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> would conflate liberals and leftists?

The book is from the 90s. You have to factor that in to be sure that he's conflating anything really. Lets also remember that Kaczynski is a literal genius. Top 1% of intelligence. Based on this also I don't believe that he thinks it makes any difference OR it made perfect sense in the times when he wrote it.

It's irrelevant because in a two-party political system they both (leftists+liberals) side to the left. The psychology (traits) of leftism/liberals are similar. The psychology (traits) of conservatives are the same no matter what "sub-type" (in lack of a better word) of conservative they claim to be because they side to the right. Wouldn't you call a neo-conservatives a conservative?

Since Ted is from the US he lives in the forementioned two-party political system. Making the distinction between leftist and liberals makes more sense imo in the European political system (not two-party) and perhaps others.

Left/Right, the political leaning can be observed because of various clues and traits. It's well understood. In academia and elsewhere.

> reactionary conservatives

Absolutely! Kaczynski also goes hard into conservatives. You should read the book, he is also criticising his own political leaning. He isn't so political-focused in his book. It's more on the sociology/psychology side.

English is not my first language so when we say "Snowden", unless we really try to do an American English accent, it can sometimes sound like "Snowedii-n".

His last name means:

> English: habitational name from any of the many minor places called from hills where the snow lay long (Old English snāw ‘snow’ + dūn ‘hill’). [0]

"To be snowed in": when you can't exit the property/house because of fallen snow. Keep that same thought but remove the snow element (still "stuck") and replace property with country.

Now take "Snowden", but make the E longer and make it sound more like an I.

Edward Snowed-in. One could say that he is snowed in, in another country.

Similary, another NSA leakers name: Reality Winner.

Not poking fun at their names, just pointing out the irony because of the situation they are/was in.

[0]: https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=snowden

Do not underestimate the importance of this event. Surprised you didn't know this.

It happened on February 7th 1978. Skånevikfjorden, Norway. On the West Coast. Taylor Diving Company brought in 3 divers + crew.

David Hoover, one of the three American divers, died in the accident that day. RIP

> It's long enough ago that the knowledge has spread widely and much new equipment has been developed, such as the robots.

No one would disagree. If you're saying that it's possible for these robots to plant explosives - I wouldn't know but I can believe that. In this case it's irrelevant.

Uansett, med tanke på Nord Stream, vi snakker om en sabotasje-operasjon med eksplosiver under vann. Slikt man ofte ser i klisjè action-filmer, men som (nesten) aldri skjer i virkeligheten. Mener ikke å si at noe av det du skriver er feil i teorien - tror bare muligens du undervurderer skalaen på en slik operasjon. Det er åpenbart en godt planlagt militær operasjon.

Not really.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias...

Embed an icon to your software, pin to taskbar or the system tray. User clicks icon -> large, non-minimizable popup window appears, gets users attention -> 'generate report?' -> Yes or No button.

Much better than having the user type some URL. They'll remember the icon but not the URL. Two mouse clicks, no keyboard needed.

I don't understand it. Respectfully, I also find it mildly amusing.

Yes.

To be frank with you, MS deserves all the criticism and I truly believe the 'biased internet swarm minds' to be correct this one time. Agree to disagree.

> People would also hate Edge despite benchmarks showing its latest iterations, even before the transition to chromium, as being one of the fastest and most performat browsers out there.

No Firefox is but it depends on the hardware. I'd encourage anyone to do their own benchmark - don't let anyone fool you with these paid benchmark guru sites.

We'll see. If I'm not mistaken the author has written books on Windows even. Why would he lie about something so stupid? ghacks is not a blog it's a tech news site and pretty well known. Perhaps you don't like it because of the sites critical view regarding Windows?

> Average Joe users who user their PC for entertainment and work

Don't bring up average Joe - we're talking about power-users, you were the one who brought up 'power-user stuff' and that's what I quoted you on. I wanted to share the perspective of someone who do not share your praise and excitement for W11. Many seem to not share your experience that is an ad free, lovely OS.

It took the interns at Microsoft, what, nearly 10 years to fix the whole search function fiasco? Not impressive, and a working search function can not be considered a feature.

> Previously if you wanted to go into the windows registry editor, you had to know the right incantation, but now, all you have to do is hit the Windows/Meta key and type 'reg'

The same search, but on Windows 10 with Open Shell [0]: https://i.imgur.com/YyxIzcO.png

And in my opinion, the start menu is much better looking: https://i.imgur.com/NeXwFlM.png

> it even shows you power-user stuff really intuitively.

Examples?

In my circles I can't think of a single developer and/or power-user that use, or plan on using Windows 11 (except in a virtual machine for quick compatibility-testing). We're all on micropatched W7's or Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC - otherwise Linux. W11 has sort of become one of the topics we joke about during lunch.

Power-users do not care about a cool and stylish UI, new icons or a simple working search function.

> A lot of these blog posts (like many comments in this thread sadly) are low effort hate/FUD for farming clickbait/karma rather than objective analysis.

ghacks has been covering Windows for many years. It's also not clickbait and MS are turning the operating system into an ad platform, unfortunately.

[0] https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

They clearly haven't read any "OPSEC 101"-books. Rookie mistake.

https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Russian-Strategic-Be...

This book is useful for understanding (not justifying).

Speaking of dystopian fiction authors; Aldous Huxley wrote the well-known book "Brave New World". [0]

Doing a quick search for MK-ULTRA on Wikileaks one can find this now unclassified transcript from 1974:

> ... AND OTHER CULTS LIKE IT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS, BUT WERE DELIBERATE SYNTHETIC CREATIONS PART OF A SERIES OF PROJECTS THAT INCLUDED THE MK-ULTRA OPERATION, THAT WAS RUN THROUGH BRITISH INTELLIGENCE CONTROL OVER A SECTION OF THE CIA, WAS RUN THROUGH ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GREGORY BATES OUT OF PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA. [1]

Wonder if BNW is a blueprint, rather than a fiction book. Thoughts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109003500/https://wikileaks...

I wouldn't know because I 'found it online' (if you know what I mean).

Here's an example of things to come:

https://www.arch13.com/ms-windows-defender-decss/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914752

Mediafire is still up https://www.mediafire.com/

> piratebay might still point to trackers that have copies, but bittorrent isn't as popular as it was in the past

Most music pirates have moved on to using Soulseek (a P2P network) it seems. Releases not found on bittorrent can most likely be found on SLSK.

http://www.slsknet.org

> The nothing to hide argument states that individuals have no reason to fear or oppose surveillance programs, unless they are afraid it will uncover their own illicit activities. An individual using this argument may claim that an average person should not worry about government surveillance, as they would have "nothing to hide".

> Edward Snowden remarked "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." He considered claiming nothing to hide as giving up the right of privacy which the government has to protect.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html

https://stallman.org/discord.html

I believe some Americans underestimate how many forums are actually hosted in Eastern Europe. They're still popular over here.

In Norway (~5M population) you'll find atleast 3 huge forums but also several niche ones.