Musk and Trump: A stormy bromance

How Musk and Trump put aside their differences

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd08np9z1o

Trump's Tech Fans

Musk was a member of the so-called PayPal mafia - stakeholders who made fortunes when the payment processor was bought for $1.5 billion and who later became prolific investors and corporate founders.

Installed this awesome image tool android app in Friday

#OpenSource #Android #AppyGeek

https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageResizer

I'd used this before a while back just thought I'd check it out again - its had some updates since I'd used it - the amount of tools it has now is just awesome - worth checking out

You can convert image files - resize image files - and much, much more

Like a Swiss army toolbox

There is nothing worse than someone who thinks they always have the moral high ground when posting about certain things

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table shows the different hostname options and their content blockers. Refer to this when configuring the DNS with the instructions below.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

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Meanwhile: #X #Rumble

MAGA-influencers on X have called for a boycott of Dunkin' Donuts after the chief executive of the video platform Rumble alleged that the fast-food chain declined to advertise with it because "the right wing culture of the site is too polarizing."

Rumble is joining Musk's company, X, in suing a group of advertisers over allegations that they withheld business from the social media firms because of the right-wing content hosted on their platforms.

crux of their argument is clear: the current language is insufficient and does not successfully balance the need for increased security with individual data privacy.

More here: #Cybercrime

https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2024/08/11/the-un-cybercrime-is-treaty-getting-ready-for-prime-time/

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Make no mistake, Sinkhole is a major security flaw. However, it’s not an exploit the vast majority of users need to worry about.

Sinkhole, which was discovered by researchers at IOActive, allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode.

“This recent cyber-enabled influence activity arises from a combination of actors which are conducting initial cyber-reconnaissance and seeding online personas and websites into the information space,” it warned.

Four influence operations Microsoft highlighted so far are: (screenshot)

Musk threatens to "out" Yousaf as a racisist with DM convos which would be in discovery if Yousaf did sue

Begs the question how does Musk know what's in they DM convos in first place - which is easily answered DMs aren't "invisible" on X - only verified user's/businesses can enable full DM encryption

https://help.x.com/en/using-x/encrypted-direct-messages

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Meanwhile:

Keir Starmer “reiterated the UK’s commitment to a strong partnership” with Egypt under dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who came to power in a coup killing hundreds 13 years ago and presides over one of the world’s most repressive regimes.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-president-el-sisi-of-egypt-8-august-2024

#BigBrotherWatch

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Not everything is as simple as black/bad or white/good there are always gray areas

And different shades of each that make things more complex than what you read from media reports