…just this guy, you know.
someone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of “antiquity enjoyers” are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.
once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their “history substance” feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.
indeed. a “charlie darwin” would like a word.
you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
I understand your point here, but the “both sides bad” really loses the plot when the death, destruction and suffering by the most innocent is astronomically asymmetrical.
at this juncture I don’t give a shit if every combatant is the devil himself. stop the flow of kid killing weaponry and get appropriate humanitarian aid in.
20fucking24 and we still cannot pull our thumbs out of our collective asses, put the homicidal money machine into neutral and stop mowing down kids. fuck us all, every goddamn one of us.
brutalist take, but likely the correct one :-(
asm? ha! back in my day we were hammering ones and zeros into clay tablets.
the web. where spiders are spiders, fireflies are spiders and researchers… are probably spiders.
all important1 parties to this slaughter are in perfect agreement with each other. all of this has been normal and within acceptable parameters.
1 non-Palestinians
…taking the total killed since protests began in July to at least 283.
Mobile internet was tightly restricted.
what a world. :-|
no hanging first? I like the cut of your jib!
I would say yes. I have never used a pure sinewave UPS outside of a data center situation and all of those are on-line units as opposed to line-interactive anyway. I have personally never seen an issue with stepped sine UPS units on typical pro/consumer workloads.
lots of small and mid sized shoestring budget deployments make use of “economical” (but name brand) UPS units on legit sensitive equipment without fuss.
edit to add: of course, if your mains supply is absolute garbage, then a better quality can make a difference. if utility is clean and the UPS will just be doing ocassional brown/black out duty, then I would not spend more on a sinewave UPS.
performance metrics for power supplies (a PSU as opposed to a UPS) are calculated using the regional AC sine. anything other than a pure sine is going to make the connected PSU work harder and, eventually, marginal components may fail.
having said that, stepped square, modified square, simulated sine are generally going to be perfectly fine for virtually any consumer equipment you connect to it.
cyberpower make cheap (but halfway decent) UPS units. I have used both APC and cyberpower for years without issue.
a trap at every turn.
couldnt read the whole article, but I would say, this is an “oh, fuck.” moment for a lot of people
The FBI tries and cannot unlock a recent phone. they allegedly turn to a private company for emergency access and they are in within hours(?)
I think many people should reevaluate their threat model and mitigations after this. perhaps this changes nothing for you. perhaps it changes everything for you.
We don’t have any evidence for this statement, and we can never prove the negative (that a device is absolutely secure).
does anyone have info on crooks’s phone make/model (and an OS version guess)? I have not seen this anywhere and, if it is not already in the public domain, why?
FBI says they got the phone contents in the clear. that gives some boundsfor both known (easy) potential compromises and “oh, fuck.”
edit: typo
edit 2: still no detail but I found this…
The phone was a relatively new model, which can be harder for law enforcement to access than old phones because of newer software, according to technology experts. In many federal investigations, it can take hours, weeks or months to open a suspect’s phone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/16/thomas-crooks-phone-motive-parents-trump-shooting/
unless this information is now a state secret, we may learn more.
I know this may be pedantic, but
it’s just that the newer phones are secure… For now.
that statement suggests that other recovery techniques (e.g. hardware decaping, state zero-days, etc), dont already make absolutely current devices insecure.
it would not surprise me that a TLA with physical access could not recover enclave information and completely expose naked storage in 2 days or less - its just a matter of how urgent is. a former president nearly loosing their head might count as pretty damn urgent. meddle with the us power structure and it will protect itself - if not the particular individuals.
if you noticed any power dips in your area right after the attempt on trump, that was probably the local NSA cluster firing up.
it amazes me how saudi arabia and others have benefited since September about 23 years ago.
to he that let no crisis go to waste, go the spoils.
just when you are sure this article is going to fluff out on you, it doesn’t.
I was oddly surprised at how I connected with this article. a useful read in a defining epoch.