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Comment Re:Why is this bad? (Score 0) 56

(1) Your conception of fairness is broken, apparently because you can't see the difference between sports and society's justice function.

(2) General hint to dealing with other humans: If you try to surreptitiously break rules and get caught, appealing to some sense of "fairness" makes you look like a fucking weasel who will say anything, so your words mean nothing. You just tried to get an unfair advantage and hide it, and now you're whining about being caught, demonstrating lack of remorse. You deserve to be stomped for it, if nothing else as an example to others.

Comment Pledge fealty to your favorite warlord (Score 3) 29

Beginning to think that, if you are a normie[1], affirmatively picking your malware might be the way to go. You're going to get pwned, so you may as well pick one that will defend your gateway from other gangs and hopefully not be too awful.

Maybe someday we'll seeing APTs advertising for vassals and competing on terms.

[1] As in, you don't run snort at home or monitor CVE feeds

Comment Re:Cannot trust (Score 5, Informative) 36

Fully homomorphic encryption is mostly theoretical, but that's because it is incredibly slow and uses huge amounts of memory, not because you can't write conditionals.

You can compute anything using FHE that you can with any other turing machine. As long as you can wait long enough.

If Intel can provide 1000x+ speedups, some of this might become usable in limited ways. Because right now it costs multiple seconds to do a single FHE multiply, and it needs something like 20000x the memory space of unencrypted computation.

Comment You gotta understand (Score 4, Informative) 21

The FBI is busy. They have to fly Alexis Wilkins to her gigs, fly Kash to her for the bootie calls, Fly Kash to party with people who can actually achieve something, arrest 5 year olds, redact all the child-fucking Donnie got up to in the Epstein files, and all these other errands.

That is after firing all the agents who had a clue.

They just don't have time to patch.

Comment Re:The letter of the law (Score 1) 24

Maybe because US leadership under both parties ignored the law "as written" and encouraged the huge tech companies to also ignore the law "as written" for several years?

We're seeing a widening disjunction between de facto and de jure law. It is a clear sign of corruption, and it matters.

It also matters when laws suddenly start becoming enforced. Against whom and why? Selective enforcement is deeply corrupt and corrupting, and the first thing bad actors say to defend it is, "What's the problem? We're just enforcing the law."

There's even a dictator cliche about that. "To my friends, anything. To my enemies, the law."

Comment Springtime on Open Source Island (Score 4, Funny) 99

The simple utilities are chirping, the Gimp lumbers out of its cave and sniffs the spring air. The latest kernel hasn't quite surfaced from the lake, but is expected at any time.

This year, however, special. It is Mozilla Molting season.

These can be difficult times for Mozilla. Shedding its skin and forming a new one doesn't happen easily or painlessly. Frequently, vestigial appendages unexpectedly burst forth, like VPNs and LLM buttons. Sometimes it is more subtle, with Mozilla's own extensions failing to recognize its new visage.

Comment Re:Past that (Score 1) 168

I can agree that religion and culture are hopelessly commingled in human society, and all of that is upstream from politics.

But when a demented freak with the US military behind them comes at you, survival is foremost in the mind.

You also seem to be studiously ignoring Kegseth's promotion of fundamentalist Xian white-supremacy. Hundreds of complaints about fundie freaks going on about holy wars, how this is the bridge to End Times, etc.

Honestly, seems a bit like projection.

Comment Re:Past that (Score 1) 168

If that is what happened, it makes sense as a "strike back" dead-man's switch, similar to the US "second-strike" doctrine.

They couldn't trust their comms even if leadership survived - spectators in the west like us know their comms are compromised, I'm sure they have a much better (and more visceral) understanding of that.

I'm sure this was predicted in some binder analyzing different scenarios of taking on Iran. Too bad our secdef is an apparent dry-drunk white supremacist who appears to believe his job is doing pushups on youtube.

Comment Re:Past that (Score 5, Insightful) 168

That means shooting missiles at everyone in the vicinity was their plan even before any operations started.

Yes. That is what having no good options looks like. When you don't trust your pagers and your fancy weapons are gone, you come up with plans like this.

"terrorist regime"

Make no mistake - they're murderous goons. But this isn't ideology, this is survival with their backs against the wall.

And the US has no room to talk about morality - it is a rogue state pursuing an illegal war of choice with no end-game and incompetent freaks at the helm, and it is going to be an utter fucking disaster.

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