You can read anything you want into those if you want to. To me they reek weeb culture (as opposed to furry like everyone else jumps to - there are overlaps but they are distinct), 4chan trolling and lemmy more than anything. We can not know the intentions behind those engravings and they say nothing about which, if any, affiliation the shooter had. Could be a Luigi wannabe, could be a false flag to induce civil war.
"Unafilliated" seems like the most plausible assumption right now. Everyone pushing theories about shooter affiliation right now either has their own political agenda behind it and are doing so incincerly or are useful idiots serving the aforementioned.
How does that square with the issue that he texted his trans significant other to go pick up his rifle which he could not do as feds found the rifle first. [1] The feds are interviewing the trans partner as we speak. To be clear I am not anti-trans, rather just confused how he could also be a Groyper. Maybe this is possible, just a new concept to me.
> According to public records, Lance Twiggs, 22, resided at the same address where Robinson lived. A relative of Twiggs confirmed to The Post Saturday that “yes, they were roommates.”
> The family member, who asked not to be identified, said Twiggs was the “black sheep” of their St. George, Utah, family, but declined to speculate on a romantic relationship between the two men.
> She said she didn’t know her relative’s politics or whether Twiggs was transitioning to become a woman, but added that it wouldn’t surprise her.
So basically the source is "it was revealed to me in a dream". For all we know they were just roommates.
It's possible. I keep hearing terms used interchangably on different YT channels and all of that could be people just projecting their preferred narratives so I guess we will have to wait for the Discord and cell phone text message transcripts assuming those ever drop. They so rarely do. Either way at least we know the roommate was involved to some extent. The Discord transcripts may be the most telling of the relationship.
Turns out a more than that, which is totally fine. [1] Love should have no limits. also covered by 7 other news sites but DM have the most complete coverage
I would not be surprised. They seem to have the best journalists and bravest laywers. I just wish they had a version or layout of their site that could be embedded in the URL that would leave out all the tabloid stuff, otherise it gets flagged here on submission most of the time.
It gets flagged because it's right wing, not because it's a tabloid. And agree, the DM is consistently accurate, breaks many stories and has massive throughput from their newsroom. It's one of the world's most popular papers for good reasons.
Well, groyper thought leader Nick Fuentes uploaded a video long time ago where he goes into what was basically a date with a another white nationalist dressed like a catboy. Also there's a common meme about the twink -> white nationalist pipeline Gryoper lore is hard to follow even for terminally online people.
The last real nazi's were either burnt, buried or relocated to South America shortly after WWII. Today Nazi, Fascist and all other terms like it are just inflammatory ways to say: "someone I disagree with".
I use the Firefox addon Foxreplace [1] to display that word as such. Others should do the same.
You wish. Basically 90% of German nazis stayed in Germany and were completely unharmed by any form of persecution. Most of them had even kept everything they stole from all the murdered people, including companies, homes, and items of value. A large share of the later West German Lawyers and Politicians had NS background, in the DDR it was slightly less. Of the rest - many were flown to the US to contribute to the American weapon programs, roughly similar share were taken to the UdSSR for the same reasons. "Burnt, buried, or escaped to South America" is the smallest part of them.
Either way, 100% of the people being called Nazi's, Fascists, Hitler are just people that other people do not agree with. Such words have entirely lost their meaning. Even the people cosplaying as Nazis as neo-nazi's are just larping junkie thuglets and are far from disciplined national socialists in expensive military uniforms.
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Either way, 100% of the people being called Nazi's, Fascists, Hitler are just people that other people do not agree with.
The other day, a Fox News host called for the mass-murder of mentally ill people.
> Brian Kilmeade suggested that mentally ill homeless people who refuse government assistance should be given "involuntary lethal injection" or something similar, adding, "Just kill 'em"
I guess if I call him a Nazi, that just means I just, like, disagree with him?
At what point can we call a spade a spade? What do we call that man?
How is he not getting cancelled? Should someone celebrating something bad happening to a man that's calling for mass-murder get cancelled?
Which inherently makes them a threat to others. Keep in mind that this is happening in the context of Iryna Zarutska getting stabbed to death.
I disagree with it, but it's objectively not what you're representing it as.
> I guess if I call him a Nazi, that just means I just, like, disagree with him?
It's not justified by the evidence.
> At what point can we call a spade a spade? What do we call that man?
Something else.
> How is he not getting cancelled?
How isn't he? I've lost count of the times I've had to hear about this in the last few days, which is strange because I don't watch American TV at all and he has nothing to do with Kirk. If you think he should be fired from Fox because of it then you are absolutely welcome to call them and say so. That's freedom of speech, and I agree that you have a much better case than most of the "cancelling" attempts I've seen over the years. Fox execs, however, are under no obligation to agree with you.
> Should someone celebrating something bad happening to a man that's calling for mass-murder get cancelled?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Kirk and Kilmeade are different people.
> it's objectively not what you're representing it as
Well, they represented it as "the mass-murder of mentally ill people". There's lots of them (mass), they're being intentionally killed against their will (murder), and the vast majority of chronically homeless people are mentally ill.
Maximally, it is subjectively not how they represent it, if one believes that a state-sanctioned judicial killing is not murder. That is far from a universal belief.
> I italicized "who refuse government assistance" for a reason
This does not make an objective misrepresentation. It doesn't even make it a subjective misrepresentation. They would be objectively misrepresenting it if "mass-murder" is objectively incorrect and/or if "mentally ill people" is objectively incorrect. As I said in my previous comment: mass-murder is, at worst, subjectively incorrect and mentally ill people is obviously correct.
I don't have to wonder why they refuse government assistance. It's the mental illness. You are stating that you believe the policy is justified because they are mentally ill.
> This does not make an objective misrepresentation. It doesn't even make it a subjective misrepresentation. They would be objectively misrepresenting it if "mass-murder" is objectively incorrect and/or if "mentally ill people" is objectively incorrect. As I said in my previous comment: mass-murder is, at worst, subjectively incorrect and mentally ill people is obviously correct.
It is objectively a misrepresentation. It was misrepresented as being about mentally ill people in general. In reality, it is about an identifiable subset of mentally ill people, for a clear reason that directly relates to the basis for subset identification. To describe it as "the mass-murder of mentally ill people" is to imply that it doesn't have anything to do with the government assistance question. But it does. That is what makes it misrepresentative.
> I don't have to wonder why they refuse government assistance. It's the mental illness.
Many mentally ill people do not refuse government assistance. In fact, probably a large majority of them are happy to receive government assistance.
> You are stating that you believe the policy is justified because they are mentally ill.
I am not stating that the policy is justified because they are mentally ill. I am not stating, and did not state, that the policy is justified at all. In fact, I explicitly said:
> I disagree with it, but it's objectively not what you're representing it as.
I will not reply to you further, because this is not a good-faith discussion — it is just you repeatedly refusing to acknowledge something that I have clearly established, and falsely claiming that I said things that I objectively did not say.
When Nick Fuentes first appeared, him and his little gang of nerds were definitely more far right than Kirk. TPUSA had a gay man on staff, and put him all over those little memes they made.
Israel is about the only thing Charlie and Nick disagree on now.
From what I’ve seen, Charlie stopped at promoting lies that if you believe them imply violence is on the table (and that have a history of inspiring violent acts). Nick has been willing to take the next step and go “We can’t do anything! Except kill them. But don’t do that! I didn’t say to! But what else can we do?” (So, Fuentes is closer to Trump’s level of flirting-with-telling-people-to-kill than Kirk was, AFAIK)
As far as their disagreements over doctrine of-late, I’m not sure. Their messages do/did differ in where they drew the line, though.
I’ve seen Loomer’s turning on Kirk (over his “turning” on Trump re: the Epstein files) cited as part of this, with Nick’s crowd being on Loomer’s side, but given Nick’s history with Trump that I know of I’d find that surprising, but I’ve not closely followed Fuentes so I’ve got some reading to do there.
Perhaps the people you see as cynical have more research and/or experience behind their views on OpenAI than you. Many of us have been more naive in the past, including specifically towards Altman, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
TFA frames this all as recent and ongoing learnings and changes at F-Droid. Given the notability of your project (kudos and thanks), perhaps they'd appreciate your input.
The folks who run F-Droid are very welcoming, no doubt. But the email asked us to direct queries to legal at f-droid.org, and for us, legal is something we have no time/energy/capability to pursue (unless there's explicit offer of help, viz. "window for response", that I am hearing only for the first-time and from this blog post).
> notability of your project (kudos and thanks)
Rethink DNS + Firewall? Barely at 10% of installs as the most popular project in the domain (NetGuard), but thanks! (:
...While I have your ear: IME ReThink DNS often runs into bootstrapping problems since 1) preconfigured DNS servers are referenced by hostname, not IP 2) I can't find a way to separately configure server address and TLS name (making it impossible to configure DoH/DoT servers via IP).
So users often run into "catch 22" where they need existing DNS to resolve their DNS server... When roaming it may work fine for a bit until the local cache drops it, and so on.
Allowing to separately configure TLS hostname for TLS-enabled protocols, and having a preseeded list of IPs for bundled provider endpoints, would mean ReThink DNS could work reliably even in absense of existing DNS.
> ReThink DNS often runs into bootstrapping problems
Rethink, the Android app, has a preset list of 5 bootstrap resolvers that you can choose from Configure -> Network -> Fallback DNS. If set to None or System (the default), Android-designated DNS upstream is used (or Quad9 plain DNS is used if it goes missing). You can also set Fallback DNS to Cloudflare (one.one.one.one), Google (dns.google), Quad9 (dns11.quad9.net), or Rethink (zero.rethinkdns.com). Unlike None / System, these use DoH.
> can't find a way to separately configure ... TLS name
> having a preseeded list of IPs for bundled provider endpoints
This capability exists though we don't expose it via the UI. For instance, ALL preset DNS upstreams (DoH, DoT, ODoH, DNSCrypt), including Fallback DNS, that ship with Rethink, are seeded with IPs at compile time. Given bootstrap DNS (aka Fallback DNS) is already DoH + seeded, the "catch 22" scenario you outline shouldn't come to pass. If it has, then that's a bug we need to fix.
Seems a bit vulnerable to subversion of the host (and/or its government) once they decide to pay attention (or even through negligence; imagine a minister being banned because of some ML false-positive).
If the format is to be sustainable, they will need to find or found a different platform.
I'm usually on the other side of these things but here I think most of the actual (some might be artificial...) outrage and concern come from a misunderstanding of the product and services Huntress are selling and how their EDR product is packaged and sold.
As presented I see no ethical concerns with the incident and their response. Someone hacks you and then installs your rootkit, I say you can leverage that to hack back and look all you want while it's running (as long as you can be confident it's really the attacker obv). I appreciate that Huntress shared their insights with the community and hope that they and others won't be discouraged from the unfortunate flaming.
Food for thought: Perhaps it wasnt't the money as much as Stripe itself being the barrier? Maybe you would have gotten better turnout with other payment options (especially for a platform like Trello, crypto like BTC/XMR might be more welcome than you'd expect).
> My biggest lesson? Charge early.
Can't argue with that. And even if you go free early, advertise it as "free trial during our early days" or similar. If you already plan on charging in the future, get people used to the idea of having to pay for it from day one even if you give it away for some potentially extended time. Proper free-tiers with expectations and terms can come later down the line when the pricing strategy is clearer.
People emotionally respond very differently to their free trial expiring ("it was nice while it lasted") vs having their previously free service being replaced with a paid one ("f this enshittified rugpull"). The difference is proactive communication and setting of expectations.
Stripe has payment via crypto methods. Pricing a recurring payment in crypto feels off putting to me as it’s likely the cost will change often due to crypto volatility.
By the way, we’ve only had a single chargeback so far — which was surprising in itself. And our churn rate is around 6.5%, which is actually pretty solid for a product like this and for this kind of audience.
You can read anything you want into those if you want to. To me they reek weeb culture (as opposed to furry like everyone else jumps to - there are overlaps but they are distinct), 4chan trolling and lemmy more than anything. We can not know the intentions behind those engravings and they say nothing about which, if any, affiliation the shooter had. Could be a Luigi wannabe, could be a false flag to induce civil war.
"Unafilliated" seems like the most plausible assumption right now. Everyone pushing theories about shooter affiliation right now either has their own political agenda behind it and are doing so incincerly or are useful idiots serving the aforementioned.