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@Gargron how could you, delete such a masterpiece of a toot?! 
Yo Los Angeles, remember five years ago in Portland?
Scientists estimate most group chats are just people typing “LMAO” with a straight face while dying inside

In January, I wrote about a vast China-based cloud CDN called Funnull that catered to cybercriminals in China and Russia seeking to route their traffic through US-based Cloud providers, particularly Microsoft and Amazon.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/infrastructure-laundering-blending-in-with-the-cloud/

I did not expect this, or so quickly, but it looks like Treasury just sanctioned Funnulll, calling it a major scam distributor.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0149

January's story was based on research by Silent Push, which found a large number of domains hosted via Funnull promoting gambling sites that bear the logo of the Suncity Group, a Chinese entity named in a 2024 UN report (PDF) for laundering millions of dollars for the North Korean Lazarus Group.

In 2023, Suncity’s CEO was sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of fraud, illegal gambling, and “triad offenses,” i.e. working with Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates. Suncity is alleged to have built an underground banking system that laundered billions of dollars for criminals.

If Bin Laden was still alive, all he’d have to do is have dinner with Trump and he’d be the best guy ever after that. You’d have MAGA people supporting al-qaeda. That’s the level of gonzo they are at.

The perfect metaphor for the fediverse doesn't exis...

(From faculty slack)

Serious tyranny arc going on there Murica…
Sam Clemente (@samclemente.me)

𝕏: *Lots of Elon posts* Bluesky: *Lots of Elon screenshots, accompanied by everyone going “bad” and pointing their finger* Mastodon: “I virtualized a 6502 on my lightbulb”

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I know I'm old man yelling at clouds, but I miss not only physical buttons on devices, but multiple physical buttons.

I'm really getting tired of the current trend seen on headphones. Hold for 5 seconds to turn on, hold 5 seconds to turn off. Tap once for volume up. Double tap for next song, triple tap to turn on noise canceling. Hold the button down for 20 seconds while patting your head and doing interpretive dance in order to pair Bluetooth.

Give me an on/off switch. Give me an analog volume wheel. Give me dedicated buttons for functions

It's like a generation of designers grew up with one button Apple mice, and forgot how much more simple doing actual work with dedicated buttons actually is