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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • I will add that Austria is a known money laundering destination and I remember when Schäuble (famous later for ruining Greece when they were caught in a debt trap during his time as German minister of finance) got caught with a case full of cash at the Bavarian-Austrian border. Chancellor Kohl famously never gave up where the money came from (probably weapons deal kickbacks or something of that sort), instead he sordidly claimed they were (off the books) donations stemming from "Jewish inheritances". The implication here being that these Jewish inheritors were just so grateful to the CDU and also just very shy about donating in public.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • I'm sure the Hungarian authorities were acting on Orban's personal orders when they decided to impound two vehicles on their way to Austria, and detain the drivers that they just picked up with two trunks full of cash, which is not suspicious at all.

    Update: After reading some Austrian news on this:

    • Hungarian anti-terror unit HEK detained them at a high way rest stop.
    • Ukraine claims this was an official and registered transport.
    • 40m $, 35m €, 9 kg gold seized.
    • Hungarian authorities say that this year [what year?], 900m $, 420m €, and 146 kg gold were transported through Hungary by Ukraine.
    • Hungary claims money laundering investigation.
    • Ex-general of Ukrainian intelligence service among the detained.
    • Hungarian authorities released them back to Ukraine.

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    I'm inclined to think that the Hungarian authorities have a point that this is related to money laundering, but also that they're fucking with them for political reasons. It's interesting that they all let them go. They either do not have anything substantial to charge them with or they don't want to create some sort of diplomatic incident.

  • Vibecoders are a fucking nightmare

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  • Right now some people are still engaging even with known LLM bot submissions, but I predict everyone's patience will run out real quick and AI bots will be plonked on sight, even a whiff of LLM will result in an immediate ban if the problem gets worse. Maybe most the spammers give up then, maybe they won't, depends probably on how convincing (and arguably genuinely useful) and cheap the bots will be. Still, if you treat it as a spam problem, you can whitelist competent contributors. Some may be caught up in the shoot-on-sight spam policy as false positives, but I hope that won't be existential to the projects.

  • Vibecoders are a fucking nightmare

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  • I'm hoping and predicting vibe coders are going to bring down a couple of major (and minor) corporations in the next few years, so I say let them cook.

    Free software projects will be less impacted I think, the people in charge aren't under the same kind of pressure to take shortcuts usually. The longevity of many projects already proves that maintainability is a high priority for them.

  • Trump says no deal except “unconditional surrender”

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  • Mission impossible

  • Arabic bros, is this true?

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  • Heidi Reichinnek, currently chair of the so-called "Die Linke" ("The Left") party in Germany, studied Arabic. Guess where she fits in.

    Of course she's a fed. She studied in Egypt for a while, before/during the Arab Spring. While there, she worked for the Egyptian branch office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the CDU-affiliated policy think tank. She wrote a policy paper for them, arguing (as was certainly the assignment) that Germany should talk and explore cooperating with various "uncouth" actors in the region.

    She also personally helped train activists in social media use to organize protests. The Egyptian authorities made sure to put her on a flight out when things heated up. Nevertheless, during an interview where she talks about both of those things separately, she feigns ignorance why the Egyptians thought harmless little her might warrant escorting to the airport.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • What else would it be? Iran cannot shoot down airplanes that far out I don't think. They shot down their own plane when they were attacking Yemen so that seems very plausible.

  • 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.

  • videos @hexbear.net
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    $0.002 ≠ 0.002 ¢, Verizon employees do not understand

  • 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

  • food @hexbear.net
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    Ice cream theory