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> Not a human right

The UN disagrees. Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks". [0]

You can argue what the right to privacy means and the limitations of that freedom in respect of non-arbitrary interference are acceptable, but to claim privacy is not a human right is simply incorrect.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

These kind of initiatives aren't about the first customer. The person buying new will likely get a free subscription as part of some dealership deal, or will buy the feature outright at purchase time and wont notice. This is about rent seeking from the freeloaders.

That dumbass executive looked at the healthy used car market, got pissed that some people owned BMW's without paying their dues, and asked how to fix that.

This service allows a customer to purchase a feature outright, now do you think that feature belongs to the car, or does it belong to the customer? Will it transfer during a sale?

Grimes gave an interview on this:

"[Musk] lives at times below the poverty line," Grimes said, per Vanity Fair. "To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there's no security, and I'm eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?" [0]

In the same article Grimes complains Musk wouldn't replace a broken mattress.

No idea how Much this shows Musk is cash poor, and how much it shows crazy rich person, but it gives a glimpse either way

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-says-elon-musk-someti...

Full description: The owner of Facebook and Instagram will allow users in some countries to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers.

Every time I see a story like this I'm reminded how close we are to unauthorized bread [0] and it saddens me each time.

Humanity was given the greatest communication tool we could imagine and we use it to spy on people and steal their data, so companies can sell more shit. What a waste.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-br...

On a side note, I'm convinced Doctorow is the greatest cyberpunk writer there is, but I'm also sure the reason for this is because earlier writers had to imagine a dystopian future. Doctorow, like the rest of us, is living that future (which is much more boring that fiction made out) and he's simply documenting what he sees.

The problem with this approach is so obvious to see. Anyone that knows anything of the Azov movement knows they are Nazi's, including Facebook.

Facebook's approach here is too allow the praising of Nazi's as heroes while also maintaining the ban on showing the clearly Nazi imagery on their uniforms.

So anyone that is not already familiar with the Azov movement and it's doctrine may be convinced that they are simply freedom fighters protecting their nation, real honest heroes.

This shows perfectly why censorship is bad. By purging the Azov movements abhorrent rhetoric and imagery while allowing specific praise, Facebook has removed enough shades of grey to turn black to white, lies to truth, and evil to greatness. This is what people mean when they reference 1984, the truth is whatever you are told it is today.

But the malleability of truth is not the real risk here. The real risk is that the Azov movement succeeds in their defence of Ukraine, that those that hold them up as heroes begin to believe they can't be all bad, that nobody that is a hero can be a real Nazi, begin to listen more intently to the Azov movements hate. The real risk is that by hiding evil you create more evil, not less.

I second this. Also if you have particularly large databases consider snapshots to improve recovery speed. Also consider air gapped backups, just incase your primary backup appliances are compromised

Edit: also focus on your business continuity plan. Organizations often expect after an attack to have their systems down for a day or two, they won't be. It could be weeks or months before everything is back up and running. You need to know how you're going to run your business in the interim

The same way Dual_EC_DRBG became a NIST standard, the NSA pulls the strings.

You can't expect a government department to provide robust security to the masses when the rest of the government is trying the prevent that exact situation.

At this point anything, cryptography related, coming from NIST should be considered compromised.

> But they suggest that he “could have been considered as ‘different’ by his contemporaries, and possibly this discrimination may have been the cause of his final conviction, as he could have been sacrificed, for being a ‘freak,’ by an angry crowd, as a plague spreader.

And that is why I got out of archaeology. No evidence at all, just protection of current political / societal norms and cultural flashpoints on to past peoples. Archaeology really needs to get better at reporting the facts and much more skeptical of their interpretations.

> Most notable the modal popups that come up moments after a page loads and you have started to read it. I back out immediately whenever I can but obviously I am in the minority, this bullshit must "work" on some level to have become so ubiquitous.

I fully agree with you here and if i could leave every site that did this I would be happier, but there are a couple that do this that I have little choice but to interact with:

- a hardware components website, pretty much the only good one in the UK that will ship individual parts, if you even move your mouse point towards the top right corner (this is also where the basket and login buttons live) up comes the model "Please don't leave" in big bold letters.

- a digital whiteboard used for work purposes, this one is a little more bad design than anything. if you login with an @example.com email address every so often instead of dropping you to the workspace you were hoping to get, it drops you to a page showing teams of other people from example.com, and a modal asking you if you are interested in getting more from the tool. This is most annoying when it's a customer meeting and one or two of your team get lost in this way (the links to get from the team page to the board is non-obvious, and if it's your turn to get the redirect, logging out and back in does not work)

During one customer call it happened to the security SME got caught by the value redirect (it was a security discussion I was facilitating, the security SME was the star of the show), not realising my mic was on I loudly shouted CRAP!. That's when I realised this is CRAP, the modal begging me not to leave, the redirects to show extra value, its all CRAP - Customer Retention by Annoying Popup and I hate it.

The article doesn't really provide any details, how much of an effect would be nice to know, and it's non-clinical research, but what happens if this research turns out to be correct and ivermectin turns out to be a clinically significant intervention?

Beyond some awkward silence I can't imagine it will change much. The side effects of ivermectin don't sound particularly nice [0]: - anaemia - coma - confusion - conjunctival haemorrhage - difficulty standing - difficulty walking - encephalopathy - faecal incontinence

although if it was you're only chance of survival the side effects might not matter, but with the new COVID drugs that, at least in developed countries, is no longer the case.

Is there are any issues with mass use of ivermectin, something akin to antibiotic resistance?

[0] https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/ivermectin.html#sideEffects

It's interesting that you managed to get a Toyota. Toyota until very late on wasn't affected by the chip shortage [0]. Toyota practically invented lean manufacturing and are the only business that seems to do it right, I guess it's because they didn't need to bring in a bunch of lean consultants, that either miss the nuance or can't effectively communicate that nuance.

Lean manufacturing and JIT are like DRY in software development. Those that are just learning think don't repeat yourself is a rule, "DRY means DRY" whereas experts have learnt that "DRY means DRY except in all of those situations where it is better to repeat yourself".

Toyota knew prior to the pandemic that their chip supply chain was vulnerable, being filled with single points of failure, and they stocked accordingly. But those stocks were only going to last so long, and, thanks in part to the panic buying of the other car manufacturers, Toyota is also facing a shortage.

The above is a really long winded way to say, I'd be interested to know if MSRP Toyota's will remain available in the near term, mostly because I'm in the market for a new car, I'll put the local Toyota dealers at the top of the list.

[0] https://fortune.com/2021/08/02/toyota-cars-chip-shortage-sem...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/business/toyota-productio...

You're right, China was, not sure if you could claim it still is, suffering from an Islamic insurgency that was trying to form an Islamic caliphate. The Chinese government imprisoned 1M people in an attempt to prevent the success of that insurgency. They clearly went too far.

Around the same time the Chinese government started imprisoning Muslims, the US government started killing or was at the very least was a direct cause in the death of 1M muslims, not to stop violence but for revenge.

Oh and as far as concentration camps are concerned, there's a bunch of brown skinned kids in cages that would like a word

>This is the kind of stuff that will be in the history books in 2 decades time.

Do you think so? I don't, history is written by the winners, and all western governments play the propaganda game.

Doesn't matter if it's the democrats or republicans, labour or Tories. No politician is going to call this out, the behavioural psychologists are in on it, and so are the media companies.

Unless there is some major disruption in the next 2 decades, think revolution, invasion. You won't see a thing in the history books.

Maybe we need to get ahead of the game. I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist

I'm not sure I'd be okay with naming and shaming a dead guy that can't defend himself. Seems wrong somehow.

I guess it's a matter of how much time has past. If this was a mystery from the 1500s I wouldn't see any harm, but Nazis are still be tried and convicted for the crimes committed in the 1940s. It just seems too soon.

Yes it does. The UK defence journey is not exactly an unbiased source and always follows the party line. However at least 1 MSP would disagree with that narrative [0] and suffered significant inline abuse for that post. Which oddly enough suggests he might have been on to something, given the brigades operations.

You will find this article is also biased, unfortunately in your current timeline finding unbiased sources is becoming harder everyday

[0] https://www.thenational.scot/news/17858200.vile-abuse-snp-mp...

This is normal for the UK.

It was the current government, well it's previous coalition instantiation that created the nudge unit[0]. A group of behavioural psychologists that use mind tricks to convince people to do as they are told, whether that is to drink less, or stop smoking or to follow COVID rules. A group that has since been spun off as a business to sell coercion as a service, to any two bit dictator, or free democracy that needs it.

This is the same government that deployed it's army information warriors against its own people during COVID [1]. The unit is known as 77 brigade and explains its mission as "modern warfare using non-lethal engagement and legitimate non-military levers as a means to adapt behaviours of the opposing forces and adversaries" [2].

The UK has never had more than a thin veneer of freedom, it's always been an aristocracy lording it over the rest of us. They should just do away with the pretence.

[0] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/nudge-u...

[1] https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/77-brigade-is-countering-cov...

[2] https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brig...

That's not a particularly compelling analysis. Order of magnitude, release candidate are common terms, especially in a technical or software context.

writing monolithic code is something most Devs are guilty of.

No mention of PayPal in Satoshi's writing, now that's just clutching at straws

My experience of Prometheus is outside of containerised environments and I enjoyed Prometheus to begin with.

Then it starts to grow and everything becomes increasingly more difficult until your patience runs out, or you just can't get it to work any more, and you split it in two, now you have two headaches but at least you can get it to work.

Your now 12 months maybe 2 years in and you realise two things, that stupidly expensive Dynatrace install works out cheaper than all the engineering time you've thrown at rolling your own, the opportunity cost makes it a no brainer, and you'd pay out of your own pocket to be doing something more interesting...

I used think building everything yourself was the way to go, it is more fun (at least until you hit operations). Now I'm older, maybe wiser, if it's not core business, I ship it off to a vendor and let them deal with it.

I've never understood this argument. It is clear that nobody is implying a genocide is underway, they are simply alluding to an extreme example of ignoring or justifying negative actions, to show that each of us has agency and should be held to account for their actions.

I always think it's an interesting juxtaposition because although the actions (in this case working for an AV company) are always so far removed from the extreme example, so too are the repercussions.

The "just following orders" soldier, had he refused to carry out his orders, or attempted to flee, would have been shot in the back for desertion. The penalty for following orders, or not following orders, is the same: death (at least in the canonical example).

Whereas with the situation being discussed here, it results in what? Maybe holding out for another job.

In the extreme we expect people to pay the ultimate price to prevent atrocities, which should serve to remind us that, in the everyday, we should engage our moral compass, endure a small hardship, and through that hardship, prevent a small amount injury from being inflicted on the world.

I can just imagine the thought process behind this:

Person 1: "Have you heard the conspiracy nuts saying COVID vaccines implant microchips in your body"

Person 2: "that's just nuts! You'd need a much bigger needle."

Person 1: "I'm way ahead of you. This is really going to mess with their minds."

It's a really interesting idea. I'm not sure COVID vaccine status goes far enough. I like the idea of owning my own medical history but also having it on hand at all times in case of emergency and accessible even if I'm unconscious and unidentified.

Stick it all in a chip and stick it in my arm... Once we can figure out how to protect the data from everyone but me and medical professionals. Maybe put it In the wrist and wear an anti-RFID bracelet?

Link did not copy correctly and I didn't check before submission. Corrected link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59854204

I've never had the pleasure of visiting India, so have no first hand experience. Could you expand on your point. If the government can't refuse service and third parties cannot ask for the number, how does the lack of an Aadhaar impact everyday life?

Just as an aside, I don't doubt what you're saying, I'm just genuinely interested in the mechanics.

The project is called Aadhaar, and on it's surface it doesn't seem to be that bad, its a government ID that contains biometric and demographic data and doesn't seem to contain much more than what is requested of people at the US boarder, or what is contained on most national ID cards in jurisdictions where those exist, and at least the Aadhaar is voluntary, that is the government cannot deny service if someone chooses not to possess an Aadhaar ID. Reading the Wikipedia article also gives hope that the project isn't as bad as it might be.

"On 24 March 2014, the Supreme Court restrained the central government and the UIDAI from sharing data with any third party or agency, whether government or private, without the consent of the Aadhaar-holder in writing." [0]

"On 26 September 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act was unconstitutional, meaning that private entities cannot compel their customers to provide their Aadhaar number as a condition of service to verify their identity, specifically citing requiring it for bank accounts, school admissions, and mobile phone service as examples of unlawful use cases" [0]

I still wouldn't want to have this kind of a system pushed on me, but then I would prefer if the ID chip was removed from my passport...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar#Legality_of_sharing_da...

> Russians don't have an option to pay fee to be free

I'm not sure what you mean here, I assume you are referring to fines, as the UK doesn't have a paid bond, a fine is not a fee, it is a punishment. Fines are also a punishment in Russia so the idea should not be entirely alien to you. Here is a link that details the Russian Federations punishments for financial crimes, lost of fines in that area of Russian law [0].

Like I said in my original post, you have to abide by the local rules. The Russian government viewing a like as a prohibited political speech and the associated punishment would be following the local rules.

[0] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-019-7324?transi...

> The only justification was to get votes in future president elections.

That is not a justification. It might have been the reason for the expansion, but it wasn't the justification. You might have some better Russian sources but here is an annotated speech by Putin on the subject of Crimea [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26652058

I'll agree 500 is a lot, but you will find political prisoners all over the world, here is a list of US political prisoners from 2018 [0].

[0] https://afgj.org/politicalprisonersusa

I've not see anyone in the UK arrested for a like, but there are enough examples of people arrested for a single tweet, or retweet [0][1][2].

[0] https://nypost.com/2021/02/08/man-arrested-for-offensive-sir...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/euro-2020-arrest...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-...

I'm sorry but that is a absolute statement, verging on propaganda. Of course they protect their people. For example there is significant crime in Russia, but the Russian government fields a police force that enforces the laws of Russia, jailing murderers, thieves, etc [0].

Of course there is corruption, of course some are above the law (but then is true the world over), and you need to play by the local rules, but that is not an absence of protection, although it may not be on par with what you might expect somewhere else.

You also have to remember that the justification for the Russian invasion of Crimea was to protect the minority Russian population living in Crimea. So clearly the idea that the Russian government protects Russians is believed to be true within the state of Russia to the point where that idea can be exploited to justify military expansionism.

We really need to get past the 'good guy' / 'bad guy' version of politics, the whole world is a shade of grey.

[0] https://www.statista.com/topics/5509/crime-in-russia/#dossie...