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  • Zelensky is letting the world know that NK who don’t actually want to fight can get effectively a free ride to SK. To the extent that NK soldiers may learn this it could help encourage surrenders saving Ukrainian and North Korean lives.

    SK is looking at avoiding friction with NK and has every right to want those transfers to be private or even to deny those transfers BUT outright canceling them might not help NK/SK relations much by doing that AND condemns the POWs to potential detention and death. If SK actually starts blocking the transfers the announcement is a net negative to everyone. If not its a small negative to SK/NK government and a positiove for everyone else.










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    This is kind of bullshit. It doesn’t allow a corporate goon with an MBA to hire a virtual developer but it does amplify the work one can do. If you think it can’t do anything you are pretty far off from reality.

    Writing tests faster. Writing docs faster. Writing exploratory code faster even if you don’t ultimately use the code. Splitting out general utility functions that are nice to have but which you wouldn’t think. Refactoring.

    Maybe if you are top 1% working on hard problems and mentoring it just slows you down meanwhile the bottom 50% has lots of work to do which it really does help with


  • Most of the people around you are morons habituted by lots of training like animals to do increasingly sophisticated tasks correctly like trained animals while most of the facts are just drilled into their heads not arrived at organically or intelligently. Take away that training and they would obviously be morons to you. Let the morons raise other morons and it would be increasingly obvious.

    DRC citizens aren’t inherently any dumber than Americans or French people. They are just average people without the beneficial effects of society possibly with some environmental poisoning and malnutrition. If we could actually help instead of pretending to help and exploit them they could be peers.




  • Encryption is security at rest. An encrypted drive on a system that isn’t backdoored cannot be accessed no matter what tricks you have in store because you can’t read its storage even insofar as booting it up. It’s literally mathematically impossible insofar as it requires more cpu power than exists to guess the key required to decrypt the drive. In order to use the Linux exploits you must get the target to enter the encryption passphrase and run your malware.

    What you are complaining of is weak interior doors that don’t provide much additional help if a crew of armed thugs break down your secure exterior door.and get by your armed guard.

    The MS exploit is a key to your house hidden under the welcome mat with a post it note with the combo to your safe. It appears to have been deliberately put their by MS to help the government hack your machine if you ever did anything naughty but now means that every corporate machine in the last several years that was swiped or lost which was believed to be secured is now an open question as far as what data on it may yet be gleaned and by whom.




  • The majority of people cannot easily turn a few hours of their time on a whim into money because most of their working life is pre-scheduled. Others especially those most likely to be able to pick up a shift aren’t paid all that much. I find that ANY new software requires spending time learning in addition to any cost up front. Furthermore most of the paid software would require me to use a worse OS and pay for the privilege so its an awfully hard sell to bother.

    As far as accounting software I who simply manage my wages haven’t ever needed anything more complicated than a spreadsheet. What software I’ve seen is kind of obnoxious and terrible so maybe this is an opportunity for someone.