for the original musical score by DALDO, if nothing else!

if you’re a contractor, yeah. actual government employees get paid peanuts compared to industry.

it looks a lot more involved than any background check I’ve done for industry. depending on clearance level your friends and family will be interviewed by FBI agents, and they’ll ask your friends for more friends to interview, etc. I think it goes back 10 years. they will also require you to do a polygraph, for higher clearance.

also lying on the form lands you in prison, which is definitely more intense than lying on an industry background check. oh, and you have to report any foreign contact, too, as long as your clearance is active.

and they’re really strict about drugs, debt, cheating (or being cheated on!), mental illness, having parents or spouses from other countries…

Trump rounds trans people up into death camps

“another attempt to distract us from the Epstein files!”

I’m pretty sure the Epstein files are the distraction from sending the military to conquer our own cities.

pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.

and even that’s overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.

until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.

/uj not really but that’d be sick as hell.

for work I have a cloud dev VM, in which I run WSL2. so there’s at least two levels of VMs happening, maybe three honestly.

Matthew J. Nykiel, a board-certified surgeon, stated the appearance is modeled after Ivanka Trump’s appearance.[9] Melinda Anna Farina, an aesthetic consultant, identified the Mar-a-Lago face as attempting to emulate the appearance of Eastern European women.[2]

but there’s totally no cult of personality /s

is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?

and make MAGA Place pay for it?

if anyone has one of these phones, please contact CitizenLab. they can reverse-engineer it.

it’s weird that he uses those juvenile nicknames even in private(?) conversation.

the Soviet Union had a similar organization, with the same name (in English, anyway - it was Komsomol.) Its motto was “Be Prepared!”

I’m honestly not sure how different it is than the Boy/Girl Scouts, except maybe with more political indoctrination.

…you’re literally on the fediverse right now?

international treaties, for one. second because lack of encryption discourages commercial/non-hobbyist use. third because the spirit of Ham is for Hams to all listen and transmit to each other.

I think FCC still takes it pretty seriously.

just use Meshtastic/LoRa. you can use encryption and you don’t need a Ham license. your output power is limited but I’ve heard of people getting 50+ miles of range for reception.

specifically, for ham you’re not allowed to obscure the meaning of your transmissions. this means no:

• symmetric cryptography
• numbers stations (one-time pad ciphers)
• communicating in codewords (“the Falcon has left the nest, over!”

but you can use:

• compression
• commercial telegraph codes (e.g. 22415 = “Partly cloudy with a chance of showers”), as long as you’re using a public codebook
• message authentication codes (to prevent forging messages)
• (arguably) asymmetric cryptography for signatures, identity challenge/response
• encrypted control messages for hobbyist satellites (special exemption)

so authentication is possible, just not privacy.

specifically this is how QUANTUMINSERT worked (from the Snowden leaks.) also China used the same technique, injecting malicious JS through the GFW to get bystanders to DDoS github, in a much more obvious and indiscriminate way.

nobody here is remotely likely to be targeted by NSA, of course, but you can actually do such attacks on a budget if you compromise any router in the chain. combined with a BGP hijack it’s not far out of reach for even a ransomware gang to pull something like that these days.

Zalgo captchas would go so hard.