Yeh, the difference between being high value (twitter) and an actual high value (government) target are entirely different.

Exactly. Tesla or Twitter might be on a country’s radar for juicy IP theft reasons, but that’s a speck of dust in comparison to a network full of classified government secrets. A country doesn’t burn multiple zero-days and backdoor supply chains to find out the contents of the next Tesla firmware update. They sure as hell do when it gives them access to military information and civil infrastructure of a world power.

I wonder if DOGE have reputable hardware, or if they cheapest out on servers.

I doubt it. If the way Elon talks about software is indicative of his understanding of hardware or cybersecurity, he has absolutely no idea what the fuck he’s actually doing. Knowing that, it’s probably an off the shelf commercial rack-mount with IME enabled and the management port plugged into the same switch as the regular network interface.

the muSSk team learn from it, and figure out how actual internet security works, and harden their systems accordingly.

They won’t. Musk is a narcissist who thinks his every instruction is perfection, and his merry gang of racist goons are wet-behind-the-ears grads who have yet to be humbled by experience.

My predicted outcome is they fix this hole, send the FBI after the grey-hats to make an example out of them, and continue on business as usual while a foreign nation laughs from the shadows with a rootkit installed. DOGE is a treasure trove of data, and network security is a cat and mouse game that takes real manpower and time to set up, maintain, and actively monitor. I don’t think these chucklefucks know anything about being a high-value target of state actors, and they’re too prideful to admit it and get help.

Oh, great. So it’s also another regressive push towards recreating the mysognist shithole decades where married women were treated as the property of their husbands. What’s next, giving married men in heterosexual relationships two votes?

Oh, I’m calling it now. This one is going to be used as an attack of trans people. Throw out the archaic and manual process of updating names in federal databases, and keep it simple by making the records immutable. Then hit them with a lovely

“You MUST use your REAL NAME (MAIDEN NAME) on government forms. If the name does not match, you will be denied.”

In contemporary language, that word (among others) is almost entirely used as an insult by way of equating somebody’s intelligence with those who have intellectual disabilities, which creates a negative connotation. Similarly, this is why we don’t say things we dislike are “gay” anymore. It’s disrespectful to the people who actually fall under the definition, and it proliferates negative associations with traits that people are stuck living with and had no choice in acquiring.

The only reason “idiot” hasn’t followed suit is because it’s much more culturally ingrained, and there’s hasn’t been as significant of an attempt to change it as with other words.

I’ve never seen anyone use or interpret the r-word as a slur outside of lemmy

It’s not exclusive to Lemmy, but it is mostly left-leaning spaces or gen Z individuals who see it that way. Center and right-leaning spaces see treating the word as a slur to be censorship (as opposed to being respectful of others) and keep using it or actively push back by saying it more.

It’s a movie with 95% dialogue, and he decided to put loud droning music under every conversation so you can barely hear the people talking.

The audio mixing in his movies is genuinely terrible. If you aren’t watching them with subtitles, you’re probably missing half the plot because of background noise.