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Comment Alternate headline (Score 1) 62

Don't worry about clicking unsubscribe emails since 99.85% of them are not malicious.

Seriously that's almost better than the general hit rate of anything on the internet. Plus any remotely decent adblocker will take care of a malicious link.

Nearly all Unsubscribe emails I've seen are the result of some company I've done business with and are legit. A few are the result of data leaks over the years and they are of course malicious.

Comment Re:Not only that... (Score 1) 62

In my experience the vast majority of emails which do come with an unsubscribe button are in fact cases where you were explicitly told you'd go on the list, by companies operating in countries where it would open them to legal liability if they didn't accept your wish to be removed from it. You did read that text when you ticked that box during checkout right?

The headline is doom and gloom, but the alternative headline is that 99.85% of unsubscribe emails are not malicious.

Comment Re: same same. (Score 1) 189

And that's a problem. Too many things require you to read the mind of the package maintainer so you can not do things that they didn't want you to do (but never documented "don't do this, it works fine in this version but it won't work when we upgrade to another version".)

Actually no, that's more of a problem *for us*. Linux for the general purpose user works just fine. It's us, the tinkerers, the ones who read man pages for config files, the ones who add additional PPAs to apt and install things from source who ultimately are the ones who have the issue.

If you don't tinker Linux works remarkably well. Me ... well my last upgrade broke because I unofficially shoehorned my native OS onto a ZFS filesystem and when Ubuntu released an official way of doing it my system became unbootable without a bit more tinkering.

Comment Re:How to end housing crisis. (Score 1) 136

You deserve to be voted down for the exact thing the OP was. No the government did not win due to a manifesto of building homes. The government could have run on a ticket of "do nothing" and would have still beaten the incompetent morons that fucked over the UK the past decade. Elections are won on a multi variable equation, on the culmination of many policies that resonate with different people.

Comment Re:A fool and his money... (Score 1) 28

They probably had their brokerage accounts breached by chinese hackers who then entered fraudulent Buy orders.

This stupid shit is the penny stocks scam all over again. Nasdaq should add market cap value and executive vetting requirements before you're allowed to be listed on an exchange. They should be at least twice as tough for overseas companies - require proof of compliance with SEC reporting regulations, etc.

Comment Re:Not only that... (Score 1) 62

There is an even better solution thanks to modern password managers.

Create a unique email address for each person or company you provide with your email address

The moment you want to unsubscribe.. Turn off the destination email address entirely, and all messages will bounce with a 550 error.

This also helps with annoying data brokers selling lists with your address AND database access to certain tools where you type in a phone number or name and address, and the database spits out what email address belongs to that phone number or name.

OR the reverse you type in an email address, and the data brokers' search provide a name, phone number, physical address, etc, lookup for search by email address.

Comment Re:What? (Score 5, Insightful) 233

It's weird how so many of our Congress people who have been in office for life doing "public service" die or retire with tens or sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars.

It's not weird at all. Most congress critters got into congress thanks to be wealthy and having good connections in the first place.

Congrats on once again proving you're not smarter than anyone here. Fortunately you have us foreigners here to tell you the things you can't see from up close.

What country are you from? Corruption free?

Not corruption free. No such thing exists. The fact that you assigned this a binary value shows your lack of thought. But thanks for the ad hominem. Really it doesn't matter what country I'm from since we're talking about the USA. The only question was did my country look up to the USA as a shining example of how a democracy should be run? The answer to that was yes. ... was ... past tense ... which is my point. Maybe I'm from a true shithole nation, why are you asking? Is that something you're striving to be?

Comment Re:What? (Score 2, Informative) 233

So all the selling off, or putting into trust, businesses done by prior Presidents is for show?

It is just a tradition. A gesture to show good faith and help maintain their decorum as an independent leader.
One of Trump's weaknesses, or strengths, depending on how you look at it; is he obviously tends to ignore traditions, and perhaps does not care what his opponents think of him anymore. I assume he's not planning to try campaigning for an election again, And have a need to make money now because of all his court losses in New York

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