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tremonon AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

You're not protecting democracy either by letting people vote on a party that aims to undermine said democracy.

I don't think tux was ever included in the mainline kernel. It was closer to a proof-of-concept than a serious http server alternative.

tremonon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

It is nonsensical to ask someone to define the terms they're using?

tremonon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

I see you willfully ignored my second question. Let me guess, the bogeymen you're referring to include the ones eating the cats and dogs, but exclude the ones eating the babies? If you want to be heard, it would benefit you to make an actual coherent argument instead of just some vapid handwaving.

tremonon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

You think this domestic spy program will help dismantle "internationalist oligarchs"? Can you explain who those people are, and how this program will further that goal?

tremonon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

Bernie Sanders.

tremonon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

How many Americans have guns and actually oppose this government? Remember that only 32% actually voted for the "other guy", and I suspect the other 68% carry more guns on average than that 32%. Plus, they've already deputized many of those in defense of the regime (through ICE) and released and/or shielded many others (through pardons).

tremonon Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

coop :: a pen for holding animals of the aviary persuasion

coupe :: style of dessert with ice cream

coupé :: a car model with only two passenger doors

tremonon Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

How many computing operations occurred during the creation of Toy Story? Are you telling me they did not control every single one of them?

tremonon Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

> their actions [..] were motivated by wanting to cover up cheating after cheating to pass an eval.

Which to me raises another question: why is the agent involved in its own evaluation? Why are they relying on self-reporting instead of observation and analysis?

tremonon Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

Not even that is required, you just need one other person that has both numbers linked to the same contact on their phone.

tremonon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

This is a category error. "memory" is not a computer, so the existence of ECC proves nothing about computers. Concrete is not deterministic in the real world either, and we're still able to control the shape of structures and make them last for centuries.

tremonon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Engineering is the science of quantifying risks and costs. If you're not able to quantify the important aspects of a design before constructing it, it's not engineering.

tremonon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

Where does it say it is a sans-serif font? The very first full sentence on the page starts with "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family", just like the title here says "sans-serif and slab-serif".

tremonon Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

That link [1] is an absolutely awful page from a usability perspective. There's no other way to navigate the site than with the scroll wheel, and the amount of scrolling required makes my finger hurt before I've even reached the end of the first segment. It also has no anchors and does not remember reading position when refreshing or navigating back.

tremonon Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

> These systems are internet connected and remotely controllable because [reasons]

I understand why it's beneficial to have these systems connected to a network. You have not explained why that network has to be the Internet, and TFA is one reason why it shouldn't be.

tremonon Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

> Google Maps, Google Pay

That's not the Android experience, that's the Google experience.

tremonon US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

That's because many laws already in place don't take effect until 2027. They purposely delayed their activation until after the midterms.

tremonon US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

By your numbers, 31.8% of eligible voters actively voted in favor of fascism, and 36.3% of eligible voters chose to let it happen. That's 68.1% of voters that allowed your country to be turned into a shithole.

tremonon Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

Not categorically though: an infinite loop does not contain a branch.

tremonon Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks

That's not a reason for omitting the link to the original source. If anything, it would help illustrate the value of science journalism/reporting.

tremonon Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

Why would having a reputation be a good thing? Aren't these organizations supposed to operate under the radar?

tremonon The future of independence is interdependence

When children are older, they take care of their parents and grandparents

Not around here; many parents and grandparents are put away in care homes. The tax code even penalizes multiple generations living together as many elderly benefits are conditional on total household income.

tremonon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

> the term hogshead fell out of use after The Netherlands converted to the metric system in 1816

Do you have a slightly more recent example?

tremonon ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

It doesn't. There already exist fully-European payment systems and those did not help at all, because they are still operated by banks and other institutions that are vulnerable to the effects of US sanctions. The Digital Euro would be no different.

The only working solution would be to shield European payment processors from US sanctions, and that means fully divesting from the USA.

tremonon Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

The actual thing you'd attack with a hash collision is the blob object, not the tree object, right? The tree object has a rigid structure and git will throw a fit if you add non-functional data to modify its hash. Source code files have comments which make it much easier to manipulate the hash.

tremonon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

That was not the original claim. The original claim was "border agents never ask creepy questions to returning Polish citizens".

tremonon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

And all were denied because of the same problem: laundering russian money.

tremonon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

> international treaties that establish a supranational court system should not exist

The first "supranational" court system was created with the USA fully on-board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremburg_trials

In fact, they liked it so much that they re-enacted it at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequent_Nuremberg_trials

tremonon Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second

Yes, your proposal would have been an acceptable approach in 1990. Instead, we have been happily increasing our CO₂ emissions every year since then*. No, we no longer want diversity in the power grid; "reasonable" solutions don't move the needle. Even if the entire world would go carbon zero overnight, the global temperature would continue to rise for decades before settling around a new steady state. It's not a matter of holding out a bit longer for tomorrow's magical solution: every piece of fossil fuel burned today makes the planet more unlivable tomorrow.

We are currently on track to reach the "climate-compatible" scenario of the Paris accords (+1.5°C climate increase by 2100) in 2030. We will exceed the "minor change" scenario (+2°C) in 2050. Those targets are already locked in, they are unavoidable because of the delay between CO₂ emissions and their full effect. Maintaining our current levels of emissions gets us to 3.5°C above historic averages in 2100, which is the lower end of the disaster scenario in the Paris accords.

https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha...

* except for a short drop in 2020 due to Covid. You may not like it, but that is what full climate change mitigation looks like today because we didn't act sooner.