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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • I think you have comprehensively missed the point of this post.

    This post: “people under threat here’s some things you can do to lower your profile, mitigate risk a little” (positive actions)

    Your comment (initial & reply): " how did the US let this happen & why didn’t you fight it, why aren’t you fighting it now"

    That assumes a) the people most under threat are the same people who should be/can be fighting it b) that they didnt before the election and c) that the actions you prescribe will be effective.

    So. Are your assumptions valid and do they actually add anything by voicing them ?

    I know many in the US queer community worked tirelessly to prevent Trump being elected (assumption b) but now they really do need to get as low profile as possible, because there is a pogrom coming. Straight white people can afford to protest, the numbers are there. Minorities in small numbers not so much. Easy pickings.


  • I’m increasingly annoyed at all these posts going "here’s how to lock down your comms from all the people coming after you for all the protesting you’re not doing.

    People aren’t going to be coming after LGBTQ+ people “for the protesting” they are or are not doing.

    They’ll be coming for them because they’re queer.

    If you’ve even been paying a little bit of attention the magats have made it clear the two main minorities in their sights for the first round are immigrants and trans ppl.

    They’ve already sent a US citizen to an El Salvadorian camp and shrugged and said sorry, can’t reverse that now.

    If you think the rest of the queer minority are not in their sights you’re kidding yourself (and us)

    Check your privilege.





  • When you search google it fingerprints your browser then attachs that to the other information it amasses from tracking your other activities from other websites.

    By not giving them the search content you reduce what they know.

    Scenario a) you search up particular health issues on google, for the US say “how do I know I’m pregnant” then you go to an online pharmacy (Walgreen is the big US one I think) and order “plan b” (anti pregnancy drug). Google doesnt even need to know from walgreens what you ordered it will infer a pregnancy test and/or plan b then from later activity

    Scenario b) you use proxy and thus google knows nothing of your search, then you go to walgreens, for all google knows you ordered makeup or hayfever tablets.

    Scenario a is or will be illegal in some US states - best not to leak it.

    Not a perfect example, i can poke holes in it. The point is searches are usually sensitive info, keeping them out of the hands of the most egregious activity collator keeps more privacy then if you don’t. The proxy buries your senstive search in with thousands of others that can’t be attached to you





  • Theoretically the major cloud providers like MS have redundant geographically dispersed servers that mean there should only be an outage if the individual user can’t reach the internet.

    In practise however those promises are hollow for a number of reasons, cost usually. Legal issues like GDPR also impinge (EU data being allowed to be in the US has been blocked by the courts the other day for example). In addition there’s a long list of other configuration reasons which almost always come back to cost indirectly.

    Theoretically an ideally configured cloud solution is far superior to on-prem.

    In the real world, not so much: corners cut, pennies saved by non technical managers not understanding the ramifications of their choices & etc

    On prem is certainly better in the real world if you’re big enough to afford proper redundancy and to hire and keep good techs.

    Many many firms can’t tick those boxes though and so you get to imperfect world optimisation where what is good for coy. A is bad for coy. B



  • Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign prover provider as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don’t know much about your pension system).

    Note you may get poorer performance - it’s really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it’s mostly speculation right now)

    Edit for typo





  • <shrug> whatever. I don’t know who kalshi are and I don’t trust anything American. Betting agencies in my own country have it at a bit worse than evens. I trust paddypower or bet365 who have been around decades to pay out a lot more than some US tech bros. Ignoring the fact it’s not a bet, it’s an options contract.

    And yes, you can keep circling around poking at it but I stand by the assertion that there won’t be a fair election in 2026 because a) trump has been running line by line down the Hitler playbook and b) he said the quiet part out loud (after nov24 i wont need your votes) and c) musk’s kid outright said the same thing too and 4year olds dont drop clangers like that unless someone has said it in front of him

    Ping me in two years