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razakel··on Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives
I'd prefer to deal with the mafia than Rupert fucking Murdoch.
razakel··on Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table
They should really have called it PowerScript. It's the full blown .NET ecosystem.
razakel··on Why I Built My Own Audio Player
I wonder if you could get an iPod Classic and upgrade the storage/replace the battery...
razakel··on The White House, LLC
He's a Yale-educated lawyer who runs a hedge fund. That's exactly the sort of person a company would want on their board.
razakel··on O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
These days you get arrested and thrown in jail just for sending death threats to politicians.
razakel··on Procolored printer drivers contained malware
Hosting drivers on mega.co.nz.

Totally fills you with confidence.

razakel··on VPN firm says it didn't know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
The company that bought it is owned by the same guy. He knows it's bullshit.
razakel··on How Bail Bonds Work
The Bail Act 1976 says you get bail by default, unless it's a serious offence, in which case you'd be remanded.
razakel··on Why Bell Labs Worked
>Firstly, you must be skint and on the dole. Anybody with a proper job or tied up with full time education will not have the time to devote to see it through. Also, being on the dole gives you a clearer perspective on how much of society is run. If you are already a musician stop playing your instrument. Even better, sell the junk. It will become clearer later on but just take our word for it for the time being.

- The Manual, by the KLF

razakel··on We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution
Hindsight is always 20/20. You mustn't judge your past decisions based on information you didn't have at the time. That way lies madness.
razakel··on Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users
One of the founders is ex-Mossad.
razakel··on Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users
You're not a three-letter agency, though.
razakel··on How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
>is it just the inability to block ads?

Of course it is.

razakel··on EU's von der Leyen invites scientists, researchers to make Europe their home
"When our enemies say: 'but we gave you freedom of thought before' - yeah, you did! That doesn't mean we should do the same for you! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you gave it to us is proof of how dumb you are!"

- Goebbels

razakel··on What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
There's often red flags, such as a Polish name, graduate from a Polish university, but doesn't actually speak Polish.

Local knowledge, too. If they claim to be from Krakow, get someone from there to chat to them. If you hear frantic typing, they're imposters.

razakel··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
There's five different grids in North America (Eastern, Western, Texas, Alaska, Quebec) so something would have to go very wrong for a nationwide blackout.
razakel··on Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?
>I can walk into my nearest teleco branch with my ID if I lose my phone and change the SIM to another phone.

And I can do the same pretending to be you, or simply bribe the minimum-wage cashier who doesn't really care.

Do they even have a flag for highly sensitive accounts, e.g. set off an alarm if someone tries to issue a new SIM for the President?

razakel··on AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
That is the UK system. GPs are private contractors.
razakel··on AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
Wakefield's fraud was quite sophisticated and did manage to fool many medical professionals.
razakel··on I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
Yeah, there's several companies that do it.
razakel··on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
>kept a list of drives to avoid based on user experience

Well, that sounds like a great way to get sued.

razakel··on A Postmortem of a Startup
People constantly moan about their jobs, stupid processes, broken software and tools... listen to them and build something better.
razakel··on Domain Sniped on Launch Day
>There should be some regulatory mechanism for domains if the owner doesn’t use them for something meaningful, they should pay and increased price for it, and/or lose the ownership after a certain amount of time.

There is, they're called "trademarks".

razakel··on Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'
European law has established various rights regarding data concerning an individual since 1981.
razakel··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Governments are not startups. Boring and predictable is what the public and the markets want.
razakel··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
It's not the first time they've hijacked the term. It's a smokescreen because they're aware of how unpalatable their beliefs actually are.
razakel··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Anarchists don't want a king. Neo-feudalists want to be the king.
razakel··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Anarcho-capitalists are not anarchists. They share no history or ideology with any of the other variants of anarchism.

They're extreme libertarians/neo-feudalists.

razakel··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Even Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station because he didn't have his ID with him.
razakel··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
>And yet, most countries are using tarrifs.

On specific industries they want to protect. Not completely across the board.

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