If someone created a twitter bot right now that was able to pull old hard libertarian tweets from these people and post them as replies that would be...entertaining. Hypocrite-bot?
What is even the crime here? "This person requested a torrent link" "This person posted a torrent link". What do they expect to charge these people with, even if they could track them down? It isn't like anyone is uploading torrents directly to reddit.
On that note, is it illegal (or does your service provider send you a warning) if you download a torrent link or does there have to be proof you downloaded the actual content of the link?
I would assume they want the identities so they know who to investigate more closely. If you are commenting on a piracy sub-reddit, you are probably doing some torrenting.
Great game. I have played a similar game to death on android called Flow Free. I binge the new packs as they come out. The first game/set of puzzles was free and I have purchased and completed every new pack to optimal/5 stars. They're a few dollars each. They release big packs of puzzles with new layouts and also a daily and weekly group of puzzles. Very addicting. I actually wrote them a few years ago asking for more packs to buy. If you haven't seen it before maybe take a look because I think you could do very well with this game you have built.
> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.
I just recently read This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth which was an extremely interesting and concerning book, explaining the escalating capabilities of chained zero-day exploits to create devastating cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.
According to the book, Russia is already inside many American water treatment plants, dams, and electrical grids. This is a concerning and increasingly plausible response to the economic sanctions imposed on them by the west.
You might enjoy the book then. The tools that were built in the NSA and its contractors that are now in the hands of our enemies, combined with the shocking lack of security throughout the country is borderline terrifying. We are so vulnerable.
> This is a concerning and increasingly plausible response to the economic sanctions imposed on them by the west.
I'm not so sure about that. Certainly they could do something, but anything truly harmful draws NATO into war with Russia. Maybe they want that? But if this is part of an escalation tactic to then use nuclear weapons, at that point, well it's pointless because you're now already in a committed war with no room for further escalation except nuclear weapons; now you've lost the threat component of the weapon and only have the weapon left, but so does your adversary.
The best card for Putin to play is the threat card. Without using nuclear weapons, or by using them first, he gains the escalation initiative which forces his adversary to respond with matching or further escalatory force, which is good when your adversary doesn't want to escalate. If you go all-in, well they're automatically all-in too. The problem with cyber attacks is you're likely to draw yourself into a full-blown war that conventionally you'll definitely lose, and now there's no escalatory room anymore - essentially it calls the nuclear bluff. If you were never going to use them, now you're at a war you're definitely losing. If you were going to use them, well, that is what it, and now everyone knows and can deal with reality as-is versus guessing at it and giving you (Putin) everything you want up to that threshold.
I think this was the point of a comment by Biden (or someone else?) a couple of weeks ago about the US offensive cyber capability. I think it was a reminder: We're not slouches at this. We can attack you, too, and we can do at least as much damage as you can. Don't open that door.
And so far, Russia hasn't opened it, at least not blatantly.
A bit of a woo-woo aside but I've been trying to practice more gratitude thinking in my daily life and the grocery store is an easy place to be reminded of how good we have it.
Practicing gratitude is probably the single easiest way to increase one's happiness, and yet it's so easy to forget to do it even if you know that. At least for me.
One thing we can do is keep a gratitude journal where we write down things we're grateful for. Can literally be grateful for the sun shining, or not experiencing an earthquake, for having the ability to write in a journal in the first place, etc.
It may be a miracle of logistics when ignoring negative externalities like carbon cost vs not shipping it halfway across the globe. Why can’t we eat seasonally? It usually tastes better and makes things less monotonous
I'm a believer that the largest part of what led Yeltsin to fundamentally change what it was, and thus cause the dissolution of the USSR, was his impromptu grocery store visit in the US.
I can confirm that vanced had Google/YT eyes on it for many years now, or at least that someone I know on the Ad abuse team at Google was talking about them finding ways to stop vanced for years now.
Hiding the news behind paywalls means only people with money get to be well informed. Is this not "hacker" news? Seems like a lot of well-paid people forgot where they came from.
I love this extension. It works very well. I use it to browse 20-30 different sites a month. It would cost hundreds of dollars to individually subscribe to each publication.
You want people to pay for everything? Go "disrupt" the industry and create a spotify for news.
