Operation Paperclip was real but the CIA wasn't founded by (German) Nazis. IIRC NATO had ex-nazis in its founding but they were like Wehrmacht or politicians not SS.

Now the CIA did organize former SS agents in West Germany to act as terrorists/partisans should the Soviets invade in the German version of Operation Gladio.

The good news is it won't be full bipartisian. Plenty of junior politicians know which way the wind is blowing here. But its still going to pass and it will be largely bipartisan.

That would be Henry Gao.

No just some Singaporean Professor. His twitter handle is in the image. https://x.com/henrygao

Oh no his account has been suspended.

npm: Node Package Manager.
AUR: Arch User Repository.

Bazzite is based on fedora not Arch so you don't need to worry.

Arch is deliberately minimal making it a good base system in the same way Debian or Fedora is. It's smaller, simpler, updates faster than the others and is far more configurable. It is however not built for the average user and most distros built on top of it that try to make it more "usable" are IMO pretty dangerous ideas. I think the only derivative i've tried that was good was SteamOS because they made it Atomic like nix or silverblue.

None of this really has to do with the AUR. That was always labelled as "use at your own risk". And to their credit they caught and addressed the attack within a day of it happening. Still, hosting user PKGBUILDs and leaving it to individual users to audit them is not a secure solution, its just punting on the responsibility.

It was pushed back down to panama before but it took half a century (1950-2000) to do it. All that effort undone by some kid named big balls.

That wouldn't have fixed the AUR incident because the attacker updated the PKGBUILD which is roughly the same as the nixfile. And there are no packages provided by the AUR, just PKGBUILDs. You always build the package yourself locally.

Official packages are already vetted so they don't need user scoping. They could just enforce user scoping in the AUR and use the provides array for resolving conflicts. Its not a perfect solution but there's no such thing as perfect security, just better security.

Also having an AUR helper that properly containerized the build step would be an even bigger improvement.

"More easily configurable" would be more accurate, because there's less things that could get in your way. The system is designed to make it as simple as possible from a developers perspective.

Utterly delusional to think any of that would work. At every step you would just get your face beaten in. When the cops come they too will just beat your face in.

Thinking you can castle doctrine a squad of ICE agents is equally delusional. You could probably take a couple out but you'd still die in the end and be risking the lives of anyone that lives with you.

The only solution is well known and already in practice in places like LA: have an active community response force that will show up and intimidate and harass the ICE agents. All of the previous delusions assume you, alone, can stop an ICE with just your privledge.

The analysis revealed that the Debian Linux configuration was not included in their test matrix.

You might as well say you don't support Linux.

"Crowdstrike's model seems to be 'we push software to your machines any time we want, whether or not it's urgent, without testing it'," lamented the team member.

I wonder how this shit works on NixOS.

In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.

If you want a sample of how crazy Chinese history can get look at the Tai Ping rebellion:

• Student fails Civil Servant Exam for the third time and has a mental breakdown
• starts claiming he's Jesus' little brother who trained him to fight demons in his dreams
• more dead than WWI

Because then the US any every other IAEA signatory would be obligated to sanction Israel which would be the end of Israel's economy.

No news media dares mention it because they have no proof and would both loose any insider access and get buried in libel cases.

Jayapal said one plan is to propose a raft of executive orders President Biden could issue to "protect existing structures," such as shielding career civil servants and Justice Department officials.

Yes! Good!

Some Democrats are also sensitive to the perception that they are adopting the tactics of Republican state legislators who used their supermajorities to kneecap incoming Democratic governors.

Fucking gauge my eyeballs out. You can't call them fascists and then object to playing dirty against them.

"We're trying to show how the United States is supposed to conduct itself every four years when a new person takes over the reins of government," said Cleaver.

McConnell denied Obama a Supreme court appointment! The precedent is already set! Your norms are already broken!

If democrats want to win they must purge their own ranks of members like Cleaver and rebuild with more Jayapals or else they will keep ceding grounds to fascists.

This is why Mamdani is so important. Average progressives are going to finally see what socialists have been saying for decades. If you want to move left on anything economical. If you just want to raise the minimum wage $1. The democratic establishment will treat you as the enemy. They will come at you harder than they do the GOP because they can and because you are a threat to them personally.

For the record: numerous women have spoke out against Trump for sexual misconduct while underaged. All the named ones are from Miss America or Miss Universe competitions. A couple of Epstein's victims have filed charges against Trump too but those remain anonymous.

I still can't get over how the only fine tuning you can do for an LLM is yell at it with markdown files. We should be able to retrain local models so they can develop an actual experience without prefilling the context.