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- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 1 day ago:
This has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with liability.
You can’t really sue an open source project using a proper license, they disclaim any liability or warranty, meaning the buck stops with you.
If you hire a software development firm and pay for them to build software for you, you will have a different license, the software company can just repackage open source software into their own UI and branding, take the money and declare bankruptcy if their customers try to sue them.
The customers are mostly happy, they get to tick the box that they have a support contract for the software and a company is liable if shit hits the fan. The software development company is happy, they get money for doing very little actual work.
The open source project probably doesn’t know about the abuse of the license and thus mostly doesn’t care.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 3 days ago:
Yeah?
This is what happens when system complexity grows unconstrained.
We may look at a piece of software and say, “right, this software is secure!”, but the clock has already started ticking toward the next vulnerability found.
This does not make the field of computing flawed, but rather the systems we run computing on is flawed.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 3 days ago:
That has not really anything to do with “computing”, which can be done regardless of what network is used or even without a network.
This also does not really affect weather or not cloud computing is flawed or not, since you can access the cloud without wireless connections.
This all being said, wireless networking is a big security problem, we have just collectively decided that the convenience is worth it.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 3 days ago:
What? Computing in general is not flawed.
Cloud computing from a data security standpoint has some huge and I would say, unacceptable, flaws though.
- Comment on When this post is 10 minutes old it's time to start!!! 4 days ago:
I was out driving an hour ago, and as the responsible driver I am I waited to check lemmy until I was sitting on the toilet at home.
So, no honk from me!
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 5 days ago:
Does this get enforces with old.reddit.com?
- Comment on So that's how they filmed it 1 week ago:
If this is real, that is damn cool!
- Comment on Trump puts up AI video of Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office 1 week ago:
I gotta ask, what is the point of a video like this?
Everyone knows that it didn’t happen, is it just to get cheap points, or is it to try and poison the historical record of Obama’s presidency?
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
The main problem with NK is the lack of trust and respect between them and the rest of the world, they don’t respect the rules of other nations (look at the NK kidnappings of Japanese citizens), this makes it very difficult to deal with them.
So trust and respect needs to be built up from the ground up.
As it stands now, even small lifted sanctions should be expected to be exploited by NK.
To start work to handle NK, the world could start by involving NK in talks, generic talks, acknowledging their existence outside of just conflicts and mandatory communications.
Talking will lead to better understanding which we can use to slowly try and lift some sanctions, and working from that angle.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 weeks ago:
CSVs are a common format to share data
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 2 weeks ago:
I fell asleep a few times while writing the pervious comment, so if it seems cut off, that is why.
Now, there are a few more things to talk about.
- What is more likely with regards to real change, military action by a foreign power, political collapse, or a gradual change?
- What will have to be done after thing have changed?
Lets start with 1 first:
I think we can rule out direct military action by a foreign power, any action will see Seoul in SK destroyed within a day, and even Japan is at a high risk here.
Political collapse is possible, but not realistic to happen in the current situation, remember that the government has an extreme level of control over the media in NK, this includes extreme control over the smartphones sold in NK, everything you do is monitored, any photo you take with the camera is cryptographically signed on the device so the government knows the origin of any photo spread around in NK, you can see more here: youtu.be/czJaA0S2AjE . With this level of control of the media, the regime will probably not fall soon.
Gradual change is the most probable, but will take a long time, people in SK do send baloons with USB sticks containing SK media, so people in NK are somewhat aware of life in SK. But as I noted earlier this will take a long time.
Ok lets move on to number 2, what would happen after a collapse of the NK government.
The most probable thing is that China will come and run NK as a kind of colony, NK lacks a LOT of modern infrastructure, and the citizens will be at extreme risk of exploitation.
Whoever colonized NK would face the daunting challenge of integrating 26 million people into a modern society, meanwhile other groups will try to exploit the cheap labour NK citizens can provide.
Bringing NK citizens into modern society with zero oversight will end in disaster, look at Albania as a warning, there was little knowledge of financial scams in the times after communism and several pyramid schemes was established and later collapsed, wiping out 50% of the GDP of Albania at the time and contributed in large parts to the 1997 Albanian rebellion.
Teaching the NK citizens about the dangers and advantages of modern society will take a long time, it will involve a lot of shattered illusions, plenty of people will want to go back their old ways, other’s will want to go full steam ahead, making their own paths without help.
This is just a small taste of the issues to come…
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the old question about what to do about North Korea, it occupies the minds of many, there are some answers, many lead to more questions, and so on.
The stakes are increadibly high, so we have to tread very carefully.
Let’s bring up a few key facts.
- NK is a totalitarian state with a huge personality cult surrounding the Kim family.
- NK is supported by both China and Russia, they both have a highly vested interest in keeping the status quo.
- NK is located within artillery range of SK’s capital city, Seoul.
- NK’s society is vastly different from all of it’s neighbours, even the language used in NK is noticably different from the language spoken in SK.
- NK has nuclear weapons.
- NK does not have a problem ignoring the normal rules of diplomacy.
Now, you ask what other countries can do to help the people of NK, that is a hugely complicated question, which in general is mostly answered with an answer no one really wants to hear:
Support the current regime
For any proper aid to get into NK you need the support of the regime, and they will take the credit for the aid.
I saw a documentary of a film crew following a team of surgeons travelling to NK to help people who had lost their sight, it was a simple operation, preformed and funded by foreign organizations, the regime had only allowed the team access.
The operation took maybe a few min per patient, they replaced a lens in the eyes of the patient, and as soon as the patient was done, they rushed to the portraits of the leaders of NK, got on their knees and thanked them deeply for their graciousness of restoring their eyesight.
This is the kind of society NK is, everything is tied to the leader.
This is the starting point, and you have 26 million people to deal with…
Ok, say that a world power decide that they have had enough with the Kim family and this is worth going to war over.
What can we expect?
Regardless of what countries are involved, Seoul WILL be bombarded.
So now the attacker is hated both in NK and SK as well as probably a lot of other countries.
NK will use their nukes, and possibly other WMD they have.
Then comes China…
China loves NK as a buffer against the west, so they would and have deployed the PLA to save NK.
- Comment on Great idea 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, they will be full of sand within a week, if they are not stolen
- Comment on The Symbol Of Love 2 weeks ago:
It was GSM, possibly GPRS
- Comment on The Symbol Of Love 2 weeks ago:
Wireless Access Protocol
- Comment on The Symbol Of Love 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it had WAP service, and a pinball game, that was the difference between the 3310 and 3330
- Comment on The Symbol Of Love 3 weeks ago:
Is that a Nokia 3330?
I had one as my first phone, they are physically identical to the more common 3310, but comes with an inverted color shell.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 3 weeks ago:
Has the shipping lanes changed since then?
I’d imagine that they went further north back then to be closer to land and help if something happened (obviously didn’t help much in this case though)
- Comment on When you're done with being around people 3 weeks ago:
Damn has it been 15 years since Ashens made the original video?
Sorry for making you feel old ):
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 3 weeks ago:
You are quite welcome, I stole it from WTYP pod
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 3 weeks ago:
One thing that always struck me as weird is that when the wreck of the Titanic was found, the swimming pool was still full.
- Comment on Beaver 3 weeks ago:
I seem to recall reading about an experiment done in the wild.
A speaker playing the sound of running water was placed on dry ground where scientists knew beavers lived and left for a few weeks.
When they checked back on it, the beavers had built a dam structure on the speaker despite there being no water…
- Comment on Call Before You Dig 3 weeks ago:
No, do not under any circumstances use the hot water tank as a water source!
This can be deadly!
Legionnaires’ disease is bad shit.
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 3 weeks ago:
Sweet!
Glad to hear that this is no new idea!
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 3 weeks ago:
I don’t particularly like champagne or wine, I only do this for the memes.
You seem to know about this though, would it be dangerous to drink champagne that has been stored standing up for more than 4 years?
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 3 weeks ago:
Sweet, if more people did something like this to show their absolute disdain for people like these, it could have a huge impact.
As for not drinking, yes the bottles in the background are bottles of rum, I used to enjoy drinking 2-3 drinks every other month, but I have recently decided to completely cut it out apart from on special occasions.
I just can’t really sleep well even after just drinking small amounts, oh and since I have a car now, I like being able to not worry about having had alcohol and being fit to drive.
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 3 weeks ago:
I did not get the idea until after that shitstain was gone.
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- Comment on I require nothing more 3 weeks ago:
You gotta stay optimistic
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