pntha

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  so, a tropical ding-dong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree; this could all happen, yes. What my original comment was trying to convey—and your reply adds to—is that the variables and complexities required to be maintained by X/Musk to ensure that the lie they are defending are hugely disproportionate to other operations that can field similar results. It is also an incredibly high-risk operation for X/Musk, in that a collusion operation of this magnitude risks global repercussions. The required amount of time, effort and resources against politicians or reporters wouldn’t be worth X/Musk’s investment when simpler techniques can be executed at lower risk and require far less resources.

  It really just comes down to a cost/benefit/risk analysis. Do we start fake-posting official accounts and risk massive legal and public fallout? Or do we pay Putin $X million to spin up a bunch of bots and push a particular message that could sway public opinion in a similar direction, with very little traceable evidence and virtually no risk to X/Musk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m trying to convey, in the face of your obnoxious sarcasm, is that while the administration would of course interfere in what should be an objective investigation, politicians and reporters have a wealth of powerful advocates in their support networks. The administration can only control the message/investigation of the SS. They cannot control the message or investigations of the victim’s support network, however hard they may try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s run a little scenario: a reporters post is doctored or posted completely outside of their control. Their boss calls them in:
  “Did you post this?”
  “No”
  “Yeap, treason!”

  Please don’t confuse enthusiasm with critical thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lock the account from being able to make edits

  So, the victim watches their post publish. Acknowledges it’s been doctored. Attempts to edit. Receives some error. And shrugs it off and puts their phone away…? They’ll turn to the closest person with broader knowledge of IT and then it snowballs from there. And that timeline post-publishing would be sufficient evidence for reasonable doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How would the server admin know the real-time location of the victim to spoof the GPS coordinates? How would the admin know if the victim was with others who could verify they weren’t engaged in their device? How could the admin counter legitimate logs from other applications or services the victim might be using at the timestamp of the post?

  There are far too many variables to be able to execute this successfully by professionals, let alone a bunch of IT staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …the obvious flaw that said investigations would clearly conclude the posts were doctored?

  The metadata of posts include too many data points (IP address, GPS coords, etc.) needing precise alteration in line with the exact movements of a victim that it would just be too complex to achieve a desirable outcome for Musk. Even if the SS’s investigations were subjective in their approach and/or conclusion, independent investigations would provide a trove of reasonable doubt, even if denied access to the data (which, in itself, would be a point of reasonable doubt).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this thing, a spring loaded tampon or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer—a spring loaded toilet roll holder. You slide the spring in to replace the TP. on the holder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC NEWS is Australia’s No 1 digital news brand; announces new look, features and functionality⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  did they just rebrand Israeli- blue and white

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky studio Hello Games unveil Light No Fire, a fantasy survival game set on a single, huge planet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  which I am going to characterise as Fable meets Microsoft Flight Simulator

  i just weed a little

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The current state of Instagram⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you use a VPN? I use Proton VPN and it doesn’t like logging me in when using the VPN. When I’m logged in, the VPN works fine though.