I'm happy for Snowden, he seems like a decent person willing to take a stand for what is right and face all the negative outcomes from exposing crimes within an organisation.
Blowing the whistle completely upended his life. Anyone in his shoes would've made the same decision to leave because being tried under the Espionage Act would've yielded a guaranteed life sentence. People have a right to flee tyranny, wherever it is.
Snowden does not flee the tyranny of Russia, who would have certainly pursued poisoning him if the roles had been reversed.
It looks as though Russia and possibly China have a documented history of targeting westerners with remote energy weapons. This is tyranny. USA doesn't poison nor assassinate its traitors, certainly not to the degree of our global counterparts -- much less do we not point microwave weapons at foreign diplomats. [1]
Snowden's defecting is a larger statement about US hegemony, one upon which China has freely capitalized. A justified fear is that true tyranny will result from a long term outcome favorable to China. Snowden's treason was a step in the right direction to dismantle US hegemony.
The US's treatment of Manning has sent the very clear signal that the next person who wants to leak classified documents had better have a speedboat to Vladivostok waiting for them.
I obviously don't think Manning was treated well, but she is an clear example that Snowden wasn't facing "a guaranteed life sentence". Being overly hyperbolic does nothing but lessen the perceived severity of a punishment that would already appear extreme if stated completely honestly.
If you were an "isolationist" with prepping tendencies would you prefer your car to run on oil that needs to be highly refined or electricity, potentially generated in a thousand different ways?
An electric motor doesn't really _need_ all the electronics they're just there for optimisation and comfort.
If The Shit Hits The Fan for reals, you can just plug in any power source to an electric motor and make it go. Adjusting power can be done with really simple electronic connections. Just an on/off switch will do in a pinch.
Good luck trying to find a head gasket for a certain model of ICE though =)
> An electric motor doesn't really _need_ all the electronics
These ones do. You're probably thinking of brushed motors, like the kind you can buy at Radio Shack as "hobby motors". EVs typically run brushless or induction motors, which require sensors and electronics to time the power to each coil.
So, perhaps OnlyFans as a platform makes it easy, both in a logistical sense and a psychological one, to support creators you like with a recurring commitment.
Are there any open-source platforms that nail both of those factors?
It's a bit scary how many people here are taking Vitamin D supplements. Unless you live in high latitudes just a bit of direct sunlight daily is more than enough, supplementation for the average person is rarely ever needed barring some genetic disorders or lifestyle factors.
Plus you get all the additional benefits of the great outdoors!
The problem is that all that good sun is out when I'm working during winter season. The only way to go for a walk in the sun is to take a long break, and even then I'm going to be wrapped in a thick coat, hat soon, without much skin exposed.
- Make sure you either never have trailing slash or always have trailing slash (make sure you have canonical pages and redirects as little as possible)
- Have canonical pages
- Don't trust code you haven't read/don't understand
- Make sure you view changes you make and that they are actually made when you think they are
- Make sure what you want to be rendered on the page is actually rendered
- Write tests
Seems like a bunch of tips for people who are just starting out with web development, to not miss the most obvious problems. How this post is currently on the top of the front page will forever be a question for me. I'm glad more people are discovering SEO and it's importance, but this guide is specifically for one technology and are general tips about development rather than SEO really.
You pull the tails usb out and it does a far better job, this is shit software aimed at people with shit practices and there's simply no nice or pleasant way to say it.
Just fucking use tails if you are a terrorist intent on murdering billions of people.
If you're that ambitious of a terrorist you have faceless minions to travel to internet cafes in distant locations and access the internet for you. Using Tails wouldn't do a damn thing for such a high-profile target, though; Osama bin Laden didn't have interwebs at all in Abbottabad, and the US government still dropped in for a visit.
This is unjustly harsh. At least it's got tangible benefits and customers without harming a soul. GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.
I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)
> This is unjustly harsh. At least it's got tangible benefits and customers without harming a soul. GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.
> I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)
> [...] GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.
Well, not that I necessarily agree with the decision (I'm undecided), but one point in favor of only giving access to the model via an API rather than releasing it, is that the use can be monitored and hopefully "weaponization" will be either noticed or detected[0].
It would be pretty interesting if OpenAI eventually provided an external "ML API abuse monitoring" service, but one problem I haven't figured out a solution to is that when providing such a service, the goals of "reducing harmful use" and of "slowing the arms race"[1] (which are both valid goals) are somewhat opposed. I'm still thinking about that.[2]
[0] Using ML to detect harmful uses of an ML API would be a quite interesting research topic, and quite in line with OpenAI's stated mission, but gathering the necessary data set for training purposes may require allowing harmful use of the API in the first place (though I have thought of a few ways to mitigate those risks and limit the actual harm).
[1] http://xkcd.com/810/ is amusing, but misses the point. Spammers aren't just attempting to evade filters, but also trying to accomplish their goal, so inadvertently training a bot capable of writing an apparently constructive comment that successfully sneaks a spam link through to be clicked on and/or indexed isn't exactly a win for the good guys.
[2] I wouldn't be surprised in the least if a GAN-like social deception arms-race (especially since the same networks have to serve as both generator and discriminator) was the proximate cause of the Upper Paleolithic Revolution.
Agree with everything you've said here except for:
> I personally don't see how allowing users to manually disable automatic updates makes a product any more secure
There's tangible security benefits allowing users to update at will, not everyone lives in the same world or faces the same threats, a gay peace activist in Azerbaijan doesn't live the same life as a software developer in Atherton, CA.
A simple notification of security updates is sufficient for the most part to ride ahead of the never-ending wave of vulnerabilities.
Having the simple choice to do so is quite desirable for many people.
