Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it's more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.
cowvin
joined 2 years ago
Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don't see that here, so for now there's no reason to take them seriously yet.
This isn't ransomware. This is standard blackmail.
No business is a force for good. They are all there to make a profit. If they appear to be doing good, it's because that image is one that they feel is profitable. It can change at a moment's notice if they decide that going a different direction is profitable (e.g. Twitter).
people will sell insurance for just about anything. for example, you can buy alien abduction insurance that will pay out if you are abducted by aliens.
Definitely get it into beta as soon as you can. Many of us are happy to beta test.
This is pretty pathetic for positive spin. It reminds me of Zap Brannigan: "You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown. Kif, show them the medal I won."
It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.
The head wobble doesn't have one simple meaning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbrB8KwES4
I worked for many years with someone from south India and he would do the head wobble so over the years he tried to explain it. I still don't fully understand it. Haha
Yeah, right-wingers are trying to suppress people being educated about this part of American history. They don't want people to sympathize with the victims of the slavery era.
It was an awful time and we as a nation need to do better.
Yes, you can follow mastodon users and they can follow you. You can see what each other post, basically. I tested it out with my Mastodon account and my kbin account.
Remember, it's not all of Lemmy, it's just lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml is the one run by pro-china folks.