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maynarkh ,

If the debt was owed to banks, then... heeee hee

maynarkh ,

Sorry you had to find out this way

maynarkh ,

I do like Mull, but I'm also uninformed and I don't use my mobile browser all too much.

Israel's high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men, rattling Netanyahu's government ( apnews.com )

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza....

maynarkh ,

IIRC they plan to have ultra-ortho only battalions so they can keep doing their ultra-ortho shit while fighting.

maynarkh ,

So what are trustworthy TLDs?

maynarkh ,

That's my point, I always have a reasonable suspicion of anything I get from the Internet, but I don't trust any site just because some underpaid functionary or corporate employee in its respective country said it's good.

maynarkh ,

I'd guess it's not because of the inherent insecurity of WordPress, but the sheer size of the ecosystem and the fact that like 40% of the Internet is WordPress sites.

maynarkh ,

There’s a huge industry of people making wordpress sites who shouldn’t.

And this is why I hate the state of the whole hacking scene and that now nation states are also carrying out en masse attacks. Everyone should be free to make a site on Wordpress or whatever. If they can't, that's how we get everyone on like 3 corporate platforms like Facebook.

maynarkh ,

That's the ecosystem. WordPress itself is pretty basic, these things attack plugins, and their often not-very-experienced creators and users. The thing with WordPress is that this kind of vulnerability comes with the problem space, not the particular solution. If there was a different product in the same space, it would not fare better by default.

Also, I'd bet that a ton of CVEs are filed for C++ libraries, yet nobody is harping on about how insecure C++ is.

maynarkh ,

Ammunition for artillery that they don't use by doctrine.

They have a ton of eg. plane ammo, but they don't give planes to Ukraine.

maynarkh ,

Oh, they do, they already exempted themselves and the police.

maynarkh ,

About military logistics and trains, are you sure you're right? We aren't supplying Ukraine by trucks last time I've seen a shipment

China Changes Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names as Part of Broader Government Effort to Erase Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang ( www.hrw.org )

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology, Human Rights Watch said....

maynarkh ,

It's kinda fucked up that each major political camp denies some genocide. Like we could replace who you vote for with which genocide was a shamocide?

maynarkh ,

Unions are more heavily regulated for one.

maynarkh ,

Say that again after you sit the same IT exams as I did.

maynarkh ,

It's weird that this has to be explained to Americans - this is how much of Big Tech got to where they are, except they call it "disruption".

BTW this shows perfectly that free markets are not a be-all-end-all thing. It's a tool, and if it produces outcomes that you don't like, you can adjust it for better outcomes. The hypocrisy here is not that they pretend to worship the market then cry foul when China enters it on their terms, but that they do adjust it for their benefit all the time, and only pretend to worship it when people ask for their fair share.

maynarkh ,

F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.

maynarkh , (edited )

I think they were trying to say that Croatia is no longer part of the same dominion as Hungary (Croatia was never part of Hungary, but was a vassal state of the Crown before WWI).

maynarkh ,

As someone who grew up within cycling distance of that very border, no worries, that part of the world is confusing.

When I had elementary school geography, we were taught a different status quo on how the Balkan countries are, and the teachers back then were getting it wrong on instinct and were correcting themselves regularly because they were taught yet another one.

maynarkh ,

The difference is that the stock market has a very distorted definition of value.

If you say that the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay for it, I could trade my house with a friend and say they paid a billion for it, except they paid me with their own billion-dollar house, and we would both become billionaires. Of course, that would be bullshit, but if my friend and I sat on the board of the FED, it would somehow become actually real.

I see how that works, but the question is, how far can that stretch? Wall Street already tells us there is stuff worth more than 40 years of the US GDP trading around in their pockets, so how much more can that get before they get called on their bullshit like me and my hypothetical friend?

maynarkh ,

Except we would grab loans from our banker friends who are also in on the scheme, and use some of that money to pay taxes and buy some congresscritters to avoid further taxes. The banker guys would then grab some loans themselves, preferably also from each other, as they slowly repackage the whole thing and then sell it to retirement funds to make it everyone else's problem. /s

Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly 8-month-old Mideast war....

maynarkh ,

This seems reasonable, what's the catch?

maynarkh ,

Brexit. The EU has laws forbidding stuff like this.

European diplomats warn Rafah strike could lead to strict interpretation of ICJ ruling ( www.haaretz.com )

Western diplomats warned Monday that European countries may strictly interpret the International Court of Justice's decision on the Israel Defense Forces' operation in Rafah following the deadly incident in which dozens of civilians died as a result of an Israeli attack on the city overnight into Monday....

maynarkh ,

The US should get back on that gay bomb project

maynarkh ,

Russians had flown out singers to Ukraine singing Gruppa Krovi to the soldiers. This shit goes across cultures.

maynarkh ,

BOBER KURWA

maynarkh ,

How did the Russian rhetoric go about escalations? How is this not an escalation?

maynarkh ,

The Soviets in WWII are not really an image you want to be compared to. They actually did commit multiple genocides in that era. Not against the Germans, I mean they did murder and rape a lot of people, but they were not motivated by the eradication of the German population. Those murders and rapes were "simply" war crimes.

So the battle of Berlin was not a genocide. Katyn and the Holodomor arguably were. Killing innocent civilians is "just" murder, a war crime. When Ben-Gvir speaks of fighting “human animals”, making Gaza a “slaughterhouse” and “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth”, that makes it into a genocide.

It's the motivation, especially the explicit, professed motivation of the leadership that makes what Israel - and by the way, also Hamas, though less successfully - is doing genocide, not just "normal" war crimes.

maynarkh ,

It's less of a court in the traditional sense, and more of an indicator and shaper of international sentiment.

maynarkh ,

The problem is that ad-driven businesses are price dumping by tricking people into using their services by telling them it's free, and thus killing the market for everyone else. I am not turning my adblocker off. I do not expect "free" content in perpetuity. I expect the "free" content business model to die off.

maynarkh ,

It's not that the army doesn't also have a rape culture.

maynarkh ,

I love that it equates Netanyahu and Gallant to Hamas.

maynarkh ,

IMO that does not make you part of the problem but a victim of it.

maynarkh ,

GamePass is still early in the enshittification cycle. It will get worse.

maynarkh ,

Going headless chicken has always been France's international diplomatic strategy.

maynarkh ,

You mean de facto conquest, right? And why would either side stop shooting?

maynarkh ,

If they did it, and Israel went against it, it would increase Israel's isolation. It wouldn't be immediate, just one more step of soft power pressure.

maynarkh ,

Well, the endgame of that radicalization will be hangman's nooses being put up in the Capitol, last time the people putting it up were too stupid and led by a moron, but if they let it continue, someone half competent might try to come at them as well. They don't live that far away from society that if they let it catch fire, they won't get burned.

maynarkh ,

Most of these articles are buzzword SEO for stock trading bots. Bots are set to buy AI up now, so you want to put AI next to your ticker if you want that bonus this quarter!

maynarkh ,

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó made similar comments in Moscow last year, insisting that Hungary’s energy security “requires uninterrupted transportation of gas, oil and nuclear fuel.”

You mean 2021 Russian Order of Friendship recipient Péter Szijjártó? That guy? Same guy who has a random young male football player who is not related to him show up on every intimate family portrait recently, overshadowing his wife in most of them, yet he is a top minister in a government that fights against the rights of sexual minorities? Same person?

maynarkh ,

If you work customer support at a megacorp, you will be the least surprised person that this happened. I bet the person answered the phone with a mental attitude between "what did we fuck up this time" and "how is this a job or a company that is useful to society".

maynarkh ,

Try the Total War games, especially the older (non-Warhammer) ones. Units take time to carry out actions, there is no point and not really a way to do insane actions per minute counts, as if a unit is engaged in melee, it can't really disengage without losses. There is also a great scale to the whole thing. I loved Shogun 2 for example.

I also like Eugen games like Wargame, Steel Division or Warno if a modern shooty type thing is more your game. Maybe try Regiments, that one is also good and maybe a bit less complex than Eugen titles.

Neither of these has base building, both are more of a "this is how many soldiers get for this battle, use them wisely" type game.

maynarkh ,

I had a decent AMD card which ran it very well, but still had a bunch of artifacts like Judy's head blocking reflections for the whole lake.

maynarkh ,

Yeah, those are very helpful, minority victims don't deserve help as we all know.

maynarkh ,

On the one hand, even if the crew was in breach of some UN provision, that is to be solved in the UN, in a boardroom, not in the air. Again, dropping flares on an aircraft is illegal, unprofessional, dangerous and idiotic.

And again, if you read the whole Part (or even point 1), you'd know it specifically enumerates which rights the treaty is regulating does it grant the EEZ coastal state, namely economic exploitation (like fishing and oil drilling), the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations and structures, marine scientific research, the protection and preservation of the marine environment, and the normal rights and duties of any other state.

So the question, in what way do you think flying a helicopter (which is a right of any state in the EEZ) endanger any right of China specifically provided for in this treaty? Did they scare away fish?

EEZs don't protect random made-up rights, only specific ones, and only if those don't infringe on the rights of other states.

To clear it up, which of these do you disagree with?

  • All states have a right of free overflight and navigation as long as they do not infringe on China's right on oil drilling, fishing and preservation of nature as provided by the treaty part 5 on EEZs.

  • China has a right to the exclusive exploitation of its EEZ with regard to living and non-living resources, so it is the sole power that can build oil rigs, fish, etc. as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of all other states for free navigation or overflight.

  • The AU helicopter was exercising its right of overflight, and did not infringe on China's right to fishing or oil drilling or nature preservation.

Because if all that is true, UN provisions don't justify obstructing the helicopter, and again, even if they did, this would be a diplomatic matter to be settled through normal channels, not by endangering lives through idiotic air showmanship.

maynarkh ,

I get what you are saying, I think I see where our disagreements start.

I read up on EEZs and see the disputes there. It seems the rules unfairly favour the nation / alliance with the biggest navy, ergo the US and allies. I don't fault the Chinese for trying to alter that, maybe they should indeed park a few warships 12 miles off Washington and see what happens. As I saw, they also sail into US EEZs to put that pressure back on the US, with the US just tailing them.

My argument is that according to the current rules, flying there is fine. You say the rules are unfair, and they might be, and people should maybe sit down to change them. Not by dumping flares on top of aircraft, though.

On that point, I see you're saying that the Australians might be lying. All I can say, and all I said, is that if what they say is true, the Chinese are in the wrong from an aviation safety perspective, and to me that perspective is all that matters. If the Australians were intercepted and flares were only used with proper separation as a signalling device, that's fine. The Australians claim otherwise, and have released no footage, which I agree is suspicious.

maynarkh ,

I mean there was for example this incident, and I don't remember it raising many eyebrows outside military news.

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