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explodicle , in City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

Stupid question: how is ransomware still a thing? Why don’t institutions back up their data yet?

raspberriesareyummy ,

Because the amount of organizations needing data backups / protection far exceeds the amount of available qualified IT personnel. So instead of training themselves, they hire morons who say “sure I can do your IT”

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

In the early days of ransomware I helped a small business of a friend that was attacked. They got in and waited months, creating garbage backups until they were confident then sprang the trap.

Tbh I was impressed with how thorough they’d been.

dave ,
@dave@feddit.uk avatar

Yeah, backups are useless unless you restore and test regularly. But it’s one more step of admin that few people / organisations do sadly.

zante , in Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel

Hey isnt that the money for Ukraine ?!

Aggravationstation , in Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, ‘Everybody Gets Health Care’

Does anyone else think Americans seem to enjoy making things harder for themselves just so they can talk about the adversity they overcame?

They make healthcare paid for so you need to either be super rich or so popular you can easily fund raise a small fortune because you’ll bankrupt yourself for life just to call an ambulance.

I saw George Thorogood at the OC Fairground in 2019 and the guy who supported him was talking about how he had a kidney transplant and how proud everyone should be that they’re American because if he lived in any other country he would have died. Ridiculous.

unemployedclaquer , in Trump Did Not Realize His Town Hall Was a Town Hall Until He Got Up On Stage: ‘Why Doesn’t Someone Tell Me This Stuff?’

this sort of breathless headline does not the former guy. people who like him are like, ‘oh he’s just off the cuff brash’, but no he’s like a toddler with a big box of toy guns

FlyingSquid , in Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I wish Bernie would weaponize the filibuster the way Rand Paul does to block these things. I’m glad his heart is in the right place and I’m glad he does these things, but he doesn’t want to play dirty and it’s 2024, you need to play dirty when they’re willing to.

stormeuh ,

The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn’t have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie’s filibuster.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe, but I feel like it’s worth a try.

praise_idleness , in Harmful 'Nudify' Websites Used Google, Apple, and Discord Sign-On Systems

Harmful nudify websites used the Internet, electricity, computer(server) parts…

Burn_The_Right , in X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'

Yet the same news sites keep linking to X and keep posting to X accounts.

What do you call someone who uses a fascist-owned platform with a fascist user base? Motherfuckers need to let that shit die already.

Burn_The_Right , in Black Trump supporter claims he was called a ‘slave’ by right-wing organization he was canvassing for

Conservatives are gullible as fuuuuck, no matter their skin color.

jordanlund , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Headline is still up on their front page even:

politico.com/…/harris-cnn-interview-race-gender-0…

“Harris sidesteps the spotlight when it comes to her identity

The vice president makes her case on identity implicit. Black women are OK with that.”

Cephalotrocity , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

The hypocrisy. Trump evades questions about EVERYTHING, yet gets called almost never. Her answer isn’t even an evasion. It was a whole dismissive argument on the absurdity of both the claim and question summarized in a terse “Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please.”

paddirn , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

That seemed like the entirely right answer. It was a bullshit question that didn’t need dignified with a response.

grue , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

How is plainly calling it out as the bullshit that it is “evasion?” That headline isn’t just misleading; it’s a straight-up lie.

kikutwo , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

She should have asked Bash when he happened to turn orange. He used to be white.

CitizenKong , in Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

Honest question from a European: Do you guys still have journalism somewhere? It all seems to be political propaganda or outrsge clickbait with you guys.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Very little, but there is NPR, which generally attempts to do real journalism.

www.npr.org

Maeve ,

Democracy Now! Also

protist ,

ProPublica, PBS, and don’t forget the Daily Show

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t say the Daily Show does real journalism. They do make important stories public, but they have a clear slant both in terms of politics and in terms of making it funny.

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Local affiliates and independent papers tend to be much better.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Until they get bought up by Sinclair or Gannett.

hemmes ,
@hemmes@lemmy.world avatar

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

darkdemize ,
@darkdemize@sh.itjust.works avatar

“This is dangerous to our democracy.”

protist ,

Point of order from an American: Politico is a wholly owned subsidiary of German multinational Axel Springer.

b161 , in Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders

The moment posed one of the biggest tests yet of the billionaire’s efforts to transform the site into a digital town square where just about anything goes.

This is disingenuous reporting of the NYT, just repeating Musk’s untrue “town square” meme, and saying “just about anything goes”. Anarchist and other left wing accounts were the first to be banned, and many accounts and posts from even mildly left or progressive accounts are banned and suppressed. You can’t even say the word “cis”. It’s not a place where anything goes. It’s a place where right wing content is protected and promoted. It’s a Nazi website. Say that.

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