wkat4242

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901.
by wkat4242 1y ago
True, I understand, I just go by my own experience. I'm more aligned with the defcon style, privacy activists, breaking DRM, reverse engineering of products to make them do things they weren't designed for etc than the bug hunting
902.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Well, he only had that right for 48 hours if I understand correctly.
903.
by wkat4242 1y ago
I meant a role model relatively speaking to trump. He was at least presidential. I totally agree he did a lot of actions that were very questionable like the iraq war and also the extreme surveillance. I just meant Trump makes him look good
904.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Really? Even at events like EMF? I'd be really surprised. But yeah my view of the hacker scene is very much tailored by these events. I wouldn't even go to something like Black Hat - way too corporate. Even though I work in "
905.
by wkat4242 1y ago
It was here in Europe. At the OHM2013 event there were some government contractors (Fox-IT in particular) and the atmosphere was very grim apparently. Tents got damaged and they had to pull out. Fox-IT was founded by a former AIVD employee
906.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah it sounds a bit like the situation on earth in the expanse where jobs are so few and far between that there's a lottery and most people live on basic income. That would be pretty terrible because a job doesn't just provide mo
907.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Ok that's weird indeed. Here at European hacker events this action would be applauded. Getting permission from spy agencies before fixing something would be a surefire way to get lamest vendor, lol. Most there don't trust governme
908.
by wkat4242 1y ago
> The one time France asked the US something military-wise, Obama refused. Ehh forget how Vietnam started? Although yes that is a little longer than 50 years ago already. Crazy how fast these things go.
909.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Well yes we have military industry and back room deals but the industry here doesn't have the big lobby clout the MIC has in the US.
910.
by wkat4242 1y ago
I did notice that a bit with some old heroes like Phil Zimmermann. Very underwhelming. Many of them got absorbed by the corpo culture. Personally I'm also working in a corp but I remain very leftist and activist. Luckily my employer al
911.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Being white hat is a very different thing to being aligned with the government. Especially with all the secret spying they do which many white hats don't agree with because most of them are also strong privacy advocates. The whole whit
912.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah and CCC is in one of the most expensive seasons (between Christmas and New year) in the most expensive country in Europe. I've considered going there once or twice but the hotels were ridiculously expensive. It was around €200-250
913.
by wkat4242 1y ago
How so? I've been to the European parties but never to defcon. So I'm wondering how they compare.
914.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Like the other person said the welfare system is apparently that bad in the US. But in Europe I've mainly seen people with mental/drug issues and those from fringe groups like gypsies. There have been plenty of projects involving
915.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Ok I was speaking from my knowledge of here in Europe (my ex worked with homeless and unemployed) and here it's really not the case. People here don't live on the streets unless there's something seriously wrong with them. An
916.
by wkat4242 1y ago
> in my lived experience as an LGBTQ person in Texas (which to be fair, may not be entirely representative of the rest of the country), hold more of a "live at let live" philosophy that, paradoxically, is more tolerant of LGBTQ
917.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes but the internet wasn't really where digital counterculture started. That was the BBSes. Until the early 90s only some universities had access to the internet and very few of them outside the US. When the internet became a public t
918.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Um that "driver board" has more power than a raspberry pi lol. No wonder it's so expensive
919.
by wkat4242 1y ago
https://archive.ph/6ljwy
920.
by wkat4242 1y ago
> Tell me, if this is a genocide, what has happened to all the Jews in Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan since 1950? Maybe they were genocides too. I don't know enough about them. The holocaust certainly was a
921.
by wkat4242 1y ago
They're not the kind of people that can afford housing nor the kind that are able to get a rental contract in the first place. And if they had money they'd just shoot up more. Not trying to diss them but that's just reality.
922.
by wkat4242 1y ago
True my email from the last 15 years fits in 9GB. And that's with attachments. Also this is data at rest mostly that doesn't get accessed. Deleting it would save maybe a square millimetre of spinning rust somewhere but not meaning
923.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes when going out a beer is usually 3 euro or so. There's a few places where it's 5 euro and people complain about the price :) However some places like Ibiza are super expensive. 15 euro for a beer or 22 for a mix. And yes bottl
924.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Jeez... If Trump wasn't enough to discourage me from visiting America, the prices sure do! For us that's a LOT of money.
925.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Oh here prices haven't really gone up that much. A 3 course menu would now cost 12-14€ where it was 10-12. An entree from takeaway would be €5 or so. The only exception is Uber eats. I notice that most takeaways charge more than on the
926.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Huh this car looks almost the same as my old 80s Corolla did. Except it has a height and length extension.
927.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Wow here in Spain it's nothing like that. We still go out for dinner a few times a week (especially around lunch time when most restaurants have a 3-course menu for €12-14)
928.
by wkat4242 1y ago
I can recommend to try a comparison if you can (like with OpenWebUI, you can simply make it run the same prompts through multiple models). If you have access to local models of course. Though you could also use some models like llama on gro
929.
by wkat4242 1y ago
Not the ones from these events they are really well designed (welll... Feature wise) and offer great learning and usage opportunities. This one has a big colour screen and a full qwerty keyboard. It's not really to be used as a badge.
930.
by wkat4242 1y ago
That's a good tip for safety conscious visitors because the webshop is in the same country. Probably a good idea to put it on the event wiki. Is the event still going on?

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