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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> undermines the point I think it slides right past the point without noticing it, for the reason you state. None of these people are running the UK.
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> todays elite Well - somewhat tangential to the article text if not to its title - consider this image[1]. The Prime Minister of the UK (seated at the right of the bottom row) just appointed the circled person stood in front of the do
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Paragon: A Super-Secretive Surveillance Startup That ‘Hacks WhatsApp and Signal’(forbes.com)
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> I spend a significant amount of time trying to respond to something in good faith and then someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got because I'm not sufficiently ideological, As someone who&#x2
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Fair question. We've had a few articles recently about disinfo, notably the disinfo for hire one[1] as well as a good piece on Assange[2]. I thought it was an interesting counterpoint. The Colbert vid in your sibling's comment is
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
That's fantastic, and I hadn't seen it - thanks for posting!
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
(I submitted this previously, about 7 years ago, I thought it might be interesting in the context of recent claims about modern disinfo)
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The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket (2014)(theintercept.com)
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Bank of America using intelligence firms to attack WikiLeaks (2011)(computerworld.com)
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
It's not really a new phenomenon is it? > Cambridge Analytica, the British political consultancy caught up in a huge scandal over its use of Facebook data, has boasted that they ran the successful campaigns of President Uhuru Kenya
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Two somewhat related pieces of recent UK news: > How a proposed secrecy law would recast journalism as spying [1] (20/07/21, Guardian) > The Home Office now wants harder and more extensive secrecy laws that would have the e
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
I think there is a licensing procedure in the UK and Germany (Gamma Group) and Israel (NSO), and lip-service to the idea that it's forbidden to sell to repressive regimes, already. The big deal with the NSO story is the 50K target name
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
It continues to strike me as a little odd that (AFAIK) there's no mention in The Guardian's reporting of this story of the parallel technology[1] sold by Gamma Group[2] and licensed for export by UK to several suspect regimes[3].
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> swapping heavily with less than 8MB. No kidding! My intro to X was seeing it load bare-bones on my enthusiast friend's 2M (could have been 4) 386. I think he brought xfontsel up or something and you could see the scanlines being d
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Glad to see reporting on this, but struggling to understand how it's so much more outrageous than the UK's own behaviour in this regard vis-a-vis Gamma Group and the Finspy / Finfisher products. For example: > Despite rule
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
This sounds a little like Chaitin's constant Omega (Ω), which is very roughly a number in [0, 1] which is the probability that a randomly chosen program (for a universal Turing machine, U) will halt. This has the interesting property
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> make Proton viable for the majority of titles Protondb[1], which collects user reports, says: 18,811 games reported 15,261 games work which is about 81% - a bit more than a simple majority. 1: https://www.proton
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
YMMV but CIA, "Phoenix", and 'problem solving' has a whole different set of associations[1] for me. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Ardour is Free (source code available under GPL). Also, to get an executable version most users will just do: "apt install ardour" (or equivalent) which is pretty much beer-type free, in practice.
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Looks like they released 6.8 a couple of days ago[1] with some significant fixes[2]! I wouldn't really call it an audacity alternative, though - you'd be dealing with a bunch of additional complexity to simply accomplish what most
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> playing at GM level Not always. Hikaru does speedruns[1] using an alt acct with entry-level ELO to race to ELO 3000. I've watched a fair bit of this, and seen him encounter the odd cheater or suspect game, but much nearer 1% than
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Not sure where I got that idea from - thanks for the correction.
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
You might like to dip in to Bruce Williams' youtube channel [1] which has many good clear explanations of darktable features (though there's the odd mistake, he generally corrects it in a subsequent episode). The main programmer o
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
We've gone past mere constraints and are now in the era of strait-jacketed interfaces.
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
To Bernays, propaganda was an essential tool in a democracy. He didn't regard ordinary people as qualified decision makers and saw influencing the masses as the proper function of people like himself. This is what he literally says in
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Yeah, that is the strategy advised by Berman. The argument if stated formally would go: > Thunberg has <unfavorable characterization> > Therefore, we can ignore climate change. More typically, it would go (e.g.): > <Enviro
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> tries so hard to be a hit piece I read it as a puff piece / apologia. YMMV.
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Yeah, he does cast his net wider than I implied :) > Rick Berman, a Washington lobbyist and arch-enemy of other lobbyists and do-gooders who would have government control—and even ban-a myriad of products they claim are killing us, prod
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
I think it's more a broad brush description of age-old propaganda techniques[1], which have been widely employed by many organized religions over the years, just as they have been by others with an interest in controlling debate. One p
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Immediately! ;-)

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