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payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
I was specifically referring to pro-regime supporters inside Iran who have free internet access thanks to "white SIM cards."
payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
I don't blame you, and you're entitled to your view. However, it's easy to sit in a comfort zone and support a totalitarian regime you never experienced living under.

Have a read: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603102323 https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602031576

payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
Respectfully, I don't agree with you. There's no question that the IRGC and Iranian regime wanted to build nuclear weapons. They were planning to do this by constructing so many missile sites and launchers that no one would bother trying to stop them. Yes, the world could have done nothing and just watched, but that would have only delayed the problem and made it worse later. Just imagine what a nuclear-armed Iranian regime would do, not just to their own people but to their neighbors and the rest of the world.
payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
It’s proven time and time again that Mossad always find a way to infiltrate into even most secure Iranian network. This is mostly done to control the narrative and keep the pro regime supporters morale up.
payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
That’s not the reality. Pro regime “white simcard” people have been spreading their propaganda since start of the war on twitter, instagram and elsewhere.
payamb··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
Due to years of corruption and mismanagement, leading to high inflation and high prices most people are below poverty line and living pay check to pay check and they won’t be able to literally feed themselves
payamb··on Iran has now been offline for 96 hours
Starlink appear to be jammed too
payamb··on Iran has now been offline for 96 hours
https://xcancel.com/netblocks/status/2010750871274160361
payamb··on NASA's Europa Clipper Launch
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
payamb··on AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family
Military Radar and Sonar
payamb··on BBC Subtitle Guidelines
iPlayer on TV (across all platforms) is a generic web application, topped with a custom wrapper app (think webview) for each platform, responsible to hook platform’s native APIs to Web/JS APIs.

I’m guessing there are some complications hooking Apple TV’s native subtitles APIs to relevant web APIs, and low usage statistics doesn’t help prioritising fixing the issue. Although the rumour is that they are working on a completely new Apple TV app.

payamb··on Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
HarfBuzz is maintained by Behdad Eafahbod who _used_ to work in Google and Facebook.
payamb··on Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power
It’s not, I posted these in another thread but check these out:

https://static2.rokna.net/thumbnail/SkVEB41uf6ga/NS2RJzVApQ3...

https://cdn.yjc.ir/files/fa/news/1396/4/5/6417989_951.jpg

https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1396/...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B4%D9%...

these counters are installed in every city in Iran.

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
Let’s not forget that Iran had and possibly still have undeclared nuclear facilities

https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-u-n-inspectors-find-radioa...

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
https://static2.rokna.net/thumbnail/SkVEB41uf6ga/NS2RJzVApQ3...
payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
> It is ironic how the number decreased from 1500 to 300 in recent report

even if a single person dies, that matters.

toning it down to 300 doesn't make it look better. each one of them is a human who was killed by Iranian regime.

here is Reuters confirming that number https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-protests-specialrepo...

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
> This is a complete fabrication and lie. As bad as it gets. Iran never said it is going to wipe another country. What they said is explained clearly in detail here [1].

It's not, Iran has been saying it very publicly:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-general-salami-threatens-to...

you should be able to read Farsi, so check these 2 example out of many:

https://cdn.yjc.ir/files/fa/news/1396/4/5/6417989_951.jpg

https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1396/...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B4%D9%...

These photos show the counters installed in every city in Iran, counting down how many down days left to destroy Israel. eg wipe it off the map.

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
I usually hear this what-aboutism argument from the people who benefit from current undemocratic regime.

If another country did/do something wrong, that doesn't justify Iran's actions. everyone is responsible for their own action and the reality is current Iranian regime has killed many thousands of it's own citizens.

Iran shutting the plane down and denying for 3 days is not justifiable by any means.

out of curiosity, what is your opinion on 1500 protesters who died during 2019-2020 protests? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Iranian_prot...

should we ignore this too because Israel also killed bunch of people?

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
Current political regime the most dishonest, corrupt and dysfunctional regime you can imagine.

First thing you need to know is the government itself in Iran is nobody, Ali Khamenei has been enjoying full power and control for the past 30 years or so. Iran's president and minsters can only be appointed by Khamenei's approval.

With him being in power he needed a royal force to follow his ideology and shut down any voice of criticism, that's IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).

IRGC and Khamenei control as much as 50% of Iran's economy, from telecom to oil. needless to say they don't answer to anyone, they don't pay any taxes and Khameni itself doesn't even do any interviews with the press.

I think majority of Iranians hate the current regime as much as i do, for one, It's not possible to change it democratically. One person has all the power in country and he made a powerful force to back him up.

every time Iranians want to change the country, Khameni unleash his dogs (IRGC) and they either kill all the protestors or arrest them and sentence them to long term prison. I've been shot and spent time in Iran's political prison (Evin), my crime? participation in peaceful protests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Green_Movement)

> Would a return of the Shah be a positive thing?

Return of the Shah, reminds of me Russians who are envy of the soviet union time, because things were better at the time. I personally think democracy is the best way to go and no one person should have majority of the power.

> Do you have any fears of Israeli aggression, or would you support a peace deal

Enemy of my enemy is my friend, that's how I (and honestly majority of the people that i know) think of Israel. I think at the moment, Israel is the only country in the world stopping the regime from developing nuclear weapons and that's a good thing.

Iranians and Israelis historically have been friendly, Its only since this regime got the power that has changed, and i do understand why, because Iran has been threatening to wipe Israel off the map almost everyday.

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
Iran very much need the money. Iran will show patience as long as it's needed to unblock the money they have in foreign banks.

Once that's done, they'll use that money to make more missiles and arm the militia in middle east.

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
> Practically every nation on Earth except Iran

Including citizens of Iran.

payamb··on Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility
Iran has no other agenda other than producing nuclear bombs and I say this as an Iranian.

Iran has spent tens of billions of dollars in the past decade on what the regime's claims "peaceful nuclear power", ie to produce electricity.

meanwhile after spending tens of billions and four decades what we have is a 1000 MW nuclear power plant, and i assure you that's only a shop front so they can argue enriching uranium and making centrifuges are necessary to fuel the plant.

Iran has 2nd largest natural gas reserves in the world, because of sanctions Iran has lost lots foreign investments it needed to sell it and/or use it to generate electricity. Natural gas costs peanuts in Iran.

We could've made a deal with a foreign company and ask them to build and fuel the power plant for 1/4th of the price and 5 times the capacity like our neighbours (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant)

just in case you don't know, fuel for nuclear power plant is the cheapest item in the bill when you are building one. There is no economic benefit (and lots of disadvantage) to start from scratch and enrich your own fuel.

I don't want a regime who shuts down an airliner and deny it for 3 days have access to nuclear weapons.

do not believe a word from the regime who is killing its own people all the time. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Iranian_prot...)

payamb··on Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
Direct link to the Goldman Sachs employee’s survey https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jyeu-wvS3Z10xQ0BlMIDOkh_INo...
payamb··on Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357256507847561217
payamb··on Can We Break the 2nm Barrier in Silicon Fabrication?
No, I don’t understand the subject in depth to have arguments against it. When I don’t understand a subject in depth, I look for the source credibility to decide if it’s read worthy before going down the rabbit hole of making sense out of it.
payamb··on Can We Break the 2nm Barrier in Silicon Fabrication?
> Seyed Farhad Modaresi > Editor-in-Chief and the Owner

> High school diploma

Sounds like a credible scientific journal

payamb··on Google disabled my husband's account
What they are called?
payamb··on BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
Profits from commercial subsidiaries goes to fund the BBC budget and reduce the reliance on License fee.

For example last year BBC Studios paid £200m as dividend to the BBC.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/annualreport/...

payamb··on The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients
I’ve taken the training and I recommend it, Keep in mind though that TLS and PKI are broad subjects and covering every intermediate/advanced use case in a two days training won’t be possible. But yeah it does cover certificate chaining issues, cross signing etc.
payamb··on NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
The organisation I’m working for gets a nice %25 discount on quite a lot of AWS products
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