Lumisal
@Lumisal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 5 hours ago:
I literally quoted an article saying how meta and Yandex specifically got through operating system features it wasn’t supposed to.
Anyone who comes across this chain can easily see at this point you’re a bad faith troll now. A bad one at that. This discussion is over. Blocking you now.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 11 hours ago:
Okay now I know you’re arguing in bad faith. Not only were 2 of the articles about apps on a phone and not external Israeli software, but over half my comment was about on-phone software bypassing permissions.
Goodbye.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 1 day ago:
Bet you can go to 25
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 day ago:
Phaseolus
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 1 day ago:
We have evidence that they can do, simply not evidence that they’re doing it currently.
Israeli technology is already used to bypass encryption and security on both Android AND iOS. This despite the documentation showing they have security features that make them safe. Here’s just some news articles talking about it over the years: gizmodo.com/cops-have-less-time-to-break-into-iph…
www.msn.com/en-in/technology/…/ar-AA1Np36m
twoeva.com/2025/…/android-apps-spyware-exposed/
npr.org/…/what-happens-when-law-enforcement-wants…
arstechnica.com/…/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymiz…
And despite it being well known by now that they’re able to do this, neither Alphabet nor Apple has been able to (willing to?) stop them.
It would be utterly naive to think that Israel can’t make an app that can ignore being disabled, considering they can make software that can straight up get around literal security features allowing law enforcement to enter locked phones. The last article in particular is about bypassing system rules, quote;
The covert tracking—implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers—allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they’re off-limits for every other site.
Basically, you’d have to e stupid to think that a system saying “permission not allowed” is enough to stop a maliciously intended app, but even more stupid to think Israeli backed technology can’t, considering the existence of tools like Pegasus and the past operations and actions of Mossad, along with so many governments adopting Palantir.
At best, you’re blissfully ignorant of things, at worst you’re part of the problem, to think this pre-installed app can simply be stopped by disabling it. If they seek to spy on you, a disablement isn’t going to stop them. It’s laughable you think it is. That you think it isn’t, really shows how little you actually know or understand the technology.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 2 days ago:
You don’t have evidence that Israeli app developers can’t do this either.
It’s almost as of we’re lacking the money, skills, and manpower of a nation or something.
- Comment on reddit chatroom 2 days ago:
Seems like the other person replied “A skill issue? 😂” Btw lol
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 2 days ago:
Sure, you tell yourself that buddy. Israel is happy for you to believe it.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 4 days ago:
Yes. It’s not the first time it’s been done either. Then there’s the loopholes as well, like Meta was doing recently.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 days ago:
You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin. People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is. It won’t spike in value over 3 months or dive off a cliff by multitudes of thousands.
But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars - it’s the most traded currency in the world. It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.
If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.
And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 days ago:
Do the majority of locations that offer goods and services accept USDC in it’s designated region? Can you buy groceries at basically anywhere with it, watch a movie, pay for a gym subscription etc with it? Can you buy a home or other shelter with it?
If no, then no, I don’t, since it didn’t meet that criteria.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 days ago:
A form of relatively stable currency that is accepted to have value for the trade of goods and services by the majority of locations.
Memecoins from pump fun that are less stable than Trump’s mood and vent be used to buy pretty much anything are definitely not that
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 4 days ago:
- said every hacker ever
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 5 days ago:
Because Israel has shown itself to be trustworthy when it comes to software /s
- Comment on Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change 1 week ago:
Orpo isn’t the reason Finland is so green. It’s the previous governments - him and his party would be glad to go to Fossil fuels given the chance. All while he does his best to wreck unions and make the rich richer.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 1 week ago:
So far a 45° mouse has been the best for me
- Comment on Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes 1 week ago:
If it’s historic shouldn’t it have dirt roads?
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 2 weeks ago:
Being one doesn’t exclude the other tho
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 2 weeks ago:
Eh, context. If it’s meant without protection, it’s a very different story. STDs are still a thing.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Ok, tankie
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, deflection and avoiding to answer.
I figured, you’re just another fascist troll pretending to be leftist. Either that or inadvertently carrying water for the far right.
- Comment on Shhh 2 weeks ago:
*Mario
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Still on that “appeal to law” fallacy huh?
Since apparently you can’t be arsed to look it up, here’s a direct link: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_law
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
The Biden/Harris admin acknowledged climate change, and appointed the first Native American to the position of Secretary of the Interior, who then approved the Willow Project (which climate scientists declared a world ending “carbon bomb”), and approved such a record number of fossil fuel extractions that the courts struck them down for not considering the climate impact.
Yes, he approved that. He also did all of this. In particular, I’d like to point out this part in the wiki:
“Some environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, Sunrise Movement, Earthjustice, and more, claim that President Biden took 322 actions to protect the environment—more than any other president in history.”
Although I disagree that those actions are as equivalent as important as say the National Parks program for example. Either way, go ahead and show that the Trump admin has even mentioned the intention of doing anything similar. I’ll wait. (You do realize this rhetoric only helps the fascists too, right? Just as much as pretending the DNC Dems are left wing).
The Biden admin’s CDC prematurely ended Covid guidelines, and let the ceo of Delta set their post-infection isolation guidelines. Biden’s FDA were approving drugs that they knew didn’t work, because they wanted to appease their pharma lobbyists.
To pretend that the Biden administration’s actions were ANYTHING near as bad as Trump’s is just a bad faith argument. It honestly just makes you seem like you’re purposefully making the literal anti-science fascists seem not bad by pretending the two were even close, for fuck’s sake. At least the dude knew basic fucking biology.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Kamala and get administration wouldn’t have put an antivaxxer in charge of the FDC or climate deniers in charge of the EPA etc.
Nor would they have had straight up thugs running around like the current ICE.
The Dems (or more specifically, the DNC) have definitely enabled on purpose the Republicans. But they at least mostly followed the law and kept order.
I understand the frustration of people not understanding that the DNC Democrats are very right wing as well, and even actually collaborate with Republicans / fascists. But they’re more culturally liberal oligarchs than straight up authoritarian fascists. People would still be harmed by their policies, but groups like Transexuals wouldn’t have to fear they’ll get killed by the government.
Equating the two completely is bad faith. They’re very close - cut a neoliberal and a fascist bleeds - but they’re not the same. Under Kamala, the might have been a 10% chance at a more peaceful resolution via elections (maybe 25% if Trump died, 50% if he actually went to jail) because leftists like Mamandi could have kept running and winning some power.
But under Trump, there’s no more chance of that at all, PLUS it accelerates all the bad thing.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Stating not breaking laws is equivalent to doing no harm / doing nothing wrong is the logical fallacy, specifically “appeal to law”.
Saying a genocide has to happen in order for someone’s evil to be justified however, is insane. By your logic, attempted murder shouldn’t be a crime either, because no one got liked.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Just because you’re not a fighter doesn’t mean you’re right.
Did your dad stop because you didn’t fight back?
I’m sorry, but you sound more like my older brother than anything. Guess which one of us didn’t get beat as a teen at some point?
A bully doesn’t stop just because you’re peaceful. A psychopath doesn’t go easier on people because there’s less resistance. Even you tried violence - you think incarceration isn’t a form of violence? If you say no, you’d be saying when you got locked up in a room, that was a peaceful action then. But we both know that’s not the case, is it? Even you tried putting the fucker in a jail - just not with your own violence but with the backing of the state.
Trump nearly getting shot didn’t win him the election. Running Kamala as his opponent did, and I had told my family as much back then (this is assuming there were no electoral shenanigans).
And whether Charlie Kirk lived or died, there already has been violence against others. That’s what ICE is. That’s what the gay voice actor for King of the Hill getting killed was. That’s what Kyle Rittenhouse did.
The government is run by people like your dad. Was your dad someone who would change if nothing was done against him? What if now, you made it so he could avoid legal consequences too? What if he knew the police, the courts, etc would never touch him?
That’s what you’re dealing with.
I don’t blame you for being a coward, and thinking being peaceful will maybe make things better. Not everyone has that fire in them. My brother didn’t, and my mother didn’t for the longest time either. Some people do, some don’t. That’s not your fault. You don’t have to support those willing to fight back.
But you sure as hell don’t get to say it’s wrong for them to do so either. They fight so people like you, hopefully, one day, don’t go through the shit you did. They kill if they have to because there’s no alternative left. Had they done so much, much sooner, things wouldn’t have been as bad as they are. But the bullies have convinced the majority that docility will make things better - because having no opposition is what they want.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
I meant past tense.
Future tense it’s too late. I meant as in under Kamala instead of Trump.
Things would still be terrible, but they’d undeniably be less terrible. There still being suffering doesn’t change that there would be less of it.
Not to mention it would slow down climate change a bit more compared to the current regime, which instead going full throttle on the gas pedal. And that’s something that affects all humans.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
We were better off with the Dems in charge. The difference is it’s like having your feet on fire vs full emolation. But the point is it’s easier to extinguish feet than it is the whole body, and causes less damage too.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps not American law (well, that’s debatable too), but he certainly would have been hanged to death at the Nuremberg trials, since he has done the same propaganda that other Nazis in Hitler’s government did. That is, if we simply ignore your “appeal to law” fallacy.
That he faced no consequences for stochastic terrorism among other things is only an indication of both your justice system and your country’s morality. Violence like this, against people like him, only happens when there is a lack of justice.
As for how absolute free speech (not to be confused with regulated speech or absolute censorship) can be the seeds of authoritarianism, I suggest you read Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” as a starting source. Speech without consequences begets falsehoods that are ripe for any right wing government to co-opt. Which is exactly what has been happening in the USA for quite some time.