@gpshewan @ramsey @SecurityWriter Another is that at least the US government won't be likely to toss a bailout with the amount of gridlock in DC, so they're not easily going to get dump trucks of free money.

There's 8 times as many redheads in the US as there are trans people.

There's 6 times as many veterans

There's 4 times as many Southern Baptists

There's just not that many of us.

@neurovagrant I mean, it's a good deal for them. Cash now, pay never since either the corp or the US won't exist by then anyways.

@LukefromDC @itsVague @FknHannu
That's ... Really not an alternative when we have to do everything we can to INCREASE our connections to others, and the way people connect is via the internet. You're basically suggesting the digital equivalent of "well I don't like capitalism so I'll just move to my hut in the woods", which fine. Good luck with that. But most of us need jobs in order to eat.

@FknHannu Nah, this Discord shit is like all of these things. Everyone will angrily shout about going somewhere else, then slink back the next week.

So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".

Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/discord-roll-out-global-age-verification-system-including-an-age-inference-model-that-runs-in-the-background

@alice I see what you did there

@hacks4pancakes Is someone going to write up a list of shame eventually?

@stefan Affordable rent

@NNN @inthehands As it should be.

@passenger @ainmosni I used to work for a major critical infrastructure company who took pride in hosting their own data centers and having few outside dependencies. They were very reluctant to put dependency on SaaS or cloud. But then apparently some sweet talking salespeople from MS got in the CIO's ear, they sold their brand new data center, and migrated everything to the cloud and SaaS. It's US corp, but even still, it bothers me to see.

@ainmosni It's not just Trump. After Trump 1, and Biden coming into office, many countries were willing to accept that Trump was a weird one-off anomaly that the US Public had a screwed up election and voted an asshole for one term. The fact that we then elected him AGAIN. After an attempted coup, and with his explicit promises to fuck over anyone and everyone he doesn't like, including all of our allies. Now we've shown the world that even IF our elections and peaceful transition of power manages to occur in 26 and 28, they can reasonably anticipate a US fascist president will come back in power in 2032 or 2036. Because the fanatic fascist electorate will continue to be roughly 40% of the population no matter what. It just takes a below average Democrat candidate to let them roll into power again.

@ainmosni Still, even just demonstration that there are actual concrete plans to end their reliance on the US makes the threat have weight behind it. It's pointless saber rattling if everyone knows cutting the EU from the US would hurt the EU FAR more than it'd hurt the US. It's like trying to have a nuclear deterrent with 1/4 as many ICBMs

@ainmosni The same could be said for LOTS of things that are tightly coupled to the US. But tech is something I know and can understand just how interconnected our industry is

@ainmosni essentially, this sort of thing should be a part of every critical infrastructure business continuity planning. Even if it's just a tabletop exercise.

@mensrea @fogti Active Directory/Entra

@mensrea @fogti At the very least that is globally distributed. But setting up disjointed DNS is a nightmare even in the best of times working together. Doing it in a hostile environment where it allows for cache poisoning would be impossible.

@mensrea @fogti Slack

https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115939298181381194

God, can you imagine the chaos if all the accounting departments lost everything?

@fogti I guess losing SAP would fuck the US