I mean, Paypal is a bank that isn’t beholden to all the normal bank regulations and customer protection rules due to technicalities. They have been caught effectively seizing customer funds through locking accounts for questionable reasons before, and offer no reasonable way of recovering funds from locked accounts. Numerous stories of people operating online etsy (and similar) storefronts getting accounts locked for vague claims they were actively money laundering, with no means for appeal.

Anyone just now becoming aware of the paypal execs’ corruption hasn’t been paying attention.

In my experience the “privacy and security” argument is a smokescreen.

The real reason is that it makes someone else responsible for zero-days occuring, for the security of the tool, and for fixing security problems in the tool’s code. With open source tools the responsibility shifts to your cybersecurity team to at least audit the code.

I don’t know about your workplace, but there’s no one qualified for that at my workplace.

A good analogy: If you build your house yourself, you’re responsible for it meeting local building codes. If you pay someone else to build it, you can still have the same problems, but it’s the builder’s responsibility.

Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.

The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.

It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.

But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.

Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn’t it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

Sad part is that he’s likely to get away with this pne since it’s not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

Holy shit take the L.

No one here disagrees with that, or is unaware of the “sUbTeXt”.

That’s just not how subtext works. You don’t get to say one thing, then claim you meant something entirely different (the reasonable take) and call it subtext.

Using the same source ports that run them on Linux, but on Windows instead, is not a significant hurdle or differentiator between the OSes.

Can’y speak for every TV, but some of them should support downloading the firmware update from the manufacturer, tossing it on a USB stick, and plugging the USB into the TV to update.

It made another insurance company walk back terms that were going to set a limit on the amount of time surgeries could take or they wouldn’t cover them. The company announced it the morning after and walked it back that afternoon.

I’m not sure it justifies things, or the cost this change came at, but it is prettt direct evidence of an insurance company thinking twice

This is also why there was such coordinated effort to shut down wikileaks, or to at least stall out the cultural movement that was building behind it.

If you give people a methodology to whistleblow that at least on paper allows them to stay anonymous and avoid putting their life/livelyhood/survival in jeapordy, that removes one of the biggest disincentives.

You’ll need to get a fake/burner phone number for account verification. Some voip numbers will work, but you’ll probably need to try a handful of providers to find one that does.

This isn’t subversion, or any sort of theocratic hellscape.

Girl could have gotten an abortion 100% legally up through 20 weeks of preganancy. At 24 weeks the fetus becomes viable outside the womb. At 28 weeks she (with the assistance of her mother) took meds to kill the fetus and induce a stillbirth, commenting that she couldn’t wait to be able to wear jeans again.

She goes through natural labor to pass the stillbirth outside of any medical facility or supervision, burns the remains, and buries them on a farm. When questioned by police, she and her mother admit to using Facebook Messenger to discuss their plans.

The only thing in any way related to the romanticized fiction of some sort of downtrodden freedom seeker you’re talking about is that using encrypted communications would have prevented their discussions from being available to be subpeona’d. That said, admitting to police you even had those discussions in the first place kind of defeats the damn purpose.