This is what we have before the government invests $500 billion USD into AI surveillance research, imagine what we’ll have after!

I mean, aside from a shit ton of new H-1B hires.

(To be clear, I have nothing against the hires themselves, but the fraud and deception used to skip past qualified domestic labor. The money earned by visa holders being spent overseas is also concerning since that money loses any velocity it has within the American economy).

Did I start a thing? Is this going to be Lemmy’s version of the safe?

Does that happen? I’ve heard of double yolks but not nested eggs. This is our first year with the girls so first I’m seeing this.

I did get an egg with no shell once, just the thin membrane. Didn’t take a picture tho.

Something similar already exists. I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from buying a certificate from Digicert or GoDaddy or whatever and sign your emails with it, but you can’t exactly use it to sign on to your bank or IRS.gov.

DoD PKI has the ECA program, though, and it is a requirement to authenticate to a lot of DoD resources.

I’d be very supportive of a public, public key infrastructure and Identity Provider.

They should eventually be necessary for some things…like any official government or online banking business. Essentially anywhere you would expect something to be notarized or witnessed.

But they should be optionally allowed on other services. I wouldn’t accept requiring an official government ID to shitpost on Reddit, but if I were a celebrity and I could use it to officially verify myself on Mastodon, or even Facebook? Sure.

People misunderstand what client certificates are and what they do. They are a pair of keys, private and public. You use the private key to digitally sign (and/or encrypt) a message. The public key (client certificate) is issued by a third-party entity that all involved parties trust (the certificate authority), as proof that it has received a message signed by the same private key in the past.

By storing the private keys on something portable but non-exportable, like a smartcard, they are the “something you have” in multifactor authentication. And by virtue of needing to be protected by a password/pin/passphrase, proof of “something you know”.

It’s the digital equivalent of a state issued ID or driver’s license, and personally I think it’s absurd we don’t have it by now. You technically don’t “need” a state-issued ID to do anything, but they also certainly make modern life a hell of a lot easier.

Abolitionists were a growing minority. Lincoln didn’t just wake up one day and free the slaves…but we are still 18 years away from the 200 year anniversary of the emancipation proclamation.

But society (US society) as a whole accepted slavery as a fact of life.

Just like we accept suicide nets, sweat factories, “inmate labor”, ,Uighur camps, and North Korean “mercenaries” as facts of life today. We don’t want them, we just choose to forget they exist. Through our collective inaction, we passively condone them.

Plenty of individuals oppose them enough to actively avoid supporting them in any way, but they are such an inconsiderable minority of consumers, in the eyes of the corporate lords.

Ethics: refer to a set of principles and guidelines that are established by a community, organization, or society to promote responsible and respectful behavior.

Law reflects the ethics of the populace, not the other way around.

“Ethical” is a social construct that’s time-bound based upon the beliefs and actions of the people.

Slavery was ethical, for the population of slavers. The holocaust was ethical, based upon the beliefs of Nazis.

“Ethics” isn’t a guideline, it’s a benchmark.

History is written by the winners and we are all a product of our environment, including our time. If we were born 200 years ago in the US South, we’d be perfectly fine with slavery.

That doesn’t make it right, we have a different perspective here in the present, where we understand (or at least understood) basic human rights, and that black people are, indeed, human.

Hasn’t changed?

Dude an eighth of dro when I was in HS (c2003) was like $60.

My local dispo has eights specials everyday for $13 that blow that shit out of the water.

And then 10x mix-and-match 1g pre rolls for $40.

Fuck man, cheap weed is the only thing making this timeline bearable.

I got chickens. I got eggs coming out their wazoos. Giving them away to friends and family because we can’t possibly use them fast enough, even in the winter.

I don’t disagree, but I do think that the deliberate part is to get everybody talking about Elon while Trump goes through and destroys America unchecked.

They know we’ve got the attention span of goldfish, and they know we’re much more apt to focus on a controversial person doing naughty things.

These people literally control the narrative. Everything is deliberate and malicious.

Can we chill with the Nazi salute guys?

Like, I get it, Musk is a Nazi shitbag. Not much of a surprise there.

But I’ve seen like 100 posts about the damn salute and like 2 about the flood of EOs that Trump has put out the last two days.

Starting to wonder if the salute was an intentional distraction. Because of course the Internet would be on fire about that.

North (of Mexico) America.

Nah it’ll get changed to “if three or four grandparents are non-citizens”.

And people still won’t see parallels.

ADL? What’s that? Aryan Defense League?

Well, that’s just poetic.

Can we just go to the old whitehouse.com?

Musk is gonna run DOGE like he runs everything else…fast and loose. Let the bugs run out in production and chase 'em there.

s/bugs/lawyers

One thing about musk…he shoots first and asks questions later. He is the embodiment of asking for forgiveness instead of permission. That can be a good trait in some circumstances, but not really in running a government agency.

That’s what we really need.

Say what you will about the founders. Even they were bourgeoisie and slavers…they still could provide more energy than a god damn Dyson Sphere if we could harness the centrifugal force of them spinning in their graves.

What about Brock Allen Turner? We all remember the scumbag rapist Brock Allen Turner from Stanford, right?

I like to move it, move it.