Wow, the mental gymnastics to ignore sanctions and security guarantees as part of the geopolitics are astonishing.

This site is going to be in full meltdown mode the day after the election. I wonder if there will be suicides with the way the Mockingbird Media has people wound up.

And, yeah, Trump bitched out on pardoning Assange and Snowdon so nobody thinks he'll pardon Ulbricht either.

In the same way they view God as whatever the latest technology is.

A wheel with a wheel, a clockmaker god, a machinist, a weilder of energy, a programmer, a simulation, and now an AI.

Because saying "I don't know" is the most painful thing for a materialist.

The secret is: I have a goal and am willing to work hard to iterate. The best SciFi authors can do this in their minds - it's amazing.

The researchers don't seem to have satisfied the impetuous author.

He better get to work on solving that next problem and publishing a paper since it's so damn easy.

Odds are good that the 76 Swine Flu, Lyme Disease (and the two comorbid mutant viruses that showed up in Lyme at the same time) and AIDS were lab leaks.

The 1917 Flu seems to have come from a Kansas Army Barracks on a base with a diseases lab but it's too old to be certain.

Polio seems to have been spread through vaccines. Measles we know how to deal with. Smallpox and anthrax are still restricted to labs but we do know the Army did the attack on the Capitol.

It's not our only risk but it eclipses the other risks so it deserves the majority of attention.

Anyway WHO supports making the lab risk higher so they can go straight to hell.

WHO was a malicious peddler of misinformation and tyrannical advice during the covid leak outbreak.

Putting them in charge of the next one would be peak retardation. Why does the author here support "fail up" rewards?

Also retarded is the idea that only one approach should be tried in the next pandemic and that should come from central planners.

Try taking a year-one Information Theory class - Jeeze. They disqualify themselves by suggesting it.

All the denials specifically name iCloud Photos.

What I didn't see at all was an explanation that 17.5 includes automatic database repair or any technical explanation.

Maybe that exists and I missed it or maybe it's a secret update or maybe it's BS.

Until they come clean on the A5 GPU intentional backdoor I'll presume BS to begin with.

Open Source is a floor for being taken seriously on security claims.

It's OK because the idea of a Republic that you have a voice in is only a means of control you fell for.

And I don't blame you for that unless you had based homeschooling parents whom you ignored.

The concern he pointed out was third-party auditing of a fast-moving target.

It's a fair point; perhaps not as concerning as the prior Chairman of the Board of Signal Foundation having /deep/ Intelligence Community ties.

As far as we know Signal is secure but was that yesterday's build or Tuesday's build?

If we're suspicious and a national emergency happens and a new build comes out ... then what.

We should learn from the xz penetration.

> they dropped SMS support, at which point I had to stop using it

Had to?

Did your boss make you?

There are so few situations in which this might be true.

> It makes me think they have a backdoor.

Everything is plaintext on the Telegram server - no backdoors needed.

Sell age-restricted Visa cards where they sell alcohol and tobacco.

Pay cash, they ID you there, but don't record anything.

$5 cards would be fine for almost everybody.

Porn sites get a list of the 4xxx yyyy prefixes that are compliant and sell $5/yr memberships equivalent to the free level.

But "their" real goal is an "internet driver's license" where everything you look at is tracked to your personhood and reported to a central authority "to prevent terrorism, child abuse, and medical malinformation".

Right. Even throwing hashes at an altcoin is smarter than paying to send power to the grid.

But, seriously y'all, buy at least one $400 battery.

We do need smarter tech for integrating grid, battery, and charging. Mine is DYI and manual, which Isn't ready for normies. And my compute loads can run on 48VDC with minimal work which is not true of an average hair dryer.

Great systems are available in the $6K+ range but that means "not available" for 80% of households.

This seems reasonable for warranty work. Are we seeing the right interpretation?

Has any shop actually done the destruction part? Great way to get your local reputation reked and go out of business.

Isn't the broad interpretation wildly illegal in the EU?

I guess that the overall intent is to discourage any repair so people to buy a new phone.

I haven't had one since their bootloaders were cryptolocked. Many better options.

Fraud. Implied merchantability. Ferguson Warranty Act.

We don't need more laws, just any non-corrupt prosecutors.

> There is no evidence that the tests result in fewer incidences of successful phishing campaigns

Did you test?
Did you measure?
Did your failure rates go up or down?
Does your training suck?
Do different organizations have different results?
Do different job types have different results?
Is a guy in sales given the same training as a gal in applied mathematics?

"There is no evidence" is a reason-halting phrase used more often than not to mislead.

Of course there's no evidence of deception here.