There’s no proper channels for this. Either the military leadership is motivated or they’re not.

Is it time to petition the military to intervene?

Assigned by who? With what oversight?

Do not allow username/password login for ssh. Force certificate authentication only!

My brother recently texted me asking for advice about installing Mint on an old laptop. He is the one that got me into computers as a kid, and he has worked at Microsoft for maybe 25 years. It made me so happy lol.

Jesus Christ, is this newsworthy?

Yeah the US joined late. I’m just saying that since then, the US hasn’t even done anything accidentally good.

The US has always been a piece of shit, and since WW2 has been the single biggest threat actor in the world. For a time, we managed to maintain a strong economy and generally cohesive body politic at home, but those have been steadily eroding. Any of the “good times” you can remember were at best, squandered opportunities to effect real changes that may have prevented the situation we are no waking up to.

This blog also has a good post from last year discussing the shortcomings of XMPP and Matrix relative to Signal.