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For the less fortunate, if you don't own a single spark source to light a gas fire in your house it's highly likely you have far greater immediate survival issues to face.
#1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect
> "Superprotect" was the name for a superuser tool granted to Wikimedia Foundation staff but denied to all Wikimedia community members starting in August 2014.[92][circular reference] Wikimedia Foundation staff used the tool to force the installation of the Wikimedia Foundation's software against the wishes of the Wikimedia community. This conflict was unprecedented. Erik Möller, then director of the Wikimedia Foundation, managed the Superprotect tool. The software in dispute was MediaViewer, which was a software feature that guided Wikipedia readers into viewing images in a certain way. Wikimedia commentator Andrew Lih described the superprotect feature as "Orwellian-sounding".
#2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow
> Flow, also known as Structured Discussions, is a project of the Global Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a different discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects.
#3 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_S...
A basic indoor water fountain captures quite a lot of indoor pollution, to the point that it's likely far more energy and cost efficient than pumping air through a disposable filter. There's plenty of research on this.
The first chapter of the whitepaper? [1] There's two sides entering a contractual agreement around energy consumption.
[1] Section 1.2 - https://efforce.io/WP_ENG_V1.pdf
Here is the Chinese high speed rail built in the last decade, it is not propaganda, it's literally something you can buy a ticket for and travel on at 350 km/h right now. I truly worry for Americans incapable of seeing what is happening in the rest of the world.
> There’s a three day lag in the data
Do you truly need deaths as they happen by the minute?
Plot-twist: They don't want awareness because western cyber capabilities are far and beyond the best the in the world. We hack ourselves and each other constantly. Most are aware of China/NK/Russia/Iran actors doing X action. You'll have a rough time finding anyone in the five eyes with common knowledge of their offensive capabilites. Perhaps Stuxnet but by all accounts that was all due gungho Israeli's going full-tilt rather than US allies.
I'm not sure about what offline alternatives exist.
I collect them like Pokemon. It's been nearly a decade now and there's certainly many to look back on.
From experience people either double down or feign ignorance years later, which path will this one take?
Have you actually ever visited China? The US incarcerates, bombs and has more murders (^apart from a few 3rd world hellholes) per capita than anywhere else. What type of government do you call that? "Glorious Democracy"?
This hyperbole helps no one and this forum deserves better. 1 in 5 people on Earth live there, ascribing all the bad things to that many people is disingenuous at best and malicious jingoism at worst.
Go do a search of "tether site:news.ycombinator.com" to see how laughably wrong HN has been for the last 4 years on this subject. The adherents simply refuse to give up and many still identify with this "conspiracy"
I'm not sure we have enough eggs for the number of faces.
The NSA has a budget bigger than entire countries economic output. Not everyone spies on everyone to the same extent.
Not everyone breaks their own laws constantly to the same extent.
Not everyone hides behind some bullshit moral argument to justify their actions to same extent.
The rot is real. They now have more power than any elected official including the President and repeatedly lie under sworn oath. These people are no longer public servants they are public masters.
You're funding a FOSS operating system and a phone with some security features. We already have dozens of open source mobile OS's, the hardware design is still proprietary. What's really needed is an open source baseband firmware and no one is funding that sadly.
Despite the baseband/cpu isolation I fear it still has a host of vulnerabilities up its sleeve. One AT command away from certain doom (yes that's sarcastic hyperbole with a sliver of truth)
Nothing in your longwinded explanation of battery basics says anything about why I can't go into an Apple store and pay full price for a replacement.
Sweden managed to just ask their citizens to behave properly and it worked.
I can do a better job than many in SF for half the price. Have already spent close to a decade waking up early for US west coast meetings.
Get the feeling that a day of reckoning is coming for those clinging so dearly to their location based earnings. I've been saying it for years about Australia being so constrained with cities like Sydney and Melbourne which magically have some of the most expensive land prices on Earth. Getting away from these places and making your own digital way is truly a freedom to behold.
Sounds a tad familiar? The US just elected the oldest President ever, who has spent decades in government.
Honestly confused by Americans pretending they have anything that different to what the Chinese do. Bushes, Clintons, it's like you've all harked back to royal lines while pretending it's something else.
It's truly terrifying that democracies are electing older and older people across the board, they simply aren't capable of doing the job, everyone I know over 60 has highly diminished mental capacities and if not retired they should be relegated to menial tasks.
I know it's a harsh thing to say and I'm truly sorry to people of said demographic reading this stuff but it's a cold hard fact easily backed up by decades of science.
Elderly people are the most dangerous politicians on the planet.
I'm not clicking through until you do sorry. Good luck with the multipart series.
Proudly using PBKDF2 in 2019 while presenting oneself as an expert on key derivation functions is the real red flag. It's time to move on. We finished the PHC in 2015, there's multiple worthy candidates that came out the other end under heavy scrutiny. It was an incredibly well run and productive meeting of minds (in my opinion at least). The alternative winners have some novel features that might appeal in certain situations but Argon came out on top and I'm intrigued in anyones reason to not be using it.
Most competitors offered up compute, time and memory parameters that can be modified as needed. The points made in this article are redundant with modern algos.
If you are still using PBKDF2 for new codebases please take a step back and do 10 mins of research, please.
In contrast a flight with no engineering issues through heavy weather and turbulence would have many in the cabin stressed.
No that was widely credited to the power vacuum created by the United States of America when they publicly hanged the President of Iraq for all the Muslim world to see. [1][2][3]
Serious error of judgement by White House royalty trying to make their ancestors proud. The US gave the Taliban a decade of training, funding and weapons.[4][5][6][7] They gave ISIS the perfect environment for them to grow big and everyone knows it.
It doesn't matter what business you are in, everyone is always trying to create more work for themselves, the military and intelligence services are no exception.
[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/americas-failed-strategy-middl...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/23/...
[3] https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/iraqs-power-vacuum-cou...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
> described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency."
[5] https://theintercept.com/2019/08/21/taliban-peace-talks-afgh...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_controver...
[7] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/who...
What a waste.