tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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Tons of great Sophos research is dropping today which I’ll link in thread. China goes brrr.
I want to give them particular credit for directly talking about the cyber industry elephants in the room, both in the research and during media interviews
e.g. insecurity in appliances, need for industry change, monitoring threat actors through telemetry etc etc.
It’s really refreshing as they’re talking about what is *actually happening* - not all vendors do this.
https://www.wired.com/story/sophos-chengdu-china-five-year-hacker-war/
@scheidegger
Ha! That's a great joke citation! Thanks for the idea :)
@kjhealy
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I hesitate to offer "biggest takeaways" because the case is so convoluted, but one key observation is that the duo's legal victories in Western courts seem to rely more on the ill repute of Russia's justice system (which would love to arrest Z&L) and not the merits of the bankers' case, per se. Amplifying this is the fact that several of the FSB officers and regulators who eventually cracked down on Probusinessbank are suspects in the Magnitsky case.
@franco_vazza
The small, one day (or even less) strikes are very common in France too, and probably like in Italy they don't do terribly much.
For example: during the Olympics inauguration there was a police strike, a security guard strike, a luggage handler strike and a dancer strike, but you'd never know if you didn't check https://www.cestlagreve.fr/
or the union webpages (maybe not even then, the french are so and so on using the web).
Fundamentally the problem is that unions lack popular power, so the small strikes are the safest option in an environment where a big failed strike could eliminate worker power nationwide... not sure I agree that current strategies for growing unions are working
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@kevinrothrock
Maybe if they get Tailor Swift and PDiddy to headline, and it was a charity event for homeless Ukrainian kittens, the event would be deemed acceptable by the fluffy dogs?
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@rmondello I mostly agree with Bernie here (and Harris already has my vote, and I encourage everypony to vote for her), but two issues jump out at me.
First, I wish that advocates would stop phrasing this as "disagreeing with Harris." Human rights are not a disagreement or a debate. Opposition to Harris on Gaza is not the same as opposition to a tax plan. It's not a policy disagreement, it is a human rights issue.
Human rights are not something we ought to have a calm, civil debate over.
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EU and UK agree on cooperation in antitrust investigations
The agreement is the first that would allow national competition authorities from EU countries to cooperate directly with a competition authority outside the bloc.
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Bank of Finland report on Russian economic statistics
In addition to increased uncertainty related to Russian statistics since the invasion of Ukraine, some observers have raised doubts about the quality of Russian statistics. Applying simple analytical tools to detecting irregularities in Russian economic data that could implicate data manipulation, our analysis reveals irregularities. We find, however, no compelling evidence of extensive systematic data manipulation.
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It's amazing to think that there are more galaxies in the observable universe than there are episodes of Midsomer Murders.
@f
At the most abstract level, I think every piece of fiction contains an intentional part that is purposefully crafted to contain some sort of message, and an unintentional part: the bits of the story written without any particular intent and consequently using whatever the author believes is "normal".
Using this framework, I think that much of what you question in this movie is intentional propaganda. If you set your movie in a distinctly fictional future, the views of that future are clearly things you put in yourself.
As for the other movies I have no idea, I'm not Indian nor follow its culture closely.
But I do know that the BJP is an ethno-nationalist/far right party at heart, so I wouldn't be surprised if the trend you observe is them spreading their views of international politics.
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Jensen vill öka antalet skolplatser i Göteborg med 700 platser som inte behövs förrän om tio år. Göteborgs stad kan välja: lägga ner kommunala skolor till dess platserna behövs igen, eller betala för tomma skolplatser i tio år.
https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/sa-knacker-koncernerna-den-kommunala-skolan-i-goteborg/
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A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.
Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.
https://www.facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography
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Some institutions have already indicated that this will mean the elimination of numerous programs, particularly in language studies (the government party PVV has already indicated that the study of useless small languages like Hebrew and Aramaic is a woke left-wing hobby). Additionally, most English-language teaching will be prohibited (!), forcing many international faculty members, who moved here with their families, to quit.
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@danderson And the machine with address 1 has the nickname of 'sex', literally the first thing on the internet.
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I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.
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If nothing else, a trivial thing I hadn't considered: tides. Coastlines aren't a constant feature even on a day timescale. OpenStreetMap standardizes on the coastline feature being "mean high water springs", the high tide line in spring averaged over the past 19 years.
There's a dedicated path in the OSM rendering pipeline just for producing the coastline+ocean backdrops, completely separate from the entire rest of the mapping logic, because it's just its own cursed little problem.
@ZachWeinersmith
Well, initially I was with you on it probably being an ad hominem.
But then I recalled that in theoretical computer science a lot of the formal arguments boils down to "this thing is equivalent to the halting problem", which is the sort of naming claim you ask about. In my mind this fact rehabilitates the move you suggested.
However, the key point is that you actually put in the work to show the equivalence, simply claiming it from thin air doesn't count. But that's a general rule in arguments: you need an actual chain of reasoning to claim something substantial, otherwise you are cheating.
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We went to the hospital and checked the building next door. We couldn't find the alleged bunker. It's possible no one will.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
