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The US is not much better.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/28/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-about-red-cross-and-blood-sold/

The idea that doing little things yourself adds up to much bigger and more cumulative impacts is lost on most people. Instead they tend to fixate on the idea that if no one else is (visibly-to-them) making sacrifices, and my own personal effort is so small, why should I bother?

So you sold your house to investors that will use it to add to this pretty obvious problem because you did not want to be bothered to wait 2-3 weeks extra to close? Thanks for doing your part to eleviate the larger problem.

When you work for Apple, Apple gets to tell you what to do. Same goes for any corporate owned media outlet.

Jon Stewart has more than enough money to just quit, which he did. Most normal folks do not have this luxury so they tow the line.

Welcome to the reality that the US economic system.

No real free speech, no real agency in our economy, captive regulators that like to masquerade as populist heros but rarely actually do any real damage to sociopathic corporations.

ARM is limited by licensing greed. RISC-V or its successors is the future.

Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

• Telegram
• Avast AV
• Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
• Opera browser … now owned by above
• Zoom
• FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

This very partial list is based on my being in cyber security for 20 years and working a variety of incidents involving these apps. You all can do whatever you want with your computers.

redhat is just sitting right there… waiting,

May I remind everyone of CALEA. Just in case your skim of the page makes you think it is only for phone/telecoms…

In the years since CALEA was passed it has been greatly expanded to include all VoIP and broadband Internet traffic.