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  • Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

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  • I mean, they're already replaced people with people like I was describing. That's not a hypothetical.

    "he" referred to hegseth, who you seemed to be assuming probably didn't believe the rhetoric he was using.

    No one asked you to prove a negative. You expressed that the war being waged by the people who were in Afghanistan was a reassurance that they cared about the optics of brutality. I asked why you think that, given the things that happened in Afghanistan. "Things they've done" aren't somehow irrelevant anecdotes.

    We're talking about the distinction between people who think civilian casualties are justifiable as opposed to those who think it's a tool.

  • Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

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  • Sure. Unless they were fired for being "woke" and replaced by people who think bombing Iran will help usher in Armageddon and the second coming of Christ.

    What has he done to make you think he deserves the benefit of the doubt? What in this administration makes you remain confident that somewhere deep down there's a responsible adult who'll calm things down? They bragged about letting Elon musk fire all those people.

    Why do you think the people who ran Afghanistan wouldn't bomb a school? They bombed weddings. Hospitals. Shot children.

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  • You say that, but also... They specifically said this wasn't going to be a "politically correct war" with "rules of engagement".

    https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4418959/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-dan/

    This is the generational turning point America has waited for since 1979 and since the rudderless wars of hubris

    No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win

    Remember that while sensible people know optics matter, there are people who think the problem with Vietnam was that we were too soft on them, and too soft on domestic political dissident.Those are the people currently in power. They are not competent military thinkers. They view strength the same way the people who were blindsided by our loss in Vietnam viewed it. We can't lose because we have more weapons. If the enemy is still fighting it's because we haven't bombed hard enough. Anyone who wants to hold back is weak.

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  • It actually didn't. The carpet bombing and flattening of cities didn't make the population want to give up or turn on the military.The first nuclear weapon didn't either.The second made the emperor inclined to surrender, when paired with a declaration of war by the Soviet Union.

    The civilian population never posed a significant threat to the stability of the military or imperial rule.

    People aren't generally idiots, and will lean towards supporting the people fighting the people who are hurting them. You may not like them, and you may want them to do something else, but you're unlikely to trust the party that is currently trying to kill you.

    "Take off your armor and we'll stop shooting" just isn't a compelling argument.

  • Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

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  • A common belief amongst some people, right or wrong, is that if you hurt someone badly enough they'll do what you want because that path becomes less painful.Those people believe that sending the message "war with the US means all your children die" will result in people furiously demanding that their military stop fighting to prevent the killing.

    It's quite literally the abuser mindset but applied to nations. "I wouldn't have to hurt you if you had just done what I said".This fits with who's in power.

  • The list is realistically so much longer.

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  • And? What happened next? Did they do an operation Northwoods? Did we go to war with Cuba? Was Johnson more aggressive on Cuba than Kennedy, or was he actually more engaged on diplomatic fronts?

    I'm not forgetting anything. It just doesn't fit with any narrative that makes a lick of goddamned sense. Like, Kennedy rejected Northwoods because he was worried the troops might be needed in Europe, so starting a war in Cuba would be a bad move.He was strongly in favor of every other operation they proposed as part of the larger plan.

    Why would a massive conspiracy exist to kill Kennedy for rejecting a plan and then... Not do the plan?

  • The list is realistically so much longer.

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  • I agree, and feel similarly about the inclusion of operation Northwoods.It's most prominently a horrifying plan that was rejected and remained classified, with the proposer being replaced shortly afterwards (it's entirely possible that's a coincidence).

    Someone thinking of something horrible and then not doing it isn't evidence that they would do something similar. There's no particular reason to think they hid evidence because they admitted in the same deeply classified documents to doing far worse things.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • Nah, it's cool. We're clearly talking at cross purposes. Have a good one.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • It was bought by Microsoft after becoming established. Most free software projects don't care enough to move if they don't self host.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • And I'm just letting you know that link bombing isn't, and it's actually a discussion if you explain your point rather than dropping someone else's novel.If for no other reason than because you don't have to dig for what part of what was posted is related to what they were saying, and you can much faster say "ah, you're talking about something totally different than I am".

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • Just so you know, from looking at the wall of text you pasted by proxy: those are arguments against the notion that a tpm can make the device itself secure, not that it is untrustworthy for the notion of signing and storing encrypted data.

    Next time, make your point and provide references (or not), rather than just link bombing.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • I'm not seeing anything that's not a great look about requiring strong authentication for access to sensitive portions of a users account. What you're saying is akin to calling it a bad look that they force users to use complex passwords against user wishes.

    I'm not sure what "trust me bro, my cloud is safe" has to do with anything. Passkeys live on your device. There are ways of facilitating device to device migrations of the keys if you want. You don't need to use them to use passkeys. And at least on Android you don't need to even use Google to manage the keys.

    Most semiconductors are closed source. The processor, ram, and radio are also more than likely closed. The software interfaces to all of them have open specification and implementation. There's like, six for Linux. Microsoft open sourced theirs.Tpms are not security through obscurity. They are obscure, but that's not a critical component to their security model.

    What they do isn't really what "collecting biometrics" implies. They're storing key points in a hashed fashion that allows similarities to be compared. Even if it wasn't encrypted in a non-exportable way you still can't do anything with it beyond checking for a similarity score.

    You've done a good job explaining what I said previously: there's sometimes a disjoint between privacy and security concern, and so sometimes people don't understand something about security.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • That's close enough for a privacy perspective. There's also limitations on domains that can request the auth, specifically ”only the one the credential is for", and there's a different key per domain and user typically.It's also implemented in a way where if the user doesn't choose to disclose their account to the service, the service can't know.

    Caring about privacy and caring about the details of a security protocol are distinct. You'd be surprised how many people who care about privacy are deeply wary of passkeys because of the biometric factor, which is unfortunate because the way it authenticates is a lot harder to track across domains by design.

    I understood they had a lot of concerns, one of which was biometrics via passkeys since GitHub was a very early adopter due to the supply chain risk they pose.

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • I know how device fingerprinting works, thank you though.

    You don't need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit.

    To me that sounds like hardware identifiers, but also quite specifically the things passkeys use. Hence I mentioned it as aside from their main point, which was "don't track me", because the biometrics GitHub or any website is going to ask you to use can't be used for that.

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  • Tangential to the main point you're going for: when you say fingerprint or biometrics I think you're referring to passkeys.Passkeys don't share any of your fingerprint or other biometric identifiers with anyone.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/passkeys-and-privacy

    One of the major design criteria of their creation was to be an increase in security without sacrificing privacy. It's made them more finicky to get working but there's a very good reason they're very popular with security professionals.

  • I hope none of you wanted to buy RAM anytime soon

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  • This came from looking up how much people are currently spending to build a ram fab. It's worth remembering that the tools used are very complex and are also impacted by the massive spike in semiconductor prices.

    https://www.blackridgeresearch.com/project-profiles/tsmc-arizona-fab-united-states-us-details-cost-expansion-latest-update

    https://www.eteknix.com/micron-begins-construction-of-its-massive-ram-factory-in-new-york-to-help-prevent-shortages-by-2030/

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-delays-usd100-billion-ohio-site-to-next-decade-first-fab-now-coming-online-in-2030

    They're quite literally making some of the most complicated and intricate things on the planet.The vast majority of the cost is tools, and when the price of those spikes due to shortage the cost goes up insanely fast.

    Cost estimates from even a just a few years ago have the cost being $10 to $20 billion.

  • I hope none of you wanted to buy RAM anytime soon

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  • Ballpark $100,000,000,000 and five years per factory.

    Modern semiconductors are very complicated to produce.

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • Yeah, the conventional ones still draw a good chunk of power, and they're not clean but they're not dirty. Same as how a grocery store isn't good for the environment but you're not looking at them first for places to clean.

    They tend to be boring, and are usually not a public thing but just something owned by a company to house their computers. The only reason I know about the ones near me is I used to work at one and people would move jobs to or from other ones. (As an aside, a datacenter is a great place to nap if you like white noise).

    For a sense of scale:

    This is the site of an open AI data center. The yellow square is about 1 square mile and mostly encompasses the area they plan to/have filled.

    That angle shows more build out.

    This photo has two normal data centers in it. The yellow square is also about 1 square mile. I've highlighted the data centers in red. One is to the left of the square near the middle, and the other is down from the right side near the big piles of what looks like rocks. (Spoilers: it's rocks. They make asphalt). The sprawling complex in the upper right is a refrigerated grocery store distribution complex. The middle on the other side of the block from the asphalt is a coal power plant.

    Of the things in this picture, I'm most upset about the giant freeway interchange. Coal is shit, but it's a modern plant so it's not belching soot, just co2, and the utility is phasing it out anyway. The grocery traffic is mostly dead except between the hours of midnight and 7am when they do restocks.I can hear the freeway if I go outside.

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  • I think the part you're missing is that 1) it's my community too 2) they're not talking about AI data centers, or new data centers or anything like that, they're petitioning to ban all data centers, and 3) we have multiple data centers in the city already that no one complained about until AI data centers became a thing people felt concerned about.

    There's a major difference between the 2 square mile hyper scale AI data center that requires a nuclear reactor and a full water treatment plant to cool and the 2 acre data center that's air cooled and has no more ground pollution than any other parking lot and essentially a warehouse.The state government has two in the city, at least, for processing electronic tax records, applications and hosting service sites. We have a few national insurance companies that need to process all the things they process. A research university, and a web hosting company round out the list of ones I know about.

    This is my entire point about why sometimes it's really necessary to point out that what someone is referring to is only a small part of what the words they're using describe. The language being imprecise doesn't matter until someone proposes a law outlawing chemicals, shuttering all data centers, or banning AI.

    LLMs are problematic. My fancy rice maker isn't.

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