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by bflesch 9mo ago
Why you still have the idea in your head that they play by the rules. With the current administration they have been empowered to extract maximum value from us. In the early days of smartphone use, Google and Facebook uploaded contact lists
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Don't invest any second of your time into the US tech monopoly. That time is much better spent deploying non-US alternatives and backing up your data from US clouds, which could be blocked for us any moment. Google is a rent-seeking pa
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by bflesch 9mo ago
We're all underestimating the sheer number of people in russia who have a "career" in a while-collar job in some propaganda unit. It's a good way to work at the army but not having to actually fight at the front. They po
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Correct, it's literally their main job to spew propaganda. As demonstrated repeatedly by power outages in st. petersburg, moscow and most recently iran. Unless one verifies every single user by ID, there needs to be at least a platform
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Your "humble opinion" is totally worthless because your are using false equivalence bias in order to minimize the atrocities and war crimes that putin has committed against Ukraine and the citizens of many other countries includin
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Don't worry, you're either arguing with useful idiots or pathetic SOBs working in a propaganda unit in russia.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
You're using false equivalence bias. The net result would have definitely been different.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
That's of course a totally valid reason to destroy your institutions, international reputation, and of course the lives of many poor people in your country. Makes sense /s
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Kagi has recently moved to new offices in Belgrade. While I like their product we should not forget that serbia is not a free country, there has been massive corruption and russian influence. Even though there are massive protests from time
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Your HN submission was flagged for being anti-Ukraine propaganda. I fully understand why you whine about Parler but you are not a credible actor by any means. There is no reason to take any of your bad faith arguments serious.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
You're projecting a lot, are you by chance attending the same megachurch? Or is it called gigachurch now? Do they also offer drive-in to grab a coffee and soda before service? There's a docuseries about the US called "The Rig
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Your words are truly inspiring.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I agree in higher education you need to be willing to learn and it's easy to weasel through it without actually building any skills. On an individual level that's a tragedy of wasted time and potential. On the teaching side it&#x2
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by bflesch 9mo ago
> And good judgment requires staying current across 50+ sources (Twitter, Reddit, arXiv, Discord, HN). Your mention of the hellhole that is today's twitter as the first item in your list of sources to follow for achieving "good
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I can't take these kind of comments serious at all. You're totally off topic and offer a platitude comparing apples to oranges.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Your argument based on false equivalence bias might work with in a megachurch but not here. Amazon dropping Parler, a shitty US-based right wing social network nobody outside the US ever heard of, is totally on the same level as US waging e
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Your "better" assumes that availability is not a problem. The risk we need to mitigate is that some right wing doofus in the US gets triggered by a twitter reply and decides to block our use of all US software and services. In tha
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Do you think a lot of US tech workers feel the same? From my personal interactions these past few days on HN it is very disappointing how ignorant and devoid of facts the arguments are which come from people who seem to be US tech workers.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Right now, China is still supporting the russian war machine. The russian people are openly at war against Ukraine and the European idea. Still China is a great alternative to US in terms of hardware, because all the things you would buy fr
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by bflesch 9mo ago
There's a German saying "Vom Regen in die Traufe", I think the English version is "out of the frying pan into the fire". China is a good alternative for a lot of hardware, but in terms of software it is not an optio
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by bflesch 9mo ago
You talk about "market forces" and you don't seem to understand them at all. "Confidentiality", "Integrity", and "Availability" are a foundational concept of security (the CIA triad). For non-US
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by bflesch 9mo ago
This guy "almosthere" wrote a nasty thing, most likely from his US perspective. It has been flagged and removed now (I did not flag it).
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I wonder how the Mandiant acquisition is regarded within google. Was it a success? Is Mandiant a cash cow or was it basically an acquihire? The big "contact mandiant" button next to the post feels a bit like trying to stay relevan
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I'm actually impressed by their ignorance. I could never sleep at night knowing my product is built on such brazen lies. Bullshitting and fleecing investors is a skill that needs to be nurtured and perfected over the years. I wonder ho
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by bflesch 9mo ago
That's actually a really good point. Totally missed it.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I hope so, but can we really be sure that .se or .de would still work in such a scenario? Is the TLD root management really split up vertically or is the (presumably US-based) TLD parent organization also the final authority for every count
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Yeah, it's a bit far fetched but after Cloudflare CEO basically threatening to cut off Italy I was wondering what would happen if US really invades Greenland. A simple windows to linux migration is not enough. If certificates expire wi
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure that the .org TLD can be shut off by the US at any point in time.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Makes sense. I assume each of them is in control and at the whims of US president?
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by bflesch 9mo ago
The former German president has/had a consulting contract with Gazprom, and refused to stop it after the invasion. There are large groups in government who received payments from russian sources. A state minister actively worked to cir

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