AmbiguousProps

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[–] AmbiguousProps 28 points 2 weeks ago

Surely US investors won't harvest data and/or enshittify the product!

[–] AmbiguousProps 31 points 2 weeks ago

Should have just fired the CEO instead, would've saved millions and the company in one go.

Just last week, they were posting job listings for DevOps engineers. Glad the CEO's bullshit stopped me from even considering it.

[–] AmbiguousProps 19 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Steamdeck is better in every way anyway.

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don't think I'm the confused one here, to be honest with you, as shown by the other answers and upvotes in this thread. You do not have to specify non-US news to know that we're a rogue state - plenty of US media reports on it all the same. The question is clearly asking if Americans are aware that they're now a rogue state, and I answered appropriately.

It seems like maybe you don't want that to be the case, but my answer still stands: Yes, many Americans, especially in the PNW, are very aware of that fact. Americans in red states [the ones who watch Fox news especially] have their heads in the sand. You do not need to consume any media at all to be aware of that fact, it helps, but you don't require it to acknowledge it.

I fully understand and acknowledge that we're seen as a rogue state externally, and am painfully aware, as is much of the PNW. It's the red states that think "we're the best country in the world, and in fact, the only one that matters", which is exactly what my first comment was describing. People in blue states are rightfully embarrassed and are trying to distance themselves from the federal government for precisely this reason.

[–] AmbiguousProps 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I don't think I agree, and many in the thread didn't get that idea. People outside of the US are obviously aware, the title is clearly asking if people inside of the United States are aware. Why would someone outside of the US have to ask if people outside of the US are aware? It makes no sense.

also (emphasis mine):

people in the US aware that they are a rogue state

It makes no grammatical sense if they're asking about opinions outside of the US.

[–] AmbiguousProps 49 points 2 weeks ago

Most of all, the US is fucked.

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Huh?

Are people in the US

[–] AmbiguousProps 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, but I didn't mean to say that FOSS couldn't be insecure. Software itself can obviously be insecure, like we saw with xz. At least with FOSS though, it's more difficult for it to be hidden.

[–] AmbiguousProps -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Apologies, I deleted my comment instead of editing it, but I meant to add that even with the shady workaround, if you have sandboxing it likely greatly reduces this risk.

Be very wary of what apps you install, and in fact, try to only use FOSS.

[–] AmbiguousProps 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, it would. Those basically create sandboxes.

[–] AmbiguousProps 65 points 2 weeks ago
 

They may, in fact, view their Russian tour with pride and as a rare chance to make good money, see a foreign country for the first time and win preferred treatment for their families back home, according to former North Korean soldiers.

“They are too young and won’t understand exactly what it means. They’ll just consider it an honor to be selected as the ones to go to Russia among the many North Korean soldiers,” said Lee Woong-gil, a former member of the same special forces unit, the Storm Corps. He came to South Korea in 2007. “But I think most of them won’t likely come back home alive.”

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