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Intentions.

The first is a conscious decision, the second is not.

JiaT75 also used "jiatan" on Libera.Chat using a Singapore IP address (possibly a proxy/VPN).

This particular file was described as an archive file with corrupted data somewhere in the middle. Assuming you wanted to scroll that far through a hexdump of it, there could be pretty much any data in there without being suspicious.

Or they have just one or a small number of targets, but don’t want the target(s) to know that they were the only target(s), so they backdoor a large number of victims to “hide in the crowd”.

I agree that this is likely a state actor, or at least a very large & wealthy private actor who can play the long game…

You would think so, but then I just read about eBay executives sending cockroaches & spiders, funeral/grieving-related items and a bloody pig mask to a couple that wrote some not-so-positive reviews about that company…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/11/ebay-fine...

FreePascal is pretty good but could be better with more manpower; Lazarus never was as good as Delphi GUI-wise, and hasn't been updated for modern GUI toolkits, so (unfortunately) it's almost obsolete by now.

A 1-person company beating IBM & Microsoft really...

You can still run it on qemu (even on ARM).

I still have a (translated) copy of that book!

This part of Zeiss probably wouldn't exist without ASML, and maybe one day when next-gen tech is out tbe exclusivity might be lifted...

IIRC there is also some IMEC research in those ASML machines (which might also have been partially EU funded)?

It's like only a couple companies know how to build large jet engines that don't melt when the heat inside them is way above the melting point of their materials...

One problem there is that if you come out swinging before most people see it too, you will be accused of being jealous, not qualified, etc. And you will be fired instead...

There is also launch windows etc. Not everyone can or wants to wait forever.

And IIRC Ariane 6 can also bring up somewhat heavier payloads because they launch from closer to the equator?

Sounds like it might be illegal too...

there might be circumstances where it is price competitive in the market (certainly when launched from Kourou vs. the US).

In fact, F-Droid is infinitely better than Google's own app store, where almost all apps contain spyware...

About 99.9% of apps in the Google Play Store contain spyware (and I doubt it's much better in Apple's store?).

That's only true for some Android application stores.

That's possible with F-Droid (& Aurora Store, I think).

The legal term is abuse of a dominant market position, which does not only apply to pure monopolies ...

Right now, top quality steel bike frames at the minimum bike weight allowed by the UCI are stronger than top quality carbon fibre bike frames of the same weight. Aluminum frames of the same weight would not be considered usable probably... (Pro cyclists would still use carbon fibre bikes because they can be made more aerodynamic).

What do you mean? My Android phone does IPv6?

It probably depends highly on what you feed them...

Uzbek is a language related to Turkish...

that's what oven mits or pot holders are for...

But that's what I mean: lots of ISPs have supported IPv6 for 1-2 decades. Most hardware & software already supported it a decade ago, and nobody should be using anything that old without updates. The only reason for an ISP today to not provide it is incompetence.

Two decades ago I was a member of a ISP consumer group, and we discussed it with a couple ISPs back then. They all were working on a planning for it (one smaller ISP even already implemented it back then!). Apparently in other countries ISPs were allowed to behave irresponsibly.

Really, the only way to force such incompetent ISPs out is if governments get involved, or if all/most backbone providers and IX operators set a date where IPv4 will become very expensive, and then one where it will be switched off...

Latin (and ancient Greek) didn't have dedicated symbols for numbers, but at sone point the Romans started using a shorthand system based on existing alphabetic symbols, which we now call "Roman numerals".

It's quite possible the "I"s started out as just a line to mark one item before the shorthand was developed, but certainly over time it became identified to capital "I".

Turkey has a lot of cheap draftees, but not so much otherwise. IIRC Sweden's military budget is double (or more?) that of Turkey, for example...

When you throw all credible newspaper editors/owners and many credible opposition politicians in prison based on made-up charges, like Erdogan has done, there can't be fair & democratic elections.