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in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.

Do you have any source that says that using TikTok is mandatory in China, or that not using it does what you're asserting?

So why should the Library of Congress exist? Why should the Internet Archive exist?

"They're books, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time." "They're web pages, who gives a shit. Most things are lost over time."

There's value in record-keeping. People can analyze it on a technical perspective (like a literary analysis). People can enjoy old games (like reading a book from the 1500s). People can analyze trends in the industry. There are endless reasons why record-keeping could be useful, and you can never plan for all of them ahead of time.

the config files show 99% were extracted from Debian Linux

Can you provide a source for that?

Indeed. See my edit on the parent comment--I noticed that the website provides commands to the user to run, which makes it ripe for MITM attacks: if the user is copying-and-pasting commands to run into their shell, those need to be served over HTTPS.

It's definitely not the case that it's useless. A MITM can embed malware into the page it returns if you aren't being served over HTTPS. It's not just about snooping on sensitive data going one or both ways, it's about being sure that what you're receiving is from who you actually think you're receiving it from.

(Edit to add:) I actually went to look at some of the rest of the site and it confirms what I suspected: not using HTTPS here puts the reader at risk. Because this website provides code snippets and command line snippets that the user is to run, by not presenting it over HTTPS, it becomes susceptible to malicious MITM editing of the content.

For example, this line on the site:

2. Install Homebrew (ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)")

Could be intercepted, since it's not being served HTTPS, and be replaced with utf-8 lookalike characters that really downloads and runs a malicious ruby script! Even easier, perhaps, they could just insert an item into the bulleted list that has the user run a malicious command.

HTTPS is not just for security of personal or private information. It is also for verifiable authenticity and security in contexts like this.

Fair enough, I see that it wasn't mentioned in those 3 sources. Either way, they're still Neo-Nazi. And in my personal opinion, that makes them terrorists, but I can understand if you don't want to use the word terrorist. So just call them: Neo-Nazis. That doesn't make them any less deserving of derision.

The weaseliness comes from the fact that you took what definitely did happen and phrased it as "probably happened". You also took what one country definitely did, and tacked on a "well most countries were doing bad things" immediately after. That's what is bothering me. It's the whole "well it might not have happened, and if it did, they weren't the only ones, and even if they were, it was a necessary evil" goalpost shifting.

I’m very opposed to the world war alliance but understand the shitty circumstances

By "understand the shitty circumstances" you're seemingly saying that it made sense to make the alliance. But you're, once again, ignoring my point: if the cost of that alliance is that you must provide volunteers to kill Jews, you are in the wrong.

And I do see the agenda you’re set on.

Please, enlighten me. The only agenda I have here is to call out the minimizing of Nazi-collaboration that happened, including the murder of Jews, as some sort of "necessary evil" alliance.

It’s very probable that war crimes did happen as they happen with every country in a war.

So many weasel words. It's not just "very probable", Finland's own government published and stands by a multi-hundred page report documented how it did happen. Also, not every country was offering up volunteers to help murder Jews, so don't make this "all sides" junk claim.

Also, you glossed over the key point I made: if the cost to get protection from what you perceive as an invading threat is to offer up volunteers to kill Jews, you are completely in the wrong for accepting that protection. That is not a fair trade-off to make.

The methodology used here is specifically tied to Russia and cannot be used on Ukraine.

You said it's specific to Russia and cannot be used on Ukraine. It is not specific to Russia, and whether it could be used on Ukraine or not is, as you now say, dependent on data accessibility. I was pointing out that your original comment was not accurate.

No, the one I already linked.

In WW2 Finland hid Jewish people from the Nazis and the alliance was probably a mandatory evil after not getting support against the other fascists coming over the over

Is that so?

Authorities in the Scandinavian nation revealed the findings Friday in a 248-page government-commissioned independent report, which showed that 1,408 Finnish volunteers — many between the ages of 17 and 20 — served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking from 1941 to 1943.

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After losing several territories to a Soviet invasion in 1939, Finland entered a deal with Nazi Germany for material support against Moscow. But the agreement also required the Nordic country provide some 400 volunteers for the SS Wiking division — a pact it reluctantly honored, the report concluded.

I'll say this: if part of the requirement of "getting support against the other fascists coming over" is to supply volunteers to kill Jews, it's not excusable in the least. It's completely unacceptable.

No you're right that was an honest mistake. I misremembered Economy Minister as Prime Minister.

I was simply quoting the Wikipedia page.

Yikes. They seem to really be in trouble with how many Nazis they're allowing to hold power. Economy Minister resigned because he's a Nazi. Finance Minister is at least a horrific racist but likely also a Nazi. I wonder if it's just a return to the good old days of Finland allying with Nazis and helping Nazis murder Jews.

Finland’s ‘most rightwing government ever’ to cut spending and immigration

Despite being officially "banned" in Finland, the Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement[^1] seems to be only one-step removed here: both of these Ministers are part of the right-wing "Finns Party" which has direct ties to the Nordic Resistance Movement.

Edit: I said Prime Minister when I meant Economy Minister.

[^1]: Which, rather creepily, has ties to the terrorist Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion that Ukraine has no problems supporting

It’s literally on par with sentencing guidelines for everyone else.

But it's not. It's on par with treatment for other people like her. It's not the case for the vast majority of prisoners in the USA.

The real annoying thing is that this kind of crime should be higher on the sentencing guidelines because the victims are far reaching.

If your argument is that the sentence should be longer than the one given, how do you also say that you have no issue with it being shortened? Those are opposites.

why you think that the reduction itself is a bad thing

In general, I'm not. But I'm extremely against unfair application of the reduction to people like her, leaving others to suffer needlessly.

Absolutely disgusting. Any facade of justice in the USA is just that, a facade.

Inmates in the US can have their sentences reduced for good conduct, including completing job assignments, following orders, and completing substance abuse programs and other rehabilitation courses

She's been in a bit over a month. 42 days.

Do you have any sources for these estimates?

That doesn't seem like an accurate statement at all. The methodology they used looks like it could be applied to any country that has public its analgous National Probate Registry. I'm not going to bother to check, but I'd be surprised if Ukraine didn't also have this. So in theory, the exact same analysis could be used on Ukraine.

I'm sure some style guide(s) have hard and fast rules but being called out for it in everyday conversation doesn't (shouldn't) happen for something like that. English also isn't French, it doesn't have a regulatory body, and so attempting to pin down certain things as definitively correct or definitively wrong isn't always a reasonable thing to do.

Huh. I'm getting a ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error on that link. I was getting the same error when I tried to do it myself with archive.is (archive.ph is down and I get a cloudflare page).