Like the Chinese Great Firewall? Do they have *any idea* how much that would cost? 🤦♂️
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 09:13:11 JST argv minus one -
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:48:15 JST argv minus one I'm afraid of them slipping further malware into my machine through their HTTPS interception, stealing my credit card number, etc. Or them getting compromised by criminals who then use their interception system to do that.
Anyway, apparently this is a thing in the Philippines, whose government is basically organized crime, from what I've heard, so I guess this is on-brand.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:30:46 JST argv minus one Once again, this only works if you have installed (malicious) software from your ISP on your computer. Otherwise, your browser will detect the interception and show a certificate error.
However, if your ISP is doing that, then *all* websites will show a certificate error, and will be inaccessible. To fix that without compromising your security, you must switch to a different ISP that actually respects your security, remove the intercepting device, or, yeah, use a VPN.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:30:45 JST argv minus one On a personal note, I would take extreme offense if my ISP attempted to do this. I consider it a cybercriminal attack on my systems' security.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 16:10:37 JST argv minus one The only way your ISP can do that is if you installed their malware on your computer. A VPN isn't going to save you from that.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 13:03:22 JST argv minus one In an emergency situation, humans instinctively obey whoever seems to know what's going on, and only start asking questions once the emergency is over.
This is usually a good thing, but criminals can exploit it. They say that if you wear a high-visibility vest and a hard hat, people will let you go pretty much anywhere.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 13:36:40 JST argv minus one Misinformation is like biological weapons: it will spread across the border and hit your own people, and there's nothing you can realistically do to prevent that, other than by not using it.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 05:15:14 JST argv minus one Once, when I was a boy, I was stopped by the teacher as I was leaving the last class of the day, and taken to detention.
This shocked me, as I had not committed any offense worthy of detention. On the way there, I demanded to know why I was being #detained.
He told me, “There's plenty of innocent people in jail.”
He was callous, but not mistaken. #Innocence is indeed not a defense.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 06:12:47 JST argv minus one Scotland wouldn't be part of anybody else's kingdom if it had nukes this whole time.
Nukes didn't exist back then, of course, but my point stands.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 06:03:10 JST argv minus one Indeed, and it's pretty hard to defend that independence against imperialistic aggression unless you have overwhelming firepower, i.e. nukes.
I wish it were not so. I wish that imperialistic aggression of any kind were met by an overwhelming non-nuclear response from the entire rest of the world. But as Ukraine can attest, that is not the world we live in.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 04:54:45 JST argv minus one Better than being invaded and conscripted into some foreign emperor's army, isn't it?
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 15:41:03 JST argv minus one With all the extreme-right-wing rhetoric south of your border and World War 3 unfolding in the east, you all would be fools to *not* have nukes on your soil.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 00:49:57 JST argv minus one Please tell me that junk was ultimately deleted.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 16:11:54 JST argv minus one What's your favorite #StarTrek title sequence, and why is it #StarTrekVoyager?
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 06:27:26 JST argv minus one Making myself happy is impossible unless I indulge in self-delusion.
Making myself miserable requires me merely to open my eyes.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 15:41:44 JST argv minus one But why do desperate people keep voting for the same politicians who are making them desperate?
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 20:59:13 JST argv minus one That would be me! Long time no see!
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 20:59:03 JST argv minus one We didn't have none of these new-fangled light-emitting doohickeys when I was young. If you wanted to see a picture on a screen back in my day, you'd point a 27-kilovolt death ray at your face, which came with a screen attached in front of it, and the death ray would light up the screen. This contraption somehow didn't kill us. Usually.
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 05:44:30 JST argv minus one My vague impression of how #PatrickStewart was convinced to return to acting in #StarTrekPicard is that it went something like this:
Studio: “Hey Patrick, wanna do #StarTrek again?”
Stewart: “No.”
Studio: “C'mooooon! We have this really cool script and everything!”
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argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 01:17:01 JST argv minus one Good. It's about time blatant lies in advertising were punished.