FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

At this point I really don't know whether to believe that Trump is literally a Russian asset. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, we need to wait for actual evidence to know for sure.

But I'm finding it more interesting right now watching how people are reacting to the possibility that Trump is a Russian asset. I'm thinking a lot of people would rather believe that it was true, because that way it would mean America didn't do this to themselves. Much nicer to believe that some Machiavellian spy plot had been pulled and America had been hoodwinked than to believe that America had simply elected this ridiculous parody of a human being because they wanted to.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Depends which exchange you're using.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's a common misconception that a "cold wallet" is offline. It's still on the blockchain like any other wallet, it's just the keys that aren't on any network-connected computer.

It appears that in this case hackers managed to trick Bybit employees into entering the keys into a fake UI that gave the hackers access to them.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 6 months ago

Don't use them if you don't want them. A paywall even helps you stick to that.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's particular ironic how previously the big uproar was about adding these features in the first place. First it was "nobody wants this! Keep AI out of Notepad!" And now it's "how dare you prevent me from using AI in Notepad!"

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I doubt he's "giving in."

What's happening here is that Trump thinks he's being a tough negotiator by doing all these supposed "power moves" of offering ridiculous deals and trash-talking his negotiating partner. But the result is ending up being the opposite - the US is throwing away all of the power it thought it had, Ukraine is showing that they don't need the US. Each threat that Trump makes is a card he's playing and revealing to actually be useless.

Now that the US has burned through its hand, Zelensky can turn around and tell them "okay, here's my offer."

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a 20-30% threshold of people who will believe just about anything.

Or it could just be that 30% haven't been paying attention to the news for the past month or so.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 6 months ago

Which, again, is not what you said they were doing this for.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Which is not the goal of terrorists. Terrorists are attempting to cause political change through their actions.

Or do you think that anything that involves murder, cheating, stealing, trafficking, kidnapping, and extortion is terrorism?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

EFF has always been opposed to the expansion of copyright, regardless of the "size" of the copyright holders involved.

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