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brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

It is a very weak ideological motivation for people who would never enlist in the first place.

However, I think people are generally too cynical towards a very real belief system. There are multiple examples of US pushing for democracy against its own interest. Bush with the Hamas Gaza elections, Obama with the Egypt Muslim Brotherhood government and Carter with pre-revolution Iran are such examples

brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/make-a-molotov-cockta...

That's a better source I found, does not call the phenomenon lucky strike though

brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Sounds like a good tip if someone wants to find themselves in jail

brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

That's probably false as you can see historically that ideological armies have far better morale and better effectiveness

brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Haven't found a lot about it online, other than https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7786/artykul/3438674,russian...

Do you have any references about it?

This is very reminiscent of Iranian intelligence modus operandi in Israel and world wide lately, currently with not a lot to show for

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/06/how-iran-sough...

brepppon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

That's an interesting theory and I am not saying you are entirely incorrect, but I'd imagine that the vast personnel of cyber-adjacent roles in the US Military have better civilian prospects in tech than a Air Force pilot with an eye problem.

brepppon Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

It's nice it is able to write non-slop in the PR comment when social engineering.

Any chance I can ask it to social engineer to get a normal style?

brepppon Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

He is right, when a startup becomes successful the hiring pool becomes different. For example, you won't see people who came for politics-sake before real money is on the table.

This can kill the culture and make the actual people that were shipping unhappy

brepppon Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

If it's any solace the privacy violating ones are also slow

brepppon More German than many Germans

The Prussians nobles were a big reason why the Nazis rose to power and were well integrated to the party and the army.

The Prussians losing power is not the reason why Germany changed, but because Germany changed its values (militarism wasn't sacred anymore) the Prussians lost power post-war.

That change was a change in the collective opinions of the entire country, and that did not happen because the allies took everyone to school but because people saw the effect of that ideology and the disaster with their own eyes, and their decision was not the same decision they collectively reached post-WW1

brepppon U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

They are mainly using the known fact that there's no chance in hell that the US will invade Iran with ground forces. They also previously negotiated as if this war would never start, so they might make a mistake as this is Trump after all.

In any case, Iran is not in a prime position either, it has many economic assets that can be completely destroyed as it has no air defense and then leave them in a much worse situation, while the only real damage they can do to the US is by attacking their own neighbors

brepppon Apple is getting this wrong

Not here at least

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama

brepppon U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

They have been preparing for 50 years yet lost all their leadership, nuclear facilities, ballistic missile manufacturing ecosystem and air defenses in minutes to days.

The US is not doing amazing in this war but no need to give the Iranians too much credit. The Iranians are expanding a lot of resources of their own as much as this war drags on.

It is still very early to say how a country will fare considering that it ran out of water and was on a verge of economic breakdown and revolt before fighting a prolonged war with economic blockade of its main export.

brepppon More German than many Germans

Yes, and the founding belief of corruption is that, "that's the way it works", "everybody does it", "this can never change".

That essentialism is exactly the notion the poster I was replying to was echoing

Western countries were also corrupt at a time, bribery was common, yet things can change

brepppon More German than many Germans

Why? Do you think a country is going to improve if anyone with potential like the OP would move to the West?

I haven't suggested someone should wait it out, but the notion that nothing can ever change because it's "culture" sounds absurd to me and as an excuse to not try

brepppon Apple is getting this wrong

I see it as the Anti-AI aesthetic. When you write using this style it is obvious this isn't LLM generated and you signal this is well thought out.

If you noticed Sam Altman's latest posts he moved to all lower case, including "I", which I see as due to the same reason

brepppon More German than many Germans

The way I see it is the cultural change happened after the Prussian elites lost power and the general German public understood their recent history as far from the eternal victory they were promised. That's a major cultural change however you want to spin it, and there are enough examples in history where countries haven't gone through the same changes in similar situations (Weimar Republic also comes to mind)

Regarding the current day pacifist state of Germany, in my mind it is still very drastic anti-militaristic compared to the vast majority of the world.

Regarding corruption, countries changed drastically during the 20th century due to ideologies and individual action, sometimes resulting in disaster but also often not. Trying to say nothing can change is a defeatist deterministic attitude that has no anchor in recent history.

Presuming we are talking about migration, most of these source countries were able to fight and win European colonization in the past, why do you think that's easier than fighting corruption?

brepppon More German than many Germans

> I cannot change that, it's part of the culture, it annoyed me to no end, and my individual actions didn't matter at all while making my life harder.

That's never true, countries changed extremely, also cultural-wise. If talking Germany the basic example is changing from a very militaristic society (far before the Nazis) to a rather pacifist society.

If talking corruption, my own country has progressively became far less corrupt over my lifetime

brepppon Google kills Earth AI generator after one day

The issue here is probably because you need to show how your work relates to AI to get promoted

brepppon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Yes, using a warrant from a court. If the government wants to break into my house they can also do that with a warrant. Not exactly the same as having a key to my house though, and very far from a malware.

Also to be more specific, In apple ecosystem I can opt for encryption where they can't

brepppon Thousands of People break through border separating Morocco from Spain's Ceuta

Algeria used to be France, not just a "territory they are keeping".

So we have an overseas territory in another continent whose acquisition literally marked the beginning of the age of colonization. Sounds like a colony

brepppon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

As far as I remember they mandate you connect to it in order for you to operate it.

We all know why, which is Adtech, but like cars or smart TVs, you as a customer either skip the entire segment or yield.

brepppon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

I have, I still have not heard how the US government uses these as malware, but I would love to learn something new

brepppon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

You'd have to be a bit more specific of which government malware you found in Android/iOS devices, cause that would be interesting

brepppon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

You assume a lot of things, sometimes you have to connect it to the internet for it to work (such as robovacuums)

brepppon Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore

Iraqi Jews had other stories of food migration.

For example there is the curious fact where due to Iraqi Jews the falafel in Israel has Amba as a condiment, originally an Indian mango chutney

brepppon The Productivity Mirage

I think the most obvious aspect of this is that obsessingly customizing your environment for productivity is usually a sign of lack of focus and procrastination. So this story is not surprising

In the AI world you see it with the overly elaborate prompt markdown files where my agent gives performance reviews to 4 teams of agents each with its own quirky personality traits

brepppon Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)

Intent is a major part of a crime severity, and it's hard to attribute intent to OpenAI here

brepppon I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated

The issue is which time signature do you trust without selecting an SSID, maybe by power? But I agree this can be an issue albeit small one in my opinion

brepppon I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated

I assume you don't need to implement a full network stack just to read a discovery packet and it would be easy to add to future wifi routers