@briankrebs The sarcasm is strong in this one.

I am doing my job for more than 32 years now.

Email has been my primary method of communication from day 1 and I have archived nearly all emails (except spam and newsletters).

That are in total 47 GB till today with a rate of adding about 3GB per year (email bloat is hitting me hard).

I just cannot switch to #outlook Every time I tried, Outlook had one look at my email archive, whimpered, rolled over and died.

Mozilla #thunderbird in comparison is doing a complete full text search over all my 30+ years of communication.

That saved my ass multiple times.

I keep one year of communication in one folder. That makes it easier to track complicated affairs where the subject has changed during the exchange.

So here a big endorsement for OSS from me: https://www.thunderbird.net/

@briankrebs My AW is clearly meant only for Californian climate. Operating it our current weather gives me regularly your experience.

Do we have someone from #southkorea here that can explain things to an interested audience here?

I do not understand how the suspended president could not be arrested. News reports say that the "military" prevented it. From my understanding, the military is under civilian control. Are those rogue units?

@jerry I hear Ulysses had to deal with a lot of people telling him why that wooden horse thing would never work.

The advantage Ulysses had: he could chop their head of and close the ticket.

Remark concerning #Azerbaijan #Airlines #Flight #8243:

We would do well to remember the names of the pilots who died.

They fought for over an hour with a mortally wounded plane to get it as good as possible to the ground.

They had now yaw, no rudder, no ailerons, no flaps, only the power level of the engine as means of control.

Air Traffic Control denied them the use of the closest airports and sent them to cross a sea.

What they have shown is courage in the face of insurmountable odds. They knew exactly what their chances were. Their airmanship was on the highest possible level.

Their names are Igor Kshnyakin and Aleksandr Kalyaninov.

To the media: please don’t give any airtime to the obviously disinformation spreading speaker of the Kremlin and report about those who saved 29 lives.

Don't fix what isn't broken: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminals

In my professional opinion this is the best malware protected setup I have seen for years.

If some courtier from the times of Herny VIII. in England were to be transported into our time, he would feel right at home right now and he would be much better in deciphering what is happening than most journalists.

The second prediction is that Trump will put a lot of ambiguity in the communication concerning the favor those magnates are in.

E.g. he may speak out at one point in favor and at another against the breakup of Google.

This is done in order to keep them on their toes and encourage further gestures of submission until they happen habitually.

One prediction that would confirm my interpretation:

There will be a very public display of disfavor toward at least one tech or economic leader that wasn't kissing ring/ass enthusiastically enough.

This will be done pour encourager les autres.

If someone is wondering, why there are now suddenly so many donations to Trump (or settling of lawsuits) happening.

This is an ancient ritual called "kissing the ring" and we are observing it's modern implementation.

The phrase in an an allusion to a traditional manner of expressing obediance to a bishop (especially the pope) or king. You did this by bending your knee and kissing his ring.

All our dukes, barons and earls ... I mean our beloved economic leaders are now falling over their own feet in order to acknowledge the suzerainty of Trump.

My major criticism of Trump (far before any political ideology) is that he wants to rule and not to govern. He wants others to acknowledge his authority. This is far more important to him than what to do with that authority.

One could have sympathies with the company leaders if they were doing it in order to shield their employees from any fallout. But the major reason for them is to protect their own fiefdoms aka billions.

Like his dark master, Trump will have no qualms of wrecking any billionaire if someone crosses him. And the billionaires (quite realistically) believe the chances of the courts to side with them to be marginal. So they demonstrate subservidience.

This gestures are basically publicly saying:

We are willing to throw any employee, principle and user under the bus in order to protect what we have.

Interesting times ...

From time to time, I read things that make me wince. Lately this happens quite a lot. Certain election results now play out. But while this one is related, it is not a result of that election. But it made me wince even more.

Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/texas-house-introduces-bill-to-establish-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve.html

There is nothing strategic about having a Bitcoin. Especially it will not be there, when you most need it. It is just a ploy to transfer money from the taxpayer to the oligarchs and get more suckers to invest.