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taladar

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  • Fairphone 6 to be announced June 25, 2025

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  • Counterpoint, if you don't create a new device at least once every 2 years there will be people who disregard your latest device in their purchase decision because it is so old.

  • World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre

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  • "Never forget" is great and all but from a German perspective it seems to not be enough. It is much more important to make sure the same or very similar things do not happen again, not by China and not by any other nation. Otherwise you end up like we did here in Germany where decades of "never forget" lead to very similar sentiments being expressed by a new major party but since things are slightly different (e.g. the "never forget" was always phrased to be about Jews, this is more about foreigners in general) people seem to allow themselves to ignore them.

  • A grim poll shows most Jewish Israelis support expelling Gazans. It's brutal - and true

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  • This means that Israel presently relies on an external backer for its security (the US).

    Makes you wonder if Israel is trying to grab as much land as possible and eliminate as many people who might have competing claims on that land as possible before the US collapses economically (and with that their giant military budget) now that Donald Trump is doing his best to make that a reality.

  • Apple challenges ‘unreasonable’ EU order to open up to rivals

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  • I disagree...with your decision to limit your statement to their smartphones instead of applying it to all of their devices.

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • The Indian Turk or short IT-worker.

  • My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

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  • I can't speak for others but I simply hate that people keep telling us how amazing AI is yet not a single one of them can ever point to a single task completed by AI on its own that is actually of decent quality, never mind enough tasks that I would trust AI to do anything without supervision. I mean actual tasks, e.g. PRs on an open source repository or a video showing some realistic every-day task done from start to finish by AI alone, not hand-wavy "I use it every day" abstract claims.

    People like OP seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that reading code takes a lot of time and effort, even when there was an actual human thought process behind it, never mind when it might be totally random garbage. Writing code is also not nearly as much of a bottleneck as AI proponents seem to think it is. Reading code to verify it is not total garbage is actually much more effort than writing the same code yourself. It might not appear like that if you are writing in a low expressiveness language like Go or Java because you are reading or writing a lot of lines for every actual high level action the code takes that you need to think about but it becomes more obvious in more expressive languages where the same action can be expressed closer to 1:1 in terms of lines per high level action.

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • Asian Intelligence?

  • Ukraine to make 10 million air, land, sea drones a year

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  • Presumably in terms of numbers most of those are single use so think of them more as ammo than as aircraft.

  • In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

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  • Storing individual button presses is ridiculous because that is much too low level when the apps also have much more high level information about your activities available. It is literally more useless than data you can acquire just as easily.

  • Is public WiFi actually dangerous?

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  • Tor exit nodes could also identify you if they cooperate with some of the websites you visit (the way e.g. a government could force them to).

  • Is public WiFi actually dangerous?

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  • If you have a HTTP fallback on HTTPS failure that might work, but only if the site doesn't use HSTS and this is the first request on that client. I skipped over HSTS preloading in my earlier explanation which also addresses this issue for sites on the browsers list at least.

  • Is public WiFi actually dangerous?

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  • Only if you start with HTTPS but browsers have favored HTTP for backwards compatibility as the default protocol when something is entered in the address bar until very recently (less than a year for any browser to do that by default via HTTPS). Usually users don't notice because websites redirect to HTTPS but technically a MITM attacker could just redirect you somewhere else.

  • Is public WiFi actually dangerous?

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  • Unless websites use the very latest version of SSL at the very least the hostname you connect to (the Server Name Indication field) is visible. As are your DNS queries unless you use DoT or DoH or DNSCrypt or some similar encrypted DNS protocol.

    Until very recently most browsers also defaulted to using http for any address you typed into the address bar without a protocol so your first request was HTTP and could redirect you to an entirely different website. DNS spoofing would work just fine with this since the website you actually connect to over https after the redirect is already attacker controlled and has a certificate for hat attacker controlled domain (e.g. with replacement unicode characters that look virtually identical to the original website domain name).

    The router can also see your Mac address so they might have a unique identifier to track you across open Wifi networks (if we are talking commercial country-wide installations run by one company).

    Many gaming protocols also do not use TLS encryption since they rely on UDP and while there are encryption variants for that gaming is often unreasonably optimized for speed over everything else.

    So in summary, in general, yes, the network you are connected to can be dangerous and can learn some information about your network usage.

  • Three killed as Israeli forces open fire near Gaza food distribution site, officials say

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  • Immediate? Immediately after not being active in this thread before?

    And accusing me of that particular fallacy makes no sense either considering my post merely pointed out that the person I responded to did not have a great point in trying to catch anyone in an inconsistency between their treatment of the US colonization vs. the founding of Israel.

  • Ukraine deliberately blindsided Trump before massive drone attack on Russia

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  • The big difference is that an atomic bomb would still be useful once it is revealed while this would likely be significantly less effective.

  • Three killed as Israeli forces open fire near Gaza food distribution site, officials say

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  • Are you aware that many people condemn the American colonizers for that genocide too?

  • Ukraine deliberately blindsided Trump before massive drone attack on Russia

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  • Intel is very different from secrets. Secrets can be blown wide open if they are leaked by one person.

  • Ukraine deliberately blindsided Trump before massive drone attack on Russia

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  • You are confusing nations with people. You can't trust a nation (or any other organization), you can only trust individuals because an organization can always contain individuals of diametrically opposed behaviors.

  • Britain doubles down on defense boost with new fleet of nuclear submarines

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  • Personally I would instead consider how the recent advances in drone technologies could be applied to underwater operations and/or water-based launch platforms.

    Nuclear submarines feel like a relic of the cold war at this point.