A lot of people on the comments seem to have had landlords who “fixed things”
No spez. The rest is kinda similar (except on a technical level that mostly matters to nerds)
Honestly as someone who has helped family members set up a password manager one person felt this way and the rest are just not tech savvy. All the simple straightforward stuff took ages because they had never done it before.
Gmail and Google drive are far easier to use than Outlook and OneDrive. Not saying they’re good things for the world but those products haven’t been fried yet.
I found the Anarcho-Texh security guide helpful in getting started thinking about this with more nuance. I’m including the link below but here’s a short summary
Are you an: Individual Journalist Targeted Activist
Are you annoying: Random assholes Assholes with resources The State
Each category has bigger security needs on one side and more powerful tools on the other. It’s kind of humbling to realize that I’m just an individual and the NSA has no special interest in me, but that makes me feel better using a separate browser without additional security to shop on sites that block a VPN etc
(Also tbh I’m not sure when this page was last updated and I have no involvement with the org. Just a cool resource)
https://github.com/AnarchoTechNYC/meta/wiki/Persona-based-training-matrix
“President Joe Biden unveiled another round in his steady drip of student debt write-offs on Thursday, announcing that 78,000 public sector workers would not have to repay $6 billion in loans. … Biden’s previous loan cancellation plan was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. However, his more recent debt transfers rest on a different legal authority than the original, $400 billion-plus plan.”
Emphasis mine. Literally cut his own demands by two orders of magnitude because he didn’t want to pack the court. I’m very glad those small fraction of borrowers got some relief. We all deserve that.
Yeah that would make my life significantly better. Has that passed the courts yet?
I mean sure it looks good I guess but I’m not holding my breath that the White House office of gun violence prevention is going to stop mass shootings.
All this stuff is designed to sound good on paper but then what’s the real impact?
NGL feeling low. Lost my job at WeedMaps today. I told them in my interview that I only smoke straight fire but I got the piss test back and it showed I've been smoking mid. I already put in notice at my current job. what do I do?