Why hemp straws aren't everywhere baffles me, they're perfect replacements.
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It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.
Cypherpunks, arise!
You're such a cute chocolate bunny!
Now who's that glum one on the left?
Good questions, and important that we crowdsource verification of this. I saw some other posts on bsky that other people have received these emails, suggesting it is not a single instance. Implication is that it's a new automated effort, perhaps "by AI", to intimidate people en masse. But it could be fake, so the more examining it, the better.
EDIT: Link here to a thread, indicating others have received these emails: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h
I was trying to sound the alert that this might be a thing -- BUT if it turns out to be fake, please by all means shout to the hilltops that it is bunk.
US is a no-go zone until further notice AFAICT.
Credit Unions! At least I hope in your country they exist, and are better than banks which, where I live, they most DEFINITELY are.
There's a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.
... but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.
You bring up a good point, but I'm not sure enough Americans are ready or aware, or desperate enough, yet, that civil disobedience is a thing. I hope they progress to using it very soon.
Bananas in ICE vehicle tailpipes. Not paying taxes. Jamming ICE 'snitch' phone numbers with spurious reports ... that sort of thing.
.. where is the footage of police dragging this ICE agent in cuffs to contempt jail? It means nothing if he is not jailed. Was he? Will he be?
You're right, the text itself doesn't spell out any exemptions.
I guess I was just (badly) trying to express my skepticism that our own media and/or society at large would be willing to apply this definition to our own local governments or government-adjacent orgs, even if they met the criteria.
Which wasn't really the point of this post anyhow I suppose... I'll shut my trap now :)
I saw them at a coffee shop in Field, BC a few years ago and asked the owner about them, as I thought at first they were maybe pasta or some kind of starch-based bioplastic (the holder was just labelled 'biodegradable straws'); they felt just like a good sturdy plastic straw. The ones I saw were translucent beige, but websites I find them on show opaque green straws so I don't know what the difference is there.