maynarkh
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- Comment on Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack 1 day ago:
That’s the ecosystem. WordPress itself is pretty basic, these things attack plugins, and their often not-very-experienced creators and users. The thing with WordPress is that this kind of vulnerability comes with the problem space, not the particular solution. If there was a different product in the same space, it would not fare better by default.
Also, I’d bet that a ton of CVEs are filed for C++ libraries, yet nobody is harping on about how insecure C++ is.
- Comment on Julian Assange leaves UK after being freed in US plea deal - BBC News 1 day ago:
And yet if not for his actions, it would have never come to light that the US military murdered a bunch of innocent people including Reuters journalists in 2007. I know it sucks how Wikileaks curates info, and ideally this should be handled in a way that’s less exploitable by foreign governments, but to me, it seems they are vigilantes doing stuff because the US justice system wouldn’t.
I mean, look at the Trump prosecution. If you had proof of the DNC doing its antidemocratic shit to prevent anyone who is not in big corp pockets getting elected, does the Trump prosecution inspire confidence that if you just made a police report, anything would happen?
- Comment on Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack 1 day ago:
There’s a huge industry of people making wordpress sites who shouldn’t.
And this is why I hate the state of the whole hacking scene and that now nation states are also carrying out en masse attacks. Everyone should be free to make a site on Wordpress or whatever. If they can’t, that’s how we get everyone on like 3 corporate platforms like Facebook.
- Comment on Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack 1 day ago:
I’d guess it’s not because of the inherent insecurity of WordPress, but the sheer size of the ecosystem and the fact that like 40% of the Internet is WordPress sites.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 1 day ago:
I do like Mull, but I’m also uninformed and I don’t use my mobile browser all too much.
- Comment on Israel presents: Detention without trial for Arabs only 5 days ago:
You see, it’s not apartheid, that would mean they treat them as second class citizens. You don’t put citizens into concentration camps.
- Comment on Chinese nationals are trying to get to Australia by boat over a weak economy and political oppression at home 5 weeks ago:
Watch out, they might have preemptively blocked you for “McCarthyism”
- Comment on Is this too soon? 5 weeks ago:
Funny thing is, it was apparently a US helicopter, and part of the problem was that they weren’t wble to service it because sanctions. If it really was an old Soviet machine like on the picture, they would have had less problems.
- Comment on Two dead and five missing after boat collision near Budapest 5 weeks ago:
Again?
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 5 weeks ago:
Well, the endgame of that radicalization will be hangman’s nooses being put up in the Capitol, last time the people putting it up were too stupid and led by a moron, but if they let it continue, someone half competent might try to come at them as well. They don’t live that far away from society that if they let it catch fire, they won’t get burned.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Most of these articles are buzzword SEO for stock trading bots. Bots are set to buy AI up now, so you want to put AI next to your ticker if you want that bonus this quarter!
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 1 month ago:
Try the Total War games, especially the older (non-Warhammer) ones. Units take time to carry out actions, there is no point and not really a way to do insane actions per minute counts, as if a unit is engaged in melee, it can’t really disengage without losses. There is also a great scale to the whole thing. I loved Shogun 2 for example.
I also like Eugen games like Wargame, Steel Division or Warno if a modern shooty type thing is more your game. Maybe try Regiments, that one is also good and maybe a bit less complex than Eugen titles.
Neither of these has base building, both are more of a “this is how many soldiers get for this battle, use them wisely” type game.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 1 month ago:
I had a decent AMD card which ran it very well, but still had a bunch of artifacts like Judy’s head blocking reflections for the whole lake.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
See also “deregulation” types arguing for even more stringent regulation of unions.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 1 month ago:
Run it through an AI to accelerate model collapse. In fact make more comments, but run all through an AI first.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 1 month ago:
who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money
And the sold it with his mom’s connections.
- Comment on Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur 1 month ago:
Because the RSF doesn’t have very public and visible US government support and funding? And we all know how protests in Russia would go.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Yeah it would poison the training data.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
Good. The thing is that network “fast lanes” work by slowing down all other lanes.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Also, the free market is a tool, not a utopia. It optimizes for whatever the people setting the limits of it make it optimize for.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
Sorry, I went too deep into sarcasm in there. I wasn’t advocating for violence, just laws protecting society and people that are strong enough to deter corps from breaking them.
- Comment on Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills 1 month ago:
You don’t do much reading, do you? I’ve said that the fact that there are Ukrainian Nazis does not mean all Ukrainians are Nazis, and indeed it is a national chauvinistic train of thought that assigns such negative traits to nationalities.
Please stop repeating the lies of far-right governments who would throw you in jail.
- Comment on Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills 1 month ago:
NATO is the military wing of the global seat of capital.
Even if it were so, Russia provides it a raison d’être. NATO would not be existing in 10 years if Russia hadn’t been starting wars of aggression, or was not outspokenly adopting a policy of aggression. There is no NATO without a hostile Russia. If NATO is a problem, then Russia is a fundamental part of that problem.
As a general rule I recommend not minimizing Nazis. “Some” is minimizing. There was a period where you couldn’t find a picture of “brave UA soldiers” without a wolfsangel or swastika or sonnenrad, nor a UA politician not shaking hands with them. The head of the MoD said and says Nazi shit all the time and the entire country has been rehabilitating Bandyera as a national hero, putting the committers of pogroms on street signs.
Yeah, so shooting those people and kidnapping their children will provide a great way for them to build a better social consciousness and not double down on chauvinism. The shit Russia is doing to them provides a great environment for a Nazi resurgence. It has to be certainly really helpful to all the good people in Ukraine to argue for less Nazi shit, because there obviously isn’t a clearly definable enemy trying to destroy their national identity and ethnically cleanse them.
Do you know why Russia invaded Ukraine? You seem to think it had no cause
There is no justification for levelling cities and kidnapping children. None.
So much hypothetical and make-believe nonsense.
You are arguing against yourself here. You said that if UA killed Putin and sieged Moscow, then you said “that would 500% result in the use of nuclear weapons”. I’m saying that then if UA did what the Russians did to it, made a proportionate response, then Russia would escalate the war. Shooting people who are coming and already shooting at you is not escalation. Threatening to nuke people if they don’t die is.
Do you see how you had to massage your language to be more passive and therefore avoid the obvious? France entering a war by sending troops is an obvious escalation and per NATO’s own logic is basically dangling a nuclear conflict over everyone’s heads via Article 5.
Please read Article 5. It doesn’t say what you think it says.
Not while pretending it’s anything other than a belligerent and escalatory organization.
Yes, NATO’s goal is that if Russia decides to attack one member, they have to fight all members. And it works in preventing war, how many neighbours has Russia been at war with who weren’t in NATO? How many NATO countries did it attack?
My conclusion is that you have an unrealistic idea of what the possible outcomes here are.
Yes, defending your country from people who burn your cities and steal your children has no point, we should all bow down to Putin. Is that what you’re saying? Apologists for the Russian genocide have been saying this for years now, yet it somehow hadn’t come to pass. I think you are just in a spiral of wishful thinking.
Sounds like your answer to their question is yes: you cheer the Saudi invasion of Bahrain and NATO’s support for it. Truly monstrous.
No. Please go and work on your basic reading comprehension.
NATO countries have decided to sacrifice the Ukrainian people for this project and they keep hoping it will exhaust Russia.
Yeah, Ukraine has no agency. If you are not just repeating Russian propaganda here, you could try harder to think for yourself.
UA will not recover for generations unless Russia takes the whole thing and pumps it full of resources
Like it has always done with its colonies. I grew up in one of them, I know how that looks like. Incompetence, theft and agitation. That’s all Russian-style leadership is capable of.
So yeah, the US may not be the best led country, and it has indeed committed gross crimes against humanity, and an alliance with them may indeed be a deal with the devil. But you can’t ally with Russia, you can only submit to them. The US may swindle you out of your money, but Russia will rape your women and kidnap your children, and by the way, also rob you of your money as well. And Russia is trying its hardest to make sure there is no other way.
I think you just don’t understand what Russia did and is still doing to Eastern Europe, and you are sitting in a cushy chair ideologizing and damning people for ideological impurity, when if you were in their place, you would have to live with a daily fear of being robbed of your dignity, your freedom, and your life, even just for the crime of showing pronouns in your username.
- Comment on Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips 1 month ago:
Or if money wasn’t used as the ultimate priority mechanism for distributing scarce goods in a time of unprecedented inequality.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
The fuck clowns are buying up our culture. It’s hard to not participate in it. I don’t play these kinds of games, but I’ve nothing on people who do. We should beat up the fuck clowns until they serve society again.
And just to be clear, I am advocating violence in the form of stringent regulations binding corporations towards socially beneficial paths. I advocate for violent anti-trust measures to the point even the execs don’t know who is still working for them and who has been broken off to another company to compete freely. And I want worker protections that cause mind-bending fear in wage thieves.
- Comment on Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills 1 month ago:
It is beyond fucking ridiculous that after sending hundreds of billions of dollars in military equipment to a backwards colony of neo-nazis with the explicit purpose of attacking Russia, to claim that they are acting independently, and that there is no link to NATO.
I didn’t claim there is no link to NATO. NATO is fighting a proxy war against Russian interests in Ukraine, that’s plain as day, just as China, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea are fighting against NATO interests. I just don’t see that NATO ever threatened military action against nations supplying the Russian side. Do NATO countries fire off weekly nuclear threats against Pakistan, Iran, China or North Korea for sending munitions to Russia? Does Ukraine?
colony of neo-nazis
Yes, there are far-right elements in Ukraine, yes, some are even in the government. That doesn’t make the entire nation of Ukraine a “colony of neo-nazis” any more than the Nazbol party existing, or Dugin having had such a cushy place in Russia means Russia is ruled by Nazis.
If not for nato, the war would have been over in less than a month
I thought the party line was three days? Or is that too fantastical a claim nowadays.
and none of the infrastructure damage in the subsequent two years would have happened, to talk nothing of how the most fertile farmland in Europe is now contaminated thoroughly with landmines, heavy metals, and unexploded bombs.
Overwhelmingly RUSSIAN landmines, heavy metals from RUSSIAN military machinery, and unexploded RUSSIAN bombs. And the Russians are even proud of having dropped and continuing to drop most of it. You are presenting a false dichotomy. Russia was not obligated to murder all those people, Russia was not obligated to flatten Mariupol, Russia is not obligated to invade Ukraine. Ukraine is obligated to defend itself. Russia has a choice to stop this war, Ukraine does not. Not if it still wants to exist after.
Sure, if all Ukrainians would just shoot themselves in the head, this war would be over sooo much faster. Why can’t they just die already?
A scenario that would 500% result in the use of nuclear weapons is not proportionate retaliation ya dingus.
It is. If Ukraine retaliated in a proportionate way against Russia, Russia would escalate the conflict. The use of nuclear weapons is an escalation, the threat of nuclear weapons is an escalation, sieging the opponent’s capital after your capital was sieged is the same action returned. If the Ukrainians did to Russia what Russia did to Ukraine, there would already have been a nuclear exchange.
By the way, you like to act as if Russia’s escalations and threats are just elements of nature. If Russia, a nuclear power feels threatened, it will use nuclear weapons, that’s just the way of things. But if France, a nuclear power, has people carrying small arms into battle against invading soldiers, that’s an irresponsible escalation. The threat of shooting a FAMAS at a Russian conscript is an escalation, the threat of shooting an ICBM at Rotterdam is just the way of things.
NATO has a duty to avoid escalating the war, can’t have soldiers in Ukraine, can’t send weapons to Ukraine, because that is an escalation. Russia doing all that isn’t. Please stop the double standard, Russian has as much duty of being human as the rest of us. It’s not a force of nature, it’s people doing despicable things.
Were you cheering on the incursion of Saudi forces into Bahrain in 2011?
I wasn’t aware France would be sending soldiers to help Ukraine violently quell a sectarian protest and uprising of Ukrainian people. My impression is that if they send French soldiers in there, it’s to shoot invading Russian soldiers. I get that Russians don’t always get the difference due to the times they sent soldiers to countries to quell popular (mostly communist by the way) revolutions and install puppets to serve Russian imperialistic goals, but the secret is that if you are in a foreign country, shooting civilians is usually not a good reason to be there.
NATO has absolutely nothing to do with this conflict
Never said that. It’s obvious NATO has a vested interest in Ukraine winning the conflict. It’s just NATO is not a direct belligerent in the conflict, just as China, Iran, North Korea or Pakistan aren’t. Otherwise, there would be an arctic front to it, with Russians in Alaska or US troops in Vladivostok.
- Comment on Canberra accuses Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares dangerously close to Australian helicopter 1 month ago:
Only if you buy a plane, fly there, and start throwing shit on random passersby. By this logic, the crazy hobos own every city downtown. I could see the apologists there.
“Maybe you should stay away from what Methface Pete considers their own backyard! Of course you will get pissed on! What do you mean it’s a public underpass!?”
- Comment on Canberra accuses Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares dangerously close to Australian helicopter 1 month ago:
It does not matter the least what China considers their waters, this is international waters.
The sanctions were voted for by China as a permanent member of the UNSC, if China did not vote for it, there would be no sanctions.
In fact, the Australian crew whose lives China endangered along with their own pilot is enforcing the sanctions that China levied on NK by proxy.
Maybe China should stay in their own fucking waters if they can’t behave like people. Aviation is not a toy for dictators for international dick measuring contests.
- Comment on Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills 1 month ago:
the UA attacks on civilians
I feel this is going to be a thing to unpack, but on the one hand, attacks on enemy power infrastructure, even if civilian casualties are a result is fair game in war, for both sides by the way. What is not fair game is levelling a city like Mariupol.
That said, wars of aggression are a crime as per the UN’s standpoint, and only one side is taking territory here.
On the other hand, if UA strikes Russian targets - as they are at war - why is that a NATO escalation? Why is that not a UA escalation? And where else can you escalate after the Russians tried to take their capital and kill their leadership? At this point if UA had Moscow under siege and sent entire regiments of special forces after Putin personally, even that would just be proportionate retaliation.
unconfirmed reports of the french foreign legion being deployed
And that would be a Really Bad Thing™ if France was deploying troops into an unwilling country. Poland, Estonia and Hungary all have US troops stationed there ever since they managed to get the Russian troops out. They have their reasons. UA has all the rights to invite foreign troops as much as they want into their sovereign territory. Russia has no say in who gets to deploy into Ukraine, Ukraine alone does.
- Comment on Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills 1 month ago:
To be honest, if France put soldiers into Ukraine, you could make the same argument the other way.
Continuing the war against Ukraine is a very bad idea since France has nukes, and they might do tactical strikes against Russian formations, so it’s better to get out of France’s way. France has enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over, or at least enough to destroy Moscow 100 times over, for sure.
Either way, people should stop killing people, Russian soldiers should stay in Russia.