Lizzardspawn
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I think you are missing my point. To commit crime you have to have law, the DNA of the internet was always lawlessness and anarchy. It started as a warzone. The fact that meatspace has claimed control and thinks its rules apply - doesn't change the nature of the place. Hackers are not criminals - internet was created to be unrulable - well it was created to be undisruptable, but the two kinda go together. So the burden is on the defender, by default. In the real world you have the whole monopoly of violence thing that says rape is not ok. Internet was designed so that monopoly of violence is impossible. Well the governments figured this one clever trick that if they can put chokepoints and match your digital to physical identity they could break your kneecaps. But still.
Lizzardspawn
10hr ago
The most guilty party in any situation is always the actual guilty party.
Yes. The sysadmin. IT security with minimal exceptions[1] always had serious component of victim blaming in the 90s.
The difference with the rest of your scenarios is that in IT there was never trust which could be betrayed. Everyone knew from the beginning that everyone is out to get you. There was never presumption of safety on the internet.
So a better analogy is who is to blame when a soldier dies on the battlefield - the enemy shooter or the soldier that didn't take cover?
[1] Technically illiterate activists in the third world and the likes.
Lizzardspawn
12hr ago
I think it is that it is because we are living in the time of quagmires and stalemates. Everything devolves into quagmire eventually. When something genuinely new happens - there is flurry of new comments and new perspectives - from which usually the quality contributions come.
Israel - Gaza - stalemate and quagmire - there is no reason to see the conflict differently than in 2024, because nothing new has happened. Same with Ukraine, Iran, housing, cost disease, cost of living, the inevitable march of AI that will doom us all or immigration. On the culture side - netflix will continue to cast black men as vikings, cossaks and queen elizabeth, western game female game characters will be ugly, writing in everything will be shit, but the parasites are not killing the host fast enough - so the decay will continue. Surveillance state is here to stay as are stabbings by immigrants in Europe.
They only really interesting culture war events lately was Clancy trial and the pushback against the cornell rape story - and i would say both generated quality content.
The culture war is one of attrition now - and read - All Quiet on the Western Front about how eventually participants in one feel.
Lizzardspawn
12hr ago
It is mix of purified beeswax and mineral oil 1:3 by weight. Still pretty cheap to do at home and a batch lasts forever. But the wax is mucho important.
Lizzardspawn
17hr ago
The issue probably is the cloud accounts, not that they had real ip addresses. Even my mild contempt towards french IT prowess doesn't assume a world in which they will leave them out in the open or allow them NAT traversal. Having the right to install your own server to manage your own devices should be basic ownership. But this is often impossible. Which is really infuriating with the security cameras that needs cloud account in china. Yaay.
Lizzardspawn
17hr ago
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.
"Food security requires more attention at all levels," said the EU's food and agriculture commissioner Christophe Hansen on X, condemning the attack and saying such "exploitation of food" was now a "reality".
At least 300 shops of Intermarche or its Netto brand were targeted, along with over 100 Cooperative U outlets, and several E. Leclerc stores, the retailers told AFP in separate statements.
BFM TV said hackers "managed to remotely trigger the forced defrosting of the refrigeration systems in numerous stores".
Those branches that were affected will have to "throw away all of the products" that are fresh and frozen, Intermarche told AFP.
Specialist French retail sector news website jebosseengrandedistribution.fr said other retail giants Carrefour Market and Monoprix were affected but the companies have yet to confirm this.
E. Leclerc confirmed to AFP "that a cyberattack affected one of its refrigeration equipment suppliers," resulting in "repercussions on the operation of refrigeration systems in several stores".
A source close to the issue said refrigeration control systems from Danish manufacturer Danfoss were targeted.
Danfoss told AFP in a statement that most of the affected equipment was "legacy" products which "no longer receive software or security updates".
It said its AK-SM800 and AK-SC355 fridge regulator systems were notably affected, with a version of the former using "outdated firmware". It added that it had long advised supermarkets to update from those models. Danfoss gave no figures of how many systems were affected.
A person close to French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said France's cyber security agency had already identified "a vulnerability in software supplied by a Danish company and has contacted the vendor".
"Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is extremely serious and is unprecedented. It is unacceptable," he wrote on X.
He added that the company's teams were "fully mobilised" to restore the situation as quickly as possible.
"An investigation will be necessary to shed full light on this attack," he added.
Intermarche condemned the food waste and financial losses resulting from the attack, without providing figures.
BFM TV said temperatures were "altered remotely, resulting in the destruction of stocks of fresh and frozen products".
The incident comes against the background of growing concern over the potential havoc that can be caused in Europe in all sectors by malicious actors carrying out cyberattacks.
By likely affecting hundreds of units simultaneously, the attack demonstrated "a certain level of sophistication," he added.
This is a poetry of stupid and the hackers are the least guilty party here. Lets start with the obvious. Why freezers needs to be visible, why do they need to be remotely managed, why is not this done on dedicated internal network, why do they need firmware updates. How did we get to the point where a device that should be pid controller, compressor and alarm can be hacked.
To make you feel better - all of your nice EVs are also permanently connected and I doubt that there is air gap between the infotainment and the firmware of the battery pack. Someday someone will be able to accelerate or set on fire EV remotely. And probably soon.
Let's start with something juicy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvp8glg97393o
US immigration agents searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning as part of a "criminal investigation".
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents "executed a judicially authorized search warrant" for the home in the Washington, DC, area, a US justice department spokesperson told the BBC.
The search "is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," the spokesperson said, but no further details were given. ... The justice department has a longstanding policy of refraining from most enforcement action that is "likely to raise an issue or the perception" it was being brought for the purpose of affecting any election or disadvantage a candidate.
Couple of starting points - it won't help Trump, chances of uncovering smoking guns that with tank Dems in the eventual records are slim to none. Zero chance she will be stripped of citizenship or her alleged brother deported (cue Alabama joke here). It is not escalation - the escalation was the Trump trial, but as retaliation is quite weak. If democrats obtain trifecta - I wonder what type of further escalation they will figure out.
Personally I find her the most dislikable among the squad, so I won't say I am sad.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
i think there were some castles in WWII - like one case where Wehrmacht allied with pows against SS, but since many of the castles in Germany were relatively modern it is hard to tell.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Or use a crossbow.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
That is up to him, not to Pete.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Absolutely not. Because it was pure raw uncut bullshit justification to begin with. So if they can tie it to privacy, then privacy of execution is much easier to tie to the right to privacy.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
We are literally living in George Carlin sketch.
This is stupid. I don't think that public executions are a bad thing per se. But if you want to instate that federal executions should be public - there should be somewhat of a process, not by fiat, and not make it exceptional occasion.
Also not a chance in hell this will happen - if SCOTUS thought that right to privacy gives you right to abortion, if sure as hell gives you literal right to privacy for your execution. I do support the condemned to be able to waiver it and make it as public or private as they desire.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
Someone designed it, someone implemented it as a series of instructions.
Unlike the backpropagated transformers that just emerged from nothingness.
A good analogy - LLMs are viruses level stuff on the consciousness evolution step. They can't form homeostatic processes. We are far away from the moon is a harsh mistress.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
I think the right believes women need strong limitations on sexual rights and cultural traditions preventing let’s call it sluttiness or their love will end up being temporary.
The right believed mostly what the old time feminists believed - that a woman in charge of her sexuality also bears responsibility for her actions and outcomes. Most of the edgelordiness online is just backlash to the change of no means no to yes means yes to yes means no four years later after the fact.
And do you know what is the most red pilling event of them all - to see a woman you hold dear return for 18th time in her abusive relationship "because I love him" after she was beaten up regularly. The pure red hot rage that you can't save someone from their own stupidity.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
What is the difference compared to playing sims throwing your sim in the pool and removing the ladder?
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
The arctic road is opening and russia and usa in alliance control all of it. Russia has no desire or capacity for European hegemony. The relationship between Europe and USA is irrelevant to USA because - well we are useless. Even united we can't become a threat to USA power any more - nor military nor economically - 20 years of Brussels rule made sure of that. We have huge problems with immigration and future immigration. Europe is decaying. Even totalitarian military junta won't fix our problems.
The Sino Soviet split was the deathblow of the cold war, now USA have to do it in the other direction.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
And let’s be clear we are at war with Russia.
Repeating lets be clear many times doesn't make the following statement any truer. Not every minor geopolitical adversity is war.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
First - we don't want to. Obviously Trump is not suffering by the sand in the vagina syndrome (real idiom from my country btw) that Macron, Ursula and Boris have on the topic.
Second - Russia is not in war with the USA and this is why USA is treating them ambivalently - i have often said that USA - RU alliance is too natural for it not to happen eventually. Yes Washington is making Moscow's life harder when it is low cost and for the lulz, but they don't really give a fuck about it. Which I think even people close to Zelensky start to realize, even if he is too dense to see it.
Third - unlike some of the elite human capital that is better candidate to be deported - he is not a parasite, he is not a drain on the safety net, not breaking any laws, he is culturally integrated, making a good salary - so why bother.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
What happens when you combine crazy russian, ai, warhammer and madmax?
Only for the brave.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
I believe that Nate Silver wants to be right and does his best.
Now the question is not whether you take said sources seriously, but whether you do it consistently or not. Empirical evidence is that people that are under the impression they are winning are not busy unskewing the polls. When the Iowa gold standard poll came out two years ago, republicans didn't try to prove that it is wrong, they just laughed at it. With good reasons.
I have taken Nate seriously for more than a decade so far (and he has always given Trump higher chances than the rest of his cohort, so there is that), so if I have to make exception now - there has to be good reasons for it. This year may be different - but the only different thing so far is that I really dislike his prognosis.
Now if your gut tells you that Republicans are in better shape than presented, and said gut was also mostly right about the 2016-2024 elections - I will say - great - a track record is a track record.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Do you have links towards serious analysis why polls are terribly wrong that is not fueled by binge on copium and hopium?
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
I agree with you. Doesn't change the fact that USA is unfortunately functioning democracy and people are swayed by the strain on their wallets. If Trump manages to hold to some legislative power he may as well be celebrated as visionary 20 years down the line - especially when we see what joy and benefits diversity brings on France's streets now. But doesn't change that winning elections in democracy is not optional.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Polymarket believes blue wave, Nate silver believes blue wave, polls predict blue wave, RCP believes blue wave, rumors are that GOP insiders believe blue wave, I am pro Trump also - but I think that his absolute remarkable dumb political luck has finally ran out. A nominal majority is control when it comes to appointments and passing laws.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Second most important. The most important always will be cost of living. And the only way I could characterize the Trump foreign policy signature issue - tariffs is difunctional.
Anyone frequenting IRC in the late 90s?
Do you have any proof that the hackers were in jurisdiction in which spoiling French food is a crime?
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