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trompete [he/him]

@ trompete @hexbear.net

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  • Breaking news US does as US usually does

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  • Let's hope so. Regardless seems like a smart move to attack there. Apart from hurting these bootlicker's interests and reputations, and making the US look unreliable and uncaring, it's also apparently really easy.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD

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  • I saw a DougDoug video where he made a chatbot play chess, and, as one would expect, it's completely incapable of following the rules, since it's a fucking chatbot and cannot reason, and probalistically spits out its training data, presumably from books containing chess games.

    In this case, probably the fucking training data (reddit, pop culture, serious game theoretical analysis even) leads it to eventually autocomplete "nuclear", and once that's in the history, it just runs with it to the bitter end. Chatbots get stuck in stupid holes like this all the time.

  • Wake up babe, new Spinosaurus just dropped

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  • Wouldn't it be more likely for cooling?

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 16th to February 22nd, 2026 - The Neoliberal Fait Accompli of Muhammad Yunus - COTW: Bangladesh

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  • Der Spiegel reports that the CIA held multiple meetings with the Nord Stream saboteurs, and were initially encouraging and supportive.

    They say the CIA eventually stopped supporting them and advised against it. I rather think this is yet another limited hangout.

    According to SPIEGEL research, the secret commando found a new sponsor: a Ukrainian private individual. He covered a large part of the approximately $300,000 in costs for equipment, boat rental, and explosives, according to insiders.

    Der Spiegel doesn't point out that going through middlemen is like the CIA's favourite thing. Gives plausible deniability.

  • Tucker Carlson 'detained' in Israel as passport taken from him after interview

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  • Ok I thought they put him in custody based on that headline, but they just took his passport and had him in limbo at the airport for a while. They did actually detain the/a producer though.

  • Can a .torrent file be a virus or malware by itself?

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  • Theoretically yes, though I'm in inclined to believe this may be a false positive.

    Whenever a program looks at the contents of a file, some code (called a parser) runs that goes over the file content in order to discern its structure and pluck out the relevant information. Parsers essentially take formatted data and turn it into easy-to-work-with data structures. Since the parser's input could be some random file off the internet, potentially crafted by an attacker, a flaw in the parser code can easily be a security vulnerability. I think most security vulnerabilities are in parser code actually.

    Now, the torrent file format is pretty simple, so the parser code ought to be simple as well, but that does not mean there cannot be security issues with it. So it is not impossible, in theory, that opening a torrent file could infect your computer with malware, same as opening any other file you get off the internet. You'd hope/expect, if any such security bug is found in any bittorrent software and/or is being exploited in the wild, it would be fixed quickly with an update.

    Btw, antivirus software itself must look at the contents of a file, and as such can itself have security issues. This has happened. It is exacerbated by the fact the antivirus has elevated privileges and literally looks at all the files.

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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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  • Don't they have kids?

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    Berlinale panel being apolitical (when asked about Gaza)

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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  • Posted translations of two junge Welt articles:

    First one about a PdL ("The Left" party) supported speaker, Evelyn Deller, running cover for Azov-Nazis: https://hexbear.net/post/7620661

    Second one about the state of the Russia-Ukraine war, and how it can be seen through the lense of Cybernetics: https://hexbear.net/post/7620823

  • [junge Welt] German Pseudo-Leftists spreading Azov-Propaganda: Sympathy for Fascist

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  • The fact that these social fascists keep getting away with appropriating Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht is disgusting. Not as disgusting as supporting Israel and Azov Nazis, but still.

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    junge Welt

    Ukraine: The Algorithm of War

    www.jungewelt.de /artikel/517070.ukraine-krieg-der-algorithmus-des-krieges.html
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    junge Welt

    German Pseudo-Leftists spreading Azov-Propaganda: Sympathy for Fascist

    www.jungewelt.de /artikel/516792.kriegspropaganda-verst%C3%A4ndnis-f%C3%BCr-faschisten.html

  • All my homies hate Noam Chomsky

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  • Norm loves and idolizes Chomsky, doesn't he? He hung out with him regularly. I saw him talk about that not long ago.

  • Turkish FM says some NATO states want Ukrainian war to continue

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  • Yeah clearly "some" (actually most) still want it to continue.

    Also, I do wish there was a lower volume of "low effort" sort of submissions like this one, where people just quickly repost stuff they find somewhere else without even reading it properly. This crowds out more interesting posts which then disappear from the frontpage, and so most people (including me) don't see them, since they only last maybe an hour on the frontpage, and I'm not clicking through all the comms I am subscribed to, since most are pretty dead. Ultimately though, this is probably more down to the algorithm and lack of users really.

    Since I rarely post anything, I do recognize I'm not in a great position to criticize others who put in more effort, so sorry for that.

  • Turkish FM says some NATO states want Ukrainian war to continue

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  • This is from 2022.

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • Ok, but is bread crust maillard or caramelization? Because I won't know how to cook before I figure that out.

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • That's like eight full boxes of tea per cup. I can't afford that.

  • $0.002 ≠ 0.002 ¢, Verizon employees do not understand

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  • This is so infuriatingly frustrating I love it. Also probably there's a lesson in there somewhere.

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    $0.002 ≠ 0.002 ¢, Verizon employees do not understand

  • Microsoft's Copilot is coming for your File Explorer and Taskbar

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  • Torvalds isn't ideological in that way, it doesn't seem like something he would say. He's usually on about how open source (the guy embraced the corporate-friendly rebranding) is/was instrumental in the success of the Linux project and that he personally likes working that way, i.e. from home, over email, in his own time.

  • Can you guess?

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  • Trick question. It's not an animal.

    it's clearly a horse.

  • I'm finally getting the urge to change my distro from Mint to something else. When distro hopping do you basically have to start from scratch again?

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  • SteamOS does not work right on most hardware last I heard. They have specific stuff in there for the exact devices they do support (which are only two I think, SteamDeck and another one of these handhelds). It doesn't have all drivers for other hardware and there are even tweaks for the AMD chips that are in those things.

  • Q: Wiring up a dimmer switch to an old house

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  • I mean it has to be the load output, how else would that work. In order to make a circuit, it needs to be live - switch - lamp - neutral. If you just had live and neutral, the circuit would be live - switch - neutral, which I guess would make a funny let's blow the fuse prank switch or something.

  • technology @hexbear.net
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    How the Copilot hallucinated Christmas

    archive.is /20251220121400/https://www.theverge.com/report/847056/microsoft-copilot-ai-vision-pc-assistant-christmas-holiday-ad
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    I keep accidentally doing weird shit to my Firefox tabs and I don't know how to undo it

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Can anyone remember what this RPG parody was called?

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    PSA: Don't buy EU5 or any Paradox title

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Yuzo Koshiro: King of Chiptune

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    My crank MMORPG theory of space-time and gravity

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    Ice cream theory