regnull

Having duplication does not mean your code is not clean. Sometimes, having duplication is actually cleaner, and easier to understand. Removing duplication may introduce complexities, and force developers to untangle the additional logic that was introduced to remove dupes. Good duplication means code just happened to be the same in a few places (but it can be potentially different). It's fine and easy to read. On the other hand, you may have code that MUST be the same in a few places, and updating it in one place but not others would break stuff. Those dupes must be removed.

Having worked for a similar company, I remember there were some good old IRC servers up and running to communicate in an emergency just like that.

> Its built in mexico

???

MINI’s manufacturing home is in Oxford, England, on the same site where cars have been produced for over 100 years. In addition to Plant Oxford, some MINI vehicles are assembled at the VDL NedCar plant in the city of Born in the Netherlands, and at the Magna Steyr facility in Graz, Austria.

https://www.miniusa.com/footer-navigation/faq/faq-slide-8.ht...

It's not stored. It's only displayed to you. You can also do the same thing on the command line on your machine, so no information ever leaves your hands.

Ubikom is free, open-source email framework based on the concept of Self-Sovereign Identity. You own your identity (which, in this case, means your private key), and all the outgoing and incoming messages are encrypted and signed by default. It works with any email clients that support POP3 and SMTP.

I read a lot of Lem when I was a kid. Solaris is great, it was definitely one of my favorites. Here's another one that I liked a lot: Return from the stars. It's funny how he predicted a lot of modern technology spot on, but his hero goes to a post office to send a telegram to his friend on another continent.

The only good answer to this is end-to-end encryption, keys held by the individuals, and full decentralization. You must not put your private communications into the hands of any company, as great as they are.

Literally every other company does this. I'm not sure what is the story here - the lawyers are coaching the employees not to put anything that can be used against the company in writing? The author tried to make it about Google for whatever reason.

Citation needed. And I got one for you.

"The mission of the National Ignition Facility ib to achieve ignition and gain in ICF targets in the laboratory. The facility will be used for defense applications such as weapons physics and weapons effect testing, and for civilian application, such as fusion energy development and fundamental studies of matter at high temperatures and densities. This paper reviews the design, schedule and costs associated with the construction project."

So, "fusion energy development". It's sorta both.

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

> The solution is to build new technologies that are privacy preserving, transparent, don’t place trust in a central authority but are resistant to attack.

I actually completely agree with this.

> This is possible but nobody has built it yet.

Doesn't mean we should stop trying. Here's my $0.02 - I've been building an email solution based on Self-Sovereign Identity ideas, still in progress, but check it out: https://ubikom.cc or https://github.com/regnull/ubikom

The solution is to go back to the original spirit of the Internet, when it was a set of open standards connecting people and organizations. Somehow it got forgotten and now we have a bunch of commercial companies giving you the same stuff in exchange for your privacy and who increasingly control everything you do.

People must be able to exchange information in a secure and private way, free of government or corporate censorship. The fact that there is no common, simple, and ubiquitous way to exchange private messages blows my mind. I wish someone would do something about it.

Oh wait, I did! Here's my attempt to implement email based on Self-Sovereign Identity: https://github.com/regnull/ubikom and https://ubikom.cc

Still work in progress, but it's fully functional. There are no accounts or domains - private key ownership is all we need.

Or maybe not censure it at all? Maybe say "Thanks, but no thanks" to the CCP?

That's a perfectly good explanation, apart from the fact that an American company does censorship for Chinese government. If it's "inside China" doesn't make it better.

Shameless plug time! I'm working on 100% encrypted/authenticated email based on Self-Sovereign Identity and decentralized key registry, check it out at https://github.com/regnull/ubikom

Lots of things went wrong in 1971: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

PlantUML looks great, all the features I need, but their page is infested with fake ads, including fake download buttons of 5 different kinds. They also link to download page on SourceForge (hmmm, it's still alive) with even worse ads. Maybe it just me, but I immediately lost any desire to try it.

Ah, the "report circulating in the Kremlin today". Has to be true.

Wow, 56 items on the list? Seems like throw them all on the wall and see what sticks case.

I hope you are right - but to me it sounds like the "why" question is the key to the whole story, so they need to investigate it first. And they mentioned that in the next episode they will talk about the search efforts. As for the time of day he was captured - I might be wrong, but wasn't he walking it the dark looking for flashlights and listening to radio chatter just before that?

I was surprised that the journalists didn't drill into "terrible situation in his unit" claims. They just let it slide completely - and this is the key to the whole story. Why the situation was so bad? Also, I found his story full of WTFs - he's afraid to go back to his base after his escape, but then he decides to go and capture some bad guys (armed only with knife), but then he just surrenders to a bunch of taliban who somehow manage to locate him walking in the middle of the desert at night. I was really disappointed in this episode, they just left lots of BS unchallenged.