Tom Artiom Alexandrovich may not be claiming diplomatic immunity now. Maybe the political climate is too turbulent to do so? But does it preclude him from claiming it in the future?

I want to hope he faces the full consequences for his actions. But this country has become so corrupt and full of incompetent leaders, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pedophile of the United States administration works a “deal” to get the charges silently dropped when Israel or Netanyahu asks for it through a back channel.

Ubisoft is listed in euro stock market as UBI.PA

Their stonk has been nose diving since 2018 ATH of €107/share. The company leadership needs to point at itself for its abysmal performance, not the consumers.

Ignoring clickbait title, this is impressive. Networked devices used to be the limit on data transfer.

Are there any devices even capable at reading/writing at 125,000G/sec?

Seems breakthroughs here are more relevant to for backhaul networks.

What’s killed American innovation itself is the billionaires and their lap dogs — the greedy capitalists, vulture capitalists, private equity, and hedge funds.

Outsourcing to China and decimating our local manufacturing industries, and subsequently losing important skills over generations is a problem caused by these greedy fucks.

It’s no wonder the USA is no longer competitive. Greedy Wall Street fucks in the 1970s-1980s sold our future so they could make a pretty penny in their generation.

Fuck reaganomics. Fuck trickle down economic theory. Fuck the centrists and GOP that allowed this corporate/billionaire welfare state to take hold over this country.

Google, Apple, and rest of big tech are pregnable despite their access to vast amounts of capital, and labor resources.

I used to be a big supporter of using their “social sign on” (or more generally speaking, single sign on) as a federated authentication mechanism. They have access to brilliant engineers thus naively thought - "well these companies are well funded, and security focused. What could go wrong having them handle a critical entry point for services?”

Well as this position continues to age poorly, many fucking aspects can go wrong!

1. These authentication services owned by big tech are much more attractive to attack. Finding that one vulnerability in their massive attack vector is difficult but not impossible.
2. If you use big tech to authenticate to services, you are now subject to the vague terms of service of big tech. Oh you forgot to pay Google store bill because card on file expired? Now your Google account is locked out and now lose access to hundreds of services that have no direct relation to Google/Apple
3. Using third party auth mechanisms like Google often complicate the relationship between service provider and consumer. Support costs increase because when a 80 yr old forgot password or 2FA method to Google account. They will go to the service provider instead of Google to fix it. Then you spend inordinate amounts of time/resources trying to fix issue. These costs eventually passed on to customer in some form or another

Which is why my new position is for federated authentication protocols. Similar to how Lemmy and the fediverse work but for authentication and authorization.

Having your own IdP won’t fix the 3rd issue, but at least it will alleviate 1st and 2nd concerns

“how will I feel like men with big pee pee tho”

Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to “network states” (company towns but somehow worse).

Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

Depends if teleportation uses TCP or UDP

Probably fake story but it’s more likely to domesticate an opossum over a raccoon. Maybe story over the decades changed the animal because human story telling results in many fabrications and hallucination of details.

Adult raccoons are vicious and territorial cunts. Well at least the one I encountered anyways

I see “fuck you, got mine” mentality is same in CA and US.

It’s a bit of extra work but worth it to setup in my opinion. Especially when dealing with multiple creditors.

I don’t see any issue with this - using Wallet to manually initiate payment. It’s not wrong or right. More of a matter of preference.

I prefer to limit access/storage of routing numbers/account numbers to very few people and entities as possible. And prefer to avoid risk of mistake on creditor end withdrawing more than agreed.

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I don’t know about you. But I have many other lines of credit (mortgage, multiple CCs, auto) and deal with many services (utilities) besides AC. Have even used bill pay to issue checks to apartment complexes and landlords.

Using my banks bill pay feature gives me a single view into outgoing debits to creditors/services.

Right - why not call it what it is? State is employing military against civilians.

State Sponsored Genocide.

apple these days is acting more and more like Microsoft with these shitty updates

There’s artificial intelligence, then there’s apple intelligence. Going to start calling dolt responses like this as “Apple Intelligence”

Maybe I can gaslight ChatGPT algos: “That’s such an apple intelligence response. Re-do X”

I like basic CarPlay and the ability to unlock the vehicle with just NFC (apple car key?).

This extra junk is more for the car manufacturers.

My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on “deep integrations” like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.

• “Sorry, you have not paid for Apple CarPlay Ultra Plus Max, we are reducing your max speed to 50 mph (~80 km/h)”
• “To enable, AM radio for 12 hrs please authenticate on iPhone or use fingerpick on start button for iDNA authentication and 10% off!”
• “Sorry, to unlock back doors you must add Aston Martin Ultra Premium Accessibility. Alternatively, just shove passengers through front doors”
• “You are currently on the freemium plan with advertisements enabled. Prior to vehicle starting, you will be subjected to 30 minutes of tailored advertisements”
• “Credit card on file has expired. Car is disabled. Please contact Aston Martin + Apple support for further assistance.”
• “Oopsie woopsie, car cannot connect to telemetry system. Cannot operate vehicle while system is unable to connect to internet.”

Fediverse to replace stackoverflow would be something I am interested in.

In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.

Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?

In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz