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Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by HWR_14 »

XorNot wrote: post #117
Den_VR wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a 6.6 billion dollar plan to alleviate famine in 43 countries for one year, so, no.

Also famines are political problems to start with. We have more then enough food. Getting it to people reliably is the issue - i.e. there's usually a plethora of other issues like an active war. It also isn't an economically isolated enterprise: Ukrainian grain shipments traversing into Europe via Polish roads and not heading to Africa via their ports caused a bunch of price crashes which became political flashpoints…

Which is why UNESCO's plan focused on delivering the food, not buying it.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by e40 »

jrmg wrote: post #123

I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet: [The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese company the US government sanctioned, shipping tracking infrastructure inside the sitting president's official app) The executive branch has decided this company is so dangerous I can’t buy a monitor made by them - but it’s embedding its SDK in its official app?! I…

Incompetence is the forte of this administration.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by psadauskas »

csallen wrote: post #45
psadauskas wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right? If I had enough money that I could make a serious dent in local or even global poverty without noticing the change in my lifestyle, and I just... chose not to, I have no idea how I could sleep at night.

Huge numbers (billions) of people have enough money to make massive changes to the lives of those less fortunate than them, but don't, and prefer instead to make incremental upgrades to their own lives. New rugs, more savings, first-class airline tickets, eating out a few more times a month, etc. This is just human nature. People who are at wealth level x tend to say, "I can't believe that people at wealth level x+1…

I'm not talking about people with x+1, where X is a standard US middle-class amount of money. In that case, $20k or $100k or some amount that would make a tiny difference in the world is a huge amount of money to a middle-class family.

No, I'm talking about wealth level X*100. For them, the difference between $100M and $1B is basically no difference in the quality of life to that family. They'd have 1 fewer megayachts. They could give away $900M, and eliminate hunger forever in a large city or a small state. $100B is 100x that again, they could give away $99.9B, still have $100M, and solve poverty in most _countries_.

Or, if they don't want to, we institute a 90% wealth tax on everything over $10M, and solve it ourselves.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by e40 »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #105
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.

At least there you might be asked to stand in front of a canon if you don’t kiss ass hard enough.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by jazz9k »

flir wrote: post #124
esseph wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” “I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people who like to listen to my success,” he added.

Whew. If ever the phrase "small dick energy" was appropriate... (I have nothing useful to add, I'm just boggling).

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Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by hamstergene »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #110
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.

A simple answer is that they see neither.

What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says "North Korean propaganda here!!! -->", carefully drawn by their local propaganda.

Sanity check: I present you a country X, whose language you don't speak, and whose news you don't read day to day. I show you their politician saying something. Can you tell if that was propaganda? Substitute X from "North Korea" to a country you know nothing about and see how the answer changes.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by ghurtado »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #105
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.

I have no doubt in my mind that, more than once, Kim Jong Un has found himself watching TV going "come on, this guy is fucking ridiculous"

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by N_Lens »

e40 wrote: post #142
jrmg wrote: post #123

I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet: [The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese company the US government sanctioned, shipping tracking infrastructure inside the sitting president's official app) The executive branch has decided this company is so dangerous I can’t buy a monitor made by them - but it’s embedding its SDK in its official app?! I…

Incompetence is the forte of this administration.

Followed closely by malice

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by jazz9k »

literalAardvark wrote: post #79
malfist wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's ming boggling just how....cringe... these billionaires that want to run the world are. Makes you wonder if the personas that seek billions are correlated strongly with mental illnesses.

I think they are, and strongly. The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem. Well adjusted individuals just chill out after a few million and work on whatever is fun/important for them. Only rarely does this also happen to be something that can take you from 10M to 1B. (and if it can it would take a lot of work you can't be bothered to do unless it's some core value like he…

"The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem."

This sounds like all of the cope I continue to hear about successful people. Very successful people MUST have something wrong with them...

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by ghurtado »

e40 wrote: post #144
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.

At least there you might be asked to stand in front of a canon if you don’t kiss ass hard enough.

Imagine telling those North Koreans that there are millions of people in the US that do it all for free.

Hell, some will even pay extra for access to the highest levels of ass kissing.

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