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If they run enough nodes to deanonymize users, it's a dagger through the heart of other intelligence services, but an absolute blessing for the NSA


Hmmm almost like whoever has a head start and unlimited finances and resources due to being the reserve currency could have done exactly that.


For very obvious reasons you don't need to run any nodes, craft any malware, or scrutinize a target's layer 3+ OPSEC, in order to break Tor. You simply go to tier 1 ISPs and buy up IP datagram headers going to/from entry nodes and you win. The only solution is a constant rate of fake traffic to the guard node.


I'm not a programmer either. I just started running Linux out of curiosity, followed a few "copy-paste this into your terminal" guides, eventually got the hang of it and now I do almost everything in it.

It both is and isn't "a whole language". Most commands just execute a single program with options and/or arguments, except you don't have the overhead of opening a GUI, finding the right dropdown menu, etc. You quickly start to pick it up like you would a spoken language, remembering the "words" for actions, and it becomes a very natural way to think.

IMO the biggest stumbling block is just learning how to type efficiently. This includes knowing about tab completion, history search, putting stuff in your .bashrc and so on.


If pdftk can't do it, then inkscape scripts probably can.


Inkscape is an interesting possibility, I didn't realize they had scripting like that. Thanks!


/ʒif/


If all that matters is to recognize the best team, then why bother with a knockoit stage, or even a world cup tournament? Just collate stats. The point is to play the game, and if both teams are evenly matched in regular play, to move to an acceptable tiebreaker so that someone wins. France has still come a very close 2nd place, which the tournament does reflect.


I would not want to go to the hospital for a mild ear infection and hear the AI start blasting death metal.


The Ukrainian г is a voiced glottal fricative, IPA /ɦ/. This is as the English /h/ sound but voiced. Southern Russian dialects use /ɣ/, a voiced velar fricative, which is pronounced like /ɦ/ but further forward in the throat. East Slavic dialects turn Proto-Slavic /ɡ/ more into /ɦ/ the further south you go.


Belarusian also uses /ɣ/.

It should be noted that even in Russian, /ɣ/ used to be the more common pronunciation throughout the Empire until the end of the 19th century or so, due to the influence of Church Slavonic (in which it is also /ɣ/). And it's still preserved in modern standard Russian in some words, such as бог (god) - /boɣ/.


Another reason police unions are entirely different, even from other public sector unions, is that the police are used to break strikes. They're structurally antagonistic to every other part of the labour movement.


This is right, but the national guard are often used as well. I alluded to these points in a comment below before noticing that you posted this first.

I would caveat it to say they are used to break illegal strikes, which I think is an important distinction. Their job is to uphold the law, regardless of the side that labor is aligned.


Isn't Valve known for letting employees work on whatever they want? I'd imagine they already had a bone to pick with MS and wanted to be able to play games on Linux. Before that, things like the controller also seemed like "scratch your own itch" projects. They're good at making pieces that naturally fall into place.


How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?


Demonstrably very little, at least with regard to $€¥.


Maybe right now it's value is $0.

Think bigger picture. Imagine a panopticon spanning Ring.com camera networks and voice recordings telling you what's going on inside, with AI providing automated summaries of recent conversations. All delivered end-to-end by Amazon!


While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to be a much bigger threat.

I’m more worried about smart phones acclimating people go carrying tracking and microphones. But, we find those tools indispensable now, so instead, we seem to want to focus on smart speakers


Apparently -$10,000,000,000.00.


One Zuckerberg.


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