Don’t fall for this horseshit. The only danger here is unchecked greed from these sociopaths.

For me, she is starting from these pieces of information … she’s a Yale law school alumni. Do with that what you will.

Can’t wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

If a hospital can’t operate because some asshole was able to remotely hack it bad enough to basically shut it down, we might need to rethink how things are run.

Seems best to do this after firing the first 2-3 levels of leadership since this whole mess was created under their watch. Maybe the next thing to do is to ask if the US government wants to so heavily depend on a company that is no longer a US entity.

Microsoft is overwhelmingly Indian contractors now. Infact much of the large legacy US tech companies have done so much offshoring I’d hardly call them US companies anymore. Are these companies really who we want to stake our national security on?

Anything with over 100WH batteries would need airline approval before you can fly with it. This is why laptop makers rarely exceed this limit.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries

My impression is that on M(n) silicon Parallels is the most polished virtualization experience on Mac you can get now. Virtualbox lives under the shadow of Oracle which is not a place you want to be.

redhat is just sitting right there… waiting,

This very partial list is based on my being in cyber security for 20 years and working a variety of incidents involving these apps. You all can do whatever you want with your computers.

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

• Telegram
• Avast AV
• Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
• Opera browser … now owned by above
• Zoom
• FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan

ARM is limited by licensing greed. RISC-V or its successors is the future.

When you work for Apple, Apple gets to tell you what to do. Same goes for any corporate owned media outlet.

Jon Stewart has more than enough money to just quit, which he did. Most normal folks do not have this luxury so they tow the line.

Welcome to the reality that the US economic system.

No real free speech, no real agency in our economy, captive regulators that like to masquerade as populist heros but rarely actually do any real damage to sociopathic corporations.

The idea that doing little things yourself adds up to much bigger and more cumulative impacts is lost on most people. Instead they tend to fixate on the idea that if no one else is (visibly-to-them) making sacrifices, and my own personal effort is so small, why should I bother?