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> The model autonomously found and chained together several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel—the software that runs most of the world’s servers—to allow an attacker to escalate from ordinary user access to complete control of the machine.

How can 'created' timestamp > 'last modified' timestamp?

> There are things that can be done with HTTP that cannot be done with cURL.

Such as?

It looks like all of them have been used.

> life can be cruel.

We can be more specific here. "Some people can be cruel".

(Of course, I'm talking about the one who took all the notes from Oz then instead of giving him the credits ghosted him completely and later co-authored the blog post announcing the "inspired" project. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface)

"How to help:

...

2. Spread the word about Anna’s Archive on Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram, at your local cafe or library, or wherever you go! We don’t believe in gatekeeping — if we get taken down we’ll just pop right up elsewhere, since all our code and data is fully open source."

Source: https://annas-archive.org/about

This might sound rude but as a matter of fact, being FOSS developer I don't consider FOSS projects using Discord/Slack etc. to be worthy of my time.

I despise locking down knowledge to a walled garden.

> Tasleem Rehmani said something denigrating towards a Hindu God

I watched that entire debate and he didn't say anything degrading towards Hindu Gods.

Here's the context- Hindu RW claimed a fountain in Gyanvapi mosque (situated in Kashi) as Shivalinga (God Shiva's phallus)[0] which is a part of larger campaign of claiming Muslims mosques as Hindu temples by RSS/BJP. Started with demolition of Babri mosque (situated in Ayodhya) in 1992.[1] The war-cry of the time was "Ayodhya to zaki hai. Kashi Mathura baki hai" (Ayodhya is just a trailer. Kashi and Mathura are remaining)

Many Indians (majorly we secular Hindus) made fun of communal Hindus for claiming anything shaped like a phallus to be a "Shivalinga". I myself shared how in 1990s Hindus in San Fransisco started worshiping traffic barricade as "Shivalinga".[2]

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hindu-group-recognise...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_the_Babri_Masjid

[2] https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/san-francisco-people-w...

> ZooBear has tweet after tweet mocking Hinduism

Absolutely false. Can you share one?

> The alleged fact-checker has been arrested because he has made similar objectional comments on various social media about Hindu deity.

Completely false.

Mohammad Zubair has been arrested for posting a screenshot from 1983 Indian film "Kisi Se Na Kehna" (Don't tell anybody). Yes, let me repeat. For posting a screenshot from a 40 years old Indian film.

"Democracy" my foot!

PS - I don't think that this should matter but unfortunately in today's India it does so here it is - I am a Hindu. A secular one not one of the communal big0ts.

https://scroll.in/latest/1027077/zubair-arrested-for-posting...

At a primary school in Utter Pradesh (a state in India) salt and bread (roti) was served to children as part of mid-day meal.

Then the state government did what any sensible government will do. They filed a case against the journalist for criminal conspiracy maligning the image of state government.

Since last few years it has become fashionable to call Indians who criticize the government "anti-national" as if nation = government.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/up-case-against-journo...

> has it actually been proven/researched?

Yes.

"The Wire has confirmed the numbers of at least 40 journalists who were either targets or potential targets for surveillance. Forensic analysis was conducted on the phones of seven journalists, of which five showed traces of a successful infection by Pegasus." https://thewire.in/rights/project-pegasus-list-of-names-unco...

The forensic analysis was conducted by Amnesty International's Security Lab and was peer-reviewed by Citizen Lab 1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-... 2. https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/amnesty-peer-review/

Also, "In the midst of the heated West Bengal assembly election, the phone of poll strategist Prashant Kishor was broken into using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to digital forensics conducted by Amnesty International’s Security Lab and shared with The Wire." https://thewire.in/government/prashant-kishor-mamata-banerje...

Govt of India in parliament on NSO group (Dec 3, 2012): "There is no proposal for banning any group named NSO group" https://twitter.com/A2D2_/status/1466700684573642752

> It has a lot of names which are in the pro current establishment camp.

Ah, that's incorrect. The first article released yesterday released names of 40 Indian journalists. I see a few pro Modi names there. https://thewire.in/media/pegasus-project-spyware-indian-jour...

As far what's to come: "The numbers of those in the database include over 40 journalists, three major opposition figures, one constitutional authority, two serving ministers in the Narendra Modi government, current and former heads and officials of security organisations and scores of businesspersons."[1]

These will be released in further articles of the series "Project Pegasus"

[1] https://thewire.in/government/project-pegasus-journalists-mi...

Here is the full forensic methodology report of this leak by Amnesty International's Security Lab: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

With this report, the Amnesty International has also released Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) - a forensic tool to look for signs of infection in smartphone devices: https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

Best feature of UPI for me is you can interact with UPI via USSD code (*99#) which is terrific for someone like me who don't use any proprietary apps on his Lineageos.

The best feature of UPI for me is that it provides USSD code (*99#) to interact with the UPI. Since I only use FLOSS apps (via f-droid.org) on my LineageOS I use UPI without installing any UPI app (which all are proprietary e.g. PayTm, Gpay etc.).

Why not use Tor instead? Frees from the worry of going over free AWS server bandwidth limits.

In India you can't get more STEM than IITs.

1. "IIT Bombay protests Day 4: Skit raises questions on Modi gov" https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/iit-bombay-...

2. "At IIT-Madras, tough questions from protesting students" https://www.livemint.com/news/india/at-iit-madras-tough-ques...

3. "3 IITs join chorus against crackdown on Jamia, AMU students" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

You might find this interesting: https://phoneprivacy.co/

Sure. Maybe that's why the newborn child of a Brahmin is a Brahmin. /s

But seriously, as a Hindu I gotta ask, do we honestly think people are that clueless to fall for this bs?

> he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.

Same here. So

  1. I downloaded the gif  
  2. ffmpeg -i screencast.gif foo.mp4

Now watching in vlc at decreased playback speed. (Press `-`)

But why Slack though? Can't we have a IRC/matrix channel?

> We have fundamental enforceable human rights,

Oh yes, you mean the one where a journalist is put under draconian NSA for criticizing the government.[0]

> democratic government

Oh right. The one where hate-mongering communal bigot is made the Chief Minister.[1]

Congratulations India!

> independent judiciary

Absolutely. I guess that' why the 4 senior-most judges of the Supreme Court of India came out and said that the democracy was at stake.[2] Isn't it?

> the upcoming dystopian big data-driven, social network-like integrated citizen evaluation program

By any chance, do you mean like the one used by 40 departments of Indian government to spy on it's citizen?[3]

> So, its wildly inappropriate to mention India and China in the same vein here

Oh it's absolutely appropriate to mention India and China in the same vein here.

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur-journalist-ki...

[1] https://www.thequint.com/news/india/new-up-cm-yogi-adityanat...

[2] https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/supreme-court-cris...

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/07/the-indian-governme...

Nope sorry. Slack is a walled garden. And relying on a walled garden means handing over your control, freedom and privacy which eventually gonna lead to similar kind of exploitation/abuse.

As another HN commenter @SamWhited put it, "Using a proprietary protocol that doesn't allow any form of federation is an unacceptable way to build a global community". We need to develop and use FLOSS protocols/tools as much as possible.

That's correct. Because it's the FLOSS devs who need to learn to empathize with the ordinary user.

Disclaimer - A FLOSS dev here.

> I used to find Quora interesting but it just has so much of this low-quality spam on it now.

I am an Indian and I concur. I honestly don't remember the last time I visited Quora since then.

> Luckily a throwaway Google account with BS info and a temporary backup e-mail address is easily created every 3 months.

Sigh! Google makes phone verification compulsory when you try to create the Google account (mandatory to use Google products).

> The service that's trying to strip the +'s are trying to prevent users from using their (usually free) service in a way that will cost them more money, but never convert to and profit.

I can always create multiple email accounts, you know. So I don't see how spending development efforts to parse and detect + and . is effective.

It reminded me of The Million Dollar Homepage.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage [1] http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

This (besides privacy considerations) made me switch to DDG finally! Thanks!