How many firewall hardware manufacturers have had these kinds of vulnerabilities? Feels like a couple times a year I hear about another one.

I had my energy company remove their LVTC smart meter this week after they started using it to shut off our condenser unit during our 100 degree days

The fact that it exists at all is bad enough, but they were doing this at a time when our AC was already malfunctioning due to low refrigerant. On the day they first shut it off, our house reached 94 degrees.

The program that the previous owner signed up for that enabled them to do this gave them a fucking two dollar a month discount.

I use a smart thermostat to optimize my home conditioning - having a second meter fucking with my schedule ends up making us all miserable. Energy providers need to stop fucking around and just build out their infrastructure to handle worst case peak loads, and enable customers to install solar to reduce peak loading to begin with.

The other thing that kills me about this is that our provider administers our city's solar electric subsidy program themselves. When i had them come out to give us a quote, they inflated their price by more than 100% because they knew what our electricity bill was. All they did was take our average monthly bill and multiplied it by the repayment period. I could have been providing them more energy to the grid at their peak load if they hadn't tried scamming me.

FUCK private energy providers.

WHY IS THIS MAN STILL IN OFFICE

Between this and the other story earlier this week, its crystal fucking clear that he is not well. Does nobody close to him care about his clear brain damage from his stroke? It's like the entire federal government is weekend at bernie's and the whole thing is being run by staffers

Mamdani is a fucking wizard. I heard some of this press conference - trump was actually defending mamdani against both liberal press and fox news questions

I want so badly to have been a fly on the wall for that meeting. But ultimately it does kind of make sense: they are both "anti-establishment" candidates in their own ways, and trump desperately needs a popularity boost.

My favorite moment as a camp counselor for twice exceptional kids was when an autistic camper got into an argument with another counselor about the historical/mythological accuracy of this movie (camper insisted it was a terrible movie in mythological terms), and eventually the counselor got frustrated and said "fine, go write me a paper on it" and the camper went off to bed

About an hour later the kid pops his head out his door and asked how long he wanted the paper.

The same kid ended up eating a laundry pod later that summer.

Did you know that it's illegal to say, "I wish someone would kill the president of the united states"?

Im not saying it, im just letting you know that it's illegal. Like a public service announcement.

Just for the record, this is what democrats always do, and it's why they keep fucking losing.

Democrats would rather have trump than have a social-democratic platform, and it shows every time they have the opportunity to fight him and chose to capitulate instead. The democrats aren't a left-wing party, certainly not now, and arguably not since FDR.

Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular

This part floored me. As if it wasnt Israel that was currently denying equal rights to Palestinians and not the other way around... this is just the zionist version of 'all lives matter' bullshit.

Democrats are gonna blow it on a fucking centrist again

Why the fuck did they start offering concessions and bargaining after they swept the state elections last week?

More evidence that moderates are not allies and are just as fearful of a leftward popular swing as the Republicans are.

"Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is"

* points to the main thing capitalism does *

There have always been liberal collaborators to fascism, this isn't new.

You don't understand, their support of lesser fascism is necessary to avoid the greater fascism, so by opposing them you're actually supporting the greater fascism

Mr Beast is the quintessential example of someone who defines themselves by their unfathomable success, attributing it to their unique work-ethic and dedication, and then collapses under the weight of their impossibly large ego

People might be upset that nobody threw any haymakers but its honestly far smarter to do what they did. Physically assaulting those nazis would have gotten a gun drawn (the uniformed one literally reached for his in the first 2 minutes but thought better of it).

Successfully interfering with the arrest without getting shot or arrested yourself is possibly the best you can expect from these interactions.

I'm about 90% sure this picture and story has been posted on lemmy before

Accusing a user of being a paid troll account is against the rules in most instances, even if you somehow have strong evidence for it.

It's an unfalsifiable claim and is frequently used as a way to harass another user over a disagreement.

YDI.

I dont really know what to make of this mene, but this isnt really what 'no ethical consumption' is intended to communicate.

The challenge isn't to abstain from unethical practices directly like owning a slave yourself, the challenge is to avoid consumption that involves exploitative structures at all. It's a structural critique, not an individualized one - exploitation is so pervasive in capitalist production that it's nearly impossible to avoid entirely even if you're an activist with complete knowledge and can dedicate a large amount of energy perfecting ethical consumption

It bothers me how cynical this meme is, honestly.

Whoever drew this went to great lengths to keep Israel on the map