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So what will be the consequences for those involved in this security failure? Nothing? If a preschool fails to lock the doors to the building, and a child is kidnapped, you blame the employees and possibly even charge them criminally. The same should be done here, otherwise stuff like this will continue to happen.

Isn't the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

They do. The youtube studio thing automatically inserts a shitload of ad breaks by default, but channels have the option to customize it. When you see a video with annoying ad breaks, it's because the creator didn't choose to remove them.

Define "ultimate"

Pis are neat, but they're not particularly great at anything, and they in fact suck at most things. They're toys except maybe for some very specific use cases (for which anyone reading this doesn't fall under).

You can find something more powerful and useful for $200. Just buy a used laptop, and you even get a battery, screen, and touchpad (neither of which come with the pi)

There's a good documentary about this.

Maybe good news, maybe not since you can't really trust people involved in these things. For all we know, they're still doing some other kinds of deals behind the scenes, if not straight-up lying here.

From the article:

In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.

The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.

And now their justification for cutting off access is this:

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

So the fucking CEO personally helped get this deal done, but now they're trying to frame it as "oops, we didn't know what Israel was doing until we investigated", and they're claiming simple terms of service violation to end the contract.

If we're all still alive by the next decade, I hope the people prosecuting this genocide don't forget about these sneaky fucks and their role in it.

I see you are a man of culture.

I wonder (fantasize, really) if this is in response to more and more people moving towards Linux and alternatives to MS Office? If it's about the threat of being sued over the DMA, a one year extension seems arbitrary and probably not enough to address whatever the legal issues would be.

bash supports this feature too btw

Legit unsarcastically nocap fr fr, it might be time to update your eyeglasses prescription

This is extremely naive. We're on Lemmy, I'm on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.

99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.

For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.

And when the MAGA are out of power, Google will release a statement admitting the Trump administration pressured them into admitting the Biden administration pressured them into censoring Americans.

And throughout all that time, Google will continue getting slaps on the wrist from the courts whenever they break the law.