The relations between France and Iran had been execrable for some time. A year ago there was a "prisoner exchanges", when Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian living in France and accused of "apology of terrorism" (incentivising of acts against Jews) was released in exchange of two French prisoners accused of spying in Iran, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris.

Iran and France have mutually summoned each other's ambassadors. France called Iran names ("disgraceful provocations") on Oct. 7:

Also (and contrary to what the summary claims), France has said why they believe Iran is involved: the IPs of the attackers, and the language (farsi) apparently used in some chat channel that the attackers left behind.

Intelligence services now link the attacks to the IRGC-cyber command unit "Shahid Kaveh", allegedly due to IPs in Iran and chats written in farsi.

I' using gentoo. Since you're apparently good with packaging, you could consider a universal binary. Personally I sometimes download Inkscape inAppImage format, it just runs and I can try out the latest features. This isn't the perfect solution, but it is ok for testing. Also since it isn't going to be in a distro repo but only on your site, this is something you can charge for.

I use Audacity for recording and I'm getting a bit frustrated. It does too many things, UI is crowded, hard to manipulate when my focus is music and not handling a complex UI. I just want to repeatedly record the same over and over until I'm happy with the result, it does nto offer a simple workflow for that.

GarageJam seems much cleaner for my use. Unfortunately not in my distro.

FWIU, astronaut is already the backup career, for someone who's already a pilot, or with a career with strong physical and stress management abilities like Emergency Room doctor.

All the big actors are using AI in their code. Who's left to sue on that line? The code of the Linux kernel is authored by Intel, AMD, Google, Meta, IBM, NVIDIA, Oracle, HP, Samsung, Huawei, NXP semiconductors, Realtek, Renesas ( https://lwn.net/Articles/11002... ). Who would fight their combined legal budget?

They don't have to do that. You have to pick your fights. Say, some people donate to the WWF or Greenpeace to "save the planet", others donate to whatever other causes like clean ocans, clean air, whatever, also to "save the planet". You can't take all of the fights. The fellows above picked "Datacenters" as their fight. Maybe they have more spare time and fight something else. Or maybe they don't have more spare time and only picked up this one. That their fight against "destroying the world" remains incomplete does not remove its value. Other activists will pick the other fights.

According to Wikipedia, the Pacific Garbage patch is the size of Texas. Imagine sweeping Texas with a broomstick attached to a truck. Some people try to do that anyway: https://theoceancleanup.com/

It's easy to say that right now but those industrial refrigerated containers were installed a decade or two ago when it was fancy to have everything managed centrally, and every industry and hospital was doing that, and the bigger security risk was thought to be worms brought on pen drives.

As reminded in the summary, on October 12, a simultaneous, large-scale attack targetting national grocery chains (Intermarché, E.Leclerc, Super U) and wasted hundreds of tons of frozen food over France. At the time, a vulnerability in the temperature controller Danfoss AK-SM 800A was used. It was first reported last June by Claroty Team82 https://claroty.com/team82/res...

With several grocery chains and now healtchare, without even ransom asked for, it makes think that France has pissed off a State actor.

The press says that that refrigerated container had a maintenance contract with a company that used remote maintenance. A few years ago this was a selling point.

Hospitals now want medical equipment that prints a small paper ticket that later someone can digitize, rather than full integration within an intranet, but this is a very recent move.

You say that like they had a Samsung smartfridge. They have industrial systems, the kind of thing that talks over network, is managed by an IT department and is behind firewall. Still risky, but a bit less stupid. The press cited the brand "Cool World" as the one under attack. They make freezer rooms and containers https://www.coolworld-rentals....

My problem is with the term "Super Intelligence", which the OP was defending, depicting it as more accurate than AI. My argument is, if AI isn't accurate enough, you can go for ML/LLM, you don't need to make up new words like "super intelligence".

I was in a BYD car recently (a Uber) and my immediate feeling was "plastic/poorly-made junk", due to them using materials or moulding techniques that relate me to cheap children toys (at least for the car I was in -- I know BYD also makes more expensive cars). Though this does not in principle affect car longevity, it's just the feeling of being inside a child toy that was surprising to me. (I'm happy it makes EVs cheaper so we can use less fossil fuels.)

Let's admit your argument that AI is a bad term. "Super intelligence" is even worse; at least "artificial" was minimally description, while "super" is meaningless at best, and erroneous most of the time. We already had technically accurate -- ML, LLM, we can continue using them instead of making up more confusing terminology.