I'm becoming convince that this account is some kind of bot op. Always this type of easily searched question with enough detail in the body to indicate the user is fully capable of searching. Operating a fairly predictable schedule.
I run into my share of disagreeable people. I just block and move on. I rarely waste my time giving them any engagement at all. For me at least, there aren't actually that many I needed to block, just a loud few.
I do think the Ultimate C64 is very nice. If it came out 5-6 years ago I would have bought it. By the time it came out tho, I have already put together a couple of my own "ultimate" C64s. For someone who is starting from scratch I would certainly suggest a Commodore Ultimate.
For me, I've been hoping they would do something more like the Mega65.
That's the thing. I already have almost a dozen original and remake Commodore 64s. Also Plus/4, C128, and so on. I don't know who the target market of the new Commodore is, but it doesn't feel like its me.
That's when Facebook really started embracing making people angry on purpose to keep them engaged. We aren't just that bad, some of the most used social networks have been actively bringing out the worst in us for over a decade now.
That's very unlikely. These romance/pig butchering scammers operate from outside the USA and have no interest in attracting the kind of attention such an attack would bring.
Planning the trip is almost certainly to build trust and make the relationship seem real. All with the goal that the target willingly gives the scammer the money. If he goes to Los Angeles after she cancels, there will be no driver to pick him up.
I have worked for one truly amazing leader in my time. He earned my complete 100% trust and commitment. I don't think its possible to fully get the value a leader can bring to a team until you have a really good (or great) one.
Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?
To me, open sourcing the code is a move in the right direction but it doesn't make up for a professional review of your encryption system.
The thing about encryption is that there are many subtle ways to get something wrong, even when just implementing it with a well known and trusted library. I took a deep dive course on Designing Secure Encryption for Practical Use and while I learned a ton from it, the main take away for me was that I shouldn't do it if its intended for serious use. At least not without expert reviewers.
Regarding XMPP, it's architecture is like email. Anyone can stand up their own server and your User ID looks like an email address: user@chatserver.org. Like email, you can send messages to anyone on any server if you know their ID. Phone numbers are simply never involved.
I'm becoming convince that this account is some kind of bot op. Always this type of easily searched question with enough detail in the body to indicate the user is fully capable of searching. Operating a fairly predictable schedule.