Exactly. This is a technology problem, not a user problem. Trying to fix it on user side accomplishes nothing.

User awareness is impossible to create. Yes, for the rather primitive phishing campaigns of 10 or even 5 years ago it was possible to a very limited degree. With the attackers now using LLMs, that time is past. Get actually secure email systems and clients or get hacked. Those are your only choices.

Employees cannot be trained to recognize suspicious emails. I do not know which blithering idiot came up with the idea, but regular people cannot be qualified to do what takes an IT security expert and even that expert will occasionally fail.

Yes. These tests are worse than useless. They insult those with a clue and waste the time of everybody. They make everybody angry and that means less mental power to recognize scams and problems. They are a meaningless ritual that accomplishes less than nothing.

The thing that would need to be done is use of better technology. And that is the only thing that can fix this problem. The user is not the problem.

That is because you give your users technology that sucks and cannot be secured. Terrorizing your users will do nothing. Using better technology will. Yes, that means dumping the steaming pile Microsoft sells on the trash-heap of history where it belongs, and quite a few other offerings as well. Yes, that means telling the C-levels they have to get used to a different desktop. But nothing else will do it.

If your IT security is so abysmally bad that clicking on a link can blow up your set-up, "educating" employees will do nothing. And if that is the best your go-to vendor can deliver, get a different one.

That said, information about complex phishing attacks, like the "chef email" scam and the like, is different. But these target human interaction, not intricate technology that is very much outside of the areas of expertise of almost everybody.

And is sure enough it's linked with Trump. It's just another way for Trump to funnel money to his buddies who will then funnel some of it back to him.

66% of Americans believe Trump is openly criminal and corrupt but of them at least 10% are still going to vote for him and the Republican party while they're at it also what the hell is wrong with the remaining 44%?

Nobody gives a rat's ass about kids except their own. This is because of Trump. Also Russia.

This is an effective way to kick American social media companies out of your country. Like most socially destructive and unpleasant things you kind of have to get em young. If you don't hook kids early on they don't become terribly interested in social media.

What they tend to do is they tend to find a platform their friends are on and just communicate with their friends. They don't engage in the Doom scrolling that you need to manipulate political outcomes and control a population and gather shitloads of highly confidential and valuable information. Just a little IMing back and forth and that's no good if you're a Russian propagandist or a billionaire psychopath.

Facebook has had that problem for ages and they stay ahead of it by buying up every tiny little potential competitor or small Network and then forcing kids into their main platform where they can be monetized and propagandized.

Since Trump threatened to invade Greenland Europe sees America as a existential threat, which much as I hate to admit it is correct. My country literally made a pedophile president of the United States twice we can no longer be trusted.

If you're up just banned Facebook and Twitter there would be legal challenges and they would probably lose but by cutting off the kids in 5 or 10 years Facebook and Twitter will be dead in Europe.

The funny thing is I'm sure that both Facebook and Twitter know this well I mean Facebook Twitter is run by an imbecile. So I do wonder how they are going to counter this or if they even can

To avoid purchasing a $50 mini PC. Maybe $100 since everything keeps going up in price since 2024 but still...

I mean if you're a hobbyist more power to you. I'm going to spend some time tomorrow tinkering with a small form factor computer case to get The thermals right. I happen to like this particular case because I've had it for a long time but it's not terribly good and I could and probably should just replace it but screw that I'm going to keep tinkering with it.

Agreed.

Russia does not have the resources to occupy Ukraine. They can invade it they can't occupy it. The amount of troops and resources needed to occupy a hostile nation is extremely well researched and well understood. And Russia with its population of 120 million can't even come close. They don't have the troops they don't have the money and they don't even have the population for it.

If they tried they would get bogged down in insurgency that makes Afghanistan look like a Sunday picnic. Never mind the fact that the rest of the world would be flooding Ukraine with weapons to keep Russia busy.

That means Russia will go straight to genocide. Every single person in Ukraine will be killed or sent to death camps to be worked until they die. The only exception will be people who flee.

That is the only thing Putin can do with the country. Kill everyone there and put his own people in.

Incidentally every single world leader knows that this is going to happen if Russia wins and they are letting Russia continue this war instead of properly arming Ukraine because it's beneficial to them to do so so long as Russia doesn't completely take the region. If Russia takes the region it'll kind of suck for Europe because Europe wants access to Ukraine's bread basket. But it's worth the risk to do this much damage to Russia. At least as far as European leadership is concerned. American too Frankly and I'm not happy about that

So it's not that easy to get your hands on something that valuable. If Ukraine had the dirt on Trump then it would already be out there. Putin is completely incompetent at virtually everything. He can't run a country and he can't run a war.

But he is good at two things. First he's good at feudalism. Which is basically the technique of playing all the other people who are trying to replace you as King rat against each other so you stay on top. And the second thing he's really good at is information warfare. It's literally what he did at the the kgb.

Only that Putin has done a long string of wars like that before. The difference is that Ukraine has been able to fight back quite efficiently. I guess Putin got used to winning and lost contact to reality along the way.

So, no, this claim that Russia was provoked or had no choice is Russian propaganda. It cannot hold water on closer inspection. They just want some of that victim bonus, so they twist reality beyond all recognition to convince some useful idiots.

Probably old training data that implies Slashdot is important. Also probably very cheap to do this type of propaganda, so they just push the mind-rot everywhere they can.

Yes. But the more support Ukraine gets and the less some really evil people with power sabotage Ukraine, the better for everybody. This war has to end. Obviously with Ukraine getting back all of its territory and Russia getting a deal bad enough that they will not try this crap again for a long long time, ideally forever.