensitive information about its customers, by spying on e.g. ambient conversations through smartphones and smart TVs, right?

Or was it them who requested customers install an xfinity root certificate on their phone, without telling it would enable xfinity to man-in-the-middle all their internet activity?

Funny, it's almost like fucking around with peoples' privacy and security inevitably leads to finding out

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

Wooo friend was that a good read!

To others who may be intimidated by the number of pages; regain composure, as only 17 of those pages belong to this specific story

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

...it's gone. Was it short enough to recite in a comment?

[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 9 points 11 months ago

Great article! Kudos to the white hat hackers who pulled off the repair, and the company that hired them. We should be able to fix our own stuff, always!

 

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