lern_too_spel

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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> To move it to another program, classified and unreported, under which it could hide again. Don't be naive. Why? They first made a more limited program to comply with the law and then shut that down because the data wasn't use
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> when in fact it was just a government program that forced those companies to query their own data at the government's request Still got it wrong. The 4th Amendment allows the US to wiretap its citizens or people in the US only wit
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
Snowden and Greenwald interpreted DITU as being a box in these companies' networks with access to everything because they were too stupid to look up what it meant. That slide was the basis of their entire claim. If Snowden's cla
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
He said so himself. I take him at his word. Meanwhile, the actual USA stopped doing the one extant program in his leaks that was ruled a violation of the 4th Amendment.
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> The truth is that neither you or I know why he did so exactly I take him at his word. > Trump's demagoguery and subsequent rise had nothing to do with Snowden It had to do with people believing deep state conspiracy theories li
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> I'm sure he didn't give up his life for HTTPS everywhere and SMTP over TLS. He gave up his life because he thought PRISM was a massive violation of the 4th Amendment, and a government that could so easily ignore the 4th Amend
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> now his being granted asylum by Russia isn't evidence but a new incongruous fact we need to explain since the hypothesis is now apparently that he is a Chinese turncoat. Putin wanted him in Russia, and Snowden happened to be passi
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
Kiriakou gave an interview to ABC describing waterboarding on December 10, 2007, in order to defend the practice. The government did not charge him with any crimes at the time. Three years prior, Newsweek had reported on a secret memo fro
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
In that it was perfectly legal. Snowden, with his high school dropout reading skills thought it allowed the NSA to pull any account's data directly off the companies' servers, and Greenwald, with his technical illiteracy, believed
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
The FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit integrates with email and other Internet communication providers to implement wiretaps for accounts they have a court order for. They present the company with a court order, and the company forw
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
It's well documented. Snowden himself has admitted as much, and it requires no conspiracy — only the stupidity of a single high school dropout. https://amp.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/31
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
It was an honest mistake, and I apologize for it to Chelsea if she is reading this. In my mind, I remembered her gender at the time she leaked the documents, which had nothing to do with whether she should be considered a whistleblower. She
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
Again, Snowden leaked a single extant program that was potentially illegal. All he had to do was blow the whistle on that program and the other possibly program that had already been shut down, and we wouldn't be having this conversati
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
> it changed absolutely nothing. The single potentially illegal US government program in the leaks was shut down, the big email providers require SMTP over TLS, and https everywhere happened as a direct result of the leaks. > I'd
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
You would think if there was something really terrible in the documents, Snowden would have talked about it first. Instead, he mostly talked about PRISM, which turned out to be a nothingburger when Greenwald released the documents that Snow
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
A single program he leaked was illegal. The vast majority was not, including the hacking of Chinese targets that he leaked directly to SCMP.
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by lern_too_spel 5d ago
No radical act of self sacrifice would have been necessary had he only leaked illegal or possibly illegal programs. Instead, he went to Hong Kong and leaked a list of compromised Chinese networks and systems in hopes of getting asylum from
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by lern_too_spel 7d ago
I fully agree that motivated explanation is more important than proof. This doesn't resolve mathematicians' feelings of existential dread, however. Machines will get better than human mathematicians at motivated explanation in ano
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by lern_too_spel 9d ago
All that matters is whether their primary motivation is internal or external. If AIs want to do what they've been told, you can tell them to end their own existence, and they will happily do so. If you instead imbue them with an intern
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by lern_too_spel 9d ago
With the strait of Hormuz closed, Russia now accounts for more than 50% of India's oil imports. If the tariffs work, the strategic petroleum reserves of the rich countries will deplete even faster, and when the reserves are gone, those
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
Neither did I, but the first minute of the video was so sloppy that I stopped to look him up. He's apparently a darling of the right-wing tin-foil-hat-wearing crowd. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
Local government NIMBYism has been a major factor. The state has been slowly removing their teeth via CEQA reform and removing authority from local housing regulations. These reforms have very vocal opposition in local governments run by al
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
This video isn't informative at all. Better video explaining the delays: https://youtu.be/2NK0wBBZZ24
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
An even better idea would have been to integrate it as an extension for C2PA, which already has an ecosystem developed around it. The capture portion of the ecosystem has lots of problems, and this is one potential improvement.
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
This is the first time I've seen a complaint about giving permission to an app to install another app. The SmartTubeNext issue was due to the developer's keys being stolen. If you want to keep an app signed with stolen keys, you c
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
Yes. Even beyond that, people outside the EU are free to install apps from any APK they choose.
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by lern_too_spel 10d ago
Signing an APK also doesn't require third party review of the app content.
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by lern_too_spel 12d ago
The EU forced this on Apple and other manufacturers. Apple fought this bitterly, but there is only so much market share they are willing to lose before capitulating. https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/es/apply-ai-alliance&#x
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by lern_too_spel 12d ago
Formats that aim to be web standards should try not to be patent encumbered. There was a lesson to be learned from the Unisys debacle in the 1990s. If you don't want to reencode for the web, use a device that captures in a format that
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by lern_too_spel 14d ago
On the plus side, we won't have to worry about COVID-19 anymore /s. https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2020/opinion/5g-and...

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