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‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]
  • It's very likely if this passes people who used to be tech illiterate will start using pre encryption, such as the darknet's favorite PGP, before sending anything over, as all channels that are compliant will become insecure channels.

    Much like it happened with vpns, chat encryption and ad blocking, people will be quick to catch on with a simple youtube video. Then we'll have sold our privacy for pretty much nothing.

    I wonder how long it will take for these very technologically inept politicians to realise you can't legislate the internet to protect children, nor it is their job. Parents are the ones who are responsible for monitoring their children's internet usage. Make child monitoring software more accessible to parents.

    I'm glad to see those taxes being put into pointless endeavours while our world is festering with inequality, recessions and climate annihilation. Pretty sure soon enough children won't need protection, because there won't be any children left as no one can afford them in order to sustain our billionaire population.

  • Is Stremio a honeypot?
  • It does when you're watching. I have sys monitor widgets with rainmeter on my PC and whenever I'm watching something, it cpu is at least 5 or so degrees hotter and there's 5 mb + network activity on the upload. You can check yourself on system monitor.

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    ‘Not genocide’ says Biden after ICC warrants sought
  • Sure thing "not genocide" Joe.

    US investigated themselves and found themselves innocent of all blame in the murder of thousands of people. Israel was innocent too, funny that. No need to check.

  • Gaza Strip pier project is completed, U.S. military says
  • The US as a country is wholly complicit in this genocide. Both their major parties are 100% in support of genocide. Their universities are investing millions in weapons factories that create the tools of the genocide. Their taxpayer dollars go towards directly funding the genocide. This after the 20 years long wars they caused in the middle east with the countless suffering caused by that.

    I am disgusted at Israel and the US. Never forget what the US really is. How can any of us from "third world" countries see the US as anything better than the worst that China and Russia have done ? They're all cut from the same cloth.

  • Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED
  • It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the "Tabbed ribbon" that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?

    I have come to notice that when people who don't really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can't stand LibreOffice, they mean they don't like the layout of the tools, because they can't find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.

    Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don't know their target audience's pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.

    I don't get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.

  • Eurovision expresses disappointment over performer wearing pro-Palestinian symbol
  • Can't live your life sitting on the fence being friends with everyone. You gotta embrace your values and accept the consequences that some people will disdain you for it. If you can live with both the disdain and your consciousness, then you've picked the right place, i believe.

    Fences are for birds.

  • Eurovision expresses disappointment over performer wearing pro-Palestinian symbol
  • "Guys please, can you just ignore the dead children for one minute? They're already dead, it's not like they care anyway.

    We're trying to make money here and your empathy for your fellow human beings is just mucking it all up. Please, please try to follow the apolitical rules we laid out and for the duration of the show and just stfu and give us money ok ? That's all we want. Bring the money and leave your messy politics at home. Your complaining makes other people not want to give us more money.

    Remember why we're doing this. For culture and money. But mostly money. Thanks!"

  • Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
  • Mullvad has written a post about it Here.

    FYI

    The desktop versions (Windows, macOS and Linux) of Mullvad's VPN app have firewall rules in place to block any traffic to public IPs outside the VPN tunnel. These effectively prevent both LocalNet and TunnelVision from allowing the attacker to get hold of plaintext traffic from the victim.

    Android is not vulnerable to TunnelVision simply because it does not implement DHCP option 121, as explained in the original article about TunnelVision.

    iOS is unfortunately vulnerable to TunnelVision, for the same reason it is vulnerable to LocalNet, as we outlined in our blog post about TunnelCrack. The fix for TunnelVision is probably the same as for LocalNet, but we have not yet been able to integrate and ship that to production.

    I gotta say, i am really impressed with Mullvad. They're not just a VPN seller. They write security compromise bulletins regularly and as soon as vulnerabilities show up and they actively lobby at the EU organs for more privacy laws. They really work and live their identity in every way.

  • Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • It's only incoherent if you were thinking the US was looking to uphold liberty and democratic values.

    It's not at all incoherent if you were thinking the US is upholding its industrial corporate complex, which sometimes happens to line up with humanitarian motives. It's actually pretty coherent in that regard.

    It's one of those cases where correlation does not meet causation.

  • Biden condemns university antiwar protests, says 'Order must prevail'
  • What i figure from this is that the only reasons the Democrat party doesn't win more often in the US, is that they're really, really, really bad at their jobs.

    Like take Hillary for instance. She only lost because she managed to look more incompetent than Trump. Now Trump is doing his darnest that no one will be more incompetent than him, but by all the starts in the universe, genocide Joe will give him a run for his money

    Stay tuned for the election with the worst presidential candidates that the US could produce. It's so embarrassing, i fear my face might freeze in the cringe.

  • Putin claims landslide in Russian election and scorns US democracy
  • Personally I'd say score voting would make the most sense. Essentially it works like this, you get a list of parties and you vote them 1-5 on how much you agree with them. This changes the whole dynamics as you now aren't choosing who will rule, but how much you agree with each party ideologically and forcing you to research on their proposed mandate plans. It also serves as sort of an evaluation of how do you think each party has been addressing the country's issues before the election.

    Mathematically, this may not ensure always the most happiness, but it ensures the least unhappiness compared to all current known voting methods (you can easily find research on how this was calculated in many papers on mathematics).

    Personally i would also propose returning to the old Roman and the first proposed French republic system of having 2-3 consuls of the most voted for parties and they take turns proposing legislation to a senate that's a direct seated representation of the voting results.

    As an interesting tidbit, the reason we have a president/prime Minister with all the power in most western democracies, is because Napoleon altered the original proposed 3 consul system into a prime consul with all the power then minor ministers because he was aiming to become Emperor and wanted to centralize the power. Our democratic systems are strongly influenced by the first French republic post the French revolution.

  • Email admin
  • The survey fatigue is real. Everyone keeps begging for reviews nowadays. Even random things like public parking.

    I grow resentment at any business begging for reviews. Hire a consultant and third party to auction your service, I'm not doing it for free anymore. Specially because they don't even read the comments you write or reply. It's just nonsense an intern will put into an end of quarter ppt for some average mediocre manager.

  • [FFVIII] Yoshinori Kitase Would Change the Combat System in a Final Fantasy VIII Remake
  • I think i only used draw in my first few playthroughs before learning how to refine magic from the obscene amount of cards and mug items i had just lying around.

    Even beating first optional boss, the mechanical spider x-something at Dollet doesn't require draw at all. You can get everthing you need by playing cards with the students at the library, cafeteria and front gate.

    It seems as if draw was meant as a last resort in case you didn't wanna play cards or were stuck out of magic to junction. I do think they should explain you will unlock ways to refine magic from GF abilities in the tutorial though.

  • Secret plan against Germany
  • That is true, if all the history you've ever learned was the history that came in your highschool books. It's a very simplistic take of a complex situation meant to be easily digestible by teenagers. I mean no offense.

    Which is fine i suppose. If you think it's fine for you, then it is and i am happy that you are satisfied. I understand not everyone shares my curiosity for ww2 political history, however, I am very much not a nazi. I'm not even right wing. It would be nonsensical to defend right wing extremist ideology.

    Criticism of the treaty of Versailles has been thoroughly written by many non nazi historians from allied countries. It just doesn't add much to the conversation to just write "nazi propaganda". It's not really an argument at all. No premises whatsoever. You could have just dropped your dislike because you feel you disagree and moved on.

    Although i am very willing to read your thoughts if you could develop them a little more than that. I'm always willing to listen to a strong argument in favor of the treaty of Versailles and if you have a take i find insightful, perhaps even change my mind.

  • Secret plan against Germany
  • To be fair to Germany, Hitler was the clash of two trains of thought. Should you punish a country for the crimes of its ruling class through fines and territory claims?

    In medieval eras the country was property of the kings and the peasants were their rightful "tools", so punishing them was seen as fair, which is where the Versailles peace agreement came from.

    In modern eras, the country belongs to no one and the ruling class is just that, the ruling class. Punishing people or taking land is seen poorly in international courts, regardless of what the country did in the war.

    Hitler came to power because of how the allies treated the Germans after WW1. Had the allies implemented a restructuring plan, like it happened with Japan and Germany post WW2, instead of implementing border gore and impossible to pay fines, Hitler would have never been able to do anything, seeing as he was significantly unpopular. But if you trap a population between an impossible choice, this is what you get.

    So you see, Germany couldn't have produced anything. The right wing might see a substantial representation increase in the parliament because current parties have been incompetent in handling migration over the last 10 years and refuse to listen, but the conditions that caused Hitler's rise to power are not currently met. Not even close.

    Which is why i think you are not right in this matter.

    Banning AfD would be incredibly stupid. Votes are a representation of concerns in a population. Ignoring the issues causing the votes and banning a party does not remove the concerns, just our visibility of them.

    Europe in general needs to either drastically improve the integration mechanisms for migrants or reduce migrant throughput to levels which the current existing mechanisms are capable of handling. The current methods of just ignoring the problem and not giving a crap is clearly not being effective and thinking this is just a problem of ideology is exactly what's wrong here.

    Banning parties is irrelevant, banning nazi symbolism is irrelevsnt, cordon sanitaire is irrelevant, declaring fascism illegal is irrelevant. Those are symptoms and if we only treat symptoms the problem just changes faces.

  • Berlin’s plan for driverless magnetic trains derided by climate groups
  • I'd imagine maybe larger countries would have more than one stop, but the issue is every time the maglev makes a stop it needs to slow down and speed up again and that adds up over time. I think that's a big issue with high speed trains nowadays in certain regions. The train is at maximum allowed speed by infrastructure about 40% of the time because it stops too often.

    It would be a shame if it became impractical due to being too slow so people would take the plane instead. If you look at the Japanese Shinkansen stops are very well spaced, for instance, Tokio-Nagoya or Osaka-Hiroshima with no stops in betwen. That's 350 ish km with no stops.

  • Berlin’s plan for driverless magnetic trains derided by climate groups
  • Speed. High speed trains clock in at 300 km/h, whereas maglev takes you to 600 km/h.

    I agree with the above commenter, the EU needs to streamline passenger rights and international connections first, like they did for airtravel, but once that is taken care of, the next step is connecting European capitals on high speed maglev with very few stops.

    To give you a sense of what such a transportation system could achieve, you could go from Lisbon to Kiev in 6 hours and a half at 600 km/h. If capitals served as country maglev hubs, we could do away with intra European flights altogether and cut a significant amount of flights to outside of Europe by concentrating the departures.

    You could then have a hierarchy of sorts where maglev serves traveling between capitals, high speed between major cities within countries, regional between regions of smaller sparsely populated towns and local trains within cities or between close cities. Ideally if a passenger wanted to travel from a small town into another small town 3000 km away, the service should book all the appropriate hierarchy changes in one ticket.

    The issue is that the line would have to be pretty much straight or have very shallow curves, due to the speed, so it would take a TON of land buying. That's complicated enough as it is without even considering the NIMBYs.

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