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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • Hey, asshole, not everyone who lives in a rural area and is poor is a Trump supporter. Nor, would being a Trump supporter mean that it’s okay to let them freeze or cheer at other people suffering. You’re engaging in exactly the same toxic dehumanization as the MAGA crowd.

    If you think rural voters are your enemy or the source of our problems, then you’re woefully ignorant about the current political situation or how political influence works.

    You’re very much right to be angry, but make sure you know where that anger should be directed before making outrage bait posts like this.




  • Rsyslog comes standard on most linux distros, yes. It didn’t get that way because the development team are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing.

    So, on one hand we have the developers of a piece of software used by a majority of Linux users saying that, after 2 years of evaluation and testing, that these tools are useful and effective and on the other hand we have random social media people who’s only knowledge on the topic is that they know AI is bad and therefore this cannot be anything but bad.






  • I, like the other commenters here, am not privy to the 2 years of evaluation and experimentation.

    However, I won’t let that stop me from condemning this in no uncertain terms because AI bad and that’s more correct than any amount of “observational data” or “experimental evidence”.

    We may not be users of the software, contributors to the project or were even aware of what rsyslog is prior to seeing this announcement but as people who are chronically outraged we have valid concerns about this development which will ruin the software that we only recently discovered existed.



  • what would be really cool is if it binned the storage keys for one user and not the other, silently. That way you could actually protect your data, without being martyred.

    If you leave the primary account ‘blank’ and use a secondary account for your personal use then you can do that.

    When you logout of a secondary profile, GrapheneOS zeroes the keys from memory so that even an attacker with full control of the phone could not retrieve the keys unless you entered your password to re-generate them.


  • I feel like it should also open into a fake account that looks like a real account so they are busy on that while the real account is getting deleted. They should probably start with items listed by the user as important to delete first.

    It doesn’t bother with files. The GrapheneOS wipe process deletes (by overwriting with 0s) the encryption headers on the drive and zeros the keys out of memory before shutting down.

    You should never, ever allow anyone access to your unlocked phone that you don’t trust. Even an otherwise smartphone could be exploited if it is unlocked because it exposes a much larger attack surface.






  • Exactly.

    This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments.

    In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example).

    This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country.

    Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.



  • The person is using heroin as a metaphor for a destructive product that causes harm to its users in order to setup an article about digital privacy. When people use metaphors, we all understand that they’re a rhetorical technique and not an attempt at describing reality.

    If someone says that their grandchildren are perfect little angles, you don’t say “well, actually, angels are divine beings who don’t dwell upon this earth Grandma, so your grandchildren are not angels and also you’re so dumb for literally thinking that.” In this scenario, it isn’t the grandmother that is dumb.

    You’re getting caught up in the fact that he said to imagine a scenario. You think that the fake scenario he imagined, where US corporations are selling recreational heroin, is not as bad as the current opioid epidemic. That is a completely irrelevant detail because, once again, the article isn’t about drugs.

    It’s like you’re saying “this guy is stupid, you can’t put social media in a spoon and melt it over a candle in order to inject it into your arm!”. Sure, I guess you’d be correct, but it would be completely irrelevant and make it look like you can’t navigate basic conversations without pointless digressions about irrelevant details.