Cadende

hey this was posted in the middle of the night my time so didn't see it but sending supportive vibes

If it makes you feel any better the US was like that about even gay people let alone trans as little as like 20 something years ago, and as bad as things are rn its still generally, socially, a lot better than that. It can improve in your lifetime, and it can improve by finding a different social circle, even if it may be very difficult to safely do so :/

yeah, I'm not buying the whole nuclear bullshit story,. Getting USD into the economy is probably useful for them on a wide enough level though, for getting around sanctions or whatever. If anything the guy at my work is probably doing the same "scam" (not really a scam just circumventing immigration and labor law a little to make a US salary while being from elsewhere...) just from a different country of origin, not DPRK. Of course if a good opportunity arises I suppose having ins in US companies computer systems provides some espionage opportunities but for the most part it'd be pointless.

Its just a high tech version of workers from mexico coming to the US to work and sending money home tbh.

Posting Mao and Reagan back to back

https://xcancel.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status/1910211617201213447#m

I was going to say it's pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason...)

Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!

show some pretty serious crimes (hit and run, assault...)

both misdemeanors, not necessarily as bad as they sound. someone (perhaps an angry neighbor who doesn't like that you're parked on their street living in your car) reporting that you hit them on their bike would cover both of those charges for example. But agreed that its very doxxy.

yeah this is fair. Even giving her preferred name is probably against the rules

well the screenshots show some other charges, and I don't think sleeping in your car on its own is explicitly illegal in portland. But really none of that changes the bail equation :( fucking pigs haul people in and throw away the key for the absolute worst reasons all the time, usually no good reason at all like drug paraphernalia or resisting their harassment in any way.

I hope someone can get her out soon. At least they don't have bail bondsmen there. Some random scumbag deciding whether people get out of jail or not just by evaluating the cut of your jib for the person doing the bailing out is the dumbest of all possible systems.

My work has received a lot of job applications and emails that feel like they're sent by AI in the past year or two, who then frequently cancel at the last minute or even after the interview should have started, claiming either an unavoidable conflict or technical difficulties with joining the call. And one guy we hired... Nowadays I'm not so sure but originally I thought he was at least overseas if not part of an outright scheme like this, he had a very bad internet connection that couldn't hardly handle video and terrible audio on top of it, despite supposedly being in socal.

I didn't say shit because I'm not a narc but if I am working with a team of north korean agents just using this guy as a front... I just hope I get to meet them some day

Bit of trivia but I think I know why the 4 digit pin thing existed! It's an out-of-the-box feature on freeRADIUS, I ran across it in a pfsense environment in the past. I thought it was neat (esp. in the absence of passwords, this was primary auth with public keys and then 2fa on top) but ultimately too convoluted for most users

Well China does hold a lot of treasuries. There's speculation (though nothing substantive so probably just cope?) that they are selling them off

~~TONY STARK~~ JOHN CARMACK was able to build this ~~IN A CAVE~~ ON A 386, with ~~SCRAPS~~ 4MB of RAM!!

Alternate version:

~~TONY STARK~~ TARN ADAMS was able to build this ~~IN A~~ CAVE on a PENTIUM with ~~SCRAPS~~ Windows 98!!!

I wish these people were serious. Like, not giving up at the first sign of police repression type of serious. Because goofy or not, we do need a militant response to fascism and that requires bodies.

They aren't serious, at least not the vast vast majority, but I do think its worth doing education/recruitment over pointing and laughing, because they're sorta on the right track they just have no concept of how fucked things already were, how they're likely to get much worse, and that their beloved liberal institutions won't save them. If I knew these people I'd probably be trying to get them to read about past liberation struggles (genuine ones not privileged cosplayers) to get an idea of how the state responds to this stuff and what practical, concrete resistance can look like.

edit to add: being cringe is better than doing nothing. At least she's talking to like minded people and making connections.