By that logic, Mullvad is fine too, because the entity doesn’t support the far right. You are just sending your money to the company which pays the people that do… so…
That’s a good solution, assuming she is a real person being impersonated and not entirely fabricated.
Hold on, I think you may be on to a solution here… We just have to figure out a way to ‘scam’ these people in a way that cancels out the original scam and prevents / does no further harm.
It’s a pig butchering scam. She won’t ever ask for money, she will just start drip-feeding “investment advice” that will typically direct him to an app in the Google Play Store (or Apple App Store) that is a full on fraud. Yes, they have complete scam/fraud apps in the legitimate app stores that look like legitimate investment apps (but sure Google, you have to block side-loading to keep your customer’s safe - fucking frauds all the way down…).
Your dad might already be on the hook for thousands thinking he is investing and making a huge return. The victim doesn’t know they are in deep until they try to pull the money out and find out it doesn’t actually exist. None of it. Not their “profit”. Not their original “investments”. He doesn’t think it’s a scam because he didn’t send her any money. He just thinks his new friend (or girlfriend) is giving him tips and he is investing with a “trusted” app from a “trusted” source - after all it is on the app store.
Get your dad watching Kitboga. Show him the Last Week Tonight segment on pig butchering scams (it’s on youtube). I don’t know what else to do, I don’t know if there are any legal avenues that can help or not, unfortunately, until he knows he is being scammed. If the idea that a 40 year old CEO absolute smoke-show woman wants to DATE a 72 year old widower retiree isn’t sending enough red flags to make him keep his walls up, it’s going to be a hard battle to convince him.
SLPT: Sow the seeds of divorce. Then you get every other weekend to hang out with your friends kid-free. Bonus points if you manage to stay friends with both sides, you get 50% of your friends available every weekend!
Dumb question but… It says that patches were committed to mainline on April 1st. How would one know if their distro has already fixed this via updates or not? I run a rolling-release distro on my desktop and laptop, and usually update once every week (or two at most) so have already ran updates 2 or 3 times since the patch was deployed. Am I likely good? If I’m not, is running updates all I need to do to be good? How would I know?
Proton itself sponsored a fascist influencer in france like just a couple weeks ago… You can pretend that having a MAGA CEO doesn’t have anything to do with that, and that they would have stopped the sponsorship and caught their “mistake” without significant public backlash if you like, but the dots are connecting to a lot of us watching.
Also, nice strawman, but are they paying the low level employee enough to donate literally millions of dollars? Probably not. Does that low level employee have direct influence over the company? Probably not.
The idea that you stop using Mullvad because the founder personally made a donation to right-wing extremists, but you are fine with using Proton that sponsors fascists and has a CEO that platforms far-right extremists talking points is bonkers. The claim that you are separating “the entity” from the “people” doesn’t even hold water.