It’s Kaboom. It really only takes two words and a symbol to figure that out: “Kaboom”, an “@”, and the “Reddthat” instance.

Hopefully we get something out of this fucking bullshit

At the current trajectory, it be at best a renewed appreciation for how good things used to be.

Yeah, I never said .world is any good either. Both of them have Ye Old’ Power Tripping Bastards worthy moderation.

My instance had a genuinely stupid policy where trolls were not to be banned but instead countered with facts. To prevent echo chambers, or some stupid shit like that. They also blocked the db0 piracy community from being viewed.

Sometimes, they’ll start a podcast or a YouTube channel. Those ones are the worst.

Gamers complain about cancel culture, but they’re the first to demand changes and threaten to boycott a game for daring to include any “woke” (diverse character) content.

It’s absurdly ironic and hypocritical.

I have nothing against your instance’s moderators or users, but I’m not quite sure the admins of your instance follow the same guidelines.

I would really recommend newcomers pick a home instance like db0 over .ml or .world, and be aware of the instance rules when posting on communities in either. For .ml, avoid criticizing the CCP, and for .world, avoid expressing any desires that can be even remotely seen as “violence”.

Source? I would love to see if the geniuses signed the commits with their public keys as well.

Yeh, the difference between being high value (twitter) and an actual high value (government) target are entirely different.

Exactly. Tesla or Twitter might be on a country’s radar for juicy IP theft reasons, but that’s a speck of dust in comparison to a network full of classified government secrets. A country doesn’t burn multiple zero-days and backdoor supply chains to find out the contents of the next Tesla firmware update. They sure as hell do when it gives them access to military information and civil infrastructure of a world power.

I wonder if DOGE have reputable hardware, or if they cheapest out on servers.

I doubt it. If the way Elon talks about software is indicative of his understanding of hardware or cybersecurity, he has absolutely no idea what the fuck he’s actually doing. Knowing that, it’s probably an off the shelf commercial rack-mount with IME enabled and the management port plugged into the same switch as the regular network interface.

the muSSk team learn from it, and figure out how actual internet security works, and harden their systems accordingly.

They won’t. Musk is a narcissist who thinks his every instruction is perfection, and his merry gang of racist goons are wet-behind-the-ears grads who have yet to be humbled by experience.

My predicted outcome is they fix this hole, send the FBI after the grey-hats to make an example out of them, and continue on business as usual while a foreign nation laughs from the shadows with a rootkit installed. DOGE is a treasure trove of data, and network security is a cat and mouse game that takes real manpower and time to set up, maintain, and actively monitor. I don’t think these chucklefucks know anything about being a high-value target of state actors, and they’re too prideful to admit it and get help.

Oh, great. So it’s also another regressive push towards recreating the mysognist shithole decades where married women were treated as the property of their husbands. What’s next, giving married men in heterosexual relationships two votes?

Sorry, I should have clarified: the engineers at SpaceX are good, and don’t think they are doing anything wrong. I’m not meaning to ignore or discredit their accomplishments.

My comment was directed towards Musk, specifically. He has a track record of overpromising and underdelivering, throwing out the baby with the bathwater, fighting regulations, and chaos testing in production—across almost all of his ventures. SpaceX succeeded despite him, and he shouldn’t be followed as an example for a leader of any organization that intends to send flying metal full of fuel into the atmosphere.

Oh, I’m calling it now. This one is going to be used as an attack of trans people. Throw out the archaic and manual process of updating names in federal databases, and keep it simple by making the records immutable. Then hit them with a lovely

“You MUST use your REAL NAME (MAIDEN NAME) on government forms. If the name does not match, you will be denied.”

In contemporary language, that word (among others) is almost entirely used as an insult by way of equating somebody’s intelligence with those who have intellectual disabilities, which creates a negative connotation. Similarly, this is why we don’t say things we dislike are “gay” anymore. It’s disrespectful to the people who actually fall under the definition, and it proliferates negative associations with traits that people are stuck living with and had no choice in acquiring.

The only reason “idiot” hasn’t followed suit is because it’s much more culturally ingrained, and there’s hasn’t been as significant of an attempt to change it as with other words.

I’ve never seen anyone use or interpret the r-word as a slur outside of lemmy

It’s not exclusive to Lemmy, but it is mostly left-leaning spaces or gen Z individuals who see it that way. Center and right-leaning spaces see treating the word as a slur to be censorship (as opposed to being respectful of others) and keep using it or actively push back by saying it more.

That stuff takes a very long lead time to get right.

Yet somehow, people still think Mr. “We’ll be on Mars by 2025,” who is still launching rockets that explode mid-air, should be allowed to throw out this tried and true method. Surely, the idea of “move fast and break things” is more financially responsible than polluting debris and waste over the country. Fucking monorail salesman…