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  • North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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  • I wonder how many they've missed over the years, this kind of thing has been occuring since at least 2012.

    Reminded me of the 'critical infrastructure company' (I presume utility) software developer who handed all his credentials over to a worker in China, including mailing them his RSA keyfob, and wasn't discovered for months until the company security team noticed VPN logins coming from China.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/worlds-most-industrious-lazy-man-outsources-all-of-his-work-to-china/

    Apparently it's become even easier for malicious remote workers to fake resumes and identities to gain jobs via AI, so I hope all major companies are monitoring their remote access very closely.

    https://au.pcmag.com/security/106436/security-firm-discovers-remote-worker-is-really-a-north-korean-hacker

  • Europe edges away from China as Beijing's campaign against Japan backfires

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  • You went to a propaganda evening and watched a propaganda movie and it made you feel weird and question things. Sounds like a reasonable response, what's your takeaway though - you can't imagine Japanese people doing it?

    Every human is capable of doing awful things, especially during wartime and under dictatorship - like fascist Japan was. The most concerning thing about Japan today is probably that there is no mention of their warcrimes and horrific treatment of their neighboring countries during and prior to WWII in their education curriculum - mention these things to Japanese adults and many have not even heard of them. How can their future generations learn the dangers of a fascist autocracy and blind nationalism if they don't hear the facts of their quite recent past?

    Very hard to not point out how valuable the same question is when turned inward on the Chinese, though. Their own government has committed warcrimes against Tibet and many massacres against their own people - some of which are much more recent than Japan's ugly legacy, and all of which are either heavily censored, erased from history books, or illegal to talk about under punishment of arrest and jail time.

  • Positivity 😇

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  • Why is this cropped and scrubbed so that we can't see who the original artist is?

  • Android 16 QPR3 adds a blue dot to show when apps are using your location

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  • Apple, many years ago

  • South Koreans hunt for old LG air-conditioners after logos turn out to be pure gold

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  • Gold wasn't exactly cheap back in 2005. I don't understand how this ever got put into production.

  • “They forced me to cook, clean, and fulfill their sexual whims”: Testimony of a Ukrainian woman enslaved by Russian soldiers

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  • More warcrimes. May every one of them be captured and held to account.

  • All Remaining Star Trek Titles Leaving Netflix Globally in January 2026

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  • The only one that exites me is DS9:Redefined. They're capturing and stacking the LaserDisc releases and the results are significantly cleaner and more detailed than the DVD releases. They had video examples that looked amazing, but Vimeo has now sadly removed them (were up just a couple months ago - probably Paramount abusing copyright strike).

    They have reportedly uploaded all of the raw LaserDisc rips for DS9 and Voyager to Archive.org but have not yet made that link public. When they do, I expect a number of very high quality upscale projects will appear.

    Latest blog entry with some side-by side still images. https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/the-colors-duke-the-colors/

  • What DDNS providers you guys recommend?

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  • Yeah DuckDNS gave me many false positive outages where its resolution failed, for multiple half-days every year I used it (5yrs+).

    I moved to the afraid.org and its been solid, if anyone's looking for another free service - only cost is you have to log in once every six months to validate your account is not dormant. They have a paid tier which gives more features (that most home users will never need), and that allows the guy running it to fund a very reliable service.

  • What DDNS providers you guys recommend?

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  • I'm surprised the amount of people saying they have had no issues with DucksDNS. I've used it for about five years and had issues on and off with it being unresponsive many times.

    Gave up and moved to afraid.org about a year back and that's been a very solid service ever since.

  • First steps

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  • I was running Helldiver's 2 for a few weeks this year on CPU alone, and wondering why my framerate sucked. I thought the devs had put out a bad update.

    Then I realized the game had forced DX12 and also decided that my graphics card was lacking a feature it required - so it fell back to CPU only. I forced DX11 in config = fixed. Me: 🤡

  • Live: Multiple fatalities after shooting at Bondi Beach

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  • Assuming helps nobody. Wait for the motives to be revealed by the investigators.

    There's already a bunch of anti-Muslim statements rising on the usual places (YT, FB) because the only shooter identified so far has an Arabic-origin name.

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    Ever since I quit drinking three years ago, I've gotten a good night's sleep a handful of times

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  • Well that sounds right.. like I said, Ambien is counter-indicated for alcohol, combined they can cause euphoria which leads to abuse. Gotta chill on the alcohol, the meds work without it.

    This is more and more sounding like alcoholism? Treat that first, your sleep will definitely improve.

  • DOJ weighs novel federal hate crime case against Charlie Kirk's alleged killer

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  • "Antifa are the real fascists"

    "Anti-hate crime is the real hate crime"

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    Ever since I quit drinking three years ago, I've gotten a good night's sleep a handful of times

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  • There is a regulated medication I have and success with called Belsomra that works well. Not cheap though, unfortunately (circa $1/tablet) - definitely cheaper than boozing it up every night though.

    Whatever you try I'd recommend staying away from Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) as it can be abused with alcohol, and alcoholics often develop a tolerance and dependence on it. Docs would most likely recommend against it, but the internet / random people might.

  • Kim Jong-un admits North Korean troops clearing landmines for Russia

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  • Yes.

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  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • It is absolutely predefined - if you make the same moves it will give you the same results, every time. Same as playing ChessMaster 2000 from 1986.

    It may narrowly fit into the broad definition of 'AI' (like, since the 70s) but that's not what's being discussed in this thread.

    Believe what you like though.

  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • I agree it's great at writing and frame-working parts of code and selecting libraries - it definitely has value for coding. $1500 bil value though, I doubt.

    My main concern there lies in the next gen of programmers. The work that ChatGPT (and Claude etc) outputs requires some significant programming prior-experience to allow them to make sense of the output and adjust (or correct) it to suit their scope and requirements of the project - it will be much harder for junior devs to learn that skill with LLMs doing all the groundwork - essentially the same problem in wider education now with kids/teens just using LLMs to write their homework and essays. The consequences will be long term, and significant. In addition (for coding) it's taking away the entry-level work that junior devs would usually do and then have cleaned up for prod by senior devs - and that's not theory, the job market for junior programmers is dying already.

  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • When people say "I fucking hate AI", 99% of the time they mean "I fucking hate AI™©®". They don't mean the technology behind it.

    To add to your good points, I'm a CS grad that studied neural networks and machine learning years back, and every time I read some idiot claiming something like "this scientific breakthrough has got scientists wondering if we're on the cusp of creating a new species of superintelligence" or "90% of jobs will be obsolete in five years" it annoys me because its not real, and it's always someone selling something. Today's AI is the same tech they've been working on for 30+ years and incrementally building upon, but as Moore's Law has marched on we now have storage pools and computing power to run very advanced models and networks. There is no magic breakthrough, just hype.

    The recent advancements are all driven by the $1500 billion spent on grabbing as many resources they could - all because some idiots convinced them it's the next gold rush. What has that $1500 bil got us? Machines that can answer general questions correctly around 40% of the time, plagiarize art for memes, create shallow corporate content that nobody wants, and write some half-decent code cobbled together from StackOverflow and public GitHub repos.

    What a fucking waste of resources.

    What's real is the social impacts, the educational impacts, the environmental impacts, the effect on artists and others who have had their work stolen for training, the useability of the Internet (search is fucked now), and what will be very real soon is the global recession/depression it causes as businesses realize more and more that it's not worth the cost to implement or maintain (in all but very few scenarios).

  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • I know you're meming, but in Civilization (as in most games), you're playing against predefined scripts and algorithmic rules that the computer opponent has, as well as having cheaper costs for resources than the user at higher difficulty levels - because it cannot compete with a skilled human player at that level (it literally cheats).

    No LLM, no neural network, no deep learning.. not 'AI' in the modern sense that's being discussed here.