> Please cite these things that are factually incorrect. At the top of this thread, where you said Iran did not follow the JCPOA and that they were denying access to military sites where they were doing nuclear…
Yes, I'm serious. The Persians are a proud culture and know their history. Just like a lot of other people. You don't think religion still motivates people? There have been Sunni vs Shia and Christian vs Muslim…
The IAEA also said: "In its May 2025 report, the IAEA noted Iran’s enrichment to 60% purity—beyond JCPOA limits but not prohibited under the NPT itself" [0] Apparently the Iranians started enriching to that 60% level,…
> literally no part of this sentence is accurate Let me break it down some for you, and anyone else who may be interested: 1) Iran is dictating terms Look how often Trump has changed his story on how long the war will…
I don't know how you got to "Iran probably wasn't following the treaty", when their adhereance to the JCPOA was certified by the U.S. (twice by the Trump administration [0][1]), until Trump wanted to renogiate,…
> Iran probably wasn't following the JCPOA Source?
> Just to be clear: the current situation is a huge mess caused by one deranged leader. Agreed. The situation is worse than before the U.S. attack. Iran has proven they can control the straight, threatening the world's…
Agreed, if id becomes madatory for voting then id needs to be prvided for free, otherwise it is effectively a poll tax, and poll taxes are illegal.
Ideally we'd democratically decide whether we want this or not. We can make spurrious tracking (which is usually for profit) illegal, if we want. People in former communist countries and other oppressive places often…
Crimes can be investigated without always-on survellience. Like has been done for decades. Are all these deployed cameras actually solving crimes? What are the numbers? Aren't there already a bunch of other ways to…
> It is a product of outside Chinese money being funneled into US politics to hobble the US in Artificial Intelligence Or this could be Russian propaganda, to manipulate US opinion against China in this case. What are…
Lots of people are scared of those who are different or unfamiliar. They live in their own bubble - prefering homogenous suburbs, non-poor office workers, algorithmic feeds for their cognitive biases, etc. And fear,…
Ah, I was more focused on the effectiveness as opposed to the quantity, i.e. if you have a million dollars, that could be decent way to spend it, given the world we live in. I see what you are saying - that it's not…
Sounds like enough to pay some people for some months or a year or two - a combination of experts, part-time specialists, cotractors, etc. - to do things like gather some data via their contacts, hack together a…
Russia has been trading with a number of countries[0]. Mostly China, but also significantly with India, Turkey and the EU, and in much lesser amounts with 30+ other countries, including the US, the UK, UAE, Brazil,…
> funding the conquest of Ukraine It is well known that China is still engaged in trade with Russia- oil and gold going one way, drones and weapon components going the other. But you said funding, and I assume you meant…
I'm not sure about some of the things you mentioned. Stuff like this is food for social media algorithms - "the world is ending!" But they are interesting points to think about. How much of what you said holds true in…
There were a lot of voters who didn't want those cuts. So they complain. Is that what swing voters thought they were getting? The government spends like 1000 billion on the military, a couple/few 10s of billions on aid…
So does that mean our social/political/economic system (culture) is a failure - having created the conditions for population decline (including industrialization and urbanization), but unable to survive the consequences…
> I want to see humanity live and thrive Me too. It would be nice if we, as a society, did more to prioritize that. Letting big tech psycholocally pollute everyone for profit is not helping.
> maybe you don't give a crap if today's teenagers will inhabit a horrific world with twice as many old people as society can afford to support I wouldn't say that a lower population needs to result in a horrific world.…
> no one really does audit it Isn't this article about an AI that just audited it? > not more secure than others Didnt the audit only found one bug, much less than other kernels from the same audit?
I assume those are lines of code in just the kernels. As an FYI to everyone: The OpenBSD and FreeBSD teams both maintain entire distributions, similar to Linux + Debian or Linux + Redhat. The OpenBSD team also owns a…
> you should be able to pass BT through USB I use a Creative BT-W2 bluetooth usb dongle. Small and has a button on it for pairing. OpenBSD sees it as a normal audio device.
I'd say yes. Things like increased military spending (2% of gdp, largest since the end of the cold war), buying more non-US weapon systems (like Saab's GlobalEye, instead of US AWACS), exploring other alliances (with…
> Please cite these things that are factually incorrect. At the top of this thread, where you said Iran did not follow the JCPOA and that they were denying access to military sites where they were doing nuclear…
Yes, I'm serious. The Persians are a proud culture and know their history. Just like a lot of other people. You don't think religion still motivates people? There have been Sunni vs Shia and Christian vs Muslim…
The IAEA also said: "In its May 2025 report, the IAEA noted Iran’s enrichment to 60% purity—beyond JCPOA limits but not prohibited under the NPT itself" [0] Apparently the Iranians started enriching to that 60% level,…
> literally no part of this sentence is accurate Let me break it down some for you, and anyone else who may be interested: 1) Iran is dictating terms Look how often Trump has changed his story on how long the war will…
I don't know how you got to "Iran probably wasn't following the treaty", when their adhereance to the JCPOA was certified by the U.S. (twice by the Trump administration [0][1]), until Trump wanted to renogiate,…
> Iran probably wasn't following the JCPOA Source?
> Just to be clear: the current situation is a huge mess caused by one deranged leader. Agreed. The situation is worse than before the U.S. attack. Iran has proven they can control the straight, threatening the world's…
Agreed, if id becomes madatory for voting then id needs to be prvided for free, otherwise it is effectively a poll tax, and poll taxes are illegal.
Ideally we'd democratically decide whether we want this or not. We can make spurrious tracking (which is usually for profit) illegal, if we want. People in former communist countries and other oppressive places often…
Crimes can be investigated without always-on survellience. Like has been done for decades. Are all these deployed cameras actually solving crimes? What are the numbers? Aren't there already a bunch of other ways to…
> It is a product of outside Chinese money being funneled into US politics to hobble the US in Artificial Intelligence Or this could be Russian propaganda, to manipulate US opinion against China in this case. What are…
Lots of people are scared of those who are different or unfamiliar. They live in their own bubble - prefering homogenous suburbs, non-poor office workers, algorithmic feeds for their cognitive biases, etc. And fear,…
Ah, I was more focused on the effectiveness as opposed to the quantity, i.e. if you have a million dollars, that could be decent way to spend it, given the world we live in. I see what you are saying - that it's not…
Sounds like enough to pay some people for some months or a year or two - a combination of experts, part-time specialists, cotractors, etc. - to do things like gather some data via their contacts, hack together a…
Russia has been trading with a number of countries[0]. Mostly China, but also significantly with India, Turkey and the EU, and in much lesser amounts with 30+ other countries, including the US, the UK, UAE, Brazil,…
> funding the conquest of Ukraine It is well known that China is still engaged in trade with Russia- oil and gold going one way, drones and weapon components going the other. But you said funding, and I assume you meant…
I'm not sure about some of the things you mentioned. Stuff like this is food for social media algorithms - "the world is ending!" But they are interesting points to think about. How much of what you said holds true in…
There were a lot of voters who didn't want those cuts. So they complain. Is that what swing voters thought they were getting? The government spends like 1000 billion on the military, a couple/few 10s of billions on aid…
So does that mean our social/political/economic system (culture) is a failure - having created the conditions for population decline (including industrialization and urbanization), but unable to survive the consequences…
> I want to see humanity live and thrive Me too. It would be nice if we, as a society, did more to prioritize that. Letting big tech psycholocally pollute everyone for profit is not helping.
> maybe you don't give a crap if today's teenagers will inhabit a horrific world with twice as many old people as society can afford to support I wouldn't say that a lower population needs to result in a horrific world.…
> no one really does audit it Isn't this article about an AI that just audited it? > not more secure than others Didnt the audit only found one bug, much less than other kernels from the same audit?
I assume those are lines of code in just the kernels. As an FYI to everyone: The OpenBSD and FreeBSD teams both maintain entire distributions, similar to Linux + Debian or Linux + Redhat. The OpenBSD team also owns a…
> you should be able to pass BT through USB I use a Creative BT-W2 bluetooth usb dongle. Small and has a button on it for pairing. OpenBSD sees it as a normal audio device.
I'd say yes. Things like increased military spending (2% of gdp, largest since the end of the cold war), buying more non-US weapon systems (like Saab's GlobalEye, instead of US AWACS), exploring other alliances (with…