ironsoap

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[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 9 points 2 weeks ago

Want countries to re-dollarize, you have to incentivize the, which probably means making the US the dynamic yet stable economic it was. Punishing countries, how laughable.

I think that ship has sailed though, as globalization has caught up yet again.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an interesting example, I'll have to look it out and see if the context bears it out. I say that as although yes he might have only gotten 43%, the question is how many registered voters didn't vote and how many eligible but unregistered voters there were.

Vermont has a fairly high voter turnout, but looking at Vermont's Secretary of State 2016 had a voter turnout of 63% of Voting Age Population from census population. So that 185k of 505k thousands people who didn't vote.

Also if I have the right numbers from Vermont' SOS, that's 43% of the state total 63% who voted.

I've read other demographic breakdowns on those who don't vote which is worth looking into, but it's hard for me to see someone say that there isn't a mass when we have this huge population of American citizen who don't vote. Something between 35-45% of the US just doesn't. That's a huge swath of disenfranchised people.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool map! Do you have a source? Curious if they've done other countries.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 6 points 1 month ago

Good write up!

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the privacy criteria you are thinking about?

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 18 points 1 month ago

[# Systematic Destruction (Hacking the Scammers pt. 2)

Taking on the "Smishing Triad"](https://blog.smithsecurity.biz/systematic-destruction-hacking-the-scammers-pt.-2) g

His blog on the topic if you don't want the wired summary.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 31 points 1 month ago

A brief technical summary from iMAP reveals what happens when users attempt to access sites using Cloudflare and Google DNS.

• On Maxis, DNS queries to Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) servers are being automatically redirected to Maxis ISP DNS Servers;

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• On Time, DNS queries to both Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare Public DNS (1.1.1.1) are being automatically redirected to Time ISP DNS servers.

“Instead of the intended Google and Cloudflare servers, users are being served results from ISP DNS servers. In addition to MCMC blocked websites, other addresses returned from ISP DNS servers can also differ from those returned by Google and Cloudflare,” iMAP warns.

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"Users that are affected, can configure their browser settings to enable DNS over HTTPS to secure their DNS lookups by using direct encrypted connection to private or public trusted DNS servers. This will also bypass transparent DNS proxy interference and provide warning of interference,” iMAP concludes.

Essentially Malaysia law required ISP to drop DNS entries for some sites, local users started using public DNS. ISP started redirecting public DNS requests, and local users started using DNS over HTTPS.

The pirate wars continue in their arms races.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should have remembered they do an English version. Thanks!

It was noted that more than half of the KN-23 missiles lost their programmed flight trajectory during flight and likely exploded in the air, as the launches of these missiles were recorded, but their debris was not found.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Translated sources beyond Google?

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 29 points 1 month ago

I'm all for the enthusiasm I'm seeing with Harris, but am happy to see someone like Axelrod pointing out the polling. He's absolutely right in that it will take work to win, and mistakes to lose. Fortunately Harris seem to be working and Trump seems to be making mistakes for now. Let's hope it doesn't flip soon.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Harris immediately framed her candidacy with a specific false reference to this case as a contest of 'prosecutor vs. convicted felon,'" Trump's filing says.

Harris' framing is an "inaccurate attack," it adds, without describing an inaccuracy. Harris is a former district attorney for San Francisco and attorney general for California; in May, Trump became the first former president convicted of a felony.

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In brief response papers filed Friday, prosecutors called Trump's latest recusal effort "vexations and frivolous."

Trump's "regurgitated" complaints about Loren Merchan's work with Harris have already failed twice, including at the appellate level, and amount to little more than "overheated, hyperbolic rhetoric," prosecutors added.

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The letter alleges that Authentic Campaigns earned "over $7 million in compensation" for its work on campaigns involving Harris. The letter doesn't allege that Authentic Campaigns' work for Harris ever overlapped with her father presiding over the hush-money case.

In May of 2023, the New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics found that Merchan wasn't compromised by his daughter's political activities, writing, "A relative's independent political activities do not provide a reasonable basis to question the judge's impartiality."

This feels like an article on two unrelated topics, but it's Trump so I should not be surprised.

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