livinginfear

Haven't we heard enough of this bad faith narrative already?

> "There are going to be all sorts of bad actors trying to interfere in the midterms, especially in the contested races..."

Vote the way we want you to vote. Otherwise you're being undemocratic! And Russia is to blame!

> "The fact that the average person would not associate music with Russian trolls means that they’re doing a good job."

Isn't this statement a bit Kafka-esque? The implication of this is that if you don't live in fear, somehow associating the mundane flood of meaningless content that is social media with you purposefully being misdirected by Russia, you're just ignorant.

I've managed to avoid working with Kubernetes thus far in my career. I admit I don't have a great understanding of it. I can't think of a single technology that seems to unanimously stir up such bitter feelings in the developer community. Not even node.js, or webpack is as contentious as k8s.

> ...the reality is that the Chinese government cares little for storing said data long-term and uses it primarily in criminal cases.

I don't doubt this at all. The problem is what the CPC considers criminal.

> Xinjiang and Tibet are two exceptions to this which I won’t dive deep into.

If you're going to gloss over these examples of where we know there are totally egregious uses of technology to infringe on people's civil liberties, and human rights, then what meaningful discussion is actually left to be had?

> When I was still a student at Stanford, I once lost an internship opportunity because a “traffic violation” - biking at night without a bike light - showed up on my background check. In all fairness, I consider it to be extremely easy to stay off China’s social credit “blacklist” - just be reasonable and avoid breaking the law.

I somehow doubt this is true. Unless he's talking about some totally different kind of 'background check'. I've had numerous background checks, and in most countries they only cover criminal history. They don't cover your history of civil offenses. In many countries even relatively serious traffic offenses are dealt with as civil offenses. Let alone what he describes.

Also, "just be reasonable". Just don't be one of the targeted minorities either, I guess? Just don't play too many videogames; Or play videogames they don't like; Or browse the free press; The list goes on...

This really reads like propaganda. If you told me this was written by someone who grew up in China, and just moved to America. I would totally believe you.

What an arrogant, ignorant comment. Do you seriously think that all those people living different lifestyles to you, who don't live in cities, and believe different things, do so only out of ignorance? If you're an wealthy, urbanite westerner, do you realise that in terms of your belief system, lifestyle, and values, you are such an astonishing minority? What would all those people make of your beliefs? "All he has is his Fox News/CNN propaganda, he doesn't know any better".

Cool article. My first thought is that this might be a fun way to implement some really simple executable obfuscation.

How does it not concern them? This is exactly the same scenario as the Cuban missile crisis playing out in reverse. Do you think the United States had no business in the foreign affairs of Cuba as the soviets placed ICBMs there?

It's not the 1950s. Stalin is dead. Russia is not fighting this war to annihilate Ukraine. They want to restore a supplicant government loyal to Russia, and keep funding them to that effect. Same playbook they're using in the rest of their satellite republics. If Russia was in fact waging some kind of imperialist war, wouldn't they have annexed more resource rich neighbours that the world cares so much less about? Like Belarus, or Chechnya? Look at those countries. Russia pours money on them to keep them neutral. That's the alternative.

Let's not forget all the military spending money Biden has given to Ukraine during his time as president, prior to this conflict kicking off. This crisis was not sudden, or unanticipated. Russia has been warning the world for a long time to back off.

In case this is not obvious to anyone reading, this is a terrible, terrible idea. Discounting the obvious risks of being killed, or injured, if you are captured as a member of a foreign paramilitary unit, you will not be afforded the same legal protections as a prisoner of war. Even after this war ends you may still find yourself imprisoned. You risk being tried as a war criminal, or even just a regular criminal being charged with murder, or another offense against the state.

This has been done before by Bosnia during their conflict with Serbia. They made a call to Mujahideen of the world to defend them. The prize for participation was a Bosnian passport. Hindsight may be 20/20, however I do not see any possible scenario where Ukraine joins the EU after the dust settles. Even if Ukraine grants you a passport, it won't be worth much. Especially if Russia considers you a war criminal for your efforts.

This is such an awful idea. The origins of this war, and the annexation of Crimea following Euromaidan, lie in the Russian perception that Ukraine's status as a neutral buffer against NATO will change. Any European involvement of this kind would only serve to pour fuel onto this fire. I know this is not an official endorsement, however this is a patently irresponsible thing for a British politician to say.

> As I’ve said before: we just (in my opinion) had an attempted fascist coup....

What on earth are you talking about? What relevance does this political commentary have to the topic at hand?

> "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something"

I admit that the tone of my post may have been inflammatory. However I don't think that it's fair to characterise my post as a shallow dismissal. I maintain that my opening rebuke of Hicks: "For all of his criticism of the stuffy conservative establishment..." constitutes more than a superficial critique. My dislike of Hicks stems from my view that his worldview discouraged people from joining in the task of reforming the system in which they live. He did nothing to encourage people to invest in themselves, or strive for lofty goals for the sake of humanity. I really dislike his attitude, and I loathe the insinuation that there is any profound insight to be gained from his apathy, and smugness. My opinion is that if you subtracted the establishment that he so limply derides, there would be no substance remaining in him.

I'd like to see their guidelines for the social content of their productions. Every Netflix production I've seen seems to feature commonly themed social commentary, in some cases more subtle than others.

> ...it's already a dated product permanently stuck with a clunky UI...

I don't disagree with you. However we're discussing this in the context of IDA: A program whose user-interface is permanently stuck in the 90s. Its extremely idiosyncratic default key-bindings also betray exactly how dated its interface is.

> We have halved the price of our products on this new model and hope that it will allow more users to access the software.

I love the gall they have to say this.

When I saw the headline, I thought that a subscription model might provide more amenable pricing than the USD$1800 for IDAPro, and actually give access to more users. At this pricing, they've absolutely ensured that I never pay again. IDAPro is already a product that's diminishing in comparison to the competition year after year.

I don't see how defunding the police provides any kind of solution to the problems you mention. I know there's a strawman argument here, do you think that you'll get better treatment from local gangs/militias/warlords, in a society without police?

'Police Abolitionism' can't be taken seriously as an ideology. I'm not white, and I've been the victim of crime multiple times, unfortunately. I don't think the police are perfect, or a perfect institution. They did their job, and helped me in these cases. Whenever I hear people talk about being afraid to call the police I switch off immediately. Total bunk.

Does anyone know the source of the controversy? Are people concerned about the implications this may have on the current historical narrative of human development?

At risk of being downvoted, I'm automatically very skeptical of any story I see on Reddit. I pretty much just instantly assume it's some kind of weird lie for online clout. The site culture there is very strange.

All that technology, yet you need more identification to open a gmail account than you do to vote in a United States federal election. They can't even use it to transparently monitor what was arguably the most controversial election of our lifetime. It's like the United States government is willing to use technology in elections, but only in ways that don't fundamentally matter.

Please forgive any ignorance on my behalf. Does work like this make it any more possible for someone to engineer an FPGA-based replacement? I don't know too much about FPGAs, I just imagine that seeing the arrangement of the gates on the chip makes its functionality a little more transparent, and this a bit more possible.

Would it be a bit conspiratorial to guess that this is related to the terrible like/dislike ratio on the Biden administration's YouTube presence, as tracked by https://81m.org/

I agree with you.

The only thing I find more threatening than Amazon's pervasive surveillance is the intended audience this site is catering to.

I'm surprised that there's only one other person in this thread discussing the possibility that this is a deliberately coordinated release of information by the military. I've never worked for the US military, however I doubt that if you're working in close proximity to classified hardware they just let you loose with a smartphone in your hand. The person filming this would surely have been easily identifiable, and subsequently punished. Even the most ignorant civilian contractor would surely have understood the full ramifications of their actions doing this. I think it seems to contrived.

I posted in one of the earlier threads that I am an Epik customer, and unfortunately I am caught up in this mess. I have never hosted political content of any kind. The domains I own on Epik were related only to technology. I registered these domains with Epik for no other reason than they had an affiliate deal going, and a friend of mine was already a customer. I am not a white supremacist, I am not even white. My credit card information was part of this leak, and as a result my card was used for multiple fraudulent transactions. I am in the process of dealing with the financial and legal impact of this right now[1]. I don't care what justification the people responsible think they had. Their actions have wronged lots of ordinary people like myself. This extends to DDOSecrets as well. I don't care that these people think they're doing the lord's work. This action was nothing short of just irresponsible, and downright malicious. Emma Best is a bad person for hosting this information. I hope the people responsible are brought to justice.

[1] The matter is under investigation, which is normal procedure for financial institutions in these instances. I'm still waiting for the return of the funds.

I own several domains with Epik. I bought them through Epik for no other reason than my friend having an affiliate link. I don't host political content. I don't even know anything about them as a company. I am actually very angry as I type this. I don't care who else they let purchase domains from them, I didn't deserve this. I hope whoever did this is caught and jailed.

What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh so righteous indignation.

Very cool. It would be cool if they pivoted to target ARM, or even better RISC-V, to target handheld devices.

The expectation that Proton would be able to disobey the legal requests of their local authorities with impunity is unrealistic. Protonmail makes certain claims about privacy, particularly about encryption. They don't make any claims that they have the intention, or ability for that matter, to defy local authorities at their peril. Like Grugq said in one of his presentations (paraphrased): "Don't expect your VPN company to do your jail time for you". I'm neither for nor against Protonmail. I don't think they've been dishonest. I think people have an unrealistic expectation of the service they offer. They offer additional privacy, not legal indemnity.

I don't use Apple's products. I've never used Time Machine. I have a Synology NAS though. My understanding based upon reading the article, an the comments here, is that Apple's proprietary Time Machine format is to blame here for this corruption. Can anyone here shed some light on the exact cause for this, and whether this is of any concern to a non-Apple user using a Synology NAS?

I've already written this in a previous comment, however I think it bears repeating: I think Apple have introduced this client-side content scanning technology under the auspices of protecting against CSAM, while its true intention is to allow for the Chinese government to scan citizens' phones for subversive content. I'm convinced that Apple's upper management figure the minimal blowback they're experiencing for this privacy invading technology in the west is worth the expansion of their technology into a much more totalitarian Chinese market. I think that this development has been precipitated by a very visible decline in America's economic, and social position as a world leader. Why not risk this move? America's trajectory is that of almost definite decline.