[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I will just remind yall that an state in the EU has admitted to having access to the Pegasus spyware.

Pegasus is a program that is used by services combating crime and corruption in many countries...It would be bad if the Polish services did not have this type of tool

- Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party as quoted by the Verge (first article I found)

He is also quoted as saying that claims that Pegasus had been used against political opponents are "utter nonsense".

The Polish controversy was started when the spyware was found on a opposition members phone.

The Law and Justice party, according to polls (and some Poles), is set to win the largest number of seats in tomorrows election, though they might struggle to form a government.

We are doomed aren't we.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

But if you're an actual criminal, then there is this solution here that can never be subject to this ruling.

To be fair, AFAIK criminals often use insecure means of communication already so my guess is that this will result in more criminals not putting in the effort to set up/use an encrypted communication network.

However this is 1. probably not something any person who made that law knew 2. a bullshit excuse anyway.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly I use both on my phone via RethinkDNS, which also can act as a firewall.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

what softwaregore?

(55.2GB−41.3GB)/0b/s > 1y

(in reality it most likely weighs in past transfer rates a bit, so the transfer speed it uses is likely higher than zero.)

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think comparing communism with fasism, at least when it comes to exterminating ethnic minorities is accurate. this is an opinion shared by academics, including coauthors of "The Black Book of Communism" (the book which claims communism killed 80M-100M people, though the upper end of the range is the one which has more attention. this number is disputed, again also by coauthors)

I could explain why I believe you shouldn't do this in my own words, but I will use the words of Nicolas Werth, one of the three main coauthors who distanced themselves from the book:

Death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union.

and

The more you compare Communism and Nazism, the more the differences are obvious.

Another quote I will give is from Amir Weiner an American historian and associate professor of Soviet history at Stanford University who wrote:

[w]hen Stalin's successors opened the gates of the Gulag, they allowed 3 million inmates to return home. When the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, they found thousands of human skeletons barely alive awaiting what they knew to be inevitable execution.

I sourced these quotes from Wikipedia: "The Black Book of Communism", references 19 and 14.

My point isn't to say the Soviet Union, or other states which had or have Marxist-Leninist governments are without critique, but that comparing them to the III Reich, at the very least diminishes the crimes committed by Nazis and makes analysis of the aforementioned States more muddy.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I am kinda skeptical as zig has admitted to using sockpuppets and retracted their statement which doesn't sit well with me.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

How I experience aphantasia is as not being able to maintain an image. However I have good spacial imagination.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a serious note, if I'm not mistaken, most cases of Tor users identity being uncovered is via information the user either unintentionally leaving information public, or privately told another user, which was made public due to a betrayal or a security breach.

In most other cases involve security flaws in Tor clients not the network, again if I'm not mistaken.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Honestly I felt kinda similarly to you when it comes to Java and Microsoft Java aka C#, but I found I was able to code in it with not that much struggle.

Not sure if you know python, but I feel like objects in C# are similar to python objects. You have to use the new keyword when you initialize a object though for some reason. Also PascalCase is used everywhere for some reason.

One of the largest gotchas for me was the char type being unsigned.

I found Microsofts docs to be quite easy to work with honestly.

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Simple: they live in doom

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only that but its an instance of so called "adventurism". Such an action wouldn't achieve much for a cause, if there is not (as shown in the movies) a larger movement behind it. The book which the film is vaguely based on and which it took the title from, makes a good argument for environment activists to move from peaceful demonstrations to destroying property (see the video I linked for a better explanation). As shown in the movie, not only is it an environmental disaster, but you gave fuel to reactionary forces

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Sorry, but why should the average Russian pay such a toll for decisions made at the top?

Like I understand reparations, especially as modern warfare is quite damaging to civilian architecture (even when it is not explicitly targeted), but cutting back all social spending will make the situation in Russia even worse than it is now and it will be deeply unpopular.

Like I'm not trying to argue with you, I just want to understand why you think this way.

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