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by oytis 2y ago
Honestly it's the first time I hear about sanctions prohibiting private persons from collaborating on a project. Is there a precedent for that? How were e.g. Iranian or Cuban contributors treated on Linux kernel before?
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by oytis 2y ago
We'll need to find even more people willing to expose themselves to legal threats and cyberattacks then.
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by oytis 2y ago
I mean, yes, that would be an obvious alternative to bullying Stallman into resigning from the organisation that he himself created around his own ideas - why didn't it come to anyone's mind before?
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by oytis 2y ago
I'm not into AI, so both read approximately the same to me.
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by oytis 2y ago
That's pretty insightful comment for someone of post-USSR background as well. The important difference here is that all the institutions in question were founded by Stallman himself. And there are plenty of open-source communities that
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by oytis 2y ago
Which sucks honestly. I don't have an account on Twitter and don't want to have one, but people ofter refer to Twitter threads, and it would be great to see them. Not to say about indexing
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by oytis 2y ago
Don't quite get it - why doesn't CCC share information with the Tor Project maintainers?
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by oytis 2y ago
Not always. There was IRA, there was RAF, there was ETA. It's just in Middle East this problem is much bigger today, to the point where terrorist organisations can have whole countries under their control.
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by oytis 2y ago
> That company should be crushed and closed for good by the Hungarian law system IMO. Either you are a military grade company or you aren't. Were the pagers military grade? Hungarian company providing military equipment to Hezbollah
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by oytis 2y ago
It's not that there is a list of approved ways to attack your enemy. Inventing new ways to take enemy by surprise is absolutely a part of warfare. What's important from legal perspective is the ratio between military effect and co
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by oytis 2y ago
It's not indiscriminate, they were targeting Hezbollah members as precisely as hardly any conventional weapon would be able to.
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by oytis 2y ago
Why would it be?
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by oytis 2y ago
Was it trained on Excel code?
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by oytis 2y ago
Judging by job openings mention ZKP it's mostly used in some "crypto" BS.
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by oytis 2y ago
Why FreeBSD? How did they decide that it's worth supporting? What return is expected? I don't even know a reason to use FreeBSD these days apart of being a FreeBSD enthusiast.
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by oytis 2y ago
I guess so? At least if police reaches out to prevent/stop/investigate a crime where you as an administrator are able to help, and you don't respond, it may be argued that you are complicit.
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by oytis 2y ago
Encryption is illegal in France? Hard to believe that. Do French websites not use TLS?
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by oytis 2y ago
I _think_ the question here is whether you operate the platform and are able to help the police if requested. E.g. as a developer of an open-source messenger you are probably are not liable, as soon as you deploy and operate the same messen
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by oytis 2y ago
They did charge him on providing "unlicensed" cryptographic services, and I wonder what the requirements for licensing them are if they are public at all.
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by oytis 2y ago
Not sure how it works in the US. In Germany you are supposed to have a cash register or issue an invoice on each purchase, and sometimes (though really rarely given lack of personnel) they can randomly check of your reported numbers make se
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by oytis 2y ago
TIL. How do they check that the sum you specified is correct though?
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by oytis 2y ago
What's your method of finding true information outside of Telegram? Telegram is structured like a mix of a social network and a blogging platform. You find people you trust and read them. Sometimes they would repost someone else and if
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by oytis 2y ago
Didn't protesters use Telegram for coordination as well? Lack of moderation sure hits both ways, but is the balance really in favour of governments? I'd be surprised if this is the case.
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by oytis 2y ago
The whole idea of running a backdoor with OS privileges in order to increase system security screams Windows. In Linux, even if Crowdstrike (or similar endpoint management software) is allowed to update itself, it doesn't have to run a
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by oytis 2y ago
> Companies that are not software-focused, as it's not their primary business. These organizations are left with Microsoft's offerings I wonder why is it the case. These companies still have IT departments, someone has to manag
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by oytis 2y ago
My point is that in higher-level languages you might spend your entire career not thinking about how your data is laid out and what points to what, while in C++ you are exposed to this reality daily even if you are working on trivial proble
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by oytis 2y ago
What a team I worked in did, is we reminded the interviewee what a binary tree is. It's a pretty simple concept, much simpler than most businesses, so it makes a good test for basic general logical thinking skills. We were hiring for a
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by oytis 2y ago
Tangentially related - does anyone have a similar graph, but one that goes back to, say, 2008 or earlier?
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by oytis 2y ago
> But does it work if your goal is to launch something in a cutthroat competitive landscape? I guess that's the only one that works. Hire a team of exceptional engineers and make sure they have everything they need to deliver.
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by oytis 2y ago
Maybe because it's critical of the AI and the whole SV culture. Maybe because of the f-bomb. Or maybe because it's a dupe of a dupe of a dupe: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=piledrive The original, most discussed one i

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