Why is it uncountable?

Chasing them out of Iraq is not the same as chasing them back home. Chasing them back home would mean that Iraq goes on to invade the USA, which I don’t find likely. I’m not disagreeing that the USA are terrorists.

It wins by default because the best anyone else can hope for is for the USA to leave. The nations they attack can’t really chase them back home. You need a different military for invasion vs defense. Plus whoever the USA just retreated from is going to be battered and financially precarious after their defensive war. In theory, someone could invade them. The USA is optimised for invasion, so if they can’t win wars of conquest they’d lose even harder when defending. But is anyone going to be in a state where they can risk testing that after being attacked?

Then there’s the non-military aspect. Naïvely it might seem that the USA’s goal is a military victory. Achieving their stated goal. Or perhaps subjugating the target. But in reality, the USA obeys people who optimise for their individual gain, not the nation’s gain.

For the citizenry, and therefore the nation, it’s bad if the USA has all their war equipment destroyed and has to buy a whole new arsenal at ridiculous inflated prices. But for everyone who is contracted to make that stuff and gets to eat the profit of the inflated price, it’s great. The more stuff they use up or lose, the more they’ll need to replace. And since it’s paid for by the state, it just means that wealth is being moved from workers to owners. Those owners then share their profits with politicians, who see no negative consequence from starting “unwinnable” wars.

The terms hetero and homo refer to gender, not sex. So nothing has changed and whatever attracted you to him is what attracted you. If that’s gender-expression, and that gender expression has changed, and you’re no longer attracted, then hetero is the term for that. If it was, but you were attracted to his masculinity, then homo is appropriate. If you were attracted to his feminity, but also like his masculinity, then bi is appropriate and if his gender never played a part then pan is appropriate.

That being said, the other person doesn’t really define your label. Just call yourself what you like. It’s completely okay to like someone for one set of reasons, and then stay with them because you grew closer and found a bunch of other reasons, and are now in love and have a life together.

The US likely didn’t intentionally bomb a school

They accidentally bombed 600 schools in under a month? https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/us-israeli-attacks-damage-over-85-000-civilian-sites-in-iran-red-crescent-chief-says/3878434

And they accidentally bombed the school that just so happened to be over-represented by the children of navy officers they threatened the day before?

Doubtful. The task of running an LLM and playing a video game is the same, so it just comes down to which has more customers. A lot of people spend many hours playing video games. There might be more LLM users, but they use the LLM for a few seconds a day, as opposed to an hour or more.

That being said, they’re both non-issues compared to beef production, which involves torturing cows. This activism should be directed there, then you can move down the target list once factory farming is outlawed.

At least they missed.

But 10 is less than 250, isn’t it? By geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml’s figure, that’s £2.50 per Muslim vs £833.33 per Jew. From just the numbers, it does seem like Jews are a higher priority.

There isn’t a 1-step perfect solution as far as I know. You can use Tor in combination with other technologies, and it’ll likely help you avoid a lot of surveillance, just not specifically the NSA. (Also keep in mind anyone/commercial actors can run Tor nodes with the intention of spying on Tor users. You need a lot of nodes to catch anyone, but I wouldn’t assume it never happens).

The main thing is to own your software and hardware, and disconnect what you don’t own from the internet. If you can’t meet those conditions, then it’s impossible no matter how vigilant and knowledgable you are.

My recommendations is to play your computer games on an offline computer via GOG purchases, or if you want Steam games, then just give up on securing that device. Have two networks. Have your secure computers for your general online tasks and chatting, and have the unsecure computer for interacting with DRM and services that lose a lot of functionality if the surveillance vectors are blocked.

Bad attempts at hardening often don’t work, and have the adverse effect of making you more unique for fingerprinting. It might be worth foregoing some hardening advice if you can think of workarounds the hostile actor might use, which you don’t know how to counter-act.

The security of Tor is built on the assumption that one actor owning a majority of the nodes is improbable to the point of being written off as a non-concern. The tool has always been run and maintained by the USA government. When they opened access to the public, they owned the majority of the nodes, and with the amount of compute available to the NSA (look up the size of their official data-centres, add in their hacked bot-farms), it’s almost certain they still do. If it wasn’t their plan to always have supremacy, they aren’t doing their job. The purpose of Tor is to hide traffic from USA’s enemies. A few tens of thousands of private users is just reducing their power bill and painting targets on their own backs, not successfully hiding from the NSA.

Smug Reddit-level takes left and right in this thread. The kid successfully hacked a website, you can assume he knows what he’s doing better than you and followed all the best practices short of not using Windows. They didn’t get his account from his Edge credential store. He probably used some Firefox-derivative. Tor browser if he was stupid. He probably “hardened” Windows every way he could think of, again, short of disconnecting from the internet. Windows simply does a good job of spying on you, that’s all it is.

There are even people in the thread recommending running Windows games on Linux as a way to avoid this surveillance. If you put Microsoft Flight Sim on your Linux computer, then that’s now a Windows computer. Microsoft owns that computer, same as the Windows one. If you install Nvidia drivers, Nvidia owns that computer, and the USA can ask Nvidia for your accounts and whereabouts instead of Microsoft. If you put Steam on your Linux computer, that’s now Steam’s computer and the USA can ask Steam.

There is no “safe” amount of malware.

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Open source is awesome

On an article about using closed-source AI to change the look of closed source software.

Netanyahu is his employee. So it’s like saying Hitler isn’t as bad as Himmler.

Iran has issued a firm warning that it will not back down from its management of the Strait of Hormuz and is prepared to fight to maintain control over the strategic waterway, an informed security source told Press TV on Wednesday.

The source revealed that developments over the past 48 hours have solidified Tehran’s resolve, with a new military and strategic doctrine now in place.

According to the source, Iran’s updated strategy dictates that in the event of any fresh attack on Iranian soil or interests, the Islamic Republic will respond with overwhelming force.

The source elaborated on Iran’s new retaliatory framework, stating that following any strike against Iran, two immediate actions will be taken: first, the Strait of Hormuz will be completely closed to all maritime traffic; and second, Iran will strike enemy targets at a ratio of at least two to one, meaning that for every Iranian target hit, at least two enemy targets will be struck in return.

“The memorandum of understanding signed on this matter clearly states that Iran will reopen the Strait in accordance with its own arrangements. Therefore, Iran will not permit the establishment of any new route outside the framework of its own arrangements,” the source said.

The source also addressed recent threats made by US President Donald Trump, delivering a blunt message to Washington.

"Any threat will receive a powerful response. Iran does not distinguish between the United States and its partners in the region,” the source told Press TV.

“Trump will gain nothing from these recent threats, but he will certainly lose both the Strait of Hormuz and the negotiations over a final agreement. The choice is now his."

The warning comes amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region, after the US military carried out a fresh round of illegal and unprovoked strikes against Iran’s coastal areas early on Wednesday.

US launched military strikes on a number of coastal bases and non-military stations in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province and Mahshahr, which openly violated the ceasefire.

In response, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) struck 85 US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait with missiles and drones in an initial response to the American aggression.

The IRGC said the strikes hit facilities at Port Salman, the US Fifth Fleet’s area in Bahrain, and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. It also announced the downing of an MQ-9 drone, saying the aircraft attempted to interfere with the operation before it was shot down.

In a statement earlier on Wednesday, Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said any source of support for the “aggressor US army” will be considered a legitimate target for Iranian armed forces.

“The source of any support for the aggressor US army to violate the sovereignty and territory of Islamic Iran will be a legitimate target for the armed forces,” the top military command center warned.

It said that the only safe route for commercial ships and oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz is the path designated by Iran, and that Tehran will not allow any interference in the management of the Strait.

Iranian parliament speaker and lead negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf also slammed the US for committing major violations of the Iran-US memorandum of understanding (MoU), stressing that Washington’s “era of bullying and extortion” is over.

“Major MoU violations by the US: [1.] Violating Iranian adjustments in the Strait,
[2.] Reinstating oil sanctions,
[3.] Attacks on southern Iran,
[4.] Continued Zionist aggression on Lebanon,” he said.

“The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold.”

Actalis, who are Italian, but probably acting on orders from the USA in this case, has revoked the certificate. (Could also be the site got hacked and Actalis is doing their job correctly, but I subscribe to the censorship theory personally).

You can use wget to download the site, or curl if you just want the text. There’s also presstv.co.uk which works as a mirror.

They don’t provide jobs, they tax jobs. The billionaire’s customers provide the jobs. The workers create the product, and the billionaire collects the money from the customer and pays a fraction of it to the worker. Without the billionaire, the worker could be earning the full value they provide to the customer.

Do they take their British workforce with them? No, so those stay behind. Can they produce the products they produce in the UK without that workforce by themselves? No, then they wouldn’t need the workforce. Can the workers produce the product? They know how, and have successfully been doing it for the duration of their employment. The only thing stopping them is capital and IP.

If a distro is advertising that, then they aren’t trustworthy and should be avoided. Linux uses AI assisted development, and every Linux distro is built on top of Linux.

I don’t understand. You’re both saying it’s true and representative because it has happened elsewhere, but still call it misinformation? And that it’s recent, therefore news-relevant, so a good candidate for poking fun at. What issue are you pointing out?

I’m not arguing against you, I didn’t know about these curfews or the context. I’m asking about your comment.

“We don’t need socialism, we need stakeholder capitalism”.