@nileane@macstories@cwebber mossier literally said transphobic attacks were “rough joshing between friends” and so threads would do nothing about them.
Before you start with “WeLL cHaNgE tHe LaW”, we both know there’s no civil law that will stop this. You know better than most that even if a unicorn jury levied the amount of fine that would actually hurt, if it made it out of the courtroom, it would be reduced to a pittance and MAYBE an apology on appeal.
This is unarguable. We’ve seen it happen.
So when, exactly, do CEO’s of companies who make decisions that provably kill people face any form of legal penalty?
Every year, large numbers of people die, are bankrupted, are disabled, are slammed into generational poverty because of UHC et al.
These companies, by their pursuit of profit have actually caused death and destruction and the worst, the absolute worst they will ever face is: a civil penalty. A fine that will amount to couch change.
If the shooter was someone who’d lost a family memeber due to UHC denying a procedure or medication, (these are not imaginary hypotheticals, people actually die because of this), someone with a family member who’d been effectively murdered by that man’s company, this would be a very different discussion.
Those who are protected by the law are not bound by it, those who are bound by the law are not protected by it.
Whether or not you approve of a CEO being treated like someone who died because their medical needs were deemed unnecessary by said CEO, the fact you seem to have no understanding of what men like him have done and how it could push someone to take that action is really disappointing.
@inthehands@stephstephking@markmorow at least half of my success in it is because I can write well. I can communicate my ideas to people who aren’t me or aren’t in tech.
Them: “you have a vulnerability relating to <CVE>”
Me: <reads CVE> “the CVE refers to a file not on <server>, vuln scanner is doing <process I understand *very* well because I use it daily> which only gives a version number. It’s a dumb plugin”
Them: “how will you mitigate?”
Me: “the file referenced does not exist on the server, it is perfectly mitigated”
@shortridge but if everyone used modern best practice and architected systems to be both resistant and resilient by design, then cyberbros would no longer be seen as Superman!
@shortridge it’s how they’ve been taught to see things. If you look in their lives, they view almost everything through the “value is determined by pain” lens.
They can’t just work out, they have to find the most extreme gym. They can’t just have a nice home wifi, they have to run conduit for fiber to everything.
A *lot* of them have to make everything hard so they feel fulfilled in accomplishing it.
Okay, new iPad Pro is downloading its initial SW update. Using my iPhone for the initial setup really removes so many pain points. It is indeed very thin.
Musk is saying you’ll soon be able to use a dorktruck as a boat. MFer, it can’t handle a CAR WASH or RAIN. But the culties will absolutely take him seriously and someone is going to drown in the fucking thing.
My security team: “we just eliminated a core functionality without warning or notice and you’re only going to find out when your users start complaining.”
Us: “we understand why you did that and in many ways it was a good idea but there’s no way this was a spur of the moment decision so we’re a bit put out that we got no warning so we could have new systems in place to replace that functionality”
I’m a writer, but don’t expect deep, personal shit. I’m a sysadmin who doesn’t like nerds, they’re every bit as willing to be the most vicious and petty of bullies as the people they claim they’re so very different from.But as individuals, they’re all right.If I say “free software” I ONLY am speaking of the price.Blog is now on ActivityPub: bynkiidotcom.wordpress.com@bynkiidotcom.wordpress.com