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brepppon Gemini 4 Carbon

Should have gone with Chromium

brepppon Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

It had an aura precisely because journalists were the arbitrators of truth, so denial of real information elevated it

brepppon Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

If you want to at least appreciate the irony, the above mentioned state of the media is largely due to Google

brepppon Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

Actually happened when internet went down in Iran

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Jews, you can search for her statements regarding Jews, they are many and span at least a decade back

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/overview

There are more than 300k civilian deaths attributed to the period.

The Gaza figures include military deaths, civilian deaths including killed by Hamas, and even natural deaths, it is more comparable to the 1 million number and due to its use of natural deaths it is even overcounted compared to the 9/11 number, (I am deliberately ignoring the 4+ million indirect deaths number quoted on brown)

brepppon Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

I actually think this is going to get progressively better.

It's easier than ever today with LLMs to find bugs in the firmware and get complete trace of what's they are sending and shame these companies.

The next phase for the technically inclined is to patch these appliances and remove the collection, also possible today

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

I don't know, an example, Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese spreading nazi era conspiracy theories about Jews controlling political systems.

And that's from a human rights body, and from its representative to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

the UNHR is comically biased against Israel though and controlled by totalitarian countries with less than stellar human rights records

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

That ended in a million dead over bi-partisan 20 years of war. Without 9/11 including massive hostage taking, rape or mass murder with torture in people homes.

The other main difference is that 9/11 ended within a few days, the hostage part of 7/10 made it an ongoing disaster for years in Israel.

brepppon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

That's a very flat take. That ignores the fact that the doctor that saw the prisoner reported it for investigation or that the military had chose to prosecute it, also you don't mention this was one case, not "systematic"

Even ignoring the fact that protests do not imply popular support, there is no comparison as 9/11 did not include widespread sexual violence and ongoing hostage rape was still going on at the time this happened.

So even if this seemed terrible to most Israelis, it was hard to find someone who will publicly defend a rapist from rape in jail

brepppon U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

yes, that's exactly my point

brepppon Stop Making TUIs

TUI and Rust surged back in popularity when programmers through frameworks became detached from the actual work and needing to differentiate from all others in the even playing field. It's like turntables to Hipsters. Now with LLMs it is only going to get worse.

brepppon The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful

It's just a rehash of the good Google+ days. This time instead of get your money for stamping social on everything, it's AI

brepppon Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

You probably should have taken the kid to small claims, that was extortion

brepppon In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

Not sure what's the historical validity for that one source saying it was fraudulent, but this sure reads like anachronism. As someone that tries to defend him being part of selling ballistic missiles to Iran a very short time before it turning into a theocracy.

I am not completely inclined to believe Bergman because of me personally knowing one case where he published something completely wrong, and also this doesn't align with the cooperation Israel had with pre-revolution Iran.

In any case, it's theoretically possible, I guess

brepppon In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

Where's the part about deceiving in the link? Aren't you conflating Iran-Contra that happened after the revolution?

brepppon Pixel Watch 5

Not tracking every minute of REM sleep isn't going to change either, the unimportance of the data is not what they are selling though

brepppon Pixel Watch 5

> I don't get the people that need to wear it 24/7 for days at a time.

I think that's kinda expected when the device itself is supposed to give you the illusion it is always there tracking your health (even when sleeping)

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

I have to say that just like the poster you are replying to, I am inclined to believe what you are saying because of Russia's past actions, and this modus operandi you described being successful elsewhere

However, he is right that I would want a bit more information about the multiple assassinations in NATO part, because I want to believe we are not there yet, and that this would have implications, even in today's Europe

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

I'm not sure how is that related to the original topic.

The events I am describing are a decade to two before the ones you are describing. Back in the early 2000s Qatar was already financing Hamas as well as Al Qaeda (including involvement in 9/11 financing) and Hezbollah in some extent.

Saying Qatar needed Israel's request to start financing ideologically close Islamist terror organizations is certainly the Qatar government line for their involvement, but it's a very shallow analysis of what happened

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

> Now this sounds like a joke.

OP alluded to the Euromaiden protests being an orchestrated Obama-led coup. I still don't see how this is the case. There's some difference between diplomatic reactions to proactive overthrow

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

> Hamas has the influence it has because the US wants it to have it

I doubt this is backed by US intentions and actions historically

> Similarly, Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood because he did

That seems like a tautology to me, care to expand? I vividly remember Obama throwing his autocrat ally under the bus

> in Ukraine for instance the same admin supported a coup

The protests in Ukraine hardly seem like a US coup and were organic according to my understanding, but maybe you can point exactly to the US involvement

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?